James Dunn

Co-founder @backpedalco | Building smarter theft recovery | Once made headlines in FT Alphaville shorting a FTSE100 PLC

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

You know you're onto something good when places cover your business spontaneously.

Bikes. Thefts. Recoveries. The PR writes itself.

https://t.co/vGBtiDpm0C

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

@willsolfiac Think there's a simple explanation that at least applies to me. It's just I forget and say what I've been saying for years.

And been saying partner because it sounds less wanky than girlfriend. Would say this is symptomatic of long relationships before marriage.

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

@ColinGardiner @thogge Yeah it'll be a newsletter that I haven't opened for a while. Then when I notice that it triggers and I unsubscribe when I receive it.

If you could plot it I reckon it'll be 5 to 25 non opens (or open and instantly archive as that's the easiest from keyboard), then unsubscribe

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

We've recovered over 1,000 stolen bikes now. Take a listen to hear what we've learnt.

🗼You can't design anti-theft kit from an ivory tower
🥷Everyone imagines the perfect thief so gives up making a solution...
🙊Gift of the gab essential to getting a thief to handover!

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

"Something needed to happen about bike theft... someone has to go and get them back... the police aren't doing it."

Watch the full podcast with James Dunn and Richard White, co-founders of @BackPedalCo.

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

"Something needed to happen about bike theft... someone has to go and get them back... the police aren't doing it."

Watch the full podcast with James Dunn and Richard White, co-founders of @BackPedalCo.

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

@shivmalik ...from development" view.

Are there enough people locally or semi locally who can be mobilised so it doesn't feel astroturfy?

That feels like the hard bit.

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

@shivmalik Playing this out. I'd bank that you can get the groups and organisers on side to do the work, make concessions, shared goals etc.

But what would the plan be to get down the actual people who would benefit from the houses?

The local people will mostly align to the "we lose...

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

@ry_paddy Can buy that. Would be very applicable to us. Shout if you want the details

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

@thomasforth Similar style vibes. Also on claude. Plotting stolen assets and our recovery guys out chasing them.

Massive productivity unlock for us moving from a DB view to a live map view.

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

@MPrinParr 🧐

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

@ryanmouquegolf @RobertTyreMarks And then some of those end up being fundamental improvements.

I'm not expecting miracles from every clip. Or that every clip will be useful to me.

But every clip makes me think, analyse and (hopefully) learn.

I'd be gutted if you stopped doing what you do!

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

@ryanmouquegolf @RobertTyreMarks I've improved dramatically by following your content

I analyse it and think "am I doing the movement pattern he's talking about? Do I think this is relevant to my swing?"

Based on this I end up trying about a third of your clips in real life.

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

@JoePostingg Creme eggs

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

Shoutout to @checkoutpage - fully customisable and perfect for rapid iteration of complex checkpout flows. Great customer support from the team there too. Highly recommend.

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

@PositivFuturist @pursuitofprog The potential upside is that the prevalence of spam and fakery actually generates better media literacy, thinking from first principles and holding opinions weakly until certain.

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

@thomasforth Still the middle of summer (pretty much)

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

@devinsfountain I'm hoping (and imagine) that they make a point of analysing how it performs and if they're happy (or not) with it over the coming months.

It could all be a great exercise in demonstrating analytics.

If I was forced to bet I would agree with how you think it'll last play out

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

@paulbonnet Want to see a business fixing this?

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

@kerrodgraygolf Reps

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

@thomasforth ZERO ambition

[James Dunn @dunn27_james]

@adamyounggolf A3