Michael

16 y/o student at @Alphaschool
Building the first creator-creator collaboration platform at (demo mode).
Creator? DM for info, hosting, or booking.

[Michael @_comari]

Out of Cameo's 6.1 million personalized videos from celebrities, 80% of them come from gifts.

But what happens after the novelty wears off? A special occasion gives people a reason to buy, but little reason to buy again.

Will novelty businesses always have this limited growth ceiling? What would be the best way to solve this problem?

[Michael @_comari]

I'm building Comari, a marketplace where smaller creators can pay established creators for a collaboration.

Right now, I'm very early on in the process;
I want to facilitate the first paid collaboration, and I want feedback.

So, if you're a creator willing to do a quick interview or are interested to learn more, DM me.

[Michael @_comari]

A view is going to be counted on YouTube from the moment the first frame is played.

What does this mean? Clickbait is going to LOOK more successful than ever.

Then, brands are going to pay for those inflated numbers.

TLDR: Creators who are good at packaging just got a raise, and brands who just look at views are cooked.

[Michael @_comari]

A view is going to be counted on YouTube from the moment the first frame is played.

What does this mean? Clickbait is going to LOOK more successful than ever.

Then, brands are going to pay for those inflated numbers.

TLDR: Creators who are good at packaging just got a raise, and brands who just look at views are cooked.

[Michael @_comari]

Founders who have built two-sided marketplaces:

How did you handle outreach in the beginning?

Did you focus on getting buyers first, sellers first, or try to build both sides at the same time?

Currently trying to figure this out with Comari.

[Michael @_comari]

Founders who have built two-sided marketplaces:

How did you handle outreach in the beginning?

Did you focus on getting buyers first, sellers first, or try to build both sides at the same time?

Currently trying to figure this out with Comari.

[Michael @_comari]

I'm a 16 y/o at @Alphaschool and I'm going to revolutionize social media.

I'm going to sell the dream of becoming a content creator.

How? Through Comari, a platform where smaller creators can pay for exposure on larger channels.

By the end of this month, I want to have:

-Talked to 10 creators to validate my idea and receive feedback
-Get my first host creator.
-Facilitate my platform's first paid collab.

DM me if interested, or follow along to see if I can pull it off.

[Michael @_comari]

I'm a 16 y/o at @Alphaschool and I'm going to revolutionize social media.

I'm going to sell the dream of becoming a content creator.

How? Through Comari, a platform where smaller creators can pay for exposure on larger channels.

By the end of this month, I want to have:

-Talked to 10 creators to validate my idea and receive feedback
-Get my first host creator.
-Facilitate my platform's first paid collab.

DM me if interested, or follow along to see if I can pull it off.

[Arjun Kakarlapudi @ArjunK100]

Today was my first day @AlphaSchool. We spent our first afternoon reading Kevin Kelly's 2008 essay 1,000 true fans as an introduction to building in public as apart of our Alpha Bootcamp.

When I think about being a creator, I've always thought that you need millions of people to really make it. But what the essay taught me is that 1,000 true fans is really all you need.

1,000 real fans spending $100 on your products a year is enough to make a comfortable living.

Takeaways from the essay:
- 1,000 true fans is enough to make a living
- Quality over Quantity is EVERYTHING
- Sell your image, not your product

[Arjun Kakarlapudi @ArjunK100]

My team of high schoolers just scored higher than most Harvard MBAs at their own leadership simulation.

Today @Alphaschool had us do the Harvard Mt. Everest simulation that Harvard students average ~50% on.

My team scored 94%.
4 different camps and at each one you need to decide whether or not you want to push on or take a rest day to improve health.

Get it wrong and someone needs rescuing and you give up potential points.
Most teams misjudge two things.
-What treatments to give to each member
-What days to take as rest and what days to keep pushing

We got both right. Happy to explain more if anybody is curious about something specifically!

[Arjun Kakarlapudi @ArjunK100]

Work was never the measure of human worth.

I think what will separate people in the future is the ability to marinate with a hard problem or obstacle and think through it yourself without automatically submitting to AI.

Anyone can ask AI questions and get answers back. Most people automatically assume that whatever the AI spits out is correct.

This is because the majority of people do not do the thinking on their own to determine whether AI is right or not.

Most everyone has the same tools now, or will soon. This difference won't be who has access to AI. It will be who knows how to think through obstacles before going to AI, versus who blindly trusts AI to do the thinking for them.

[Arjun Kakarlapudi @ArjunK100]

Great founders are the ones that refuse to quit on their business, not each specific pivot or idea that comes with it.

Mediocre founders tell themselves they are “refusing to quit” while in reality they are just stuck trying to force the same idea because pivoting is hard.

[Arjun Kakarlapudi @ArjunK100]

The "All natural" label at grocery stores pretty much means nothing.

USDA requirements for this label are to have "no artificial ingredients" and be "minimally processed."

But that only applies to things done to the meat after it is extracted during the process of putting it in a package. The USDA's constraints say nothing about the way an animal is raised.

Pretty low bar for the national food authority organization.

[Arjun Kakarlapudi @ArjunK100]

Giving and receiving quality feedback was the life skill for today during day 4 @Alphaschool.

We talked about four different types of feedback: Ruinous Empathy, Manipulative Insincerity, Obnoxious Aggression, and Radical Candor.

Radical Candor is the most effective kind of feedback since you are kind while giving feedback but still giving ways for the feedback receiver to act on the critiques.

The other three only ever get one of those, or neither. Ruinous Empathy cares but won't say what is actually necessary. Obnoxious Aggression gives the critique without being kind about it. Manipulative Insincerity doesn't do either.

I'm ready to implement this way of thinking when I am giving feedback to help improve the overall quality of the feedback I give and better understand the feedback I receive.

[Liam Lenhardt @LiamLenhardt]

Instead of icebreakers, our school dropped us in the wild on day 1.

Tomorrow we have to build a real AI tool for a local nonprofit

By Friday, we need 1,000 followers and $5k in profit.

We get 2 months to finish 20 side quests like this.

Welcome to Day 1 @Alphaschool