Mike Chilewe jnr

Building cool stuff for the unbanked and credit invisibles

[BasedBiohacker @BasedBiohacker]

https://t.co/pjvbSoGFOr

[Mike Chilewe jnr @MikeCjunior]

@HeyGen Exciting. I love HeyGen so much. It’s been a game changer

[Mike Chilewe jnr @MikeCjunior]

@ImagineArt_X Ads

[Mike Chilewe jnr @MikeCjunior]

@colebokowy @PalmerLuckey This game as so much fun!

[Mike Chilewe jnr @MikeCjunior]

@dreamina_ai Wanna try it out

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[immad @immad]

You can work 5 days a week and succeed as a startup.

Mercury has done that from day 0 and we are valued @ $5.2bn 7 years after launch.

I have been an entrepreneur for 20 years and raised 3 kids while doing it.

The point of success is to have a great life not just a startup 😊

[Mike Chilewe jnr @MikeCjunior]

@AnthropicAI Confidentially? Eighth on X?

[Romàn @romanbuildsaas]

I'm 30. I built an AI startup called GojiberryAI to $2.5M ARR. Got accepted into YC.

If I had to start from 0, here's exactly what I'd do:

1. Sell it before I build it.

No code. Just a simple slide deck (mine was 6 ugly slides) explaining the problem, the solution, the outcome, and the price. I made my first $10k that way, before writing a single line.

2. Pick a painfully specific customer.

Not "B2B SaaS." Something like "founders at 20-person SaaS companies about to hire their first SDR." So specific that the right person reads it and thinks "that's me."

3. Start outbound on day one, but only to people showing intent.

Not scraped lists. People engaging with competitors, changing roles, raising money, or publicly posting about the exact problem I solve. That's the gap between a 1-2% reply rate and 25-40%.

4. Lead with value, never a calendar link.

Send a blueprint, not "got 15 minutes?" Let the resource do the selling, and the trial becomes the obvious next step instead of a pitch.

5. Pick ONE channel and go deep.

For us it was outbound first, then Reddit (10M+ organic views), then LinkedIn lead magnets. I wouldn't touch a second channel until the first one was clearly working.

6. Talk to customers every single day.

The product doesn't matter until you understand the problem better than they do. Spend 90% of every early call listening, not demoing.

7. Only build once people are actually paying.

Then keep it dead simple and price it to sell itself. We landed on $99/mo with a free trial, so the funnel runs without me dragging anyone onto a call.

8. Do this relentlessly for about 12 months.

That’s roughly how long $0 to $2.5M took us.

Bootstrapped.

No outside funding.

Most founders don’t lose because they can’t build.

They lose because they build too early, sell too late, and quit the channel before it compounds.

[Mike Chilewe jnr @MikeCjunior]

@romanbuildsaas Wish I could have a free trial that doesn’t require credit card.

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

One of the biggest myths about startups is that you need an original or innovative idea to be successful.

[3x Capital @capital_3x]

An investor at @HashgraphVC shared a FULL breakdown on how to raise without getting ignored by VCs 👇

[Mike Chilewe jnr @MikeCjunior]

@PathOfMen_ I found God.

[Mike Chilewe jnr @MikeCjunior]

@brettcalhounn Honestly these days I don’t believe this.
Investors can just say they have fund. The rest of us just get added to a newsletter when we apply for funding but still we build and will succeed.

[Mike Chilewe jnr @MikeCjunior]

@SawyerMerritt There are just way too many screens on the dash

[Mike Chilewe jnr @MikeCjunior]

@Im_IrushiK I think Anthropic is not trying to be like everyone else. Use compute for other things that bring value. The world doesn’t need another video or image generator

[Mike Chilewe jnr @MikeCjunior]

@Im_IrushiK This past week Claude feels more like chat GPT a year ago. Way too much guess work and hallucinations

[Sue @suekhim]

AI is making kids dumber.

It should be making them geniuses.

Introducing Koji, the first AI tutor that gets kids to actually think. 👇

[Mike Chilewe jnr @MikeCjunior]

@cybertruck First time? 😂😂😂😂😂

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