Refining my thinking. You think it's impossible to get a 6-figure job from posting memes? Episode #2's Liam Killingstad has done it. Want to take over the world and hang out with billionaires? Then listen to episode #4's Ben Wilson.
Shane Levine is the founder of product design studio Turbo LabsNico Muoio is the founder of e-commerce optimization agency Bottomless Labs(00:20) Our weird high school entrepreneurship stories(05:30) How Shane made bucks with viral iPod wallpapers(06:40) Why nostalgia design works, and when it doesn't(08:20) MVPs are dead: you only get one shot now(09:50) How AI tools raised the floor for design(11:20) Dropshipper smell test: even your mom can detect it(17:20) Why ugly landing pages sometimes convert better(19:20) Niko's high school t-shirt empire and how it scaled(23:20) Our morbid project: HeavenWireless(25:20) Design tips for getting VCs to take you seriously(27:20) “Design is like a hot person”(29:20) The psychology behind people tolerating bad UX for good looks(31:20) The highlighter girl moment: getting obsessive in FigJam and Notion(33:20) Why billionaires don't care about tools(37:20) Product-led growth by design: making people pay upfront(39:20) How a Gumroad link with old screenshots got 1,000 signups(41:20) Sending pizzas to VCs(43:20) Memes by mail and hyper-personal gifts as biz dev hacks(45:20) Scaling as a chaotic creative: systems, checklists, looms(47:20) What to do when your SOPs are fucked(51:20) Talking to ChatGPT like your dadJason Levin is the founder of meme marketing software Memelord Technologies (https://memelord.tech)Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups:https://www.cyberpatterns.xyz/subscribeFollow Jason for cool ideas here: https://twitter.com/iamjasonlevinFollow Shane for design and product content here: https://twitter.com/theShaneLevineFollow Nico for DTC content here: https://twitter.com/NicoMuoioPast guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.#startups #venturecapital #ycombinator #growthhacks #growthhacking #viralmarketing #marketing #marketingpodcast #marketingstrategy #marketingtips #marketinghacks #jasonlevin #techpodcast #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #businesspodcast #indiehacking
I talked to my homie Adam Faris, digital creator and the king of sports content.He started out posting NBA 2K TikTok memes and ended up in unexpected places such as Aston Martin Formula 1 garage and working with Playboy.(00:45) First viral TikTok: NBA 2K bets during COVID(04:12) Why Twitter/X is a broken app with the world's best network(07:21) Making his first dollar $100 from content(09:28) Getting Chainsmokers follow from memes(14:36) How Adam got access to Vegas F1 Grand Prix and met celebrities(19:04) How creator work leads to absurd adventures(22:16) Adam's creator bucket list: a Netflix show(25:22) How to create your own internet series(28:17) Why passion matter more than size (that's what my wife said)(30:23) Don't just aggregate memes. BE the meme(31:57) Message to companies: let the creators be creative(37:15) Adam's Playboy gig with the Super Bowl(39:27) Red Bull should sponsor hackathons, not just athletes(41:26) GoPro nostalgia and how they lost their mojo(42:59) Idea: energy drinks for memelords(44:12) Running an agency on top of content empire(46:24) Why self-driven teams make everything better(49:36) Why Timothée Chalamet's speech hits like crack for us ambitious peopleJason Levin is the founder of meme marketing software Memelord TechnologiesRead Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups.Follow Jason for memes and cool ideas hereFollow Adam for sports content herePast guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, Troy Osinoff and more.
I talked to my homie Adam Faris, digital creator and the king of sports content. He started out posting NBA 2K TikTok memes and ended up in unexpected places such as Aston Martin Formula 1 garage and working with Playboy.(00:45) First viral TikTok: NBA 2K bets during COVID(04:12) Why Twitter/X is a broken app with the world's best network(07:21) Making his first dollar $100 from content(09:28) Getting Chainsmokers follow from memes(14:36) How Adam got access to Vegas F1 Grand Prix and met celebrities(19:04) How creator work leads to absurd adventures(22:16) Adam's creator bucket list: a Netflix show(25:22) How to create your own series(28:17) How passion matter more than size (that's what my wife said)(30:23) Don't just aggregate memes. BE the meme(31:57) Message to companies: let the creators be creative(37:15) Adam's Playboy gig with the Super Bowl(39:27) Red Bull should sponsor hackathons, not just athletes(41:26) GoPro nostalgia and how they lost their mojo(42:59) Idea: energy drinks for memelords(44:12) Running an agency on top of content empire(46:24) Why self-driven teams make everything better(49:36) Why Timothée Chalamet's speech hits like crack for us ambitious peopleJason Levin is the founder of meme marketing software Memelord Technologies.Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups.Follow Jason on Twitter.Follow Adam on InstagramSubscribe to Jason on YouTube.Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
I talked to founder, investor, and all-around amazing guy Troy Osinoff. Troy built and sold MakeAGIF at 19, then went on to do other stuff from publishing a book to investing in MrBeast, the Charlotte Hornets, Moonpay, and more(00:41) Building the top #1 GIF site at 19 with(03:07) The janky hack that made MakeAGIF profitable(04:22) Investing in a studio where Kendrick recorded good kid, m.A.A.d city(06:52) Bought a bankrupt shoe factory and made handmade sneakers for Shaq(08:57) My Memelord Coffee launch(14:41) Learned to code by handwriting it at Barnes & Noble(16:20) Getting parents approval by being on Dr.Phil(17:25) Blog goes viral → book deal with Penguin → sells rights to John Krasinski(20:54) Troy's gut-driven lifestyle manifesto(24:42) The meme rule: “Don't touch a viral topic unless it's your lane”(28:48) “Vibe marketing is still bullshit.”(32:50) “Every girl tweets about vibrators. I do it once and it's a war crime.”(42:17) How Troy accidentally built a Gen Z media army(46:47) Troy's investment philosophy(54:49) Weirdos with WiFi and caffeine are finally winningJason Levin is the founder of meme marketing software Memelord Technologies.Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups.Follow Jason on Twitter.Follow Troy on TwitterSubscribe to Jason on YouTube.Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Meet the Unhinged Meme Queen and my wife Erica Levin, who left her corporate job and now diving into the tech startup biz(00:17) Leaving the corporate life to creative life(02:52) Getting viral on our wedding day tweet(05:57) Erica getting CENSORED on X (07:52) Explaining what I do to her parents (good luck)(09:42) Planning our wedding with AI like a true startup couple(11:15) Erica's GLP-1 app and the Ozempic rabbit hole(12:37) What it's like being married to a memelord?(14:12) Just doing things in New York (chaotic creative mode)(16:15) That time a One Direction guy hit on my wife
Varun Rana is a viral comedian who left his engineering job at Amazon to make sketch comedy online(00:39) Why is it so easy to make fun of tech?(03:51) The algo gives you infinite shots as long as you're not dumb(07:01) My ‘fuck it, go big' moment(09:37) getting unsolicited feedback from random internet kids who've never built anything(13:23) Explaining to my dad that YouTube is now modern TV channels(16:37) Going insane at work, quitting with $0 plan, and telling your parents after(19:46) Turning your personality into the product(22:58) Using dirty jokes as brand strategy(26:06) The most boring job in tech rebranded as “GTM”(32:30) Startup ideas: Latina cleaners but for your laptop(35:40) Varun's LinkedIn playbook: make fun of LinkedIn and get Viral(38:52) Long vs short posts: crank it out or let it marinate(42:00) The best bangers are unplanned(45:16) Meme-a-thons, flyers, Grok AI, and a dirty system promptJason Levin is the founder of meme marketing software Memelord Technologies.Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups.Follow Jason on Twitter.Follow Varun on InstagramSubscribe to Jason on YouTube.Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Jared Zoneraich is the founder PromptLayer, the first platform built for prompt engineers(00:45) The secret sauce behind prompting(06:54) “Intelligence is cheap as fuck now”(12:45) Remember when the whole internet dunked on prompt engineering?(18:40) Talking on the phone with your users and being friends with them(22:37) That one time Jared and I built a bot to talk to dead people during my bachelor party(24:14) Building while hackathon teammates hit the strip club(28:25) Founders: please have a hobby(32:50) Real talk: should you throw money at investing or keep building stuff?(36:55) Contrarian hot take: “This is a good time to be a software engineer”(39:27) Go all in on the platform you vibe with. Don't try to be everywhere(45:09) Balancing between building and yapping to get customers(47:32) You can only get warm intros if you're hotJason Levin is the founder of meme marketing software Memelord Technologies.Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups.Follow Jason on Twitter.Follow Jared on Twitter.Subscribe to Jason on YouTube.Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Meet my homies and the mysterious co-founders of Faceless.video: Alex Steinberg and Jacob Seeger(00:30) Who the fuck are these mystery founders making millions?(04:47) The Faceless.video origin story (09:03) Their first users + shoutout to cousin Andrew(13:35) Waking up to angry emails, but kinda loving it?(15:55) Vibes vs. data: who actually won?(20:17) How TikTok ban almost gave Alex a panic attack(23:29) Creativity is your only bottleneck in software(24:37) Teaser for my upcoming TV show (25:35) “You could just build software for the sake of it”(27:28) First time learning about vibe coding(30:34) Becoming the "Avengers of Doing Things"(40:06) Fuck cold plunges. Just make money(44:39) From building a brand to building software(45:04) 99% of startup advice is bullshit(49:15) Why entrepreneurs should always bootstrap first(53:04) Freedom as the goal for founders(55:42) AI can do a lot, but it still can't be funnyJason Levin is the founder of meme marketing software Memelord TechnologiesRead Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups.Follow Jason on TwitterCheck out Faceless VideoFollow Alex on TwitterFollow Jacob on TwitterSubscribe to Jason on YouTube.Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
David Keyes is the former spokesman to Israel's Prime Minister and pranker of dictators(00:38) What is ‘narrative warfare' and how do you fight back(02:21) From pranking dictators to advising the Israeli PM(05:07) David's wildest dictator pranks(09:20) Prepping Netanyahu to dodge media attacks(13:17) How startup founders can hit back at legacy media(17:26) Making the Israeli PM go viral on day one(21:14) Why are terrorists so damn good at PR?(23:21) The viral TOTAL VICTORY campaign and what made it explode(28:26) What David learned from working with Netanyahu firsthand(34:28) Our funeral for legacy media(36:08) Legacy media's death: self-inflicted?(37:28) What's next for PR agencies now that legacy media is kaput?(40:04) “We need to seize the memes of production” me to @PalmerLuckey(41:25) The secret sauce to making your content go viral everytime(43:58) Measuring who's winning the narrative war(46:04) Cracking world leaders with humors and jokes(49:46) How to stand out in an ocean of AI-generated slop(51:53) David's mentors and the lessons they taught him(55:34) I was dead WRONG about memes making millionsJason Levin is the founder of meme marketing software Memelord TechnologiesRead Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups.Follow Jason on XFollow David on XSubscribe to Jason on YouTube.Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Tyler Denk is the CEO and founder beehiiv, the all-in-one newsletter platform for creators.(00:26) Making money with newsletters: is that a thing?(05:16) How my newsletter became the home base for Memelord Technologies(06:14) The Big Desk Energy Costa Rica retreat(11:17) How I got a billionaire to sign up for my software(13:08) How I (almost) raised VC(17:11) Telling stories to get your team hyped(21:40) Dealing with “people problems” in your company(25:10) “Small teams are sexy”(26:45) The hiring domino effect(28:10) Building a company you actually want to work on(31:18) Hot take: You shouldn't talk to users before launching(34:20) From $3 in his bank account to a job at @morningbrew(38:10) Doing whatever the fuck you gotta do to get what you want(41:35) My superpower: Being seen as an idiot(42:43) How the Memelord Technologies team got assembled(45:30) Building the most cracked team with people all over the worldJason Levin is the founder of meme marketing software Memelord TechnologiesRead Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups.Follow Jason on TwitterFollow Tyler on TwitterSubscribe to Jason on YouTubeSubscribe to Tyler's newsletter Big Desk EnergyPast guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Molly O'Shea is a venture capitalist and founder of Sourcery, a newsletter about top VC deals and startup trends02:51) Why every VC has a podcast(07:10) Why podcasting is a good excuse to meet cracked people(13:30) Internet friendship = best friendship(14:40) Molly's artist-to-VC pipeline(18:50) Learning about what VC does for the first time(22:00) Our high school side hustle stories(24:40) Why good artists shouldn't starve(26:09) The VC trash-talking culture(28:27) Fuck Kanye West(31:30) How to get viral by offending people (correctly)(35:10) "Memes aren't gonna save you if your product sucks"(37:12) "There's $16B value in LinkedIn influencers"(44:12) Molly explains to me wtf a "vertical SaaS" is(46:17) My secret Memelord Mafia workflow (50:41) "The internet is run by autodidacts" Jason Levin is the founder of meme marketing software Memelord Technologies.Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups.Follow Jason on X.Follow Molly on X.Subscribe to Jason on YouTube.Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Jack Kuveke is a GP at Jabroni Capital. In this episode, Jason announces the exciting new startup he acquired. 00:00) I just acquired my first startup: a social network for gooners (03:15) Recruiting college students to log their goons (05:04) Business idea: branding for terrorist organizations (13:31) What if Bryan Johnson started recruiting for ISIS? (15:24) Is your CEO a fraud? This AI tool will help you (20:35) Why you should be screenmaxxing all the time (29:25) Can Goonmaps get into YC? (33:58) The business case for paying people to jerk off (47:39) My grandpa: the OG astrology grifter (57:17) Making Goonmaps go vira (01:02:59) Zuck's glow-up: PR firm or just a really good blowjob? Jason Levin is a viral marketer and founder of Memelord Technologies, the meme software for meme marketer: memelord.tech Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups: https://www.cyberpatterns.xyz/subscribe Follow Jason for cool ideas here: https://twitter.com/iamjasonlevin Follow Jack here: https://x.com/jackkuveke Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more. #podcast #startups #venturecapital #ycombinator #growthhacks #growthhacking #viralmarketing #marketing #marketingpodcast #marketingstrategy #marketingtips #marketinghacks #jasonlevin #techpodcast #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #businesspodcast #indiehacking
Katelyn Bourgoin is the "Customer Whisperer" and author of popular marketing newsletter "Why People Buy" (00:39) How to make strangers online trust you (05:27) Why you should never hide your flaws on the internet (10:31) The marketers AI anxiety (12:27) Why micro software is killing it (17:30) Claude vs. OpenAI: who has better marketing (22:51) The platforms Katelyn's are bullish on (25:23) Why “be everywhere all the time” content advice is total horseshit (30:02) The psychology of humor and meme marketing (32:57) Using fear, to sell but make it funny (36:19) The secret to make people buy (39:58) Jealousy: a powerful cheat code for marketers Jason Levin is a viral marketer and founder of Memelord Technologies. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Katelyn on Twitter Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Meet my friend and the customer retention king Eli Weiss, VP of Retention Advocacy at Yotpo. (01:45) Black Friday fake “oopsie emails" (04:34) Are email marketing “best practices” just bullshit (07:07) How brands plan Black Friday campaigns (09:49) Why every human is a victim of marketing ploys (13:10) How my wife forced me to dress up for Hereticon (15:56) Idea: Bryan Johnson's Blueprint but for women (21:36) The fuck is “retention” and how I do it for Memelord Tech? (27:28) Is Trump the GOAT marketer? (32:44) Giving my future kids a $1M loan so they don't become useless (35:55) Keeping employees around (potentially with drugs (40:57) Should you take your employees to an Ayahuasca trip (44:33) My theory: The Rizzler is a Big Candy industry plant (46:35) Best marketing I've seen: Lucy Nicotine (49:06) Prediction market: the next big thing (51:41) Injecting more Jewish culture to the e-commerce world
Ridd is the founder and creator of Figma Academy, where he teaches design tactics to thousands of designers (00:27) Growing an online course in 2024 (05:33) Selling to the big leagues: the enterprises (09:23) What sets the course creators apart? (10:58) Why cohort-based courses lead to fast burnout (14:04) Running his online biz with family, Godfather style (19:12) Design is the new marketing baby embrace it (20:22) Can taste be developed or is it innate? (26:08) Brand consistency and why it's essential (27:55) “AI design tools are suck” (30:38) Why I ditched ChatGPT for six months (yes this is a flex) (32:39) Craft over AI slop (37:03) Figma AI backlash: a PR mess (41:23) Writing for the internet, not your English teacher Jason Levin is a viral marketer and founder of Memelord Technologies. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Ridd on Twitter Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Tom Orbach is a viral meme marketer and Head of Growth at $23B cybersecurity startup Wiz (00:28) How do you go viral on LinkedIn? (03:28) “Founders are basically influencers” (05:18) Tom's viral LinkedIn song (yes, I put it on this pod) (06:54) Understanding the memes = understanding the industry (08:15) Tom's “Meme Battle” strategy (09:17) The rise of “mini tools” (yes, it's about my penis) (16:05) Is “screenshot marketing” the next big thing? (21:56) Why people stealing your memes is good (24:59) Tom's secret advice for meme account outreach (25:28) Should we be bullish on event marketing? (30:34) How my dog is helping me get signups for Memelord Tech (32:26) Marketing tactics to be bullish on in 2025: mini games Jason Levin is a viral marketer and founder of Memelord Technologies. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Eric on Twitter Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Eric Bahn is the co-founder and General Partner of venture capital firm Hustle Fund (00:00) Why should VCs care about content? (04:28) Why Eric invested his personal money into a 14-year-old founder (09:24) Hustle Fund's content playbook secret sauce (11:50) The internet content Rorschach test (13:16) Building a content-to-community funnel (14:58) LPs to Eric: “Why are you tweeting ridiculous stuff all the time?” (18:17) Betting on founders before they believe in themselves (24:25) Turning the word “hustle” on its head (26:22) Is AI killing VC deal flows? (32:00) The secret amazing benefit of angel investing (this one BLEW my mind) Jason Levin is a viral marketer and founder of Memelord Technologies. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Eric on Twitter Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Meet Kevin Xu, founder of the social stock trading app AfterHour. (00:29) Are we still sleeping on Reddit? (01:27) Growing a subreddit from scratch (06:12) Reddit promotion tactics (without getting downvoted) (10:15) How meme stocks is the name of the finance game (12:39) Learning stock trading with memes (17:14) Making $8 MILLION from YOLO trades (22:37) Is Reddit currently shooting themselves in the foot? (28:15) “Wall Street Bets is dead” (29:09) Should startups kick off their own subreddit? (31:44) Being terminally online: your secret weapon (37:55) Innovating to beat traditional finance Jason Levin is a viral marketer and founder of Memelord Technologies. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Kevin on Twitter Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Paul Millerd is back on the pod. Paul is the author of Pathless Path and recently published his new book, Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition (00:35) Confessions of a workaholic (03:34) Does work always have to suck a little? (06:00) What happens if you just don't do stuff? (08:30) Paul's pickup line - “I want to build a life not centered around work” (10:20) Why I fired my ghostwriting clients (13:40) How Paul convinced me to drop out of college (18:00) From “work day” to “work decade” (19:30) Is a writing schedule useful? (21:30) The puzzle of good work and finding your flow (23:35) “I abandoned a draft of about 55k words” (26:30) Why you don't need to feel guilty about scrolling Twitter (33:50) “Oh shit, YOU'RE Meme Alerts?” (38:00) How Paul made his first internet money (41:10) Choosing the game you want to play (44:50) Publishing books on your own terms (49:30) Paul's quarterly letter to his friends (50:30) Being a consultant for your own business (55:12) Paul analyzing my superpowers (01:01:25) Scheduling my leisure? What? (01:04:20) How the right memes can hit you deep (01:05:20) Sharing the ideas for my next book (01:08:20) Why American politics nowadays are just meme warfare (01:14:28) Why Naval Ravikant is a memelord Jason Levin is a viral marketer and founder of Memelord Technologies. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Paul on Twitter Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Meet Dani Grant, co-founder and CEO of Jam. For the past couple of years, Dani and I have been teaming up to grow Jam through some unhinged marketing campaigns. (01:08) Why is marketing a dirty word for developers (03:55) Is self-promotion bad? (07:34) Calibrating Jam's brand voice (07:59) Is building in public even worth it? (12:31) “Thousands of people signed up, and no one used it” (14:54) Seth Godin's “Rule of 10” test (17:45) Why Jam does weekly team podcast (20:16) The unhinged “Venus flytrap” marketing campaign (22:46) Cold coutreach → Hot opportunities (27:34) Jam's Growth experiment tracking system (31:34) Why I stopped making viral subway videos (32:29) What is Jam cooking right now? Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Founder of Memelord Technologies. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Dani on Twitter Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Meet Alex Lieberman, co-founder of Morning Brew. Alex co-founded Morning Brew and sold it for $75M to Business Insider. (00:46) Dirty Jobs LARP-ing (06:07) Outfit Mix-n-Match platform (08:11) Does Zuck have a stylist? (10:32) Post-Covid Rebrand Power Rankings (12:25) Rent-a-Stripe Dashboard (14:40) Bullshit MRR Detector (15:21) Handkerchief…but for your ass (16:40) Hairspray for dudes (18:31) Dude Fridges and Dude Product Lines (19:43) “Dress to Guess” (20:59) “Picturesque Piss” (21:45) Uber Confessions Podcast (25:12) Night time erection clinic (26:29) Ass freshener (27:25) VC fund for meme pates (29:00) Pavlov Jumper Cables (31:10) JD Vance Swim Shirts (31:56) Travel Itinerary Platform
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Meet Dani Grant, co-founder and CEO of @jamdotdev. For the past couple of years, Dani and I have been teaming up to grow Jam through some unhinged marketing campaigns. (01:08) Why is marketing a dirty word for developers? (03:55) Is self-promotion bad? (07:34) Calibrating Jam's brand voice (07:59) Is building in public even worth it? (12:31) “Thousands of people signed up, and no one used it” (14:54) Seth Godin's “Rule of 10” test (17:45) Why Jam does weekly team podcast (20:16) The unhinged “Venus flytrap” marketing campaign (22:46) Cold coutreach → Hot opportunities (27:34) Jam's Growth experiment tracking system (31:34) Why I stopped making viral subway videos (32:29) What is Jam cooking right now? Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Dani on Twitter Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Jack Kuveke is a fundraising coach and founder of Jabroni Capital (01:08) Awkward silence filler-as-a-service (03:46) Political trading card game (06:09) Agent Levin: CIA's next top asset? (07:59) Uber for bald eagle (10:34) Putting QR code on the moon (12:56) Rent-a-baby for Instagram clout (14:57) Launch House: Albanian edition (15:42) Mormon sales seminars (21:03) Body count detector AR glasses (22:31) Yacht Club, but for Tesla owners (27:27) Zillow plugin for haunted houses (34:07) Jehovah's Witnesses on demand (35:29) How to make yourself “cancelproof” (38:10) Jester's Privilege: the ultimate power move Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Jack on Twitter Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Ellen Fishbein is the co-founder of Altamira Studio, a modern day book publisher specializing in short books. (00:40) Why people still buy books (03:40) How Amazon kept rejecting my book (07:51) Memes as a legit marketing strategy (09:11) "You're an investigative journalist on crack" (10:42) My book marketing strategy (18:52) Do you actually need a personal brand? (23:09) Trying to buy memes.com (26:40) Can AI make funny memes? (29:07) AI for writing: good or bad? (30:41) Using AI to turn book ideas into reality (36:47) We're living in an Ayn Rand novel (44:05) Memes' grip on American politics Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Ellen on Twitter Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Derek Sivers is the author of 5 books and founder of CD Baby, a company he sold for $22M in 2008. (01:42) Change your framing = change your life (07:50) Picking “useful beliefs” (and what they are) (16:16) Why “America is getting anti-capitalism” might not be true (19:11) Death as the ultimate motivator (21:38) How Derek's life changed after selling CD Baby (23:46) Why you should do things that are NOT useful (34:58) Being selective about what you care about (36:54) “Kissing the algorithm's ass” (41:59) Getting rid of the crap you don't need when building software (45:42) Writing the shortest book your grandchildren would read (55:49) Nerding out on domains Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Reach out to Derek on his website. Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Sasha Kaletsky is the co-founder of Creator Ventures and early investor at email platform beehiiv (00:34) Why Sasha invested in beehiiv (03:58) beehiiv vs Substack: which one's better? (07:11) Investing in “TikTok but for dating” (12:08) AGI: real or just hype? (14:43) “AI will actually make us busier!” (17:44) Universal Basic Income: brilliant or busted? (22:25) Is it getting harder for VCs to invest in startups? (23:45) Distribution is everything (29:52) Why Americans shouldn't hate WhatsApp Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Sasha on Twitter Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Oren John is a brand marketing guru, an creator of consumer brand strategy newsletter HYPER (00:00) What makes a brand luxury? (08:04) "You can't just start a luxury brand" (13:21) Starting a "luxury newsletter" (22:10) Cracking the livestream code (should I start livestreaming?) (38:36) Is Burberry going down? (42:07) Should Burberry sponsors Lex Fridman? Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Oren on Twitter Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Nat Eliason is the author of Crypto Confidential, where he talks about the WILD inside story of the crypto heyday. (00:34) Why the creator economy is fragile AF (05:50) Beating the "algorithm gods" (06:47) How Nat went viral by hacking BookTok (17:30) Why you shouldn't focus on "building an audience" (28:57) Nat's genius book marketing tactics (37:30) Building Strava, but for writing (50:47) Why he's now diving into fiction writing Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Nat on Twitter. Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Amanda Nielsen is a tech meme queen and founder of Thot Leader Labs. We talked about stupid startup ideas that might get me canceled: (01:41) Buying equity on Mars (02:32) Cringe: the dating app for thought leaders (04:11) Duolingo for men to talk about their feelings (06:11) DoorDash, but for strippers (07:02) Joe Rogan-as-a-service (08:50) Airplane cafes (13:35) Social media posts translator for boomers (16:27) Task Daddy (19:04) Bumble BFF for small annoying dogs (20:23) “Meme Muter” Google Chrome Plugin (21:25) Daycare for pet rocks (25:46) Uber for parallel parking (26:23) Fart filtering underwear (30:51) Mood detecting furniture (33:50) Charity detector AR glasses (34:41) Personal subway cars (36:19) “The You Mad?” App Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Amanda on Twitter Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Siqi Chen is a Silicon Valley investor and the founder of Runway, the finance platform you won't hate. (04:30) Why a company should start with a story (10:45) Hiring the executive producer of House of Cards as an advisor (15:20) How to avoid telling the same story as other startups (21:09) VR: Bullish or bearish? (26:30) Why good design is still underrated in startups (35:47) Investing in companies, not niches (41:27) Tips for young product builders (42:56) Siqi's advice to me on managing engineers (46:40) The advice every first-time founder and manager should hear Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Siqi on Twitter Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Jeremy Stern is the deputy editor of Tablet Magazine, who recently interviewed Palmer Luckey: American Anti-Hero and founder of the defense tech company Anduril Industries. (00:00) Palmer Luckey: Supervillain or Anti-Hero? (09:29) Why most tech journalism sucks so bad (19:37) The PR War against Israel and Zionism (26:14) Are we in the middle of an "algorithmic war"? (34:15) Why founders should do "vice signaling" Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Jeremy on Twitter Read Jeremy's piece on Palmer Luckey here. Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Cody Schneider is the co-founder of Swell AI and a silly startup idea generation machine. (00:00) Google Maps, but for crowds and crimes (02:28) Nature and Ayahuasca-as-a-service for tech bros (05:41) The "Nut Sack" prototype (07:28) Flights but with dogs (10:36) Joey Chestnut diet plan (12:07) Birdwatching social media app (14:27) For the degens: AI-powered horse betting coach (16:55) "AI Mommy" as a product (19:13) The most evil startup idea
Gabor Cselle is a serial founder, product builder, and creator of Choosy Chat. (00:00) Startup journey and the path to acquisition (07:24) Should you be able to choose your LLMs? (17:32) Why generating images with AI feels like gambling (25:08) Are we ready to automate creative work with AI? (30:55) Can AI make funny memes now?! (35:58) Will AI-created content ever take off? (43:18) AI friends: yay or nay? Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Isaac on Twitter Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Randy Ginsburg is a founder with a mission to get you off your phones and live your life to the fullest. (01:53) "Bricking" your phone for digital wellness (09:48) The "Screen Time Conundrum" (17:51) Tools for managing your digital life (22:26) Can you actually make money as a digital minimalist? (34:17) How to use technology without getting addicted (42:36) The Rocks, Pebbles, Sand framework Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups Follow Jason on Twitter Follow Randy on Twitter Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more. Subscribe to Jason on Youtube
Emil Michael was the Chief Business Officer at Uber where he was Travis Kalanick's right-hand man. Michael raised over $15B to help Uber grow into the $170B company. (00:00) Dealing with the "Taxi Mafia" in Italy (04:03) How Uber builds local teams from the ground up (09:56) Why founders should "go direct" (15:31) AI and the future of search (Perplexity???) (19:21) How Emil angel invests and how to say no to friends!!! Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Follow Emil on Twitter. Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Nik Shevchenko is the founder of Based Hardware where he builds AI necklaces, glasses, and more. (00:00) Wtf is the AI Friend??? (02:55) Why should AI be Open-Source? (08:56) What cool stuff can the AI Friend do? (11:54) Hardware development (Jason shows his nutsack) (18:58) Privacy implications (KGB or nah?) (25:04) Future plans: smart glasses and brain-computer interface Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more
Bobby Ghoshal is the founder of Dupe.com, a viral app with 2m+ customers to help you find duplicates of furniture or clothes. (00:01) Wtf is Dupe?? (4:00) Bobby's genius $20 viral marketing on TikTok (8:01) "Accidentally" is the best hook ever (11:01) Owning words, slogans, and phrases (13:50) Viral metrics on Instagram + TikTok (16:45) Creator marketing with 15 separate accounts (25:02) Nikita Bier's growth advice to Dupe (32:32) Information Asymmetries = $$$ (37:29) DO NOT DIE - Paul Graham (43:02) Bullish on design founders (52:14) Long-term vision of Dupe Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Emery Wells is the founder of Frame.io which he sold for over $1B to Adobe. (01:32) Emery moves to NYC to be a filmmaker (7:19) Frame's launch goes VIRAL (12:22) Investments from Balaji and Aaron Levy (16:01) Fundraising advice (18:59) Selling software bottom-up (25:00) Writing online and building audiences (28:21) Scott Belsky's Implications (29:34) AI predictions (34:38) Emery's investing in robots???? Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Steven Tey is the founder of Dub.co, an open-source 10x better version of Bit.ly. (00:39) How Steven hit #1 on Product Hunt (07:22) Founding Dub.co (09:47) Product Hunt launch hacks (15:32) Steven's Twitter hacks (20:04) Future of Dub.co Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Joshua Steinman, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Product Hunt CEO Rajiv Ayyangar, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Joshua Steinman is the founder of cybersecurity startup Galvanick and a former member of the National Security Council. (00:42) Biggest threats in USA (2:02) Factories getting hacked (05:45) 2024 Election (08:03) Working in White House (09:18) El Segundo (15:17) Should we ban TikTok??? (18:10) Why does China want to lessen US power? (25:45) The kids are stoned (28:23) Joshua's advice on Twitter from hitting 50k followers Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Jordan Mix is a designer, engineer, and Partner at Late Checkout with Greg Isenberg. (00:43) How to work with your heroes (5:30) Buying and growing businesses at Late Checkout (10:39) You gotta take L's (15:40) Why I give away free books (17:06) Bullish on physical communities (22:21) Product Hunt growth & events strategy (25:32) Why you should be bullish on Twitter/X (28:30) Why I sold all my crypto (36:38) "Curation is lame, go create" - Jason Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Mike Solana, Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Christian Kiel, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Rajiv Ayyangar, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Rajiv Ayyangar is the CEO of Product Hunt, the #1 place on the internet to launch and find cool products. (01:21) What is Y Combinator actually like? (6:50) "I did a handshake deal with Paul Graham) (10:30) YC Safe Note (15:22) Request for new products on Product Hunt (17:27) Rajiv's thoughts on AI (25:41) Jason talks growing the Product Hunt event flywheel (29:51) Rajiv gives 3 tips for Launching on Product Hunt Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Christian Kiel the VP of Marketing at Astranis Space and founder of @1stPrinciplesFM where he interviews deeptech founders every Wednesday. (00:48) The Space Marketing Mafia (4:28) Christian's 3 rules to a good tweet (11:06) Being scared of AI is good, actually (15:40) Is the age of software startups over? (23:21) Jason admits he's scared of hardware (34:16) Astranis satellites v. Starlink satellites (40:59) Based Beff Jezos (43:20) Jason and Christian's tricks to learning anything in Silicon Valley Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Mike Solana, Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more. #startups #spacex #marketing #venturecapital #venturecapitalist #siliconvalley #ycombinator #jasonlevin #techpodcast #marketingstrategy #marketingtips #marketinghacks
Mara Huberman is a social media manager at Citizen where she goes viral everyday with shocking content. She was previously at New York Post where she grew their YouTube 600%. Mara is also the author of a raunchy haiku book called 575 and is the funniest sommelier you'll ever meet. (00:54) Why The Internet Loves Shock (06:05) How Mara Went Viral With A Shocking TikTok (11:00) Growing the New York Post's YouTube (19:25) Mara's Video Editing Tool of Choice (23:25) Mara Reads Haikus (27:41) How to Be a Fancy Wine Drinker (42:51) Citizen's Marketing Machine Jason Levin is an NYC-based marketing consultant for startups like Product Hunt, Jam.dev, and more. Every week, he shares tactics for organic social media growth for startups in his newsletter Cyber Patterns to 15,000+ readers. You can follow Jason on: Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Isaac Medeiros is the founder of Mini Katana, an 8-figure viral sword store. (00:51) Selling swords on TikTok, Meta, and YouTube (7:26) Isaac's previous businesses (9:12) TikTok sucks, YouTube rocks, Twitter has insane potential (13:11) How to build a media team (22:22) How to pick a category for your business (24:14) Battling burnout and internet addiction (31:09) The AI boom makes great authentic content stand out more Jason Levin is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups. Follow Jason on Twitter. Subscribe to Jason on YouTube. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Alex Cohen is the founder of SaaS spending tracking Spendoso, the Sr. Director of Product at Carbon Health, and an angel investor in 70+ companies. He's also a prolific memelord and meme marketer. (01:24) Alex has a real job? (6:38) How to handle a co-founder breakup (11:23) Bootstrap versus VC-backed (18:46) We both got fired as teenagers (25:58) How Alex does Meme Marketing (36:43) Long form content with long term friends (38:07) Elon or Zuck? Jason Levin is an NYC-based marketing consultant for startups like Product Hunt, Jam.dev, and more. Every week, he shares tactics for organic social media growth for startups in his newsletter Cyber Patterns to 15,000+ readers. You can follow Jason on: Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
Eric Jorgenson is the author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, The Anthology of Balaji, and Career Advice of Uniquely Ambitious People (my personal favorite). He's also a VC at Rolling Fund, CEO at Scribe Media, and hosts a podcast called Smart Friends. (01:18) Career Advice for Uniquely Ambitious People (03:53) Book Marketing Secrets (07:00) Boring is Sexy (16:30) Memes Make Millions (19:00) The New Book Market Jason Levin is an NYC-based marketing consultant for startups like Product Hunt, Jam.dev, and more. Every week, he shares tactics for organic social media growth for startups in his newsletter Cyber Patterns to 15,000+ readers. You can follow Jason on: Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.
I talk with my friend and old boss Greg Isenberg about community-based businesses. (00:53) Why Community Businesses are Hot as Ever (08:02) The Goal Is A Community That Runs Itself (10:41) How to Price a Community (13:22) How to Find Community Members (16:04) What about Physical Communities? (18:00) Jason Become a Multipreneur (21:55) Greg's Advice on Finding Partners (23:52) Greg's Goal-Setting Tactics (31:12) Are all Entrepreneurs Gambling Addicts? YES. Jason Levin is an NYC-based marketing consultant for startups like Product Hunt, Jam.dev, and more. Every week, he shares tactics for organic social media growth for startups in his newsletter Cyber Patterns to 15,000+ readers.
Ellen is the author of poetry book Spacefaring and the founder of Altamira Studio—which is publishing my first book Memes Make Millions on October 15.
Paul is the author of The Pathless Path. He got his MBA at MIT and was a strategy consultant before leaving it behind to become a freelancer and creator. His book was super influential in helping me leaving corporate America to go down The Pathless Path. Jason Levin is the writer behind Cyber Patterns, a newsletter with 7,000+ subscribers focused on content strategy and career hacks for creatives. You can find him insights and memes on Twitter and subscribe to Cyber Patterns (www.cyberpatterns.xyz)