After just over 2 years since launching @1800D2C as a passion project to help eCommerce merchants find the best tools, I have sold my majority stake in the business to @thercwilliams! π
Blessed to work with the best June 2025 edition π
Here are some of great @shopify brands we helped skyrocket with elite fractional support last month:
π§Ά The Woobles
πͺ OPINEL
π΅ SoundCloud
βοΈ Verve Coffee Roasters
Coffee, knitting, music streaming and knives. Pretty eclectic.
Bad to building ποΈ
One of my friends sold his company for $50m...
Then his next business failed.
And then the next failed too.
And the next...
Then he built an $8-10m/year business.
The path to success is rarely straight.
Recent bookmarks π
Fazit: Top founder story. Nearly bankrupt, then went viral. 2 female founders.
Valley: Linkedin outbound automation. I want to use this.
Pearl Talent: Lots of overlap with Storetasker
Phil Carter: Did a cool interview of Ajay from Portola. Growth guy/investor
Sendspark: Custom videos for outbound at scale.
Gushwork: Get SEO optimized for ChatGPT
Hedra: Most excited to dig into this one. AI animated character videos.
The App Shop: From my friend Patrick. Scale your app.
agemo: Currently jamming with Aymeric to create a simple AI linkedin agent
Creative People: Staffing co for fractional creatives. Relevant for Storetasker.
Bolto: Raised $5m to compete with Upwork etc. AI native.
@mymind