Jack Cornes

I start companies that make life better | @hausbots, @wildpetfood, @puppiesuk, @bugbakes | #startups, #innovation, #tech 🇬🇧

[Jack Cornes @cornesjack]

Our crawlers climb on (almost) any surface and can carry (almost) any device for inspection or maintenance

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Someone asked what's the most underappreciated quality in startup founders. I realized I could answer this by asking what's the most underappreciated aspect of startups. That's easy: how hard they are. So the most underappreciated quality in founders is sheer toughness.

[Jack Cornes @cornesjack]

@TheHatCraftsman @ribpx no - claiming not their fault

[Jack Cornes @cornesjack]

@TheHatCraftsman yes

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Nuclear waste really isn't a problem.

[Jack Cornes @cornesjack]

@jasonlk @lennysan Would that mean you'd advocate for those first 2 reps to be fed primarily by marketing led lead gen?

As opposed to building a full stack cold outbound process?

[Jack Cornes @cornesjack]

@abemurray Very well put

[Jack Cornes @cornesjack]

@MattRedler Yeah i assumed deliverability would be hit.

In our case we have a super visual product and in my own non 'at scale' outreach, my emails with images always got higher replies. Wonder if there's a sweetspot where higher reply rate out performs the lower deliv.

[Jack Cornes @cornesjack]

@MattRedler are you guys planning to allow images to be sent in emails?

[Suhail @Suhail]

"Startups"

[Jack Cornes @cornesjack]

@Gatwick_Airport No thanks. I just want my bags to come out quick

[Jack Cornes @cornesjack]

@Gatwick_Airport has to be the worst airport for speed of baggage collection

[Jack Cornes @cornesjack]

My number 1 use case for AI is brainstorming.

Discussing plans, asking for feedback, 'challenge my thinking', and strategising.

It's kind of therapeutic

[Jack Cornes @cornesjack]

word

[Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman]

Sometimes the problem is that you are not optimistic enough.

[Jack Cornes @cornesjack]

Phenomenal thread.

Do things that don't scale is something I live by.

[Nathan Barry @nathanbarry]

My SaaS business hit $1,500 MRR and then got stuck.

Until I learned an important trick…

Here’s the exact method I used to scale to $100k MRR in the next 12 months:

[Jack Cornes @cornesjack]

As a consumer, I scroll through pages like this super quick just to see the cool movements but register 0.0001% of the content and then leave the page and never think of it again

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Landing page built for VCs not customers

[Jack Cornes @cornesjack]

It is crazy difficult to get honest and up to date ratings/ pictures of a hotels gym/ spa facilities.

It’s always a big factor in my booking decisions

Although I actually think you built something to solve this!

[@levelsio @levelsio]

I think fitness hotels will be a massive thing in the next few years

Every luxury hotel I go asks me "would you like champagne or wine?" during check in

Then you enter the room and there's a bottle of champagne waiting

Then you go to the restaurant and they give you the 100-page wine list

Then you go to the gym and it's 4 treadmills and and no barbell or plates in sight

I understand this is because boomers are generally alcoholics, don't work out except walking and they control most of the money; see how Bill Gates looks these days

But when they die that will be the largest generational transfer of wealth in history

The generations after them are more health focused, don't drink alcohol, want to eat clean and work out properly

One hotel I visited last year that fit the bill completely was Siro Fitness Hotel in Dubai (not affiliated, I just like it)

They had the best gym I've seen (along with Stay in Phuket which similarly is a fitness hotel, they had a protein shake bar, and the food was all clean meat and vegetables and health-focused

Health and fitness is more present in higher income categories so it's perfect for the luxury hotel market

I don't see many hotels market to this though, I think there's a lagging demand as they still think the boomers control most of the money, which they do, for now...

[Jack Cornes @cornesjack]

@abemurray 100% agree. ‘My life is shit because of someone else and all I can do is moan’ vs ‘my life is shit and Im going to do something about it’

[Jack Cornes @cornesjack]

@rorysutherland Carrying anything more than small personal luggage, the journey from arrivals to rental car at almost any airport is hell

Bar some small regional US airports that have walk up rental car lots