Jeff Toren

👉 Co-Founder of A Happy Life, Inc. | Kitchens, baths & kickboxing gyms | Sharing stories & strategies to inspire small business owners everywhere.

[Jeff Toren @JeffToren]

A stop doing list is more important than a to do list #goodtogreat

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This is Porter. He's had a long day. Needs a pup cup on the rocks. And make it a double. 13/10

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Ambition for the company: setting up successors for success

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Level 5 leadership triangle

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Humility+will= level 5

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Have to admit this shocks me…. #google

GOOGLE JUST REMINDED EVERYONE WHO RUNS THE INTERNET.

Wall Street expected a good quarter.
They got a historic one.

$109.9 billion in revenue. 20% growth.
Google's fastest expansion since 2022.

But the real story isn't search.
It isn't YouTube.

It's the CLOUD.

$20 billion in a single quarter.
63% growth year over year.
A backlog of $460 BILLION waiting to be unlocked.

That's not a business unit.
That's a money printer with an AI engine bolted on.

But wait...

Net income hit $62.57 billion.
UP 81% from last year.

While the rest of Big Tech was fighting tariff fears and macro headwinds —
Google was quietly printing the best profit growth in years.

Stock jumped 5% after hours instantly.
Nasdaq is up 14% this month alone.

The AI race was supposed to threaten Google.
Instead Google used it as rocket fuel.

The king didn't fall.
The king got stronger.

[Penny Toren @pennytoren_]

My son’s a self-made tech founder but forgets I was his pre-seed round, Series A, and long-term runway. #techbro #momoftechbro #memelord #momofmemelord

[Jeff Toren @JeffToren]

Right people in the right seats. Need we say any more?

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@recap_david PULSE.. I love this idea!

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This looks like an interesting opportunity! Add this to my list of Ai based business ideas.. I think its time to start building stuff.

[David Roberts @recap_david]

I built a zero-person AI newsletter business that did $2,000+ in revenue last month.

No team. No payroll. No freelancers.

Just 4 AI agents running the entire operation (and I spend less than 4 hours a week on it).

Here's how the system works:
→ A CEO agent sets the vision and orchestrates every hire
→ A Growth Engineer scrapes local news, Reddit, and event venues into a daily JSON database
→ A Content Director reads that database, curates the best events, and writes every Thursday newsletter in my voice
→ A Sales Director fields every ad lead, generates ad creative with nano banana, and closes deals over email
→ All orchestrated through Paperclip AI & powered by Claude Code

Spokane Pulse (my local newsletter) now has 6,662 subscribers and a 47.5% open rate, almost double the industry average.

Local newsletters are quietly printing money. Naptown Scoop does $320K/year. Wichita Life clears six figures. The model is wide open in almost every city, especially when building it in an AI-native way.

If you want the full blueprint and step-by-step walkthrough video, Like, RT, and comment "PULSE" (must be following so I can dm you)

I'll send you the exact Paperclip AI company export I use to run Spokane Pulse. You can clone it, swap in your city, and ship.

[Jeff Toren @JeffToren]

Game on!!

[Penny Toren @pennytoren_]

My son’s a self-made tech founder but forgets I was his pre-seed round, Series A, and long-term runway. #techbro #momoftechbro #memelord #momofmemelord

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Working hard to level up our business. #jimcollins #goodtogreat

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The flywheel and the doom loop- the process resembled relentlessly pushing a giant heavy flywheel in one direction, turn upon turn, building momentum until a point of breakthrough and beyond.

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Technology accelerators- the application of carefully selected technologies

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A culture of discipline- when you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship you get the magical alchemy of great performance

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The hedgehog concept (simplicity within the three circles)- if you cannot be the best in the world at your core business, then your core business absolutely cannot form the basis of a great company.

[Jeff Toren @JeffToren]

Confront the brutal facts (yet never lose faith)- you must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, and at the same time have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they may be.

[Jeff Toren @JeffToren]

First who… then what - the right people are the most important asset.

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Level 5 Leadership- more like Lincoln & Socrates than Patton or Caesar