Chad Barlowe

head of growth🚀@insitefulco: capture more leads from your existing forms — no more missed opportunities.™

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@Willson_Cross @awilkinson Lol funny that you mention Dribbble and Creative Market

Only thing epic about Tiny is how they kill profitable sites overnight

Stock is down 90% and struggling to refi $100m in debt
https://t.co/oB5Bz4Bo5v

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@PetitRetard @awilkinson Revenue will keep falling

It was over when they added the "inactivity fee" in 2022 to effectively steal sellers payouts

Conveniently deleted the Shop owner forum afterwards
https://t.co/ZmPkiJam7d

btw remember when he tried taking credit for designing slack

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@olegcoada Bad design is the least of Dribbble's many self inflicted problems

Also def not worth 80M anymore, thats half of $TINY.V entire market cap now

https://t.co/oB5Bz4Bo5v

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@PetitRetard @awilkinson Revenue will keep falling

It was over when they added the "inactivity fee" in 2022 to effectively steal sellers payouts

Conveniently deleted the Shop owner forum afterwards
https://t.co/ZmPkiJam7d

btw remember when he tried taking credit for designing slack

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@jamesm for example, this guy @pietrobaudin runs a network of bot accounts (ie. @drfonts, @DrawDesignStar) that repost other people's work

he also sells a bundle of pirated fonts

cc: @nikitabier, will the aggregator update to monetization apply to this?
https://t.co/pCgIOrPH2m

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@MarkFonts It's worse:

For over a year, he's been selling a $15 bundle with thousands of pirated fonts from @monotype and @creativemarket

over 1000 copies sold and no action from @gumroad

I saw NBC and FontBureau in your bio 👀⚖️ iykyk

https://t.co/sWXCez8StN

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

this is rich: chairman of $TINY.V dunks on @NathanLatka for his TrustPilot reviews

meanwhile, Tiny stock is down 90% and every company they buy hits 1 star in a year

they also buy fake reviews for CreativeMarket:
https://t.co/KPkRkTpK6n

throwing stones from a glass house?

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@PetitRetard @awilkinson Revenue will keep falling

It was over when they added the "inactivity fee" in 2022 to effectively steal sellers payouts

Conveniently deleted the Shop owner forum afterwards
https://t.co/ZmPkiJam7d

btw remember when he tried taking credit for designing slack

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@danshipper fun fact: this guy and his brother's playbook for severl years has been copying other people's products
https://t.co/9HEMXvasyr

[Beni @ben_issen]

My Notion Pack has been copied by @chddaniel. All my work, stolen.

Some side by side comparisons below.

I've contacted the Notion team, they're working on legal leverages to prevent this from happening. This is the 5th time I'm asking copycats to remove their work or credit.

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@leevalueroach i agree with you on many things but $PYPL's problems start with product and brand, not finance

most businesses stopped accepting PayPal (high fees + unwinnable disputes) years ago

completely blew their lead so Square, Stripe and Wise ate their lunch
https://t.co/RmMeiCyy1O

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

love to see it.

I don't like to celebrate others' losses, but @PayPal has been operating a daylight robbery for years: stealing from users and businesses, while hiding behind unhelpful customer support.

a (long) thread of examples 👇

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@marcelkargul first sentence rings truer the further you go down the rabbit hole

https://t.co/7jQN6zp1Wi

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@thesaraloretta @paulsyng And who's actually doing the designing https://t.co/06jAXPznSU

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@gavinmchughh "the nfl isn't rigged"

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@CodyDetails @forgebitz I don't think many realize Nico is just running Brett's playbook from two years ago:

https://t.co/7jQN6zp1Wi

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@thesaraloretta @paulsyng And who's actually doing the designing https://t.co/06jAXPznSU

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@tenz16k @nicogarcia @BrettFromDJ Brett and Nico are cut from the same cloth

https://t.co/7jQN6zp1Wi

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@thesaraloretta @paulsyng And who's actually doing the designing https://t.co/06jAXPznSU

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@moidrk @BrettFromDJ @nicogarcia https://t.co/79OSIOUvPb

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@Tanjim38 Brett is upset Nico accidentally revealed his playbook

https://t.co/7jQN6zp1Wi

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@Tanjim38 Brett is upset Nico accidentally revealed his playbook

https://t.co/7jQN6zp1Wi

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@thesaraloretta @paulsyng And who's actually doing the designing https://t.co/06jAXPznSU

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@chandlerjward @mediaking @marclou @shl gumroad is a great case study of self-sabotage

- hiked prices to 2x industry avg (>10% fee)
- ship features nobody wants
- raise Reg A funding
- ship buggy support AI
- more angry users
- write "god mode" article
- congrats, you halved GMV ($14m → $7m)

https://t.co/p51uvMRxAy

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@levelsio parts of this article are great

but in practice, this approach is exactly what killed Gumroad's growth (GMV down 25% in the last 2yrs)

listening to customers pays

source: https://t.co/HbT2YehacH

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@AdamBartas @pizzaboy https://t.co/pCgIOrPH2m

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@MarkFonts It's worse:

For over a year, he's been selling a $15 bundle with thousands of pirated fonts from @monotype and @creativemarket

over 1000 copies sold and no action from @gumroad

I saw NBC and FontBureau in your bio 👀⚖️ iykyk

https://t.co/sWXCez8StN

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@studio__aaa @pietrobaudin Not just content he didn't make but specifically sharing pirated forms

https://t.co/pCgIOrPH2m

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@MarkFonts It's worse:

For over a year, he's been selling a $15 bundle with thousands of pirated fonts from @monotype and @creativemarket

over 1000 copies sold and no action from @gumroad

I saw NBC and FontBureau in your bio 👀⚖️ iykyk

https://t.co/sWXCez8StN

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@robably__ @lifeofmansoor He built his following by sharing pirated fonts, which he also resells as a bundle

https://t.co/pCgIOrPH2m

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@MarkFonts It's worse:

For over a year, he's been selling a $15 bundle with thousands of pirated fonts from @monotype and @creativemarket

over 1000 copies sold and no action from @gumroad

I saw NBC and FontBureau in your bio 👀⚖️ iykyk

https://t.co/sWXCez8StN

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@KrissBergTweets @ariozick @awilkinson False: Agencies are their biggest segment not eComm, and Dribbble rev dipped the most

$TINY.V stock is down because of debt and dilution, not eComm

But beyond that, people seldom talk about how Tiny's onerous policy changes kill growth overnight:

https://t.co/EPnxDVUfSQ

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@dunkrugering @PetitRetard @awilkinson The real beauty is how they came up with a way to steal from both sellers (with the inactivity fee) and buyers (with the expired credits model), truly innovative

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@ariozick @awilkinson The "read our letters" shtick is also not in good faith

He writes as if Tiny's overwhelming debt, shareholder dilution, and predatory policy changes were not his choices

As if $TINY.V arbitrarily dove 90% for the last 3 years because of "Mr. market"

https://t.co/Qn9tfiLCmo

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@KurtisHanni @MatznerJon @awilkinson many have "done the research, read his letters and book"

ask yourself why he blocked them all

a "few years of rockiness" does not explain addiction to debt, dilution, and accounting hacks

this rent-seeking pattern began years before Tiny was public:
https://t.co/EPnxDVUNIo

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@KurtisHanni @MatznerJon @awilkinson many have "done the research, read his letters and book"

ask yourself why he blocked them all

a "few years of rockiness" does not explain addiction to debt, dilution, and accounting hacks

this rent-seeking pattern began years before Tiny was public:
https://t.co/EPnxDVUNIo

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

@dunkrugering @PetitRetard @awilkinson The real beauty is how they came up with a way to steal from both sellers (with the inactivity fee) and buyers (with the expired credits model), truly innovative

[Chad Barlowe @_insiteful]

greg olsen just said he has "a theory that in the current league if you underthrow a ball, you can guarantee a PI"

[Ray Hastings @SUG4RR4Y]

The fact you can underthrow a receiver to almost guarantee the PI is BS