Matt Kagan

1/2 of Grazly

[Matt Kagan @NoseToTail]

@drewfallon12 Thanks for including us!

[Ruslan Galba @iamgalba]

Our @stripe got closed one month after we launched tegra dot co - our agentic suite for marketers. Is it big tech lobbying big tech now? I asked friends - we're not the first to suffer from it.

Might be the holy power of X will help to get @jeff_weinstein to look into it?

Timeline.

We've been a happy customer of Stripe for over 5 years. Our agency's side of business runs millions of processed payments from clients through Stripe. Occasional checks. We send documents. All fine. 0 chargebacks.

We open another merchant under the same Stripe account to acquire payments for agentic tools you can use in browsers.

Not a basic GPT wrapper, but actual AI agentic skills we built and use internally. Thousands of lines of code.

Also, we published our agentic systems with access to private repos.

One month in - we got this email from Stripe. I know the buyers personally. We hopped on a call with them. We know them personally. No one would mark the payment fraudulent. Moreover, none of the payments, even in the Stripe dashboard, has any Chargeback status.

All execution is tracked in our dashboard and @vercel AI Gateway logs.

Nevertheless, we got this. How AI Agents have a high risk profile is still a mystery for me. How a 0 chargeback account ended up being closed - @stripesupport maybe you could explain, please?

Traditional payment infrastructure is not friendly for new builders.

Btw we sent the supporting documentation to the request on the screenshot. Bank statements, corporate docs, tax registration.

1 day later, the account was closed permanently with all the payments now scheduled for refund, even though we had already provisioned everything in our systems.

Does anyone have the same issue with Stripe? What to do if one company is purely a monopoly when it comes to being an API-friendly payment processor?

[Matt Kagan @NoseToTail]

everyone get ready for the worst meta performance of all time next week

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Meta stock, $META, falls over -7% after a “landmark” court case ruled that the company failed to adequately warn or protect young users.

The stock has erased -$100 billion in market cap today.

[Matt Kagan @NoseToTail]

To those saying you can't scale with bid caps - over 2 mil spent with only bid caps and tROAS for us.

[Matt Kagan @NoseToTail]

best performance creative agencies that take a % of gross profit on their ads?

[Matt Kagan @NoseToTail]

Looking to bring on a funnel / CRO / LP specialist to help us scale to 300k spend a month at @GrazlyCo

Any recs?

[Matt Kagan @NoseToTail]

@ecom_cork We are at 30%

[Matt Kagan @NoseToTail]

@Trader_Thor1 @HunterAllen4 is USAR a long term hold or a quick sell

[Matt Kagan @NoseToTail]

@WhaleEverything @NoLimitGains @grok DONE

[Matt Kagan @NoseToTail]

Meta just spent 8k in 30 mins. Wtf is this bug affecting accounts?

[Matt Kagan @NoseToTail]

@oliverbrocato Interested

[Matt Kagan @NoseToTail]

If Bid Caps are already the most strict form of cost controls (compared to cost caps and tROAS), why not lean into that and make it as strict and efficient with spend as possible and opt for 1DC attribution with them and a 7DC with another campaign with a diff cost control like tROAS?

[Matt Kagan @NoseToTail]

any good content out there on getting setup and starting AppLovin ads?

[Matt Kagan @NoseToTail]

@ecom_cork When someone leaves a 1 star review on amazon

[𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗬 @TheWarKitchen]

Our extremely biased gift guide. Much love 🤍

[Matt Kagan @NoseToTail]

We did all of last year's BFCM numbers on just Friday this year.

Hope this trend continues for next year.

[Matt Kagan @NoseToTail]

We're so back

[Matt Kagan @NoseToTail]

@herrmanndigital Are you saying 1 ad per group (each group has a distinct LP)?

[Matt Kagan @NoseToTail]

@powles_joe @degenadie @ecom_cork It’s a realistic net margin if you’re not drop shipping and accounting for fixed + variable costs lol