Jan 2025: start ecom
April 2025: drop out of college
May 2025: scale first brand, proof this actually works and it’s not some fairy tale or myth
June & July 2025: brand falls apart bc of bad backend and just lack of experience (I was answering emails myself bc I was too scared to invest in a VA. That’s all you need to know lol)
August 2025: give up on first brand, come out of it with $30k profit and parents stop nagging you about college
September 2025 - November 2025: quit ecom
December 2025: start ecom again. Learn about supps, building an actual brand, LTV, and MRR
Jan 2026: launch first supplement brand, see initial success and become attached to the brand
Feb 2026: ad account gets nuked, has no idea about trust scores or account quality, roas drops to .5 a day, lose $1,000 a day, have $10,000 left to your name
March 2026: find a winner, actually learn about marketing, go deep into the rabbit hole, work 15-18 hours a day, learn how to outwork meta’s bs
April 2026: multiple bm’s, meta insiders on speed dial lol, deep knowledge of the front end & back end, months of feedback loops & data, and most of all - experience.
May 2026: scale, BUILD A TEAM, keep getting banned & put on hold, don’t care
June 2026: scale, kind of slacked, banned again, don’t care
July 2026: scale, learn, goal is to make it a full month with no bs
August 2026: 100k a day loading
Another Gen Z young man at the Trump rally in Fort Myers told the Fox correspondent what actually matters to him: ending the Iran war, getting inflation and interest rates down, and seeing real relief on gas and the economy.
She moved on with swiftness.
first post on ecom twitter
here to learn from others and make some ecom friends
hit a $200k+ day today
no subscriptions, only meta traffic, store has been live for ~3 months
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I fucking hate this nigga and IM SO HAPPY TO SEE HIS DOWNFALL. Always MR. Perfected projecting his short comings and insecurities onto others under the guise of “just do the right thing bro”. Now go do the right thing and 🔫 urself
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸