Michael @ Upstack Data

Founder @ Upstack Data | We Help Brands Unlock 15% More Scale through Meta Pixel Engineering and Behavioral Analytics

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

1. trust in God's plan
2. show up for people
3. do what you say
4. act with integrity
5. work hard
6. don't give up
7. stand up for what's right
8. family comes forst
9. smile more
10. back to step 1

[bryan 🧉 @BryanBumgardner]

Plus anybody running Meta Ads is probably seeing performance destroyed in the last three months.

Something's going on. Not sure what it is, but ROAS is flat/down and CAC is skyrocketing.

Source: @northbeam data

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

@notsleepy it's truly sick and twisted that this self hate has burrowed so deeply into our culture. especially since it is unarguable that against almost all others, ours is among the least blemished (possibly due to the short history).

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

sorry, not sorry. many such cases, in defense of american culture, which we should be proud of and not shamed for.

People in general should be proud of the culture they come from. You from yours. Me from mine.

it isnt normal to shame entire generations of our own into believing their culture is bad

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

@notsleepy We must deport

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

underrepresented view

[Mehtab | Karta Ventures @MehtabKarta]

@stevenborrelli It's unfair to people who spend a ton of time to immigrate legally.

I don't really get why people are so pro-illegal immigration.

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

my man

[Steven Borrelli @stevenborrelli]

My family came from Cuba.

They love Cuba.

The food.
The culture.
The people.

They’re proud to be Cuban.

But not a single one wishes they still lived there.

They came to America for American values.

That’s why the immigration debate is so bizarre to them.

The people who immigrated legally are often the biggest supporters of deporting people who didn’t.

Funny how waiting in line makes you respect the line.

Look at Paris last night…disgusting.

Look at parts of Europe.

Look at what happens when a country stops enforcing its own rules.

If you entered America illegally, you should be deported.

That’s not anti-immigrant.

It’s literally how immigration works.

The fastest way to destroy a country is to stop enforcing the standards that made people want to move there in the first place.

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

it is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

Yes

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

There is something darkly amusing about the fact that selling victimhood to the most privileged people in history has become such a lucrative and big business.

When I was on tour with @jordanbpeterson he talked about many things, but probably the most common recurring theme was the "Spirit of Cain". It seems our ancient and sacred texts tell these stories for a reason: victimhood is easy, seductive and addictive. And now profitable too.

We are living through a perpetual victimhood escalation battle where people (and groups) now compete not on merit, but on the supposed disadvantages they face. Which makes perfect sense since this is the incentive structure our societies have been encouraged and forced to adopt.

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

@itsjustandreib nice work Andrei!

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

@coreyepstein tokenmaxxing and loving life sir.

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

wearing plastic (petroleum fabrics) such as poly-ester, polyethylene, acrylic(polyacrylonitrile) nylon(polyamide), spandex and lycra (polyurethane) is thankfully breaching the collective concious.

should be a lefty issue, but the only people really talking about it are on the right.

marketing will have you believe these are "performance" materials.

bigco all happy to have you eat slop and wear plastic and inject poison booster(v*x)

wonder why?

also cotton, denim, linen is superior in all dimension, look, feel, style, breathability and durability.

stand two people side by side., one wearing plastic slop and one wearing real fiber and tell me which one looks better.

[Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins]

The MAHA movement doesn't stop with what we EAT — It's also about what we WEAR.

For decades, America offshored textile jobs and allowed foreign synthetic, plastic-based materials to take over the clothing market.

Together with @SecKennedy, the Great American Cotton Plan puts American-grown cotton FIRST again: supporting our farmers, strengthening U.S. manufacturing, and giving families a natural choice.

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

@notsleepy We must deport

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

@CoryOnBrand confirmed. just downgraded my ultrawide. back to laptop + 32". if I really need to lock in, laptop only.

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

hang it in the Louvre.

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

correct

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Exactly right. The bottleneck has never been compute or capital. Its taste and judgment about what humans actually want. Infinite compute just makes the great founders faster and the confused ones more confused. https://t.co/AmPmal8NYF

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

@ron_ecomm agreed. AI is the single best thing in our business right now. we shipped more new product in last 4 months than the rest of the company history combined. demand for more software is higher than ever.

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

now that software is much faster and easier to produce.

everyone will just write the software themselves.

since it has 10xed-100xed their staffs ability to produce it.

ironically, software companies, those lazy grifters, they will just stop producing new software all together.

we will only get temu triple whale clones from SMBs from here on out.

saas is definitely dead.

i know every time I'm in need of bread for my lunch break sammich, I just bake it at home.

bakeries can't rip me off anymore.

unfortunately, I only have experience to bake one kind of bread, and while its pretty good, i spend a lot of time and resources baking bread every week for lunch and i'm always out of bread right when I'm hungriest.

so much of my team time is spent baking our lunch break sammichs, my all competitors lapped me.

welcome to capitalism. glhf. make money and may the best products win. commerce is commerce

[ron | e-comm owner & operator @ron_ecomm]

do you guys remember 2 years ago people on X were arguing if AI ads would ever be realistic enough?

I remember distinctly because it was so obvious to me that it just needed time and yet people (usually creative agencies) debated this.

the same thing will happen to e-comm saas

anything digital will be infinitely replicated and created, that's the only outcome

you have to start building for it now if you are in SAAS.

Ecomm SAAS is different to other B2B SAAS because the customers are also digital native and culturally are early adopters with tech. You don't have the advantage that big SAAS companies have with decades of dependencies built in.

It's extremely easy to rip the infrastructure apart.

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

media buying is super complicated, you wouldn't understand, that's why we outsource it to nigeristanippines

saas shilling is bad.

can you help influencer product seeding my chinese widgets.

meta quarterly report printing ebitda.

meta is broeken.

XYZ saas product is too expensive,
so I spent weeks migrating to a cheaper alternative and now i'm saving $250/mo.

my performance is down. meta must be broken again.

saas is dead. i run a low 7 figure agency, trust me.

[Cory Dobbin @CoryOnBrand]

Competing ideas that are common around here:

Meta has the best optimization algorithm on Earth

but

Audience Network is trash

but

AppLovin is good

but

Audience Network and AppLovin serve on the same apps through the same mediation layer

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

@DaveRekuc @DKThomp the unit of production / token equation has changed substantially over time as well. not easily tracked week over week or month over month. very much boiled the frog situation as they tweak the models behind the scenes

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

couldn't have said it any better.

[DHH @dhh]

One day Europeans are going to decide not to live like this any more. And then they'll quickly remember it as barbaric that they once did.

[Michael @ Upstack Data @michael_upstack]

@Zarsace we are a US based competitor to TW. if you want to see the product lmk