Drake Dukes

Founder of 🚀 I bootstrap software companies from my tornado shelter in Kansas.

[Drake Dukes @DDukes12]

Pitchbook charges over $20K for funding insights & doesn’t let you share the information…

I say liberate the data! 🔐

So our team put together a list of all 5K+ founders that raised a Series A within the last year.

RT this tweet & I’ll DM you the list

Here’s our insights🧵

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@thatguybg Congrats!!

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@toddsaunders @lukesophinos Makes a ton of sense! Congrats Todd

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@luisocampox @AnthropicAI Congrats young 👑

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Claude keeps trying to put me to bed..?

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@everestchris6 Van

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@everestchris6 Local

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Twitter 2.0? @elonmusk

[TBPN @tbpn]

"There's 11,500 employees. It doesn't make sense. I could run that business from my house. It's eBay, it looks the same as it did in 1995. It doesn't need 11,500 employees."

$GME's @ryancohen makes his case for why he's the best person to buy eBay:

"You look at eBay spending $2.5 billion to grow 1 million users. $2 billion in cost cuts between sales and marketing and corporate overhead — it's not a lot. And it's not something that's going to take a few years. It's something that is going to happen fast, fast, fast. Because I'm putting leverage on this thing, and I don't want to run a leveraged business."

"I'm not going to run it hot. I'm going to pay down the leverage. And I'm going to increase earnings."

"They're spending $5.5 billion on operating expenses. On an $11 billion business that has no inventory and is asset light."

Ryan's full response:

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ChatGPT’s new image generator has every college football coach fired up this season.

Yes, that’s me (10+ years ago…)

And no… the biceps aren’t AI.

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@StumpGuyTy Now get your wife grinding a stump and 10x that!

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@Nick_Davidov @StealthCoSpy Can’t keep track at how fast the big numbers keep getting bigger

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The best thing OpenAI ever built might be its alumni network.

10 years. $400B+ in spinouts. One chart:

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@TheNathanRuff Yesssir 💯

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The highest-performing email I’ve ever seen?

Subject line: “1-star review”

Sent to SMB owners. ☠️

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@stephenolmon @tbpn Dig it

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Tech companies will continue to buy media companies.

Need to add OpenAI x @tbpn to the list

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Not April Fools 🔥

[Jordi Hays @jordihays]

TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI

The world is changing quickly but TBPN will stay the same. Live every weekday just with a lot more resources.

Thank you to everyone that has been a part of this journey big or small. We are 17 months in and unironically just getting started.