Ryan Foss-Skiftesvik

👷🏼 working w startups & funds ||| 👨🏼‍🚀 fo/vc 👨🏼‍🍳 @hilbertcapital

[Ryan Foss-Skiftesvik @RyanGFoss]

@NayrhitB @SusquehannaVC @LightspeedIndia @BCapitalGroup @beenextVC @sparrowcapvc @2point2club Deck

[Ryan Foss-Skiftesvik @RyanGFoss]

@iamdavenick @YouTube My media agency can solve this! I do unbans across all platforms - every week! It’s a huge problem across IG, TikTok, YouTube!

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@beginnersblog1 automate 🤝

[Ryan Foss-Skiftesvik @RyanGFoss]

quality rinse & repeat 🤌🏻

[Beginnersblog @beginnersblog1]

I used to spent 6 hours manually creating a social media carousel.

Research: 2 hours
Writing: 1 hours
Design: 3 hour

Result: One carousel

Then I found an automation that does it in 8 minutes.
Here's what it does:

Input: "Claude 4 launch" + "Marketing leaders"
Output: A 10-slide carousel with:
- Research from 10+ credible sources (using Tavily AI)
- Narrative that flows like a story, not bullet points (using GPT-4)
- Professional design you'd pay $200 for (using @GammaApp )
- Auto-saved to Google Sheets for review

The workflow handles:
- Web research (finds the best sources, not random blogs)
- Content writing (sounds like you, not ChatGPT)
- Visual design (scroll-stopping, mobile-optimized)
- Organization (everything logged for your team to review)

It's the same stack I use for carousels that regularly hit 30K-100K+ impressions.

And I'm giving away this WORKFLOW to the first 500 people absolutely FREE.

To receive this....
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(I'll DM you the JSON file for n8n WORKFLOW, VIDEO tutorial and documentation )

[Ryan Foss-Skiftesvik @RyanGFoss]

@mikefutia Heygen

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@emilyherrera HoldCo investing/building is elite

[Troy Osinoff 🕺 @yo]

MTA generates ~$16b/yr and still loses ~$4b/yr

NYC needs D.O.G.E. too

[MATT GRAY @matt_gray_]

Life hack: When overwhelmed, build systems.

[Ben Sharf @BenSharf]

I had to make a tough decision at the beginning of this year.

Pausing the YouTube channel I created, Birthday Series.

[ICYMI: I started a passion project with @RyanGFoss last year—a YouTube vlog series where we served as the forcing function to knock something off the bucket list of a creator in each episode.]

Its goal: To do epic things with epic people and live life to the fullest because you don’t know what tomorrow will bring.

And we did it. We fulfilled 6 wishes in 6 episodes over the course of almost a year. They ranged from a 131mi run from Montauk to NYC with 20 creators, to climbing the highest outdoor building in the Western Hemisphere.

But what started as a passion project started to command too much attention and energy.

I eventually had to put it on pause because @getplatter needed 150% of my attention.

But it taught me 2 lessons:

1️⃣ The power of naivety

Amazing things happen when people are naive about what it truly takes to execute them properly.

I didn't realize the amount of time and effort that goes into content creation at that level (especially launching with a 131mi run…).

I can't say with 100% confidence I would’ve done that run if I knew, but I'm glad I tried it out and didn't overthink it.

Otherwise, I would’ve psyched myself out and shut down the series before it started.

2️⃣ How to create content

I learned a lot about the pre-, during, and post-creation content process.

➝ Having a proper plan going in
➝ Recording enough footage
➝ How to approach storytelling
�� The importance of decisiveness
➝ The process of video revisions

The list goes on, and so do our learnings. It’s incredibly easy to undervalue the effort in content creation, so being surrounded by top creators and learning from our own mistakes as we grew was invaluable to Platter.

As I said, the Birthday Series was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done—and I'm glad I paused it.

Would I do it again? Maybe.

But Platter wouldn't be where it is today if I kept it going.

My advice: Don't be afraid to scratch the itch if you have a curiosity that you can't shake. It's worth the lessons you'll learn along the way.

P.S. If you remember the Birthday Series, comment a "🎂"

[Ryan Foss-Skiftesvik @RyanGFoss]

@tomerhen launch 🚀

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@heyshrutimishra Guide

[Andrew Yeung @andruyeung]

New York City — the greatest city on Earth.

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@andruyeung 🤠

[Ben Sharf @BenSharf]

The creator economy needs more businesses like @hashtagpaid attempting to bridge the gap between brands and creators.

I realized how many brands are eager to find the right creators to sponsor and how many creators would love to have those brands’ support, but the discovery process to find the right decision-maker is still challenging for both sides.

A few other learnings from last night’s Creator Culture event:

• Find your tribe - you’d be amazed to see how many people genuinely want to help and see you win with no expectation for anything in return, keep those people close.
• Consistency is the name of the game - I met some amazing creators last night who have been in the game for so long and will do it for years to come - those are the people who make it. Consistency compounds.

Thankful to @hashtagpaid and @datkeed for letting @RyanGFoss and I tell our story and to our friends who jumped in on the live podcast session to share anecdotes about working with us so far @MChoi_6 @theoffgarrett

As someone who is relatively new to the creator world, it was very inspiring to get exposed to all the resources out there to help on the journey.

[Ben Sharf @BenSharf]

Stoked to be doing a live podcast recording with @RyanGFoss and @datkeed this Thursday at the Meet the Creators event by @hashtagpaid

We’ll be giving an inside look at what it took to get Birthday Series, our new YouTube channel, launched (it was an 8+ month project). We’ll cover things like:

• Building a YouTube Channel from scratch
• Supporting other creators throughout our own journey
• How to create moments that resonate

[Ben Sharf @BenSharf]

How We Landed a Nike Sponsorship For Our First YouTube Video

@RyanGFoss and I landed one of the largest brands in the world as a sponsor for our first-ever video on the Birthday Series channel — and today I’m giving you a behind-the-scenes look at how it all happened.

We’ll also walk through what it actually looks like putting together a 131-mile run with 21 brand sponsors, 20 creators, and a 17-person production team (a lot more can go wrong than you think 😅).

A few key points:

• Closing sponsors for the video felt kind of similar to raising money for a company, so we were able to parlay our experience in that world into this
• There was another apparel brand in conversations with us, and we were able to tactfully leverage that to close the Nike deal
• The real work started when we closed the sponsorship dollars and had to coordinate the plan to put them to work

This whole experience was one of the cooler moments of my life. Check out the full video here: https://t.co/G5NYPr7etb

[Ryan Foss-Skiftesvik @RyanGFoss]

Wellness hangouts > happy hours 🤌🤌

[Ben Sharf @BenSharf]

Yesterday morning I hosted a rooftop cold plunge hangout with @AaronSpivak2 , @chrismeadej, @iamshackelford and @RyanGFoss.

It’s inspiring to me to see the shift away from ‘Happy Hour’ to a wellness hangout as a means to network (we had Popup Bagels and a Coldture cold plunge) where people could come hangout

I want to do what I can to continue to enable that shift in culture.

It was amazing to see so many impressive DTC founders and creators in one place, like:

@andycloyd (Superfiliate)
@Cha (Starday)
@tzwor (Lunchbox)
@RetentionAdam (Retention)
@NoCodeKenny (MentorPass)
@BusterScher (Hoops Nation)
@livschreiber_ (Brand Caffeine)
@Sumansiva (Marco Experiences)
@andrewbcase (Noonbrew)
@AmorosoBrandon (Electriq)

(Sorry to anyone I missed here!)

Huge thank you to everyone who stopped by!

PS - Likely will be hosting these meetups more regularly… LMK in the comments if you'd want to come 🤝

[Ryan Foss-Skiftesvik @RyanGFoss]

@hasantoxr GPT-4 🏆

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@samuel_spitz I can help w this lol, if you’re serious let’s have a proper chat 🤠