We got an award for my favorite thing Industry Dive is good at! Thx to my cofounders @seangriffey and @esd for being so damn good at what they do, and most of all to the talented people that chose to take a chance on us. You are what make it fun to come into work every day
I just listened to the 8/11 episode of My First Million with @thesamparr and @shaanvp in which they โbroke downโ B2B media and Industry Dive. Put simply, it was an uninformed and shitty take. The entire episode is littered with factual inaccuracies as well as strategic ones.
@MehtabKarta@thesamparr@ShaanVP I hear you, I agree that I think they meant it as a compliment. I donโt care, and have never cared, about free exposure on a podcast that size. If the comment is basically I should be grateful, I disagree.
@ryanwillumson@industrydive the podcast was giving you a compliment
you guys built a great business
Our point was that it's a straightforward, simple business (not rocket science/cutting edge tech)
why the bunched panties?
@thesamparr I appreciate that. I know it wasn't meant as a direct attack on Industry Dive, I truly believe you that you meant it as a compliment. I think if you re-listen, you'll hear that you convey that the bar for success in B2B is "very low" and I think that's just plain wrong.
@ShaanVP@industrydive panties reference. nice. Just providing balance to your take on the difficulty of running a successful B2B media company. You guys made it sound like it would be a cakewalk for you. I get that you were complimenting the financials, but it was undercut by the rest of it.
@thesamparr you're right I should have said a few years back, wasn't trying to mislead. my bad. why send cold emails to everyone? seems like the potential hire (and you) would be wasting each other's time if there's no thought going into the filtering of initial candidates
@thesamparr@industrydive yup, I said basic headline and didn't put quotes around it. you're right that those words were said at one point, but that's not the tone of the segment
@thesamparr so why such an uninformed and condescending take then? go back and listen to the episode again, it is completely dismissive of the entire space
Every few years, some B2C players think they can come into B2B and teach us yokels how they do things in the big city.
Those of us who live and breath in niche markets laugh...and then bury them.
Next time, serve your audience better by talking about the intricacies involved in our space. Or if thatโs too hard to do, take the easier route. Start a B2B media company and sell it for $500 million in 10 years.
Go get em, sharks.
B2C being smarter than B2B isnโt a new take. But when they jump in, they don't know how the markets work. They don't know where to find the money when it isn't programmatic ads. They don't know how to find a real audience. Turns out, B2B is actually hard.