Lillian 🚀 Fractional CMO for tech startups

Fractional CMO & Growth Partner for Tech Startups ✱ LinkedIn AI Marketing Instructor ✱ Trained 2M+ Worldwide ✱ Trusted by 30% of Fortune 10 ✱ Author & AI Agent

[Lillian 🚀 Fractional CMO for tech startups @Strategy_Gal]

What’s the magic word? #GenAI
#LLMs or just plain #Ai?

Image credit: @ElenaVerna

[Pietro Miotti @PietroMiotti]

My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site in Mexico, using LiDAR data from a NASA dataset.

72 hours from a random thought on vacation to a reply from Mexico's national archaeology institute.

What a time to be alive…

[Lillian 🚀 Fractional CMO for tech startups @Strategy_Gal]

82% of the founders I interviewed this year are paying twice for the same growth blocker, once for the fix that missed and again every month it stays unresolved.

In fact, among the 15 founders who told me that reach was their #1 blocker, 10 had already paid to fix it.

Unfortuna

[Lillian 🚀 Fractional CMO for tech startups @Strategy_Gal]

@ArthurMacwaters 💯

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

Is it just me or is it like 100% harder to type accurately on iPhone now?

Like actually degraded

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Anthropic launches Personal Finance in Claude, allowing users to connect their bank accounts & ask AI questions about their money.

[Lillian 🚀 Fractional CMO for tech startups @Strategy_Gal]

If you struggle to get in front of enough of the right prospects, you're definitely not alone…

Fact of the matter is that “reach” (in other words, getting in front of enough of the right prospects) was the #1 growth blocker for 15 of the 34 founders that I interviewed this year

[Lillian 🚀 Fractional CMO for tech startups @Strategy_Gal]

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[Lillian 🚀 Fractional CMO for tech startups @Strategy_Gal]

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[Lillian 🚀 Fractional CMO for tech startups @Strategy_Gal]

If you've ever paid an agency, a consultant or a GTM hire to fix your growth and watched that engagement miss the mark, you're in good company.

Over the past year, I recorded 70 conversations with 34 founders of data, AI, SaaS and marketplace companies about what's holding their growth back.

There's one number you need to see before you sign your next agency.

Of the 25 founders who told me they'd brought in an agency, a consultant or a GTM hire, 11 had at least one of them miss the mark. That's 44%.

Unfortunately, the repercussions of a miss like that reach well past the invoice.

Think about it... one founder put the cost of each wrong GTM hire at 4 to 6 months.

You spend those months doing the work yourself, while the growth problem that you brought them in to solve stays open.

In the last analysis, every one of those 11 misses followed the same pattern. I wrote it up, along with the six growth gaps that kept coming up, in my Founder Research Report 2026.

Want a copy? Comment or DM me "GAP" and I'll send it over. 👇

[govi @kirtandopamine]

the fact that vibe coding startups like lovable, bolt, replit exist is so fascinating & ironic!!

just use claude code or the chatgpt app directly

why do people love paying more to the middlemen??

[Lillian 🚀 Fractional CMO for tech startups @Strategy_Gal]

@madhukarkumar 😂

[Raphael - CRO & Landing Pages @Rpaulindaigle]

Loom has been a disaster to deal with since it merged with Atlassian and has suddenly uncreased my bill from $60/mo to $634/mo without my knowledge and for no apparent reason.

What are the best alternatives?

[Lillian 🚀 Fractional CMO for tech startups @Strategy_Gal]

@eurofounder Raise your rates. That’s a ridiculous expectation of anyone.

[Noah Kagan @noahkagan]

"Never give up" is how founders lose 3 years.

Grit only works if you're grinding on the right thing.

Here are 6 signs that tell you to keep going or change course:

[Lillian 🚀 Fractional CMO for tech startups @Strategy_Gal]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Lillian 🚀 Fractional CMO for tech startups @Strategy_Gal]

The answer to getting more business value out of AI is rooted in having a better understanding of data science.

My 12th book on data science and AI was published this week, and it’s the work I’m most proud of after all these years…

Why proud? Well because of the capabilities it exposes to its readers that simply weren’t possible in any of the 3 prior editions…

You see, data, science is an extremely complex topic. In the past, if you were writing a book, you could either explain how data science works, or show readers how to do it using one programming language, but not both well.

But now with generative AI, I’m able to explain to readers how data science works and actually show them how to do it themselves using generative AI tools.

The complexity involved in coding of solutions has been removed.

Yes of course it’s just a high-level view of the topic, but people are actually getting in and executing machine learning models to understand how they work and how they can add value - without having to go in and spend six months to a year learning to program them in python from scratch.

I sort of love that.

Thank you so much to the incredible team who supported me in getting this book onto the shelves: Elizabeth Stilwell, Colleen Diamond & Vinay Aradhya, MBA - I absolutely could not have done without all of your incredible contributions.

And massive thanks to Wiley for the incredible partnership over the last 14 years!!

Do you wanna learn how to get excellent at data analysis with generative AI? If so, this book is for you!

[Lillian 🚀 Fractional CMO for tech startups @Strategy_Gal]

Here are the five most expensive words in startup growth, ranked. At five, "once things calm down." At four, "after we raise." At three, "more tools will help." At two, "I'll figure it out." And the single priciest phrase of all: "I'll build it myself." It feels free, and it quie

[Lillian 🚀 Fractional CMO for tech startups @Strategy_Gal]

@gregisenberg @mkovarski Not wrong

[Lillian 🚀 Fractional CMO for tech startups @Strategy_Gal]

A startup with zero marketing budget can still build pipeline with these five free tools. ChatGPT free for strategy and copy. Google Sheets as a CRM. Perplexity for research. Apollo's free tier for prospecting. And LinkedIn for one organic channel done consistently. Broke is not

[Lillian 🚀 Fractional CMO for tech startups @Strategy_Gal]

The smartest AI move you'll make this quarter is deleting five tools. Sounds backward, works like magic. Every disconnected tool you rip out makes the system clearer and your decisions faster. You'll save money and your sanity in the same afternoon. Less stack, more system. Subtr