A guy in Portugal is running the #1 retirement planning channel in Brazil and he doesn't speak Portuguese
He took every script from a proven English retirement channel, translated them with AI, had an AI character deliver them in native Brazilian Portuguese, and uploaded them into a market of 220 million people where zero serious channels existed
The English channel he copied from has 400K subscribers and a knife fight in the comments with 30 other channels covering the same topics. The Portuguese copy has 86,000 subscribers and basically no competition at all. Same scripts. Same topics. Same thumbnail formats. One market is a warzone, the other is an open field
Monthly revenue on the Portuguese channel: roughly $14,000. His production cost per video: under $10
Here's the play:
English YouTube is the most competitive content market on earth. Every niche has 50 channels. Every topic has been covered 200 times. Breaking through requires either massive production budgets or years of grinding
Spanish YouTube serves 500 million native speakers. German serves 100 million. Japanese serves 125 million. Portuguese serves 260 million. In most niches across all of these languages, the competition is 5% of what it is in English
A retirement video that did 2 million views in English addresses the exact same anxiety as a retirement video in Spanish. A 60 year old in Ohio worrying about running out of money has the same fear as a 60 year old in Madrid. The emotion is universal. The content translates 1 to 1. The competition doesn't
The system:
1) Find a proven English channel in a high-RPM niche. History, finance, health, geopolitics, retirement, true crime. Screenshot their top 20 videos by views
2) Search the same topics on YouTube in Spanish, Portuguese, German, or Japanese. Filter by the target language. Count how many serious channels exist. In most niches the answer is 1 or 2. Some niches have zero
3) Translate the scripts with Claude or DeepL. Not word for word. Localize the references. The English version mentions the IRS. The Spanish version mentions Hacienda. The English one references 401k. The Spanish one references Plan de Pensiones. The structure and insights stay the same. The specifics adapt
4) Generate an AI character who looks and sounds native to the target market. A 55 year old Spanish-speaking man for the retirement niche in Latin America. A calm Japanese woman for the health niche in Japan. The character needs to match the audience's demographic exactly
5) Clone the thumbnail format from the English original. Swap the text to the target language. The thumbnail design already proved it gets clicks. The only variable is the language
6) Post 3x per week into a market that has almost nobody serving it
The RPMs in non-English markets are lower ($5 to $15 vs $15 to $45 in English) but the competition is so thin that views come 10x easier. Lower RPM x 10x views = more total revenue than fighting for scraps in English
The English channels will never know you exist. They're not searching YouTube in Portuguese. They're not tracking their analytics by language. Their content is being repurposed in markets they've never considered and they'll never find out unless someone tells them
nobody is going to tell them
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I asked Peter Rahal, the RxBar founder, to confirm his revenue.
It went $2m a year, then $7m, then $36m, then $160m.
He said the $36m to $160m jump came from one thing: they timed a full rebrand with the move from CrossFit gyms into mainstream grocery. New label, egg-whites-first, and the year after that revenue went from $36m to $160m.
I just cracked the code on AI animation ads 🤯
every one of these cost me 12 cents and under 20 seconds to make
Gemini Omni + Claude Code is f*cking wild.
i built a system that turns any product into an end-to-end AI animated ad in ANY style you want.. claymation, pixar-style 3D, anime, paper cutout, lego, you name it
you drop in your product photo and a one line pitch and it handles everything end to end. images, video, voiceover, music, captions, all generated with AI inside Claude..
AI animation ads are crushing on Meta right now and everyone still assumes you need an expensive editor with a 3-week turnaround time to make one. you don't. you just need the right workflow.
Im making full end to end high quality AI animation ads in under 3 minutes with this system
and they work just as hard organically on TikTok, reels and shorts
so i packaged the whole thing up…
here's what you're getting:
> every prompt i used across all 8 steps
> the exact tool stack + the order to run it in
> style recipes for claymation, pixar, anime, wes anderson, retro cartoon + CGI
> one system that works for paid Meta AND organic
built across Claude Code and Gemini Omni
RT + reply 'STYLES' and i'll send it over (must be following so i can dm)
Great work isn’t enough. Timing is everything.
MUHURTA is a web app that scores your day and tells you when to act — using your birth data, live planets, and location. Synced to your calendar.
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I know a guy who pretends to be a venture capitalist to get his competitors to voluntarily hand over their entire client list, revenue numbers, and churn rate...
He is not a VC. He has never invested in anything. He drives a 2019 Civic
But he registered an LLC called "[City Name] Growth Partners" and built a one-page website with stock photos of a downtown office he has never been inside. Total cost: $57
Every quarter he emails the founders of his 8 biggest competitors with this exact subject line:
"[Company Name] - Growth Partners Preliminary Interest"
The body says:
"Hi [founder first name], we've been tracking [company name]'s growth in the [niche] space and believe there may be alignment for a strategic growth investment in the $2M-$5M range. Would you be open to a 30-minute intro call to discuss? We typically move fast on companies with your profile."
94% reply rate. Because every founder running a $500K-$3M agency secretly wants to be acquired and nobody has ever emailed them saying they want to invest
The "intro call" is 30 minutes of the founder voluntarily handing over every metric in his business because he thinks he is pitching an investor
"What's your current MRR?"
"What's your client retention rate?"
"Can you walk me through your top 10 accounts by revenue?"
"What's your average contract value and sales cycle?"
"What does your team structure look like?"
The founder answers all of it. In detail. With pride. He even sends a follow-up email with a Google Drive link to his internal dashboard because the "VC" asked to "review the numbers with my partners"
The guy now has the complete financial anatomy of 8 competing agencies. He knows who their biggest clients are. He knows which clients are at risk of churning. He knows exactly what they charge. He knows their margins
He waits 3 weeks after the call. The founder sends a follow-up asking about "next steps." He replies:
"Appreciate the time, [name]. After reviewing with the team we're going to pass on this round but will keep [company] on our radar for future opportunities. Best of luck with the growth."
The founder is disappointed but not suspicious. VCs pass all the time
Meanwhile the "VC" loads the competitor's top client names into AI-Ark. 89% verified emails first pass. Findymail catches the rest
The cold email to their clients:
"[first name] - most teams running outbound at your scale end up overpaying for [the exact service the competitor charges them for, which he knows from the call]. we install the same backend at roughly 30% less with a refund if results don't beat what you're getting now. quick whatsapp?"
He knows the exact price to undercut because the competitor literally told him on a recorded Zoom call while trying to impress a fake investor
11 months in. $1,140,000 in closed revenue from the 8 "due diligence" calls
Two of the founders he "evaluated" are now paying HIM as clients. They hired the guy who pretended to be their investor and stole their customers. They have no idea. They just think he runs a good agency
He told me "founders will tell a stranger in a suit their deepest secrets if you call it due diligence. I call it that"
I asked if any of them ever figured it out. He said "one guy saw me at a conference and said 'hey aren't you from Growth Partners?' and I said 'yeah we pivoted to services.' He bought me a drink. He's my client now"
The operating cost of pretending to be a venture capital firm: $57 in domain registration and hosting
The revenue from pretending to be a venture capital firm: $1.14M
The 2019 Civic now has a custom license plate. It says "DUE DLGNC"
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Marc Andreessen went on Chris Williamson's podcast and broke down exactly how Elon Musk runs multiple companies at once
No other CEO on Earth does this:
1. Every week, Musk shows up at each of his companies, identifies the single biggest problem that company is having that week, and fixes it. Then he does that for 52 weeks in a row. At the end of the year, each company has solved its 52 biggest problems. Meanwhile, most large companies are still having the planning meeting for the pre-planning meeting for the board presentation with the compliance review and the legal review attached.
2. This is not a new operating method. It is actually how the great industrialists of the late 1800s and early 1900s ran their companies. Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Watson, who built IBM. Total devotion from the leader to fully and deeply understand what the company does, be in the trenches, talk directly to the people doing the work, and be the lead problem solver in the organization. Andreessen says he is not aware of another current CEO who operates this way.
3. The framework Musk uses is the bottleneck. In any manufacturing chain, there is always one thing holding everything up. Sometimes it is raw materials at the start. Sometimes it is warehousing at the end. Sometimes it is in the middle. The job is to find it and remove it. Musk has universalized this concept across every company he runs. In any given week, there is one main bottleneck. He micromanages the solution to that one thing and delegates almost everything else.
4. Musk delegates almost everything. Andreessen is clear about this. He is not involved in most of what his companies are doing. He is involved in the one thing that is the biggest problem right now. Once that is fixed, he moves to the next biggest problem. Everything else by definition, is running better than the bottleneck, so it does not need him.
5. When Musk identifies the bottleneck, he goes directly to the engineer who actually understands it. not the VP of engineering, not the director, not the manager. The individual contributor who has the actual technical knowledge. He sits in the room with that person and fixes the problem alongside them. He does not ask for a report to be reviewed in three weeks. he shows up at the keyboard or on the manufacturing line and works through it overnight if necessary.
6. This is why technical people who work for Musk say it was the best experience of their lives. Andreessen's framing: if you are stuck on a problem you cannot solve, Elon Musk is going to show up in his Gulfstream, sit with you in front of the keyboard, and help you figure it out. For an engineer who genuinely cares about the work, that is an almost incomprehensible level of support from the CEO of the company.
7. Business school teaches the opposite of this: management as a generic skill applicable to any industry. Soup company or a rocket company, the management principles are the same. process, balance sheet, meeting schedules, compliance, executive motivation, interpersonal conflict resolution. Andreessen says those skills are useful in many contexts. They just give you nothing; you need to do what Musk does. And Musk pushes as far as he can away from all of that so he can spend all of his time doing the things only he can do.
This entrepreneur reveals the free consulting firm hack for finding billion-dollar business ideas before anyone else acts on them.
Source: The Venture Room
The most socially acceptable way to destroy your life:
Overthink everything.
Act on nothing.
Your mind calls it “figuring things out.”
Here are Eckhart Tolle’s 7 steps to break the loop: 👇
1. Recognize that there’s a voice in your head that never shuts up.
If you’re hunting for a remote job, you just need to figure out how Reddit works, and you’ll never be unemployed for a long time.
Here’s a list of subreddits you should bookmark right now:
Sat down with Kuldeep (founder, Anveshan) to discuss all things hiring.
He has hired 200+ people and built one of India's largest health brands doing over 300 crores in revenue.
He talks about:
- How he hires
- Prioritizing attitude over skills
- Deciding someone's salary
- Hiring mistakes
- Why hiring is like marriage
Full video link below.
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