Daniel Monteverde

founder

[Daniel Monteverde @danielmtvc]

@ThePrimeagen But wait, there's more!

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@anah_sahh Being a founder is so much more than building the product.

Is a butcher not a butcher because he didn't raise the cows himself? lol

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Everyone going crazy with REA, how many of you did not know that decompilers were a thing until now??

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@Jbm_dev Skill issue

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How are you finding leads these days?

[Daniel Monteverde @danielmtvc]

Last weekend I tried to sell ice creams for $100 million each.

By customer 14 I had nailed the pitch.

- Hey, how much for an ice cream?

+ Goes for $100 million each.

- What do you mean $100 million, are you nuts? It's just an ice cream.

+ I know, we spent a lot of tokens figuring out our pricing.

- It's 2am, you are standing at the foot of my bed holding a cooler in tighty whities. Can you get out of our house before I call the police?

Despite some hesitation he didn't say no, which in B2B makes it a qualified warm lead that we can add into Salesforce.

Most founders misunderstand distribution: they optimize for "consent, "buy-in", and "not being inside someone's house."

18 conversations.

4 trespassing charges.

18 qualified opportunities at $100M ACV.

That's $1.8B in pipeline in a single weekend.

Pipeline is all that matters - it's a metric you can put on X and brag about, which is what a sustainable business model is all about.

Revenue is what your accountant puts in a boring spreadsheet that nobody reads anyway.

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If you were given unlimited leads to reach out to, would you send emails or pick up the phone?

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@matthias_mrc I use it every single day for GTM, it is that good.

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@HeyAliux cron jobs and Claude lol

[Daniel Monteverde @danielmtvc]

If you chose a single growth method to get users, which one would go for?

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If you were growing an X account from zero, would you rather:

1. Post consistently
2. Engage with larger creators posts

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@i_mika_el very cool! will give the repo a check there

[Daniel Monteverde @danielmtvc]

Founders, what are you building on a Friday?

Pin the link below, would love to be one of your early signups.

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@ENowoslawski @supabase @clay The problem is that supabase doesn't scale IYKYK

[Daniel Monteverde @danielmtvc]

If you are a founder, how many emails are you sending to prospects today?

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Do you think @thsottiaux will hit the reset button tomorrow?

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Glad that all issues with Claude, Codex and Grok are resolved now.

I almost went outside to touch grass.

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@nickvasilescu and Cursor/Grok as well

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@HeyAliux yup, traffic is great but if traffic doesn't translate to leads then something is broken.

[Daniel Monteverde @danielmtvc]

Why is it so hard for new accounts to get engagement on X?