Talin Koutnouyan

How to target creators with super fans? Find creators with small niche followings and high engagement. This niche can be existing verticals, horizontal creators (creators with a presence across multiple platforms), or people who don't realize they are creators (i.e. professional who gives career advice).

The fundamental message of marketing must change from "we want your money" to "we share your interests".

Social media is similar to sharecropping :

• We’re "renting" space on a platform we don’t own


• We’re paying for that space by becoming “the product” whose attention is sold to the highest ads bidder


• Our attention is also being usurped by the makers of the platform and what they’ve programmed their algorithm to show us, and


• Our data is being

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Those who really win (an industry, or in a career) did so by delaying gratification. One of the greatest competitive advantages in a startup team — or any bold new project or turnaround — is simply sticking together long enough to figure it out. This is hard because our natural human tendency is to crave short-term rewards and seek short-cuts to... See more

Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive.