We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.
This might be subjective but imo there are levels in the sneaker reselling space.
F Tier: The Collectors. Buy hype pairs, wear them, collect them, occasionally sell them. You’re a consumers, not resellers.
E tiers: you just starting out. In-store loops, raffles, used shoe flips, local networking. Small-scale resellers.
D Tier: you start to level up with software and tools, part of a cookgroups, or reselling bunch of stuff,
GPU, PS5, Sport cards, ticket reselling, etc etc
Usually < 6 figure
C Tier: Things start clicking. You understand full supply chains, releases, automation, and opportunities beyond sneakers. Often doing over 6-figure rev.
B Tier: 7-8 figure rev and beyond, cookgroups owners, Bot Devs founder, proxies/service provider. Founded business within or outside sneakers. Making more from selling shovels than mining for gold.
A Tier: Industry names. Well known founders, and community leaders. Most of the time graduated from sneakers or still run huge numbers in sneakers. Deep business knowledge that extends far beyond sneakers. The top dawg in their own domain. Multiple businesses. 7 fig rev monthly.
S Tier: The legends. Founders who built massive companies, raised VC, exited businesses, shitcoin millionaire, those take a lot of risks, made it out trenches and set for life.
@whop, @slashapp, etc etc
Since moving to SF I’ve met soooo many people who larp and pretend they were sneaker botters and part of the reselling scene
VCs consider it high signal I guess? I’m not sure, but it’s very frustrating for those who actually went through the trenches 😔
Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.
Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.
A friend who runs a $300M company gave me the best advice around retention that I still use everyday.
Before he came to me, I had spent years trying to fix churn by building more features.
Every time we lost customers, I'd think "okay, this feature will fix it" and we'd build another one.
Then my friend came to me and just told me to stop and said something very simple.
"At a certain point, you could add a hundred features and it doesn't matter because churn simply comes down to the quality of the customer”
Turns out that for his business, the LTV of a 40-year-old customer is 8x what it is for someone who's 21 and no amount of features changes that.
That conversation changed my view on how I approach retention and churn now.
Before I spend a dollar fixing what’s behind the door, I make sure to assess who’s actually walking through it.
Adobe for creativity + Claude 🤝
Now, Claude users can power their content with more than 50 Creative Cloud tools. Simply describe the outcome you want and let the assistant orchestrate workflows behind the scenes: https://t.co/G70cSsca8P
We (@slashapp) raised a $100M Series C at $1.4 billion valuation to build the world's most powerful business banking platform.¹
The round was led by @RibbitCapital, and co-led by @khoslaventures & @GoodwaterCap.
And we're releasing Twin: the world’s first AI private banker.