Ben O’Keefe

CS Systems @Stanford ‘26

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@AnjneyMidha

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@WilliamHYZhang Not pictured Billy being a chess grandmaster

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@josephsemrai Super cool demo! Excited to see it in action!!

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@brentsmith1024 More intense trailer than most marvel movies 🚀

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@jfudem Doesn’t matter if you ship on Friday if you work on Saturday

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@brentsmith1024 @JoshSiegel71696 @AdamIAchebe @pluggerbot @aidan__pratt @jjaison13 @vienna_sparks @MabLabtests @WilliamHYZhang @shreypj @AnanthVeluvali @josephjojoe @amritakbhasin @sehtoshi Unreal experience.

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We are officially half-way through @KeelVentures in NYC!

In just 4 weeks, Keel Cohort 1.0 has:

- Shipped 8 Products
- Signed 50 Paying Customers
- Added $400K+ ARR
- Raised $450K Uncapped
- Built autonomous drones, deployed APIs for APIs, sold 5-in-1 test strips for laced drugs, and so much more.

4 weeks down, 4 weeks to go. Stay tuned for even more progress from Cohort 1.0🚀

[Ben O’Keefe @ben__okeefe]

@brentsmith1024 @KeelVentures @shervin Thanks for great insights @shervin

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To kickoff Week 3 of @KeelVentures, we hosted a product workshop this morning with the amazing @BabakKia.

As our teams begin to ship their products and GTM, walking through MVP, UVP, product Dos and Dont’s, and other helpful product tips could not be more important.

Team spotlights coming soon…

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4/ This means that the entire business of text message marketing will change.

What do you think is an underrated feature in iOS 18?

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1/ While everybody was focusing on AI at Apple’s event last week there was one feature that flew under the radar.

RCS

I believe that RCS is the most underrated feature introduced in iOS 18 for businesses. Here’s why.

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3/
With wifi texting, the cost of text-based advertising can be reduced by ~85%.

This makes it a much more compelling option compared to email advertising.

With multimedia, it finally makes using images in text advertising a viable option.