Alejandro Dinsmore

Zippy

Staff Product Manager

Senior Product Manager

Founding Product Manager - 1500% increase in Loan Volume in 2023. 

Working on B2C and B2B initiatives across the business.

Product Manager

Thrive

Founding Product Manager for Thrive Pulse - 0 to 30,000 WAUs in six months

Product Manager for:
- Thrive Pulse
- Thrive for Chat (Slack and Teams)

THE ENDLESS CO.

Managed projects ranging from a mobile app for Covid-19 diagnostics to an augmented reality sneaker activation. Helped prepare pitch materials for new projects and clients.

Strategy and Product

eevo, Inc.

Built and launched virtual reality experiences for customers like Merck, Zoom, Logitech, McKinsey and The BBC.

AlphaSights

I worked predominantly with management consultancies and institutional investors - communicating daily with senior professionals and executives in early stage industry research, due diligence, and M&A processes, worldwide across all industry sectors.

Analyst

Sisasa Inc.

Co-Founder

MIT D-Lab

Funded by MIT D-lab, worked specifically on solarclave project in Nicaragua.

Solarclave Medical Device Intern

Finding ways to live a better life through intentional work.

Founder (raised 2M in funding) | Early-stage Product Manager  (0-9M ARR) | Forbes 30u30 (not in jail)

Gemini 3 was just released! There was a lot of hype and rumors but I was not expecting Google to 2x the previous best score on ARC-AGI 2 (historically one of the toughest benchmarks out there)

Here's a bit more context on why this is a big deal:

ARC-AGI-2 is designed to stress test the efficiency and capability of AI reasoning systems, and provide useful signal towards AGI.

Pure LLMs score 0%

AI reasoning systems score only single-digit percentages (until recently)

Google's Gemini 3 just scored 45%, more than doubling the previous best of ~18% (from OpenAI's Pro model)

For all the "LLMs are plateauing" "New models aren't getting better", feels like progress is only accelerating.

Staff Product Manager | Fintech & Ai | Forbes 30 under 30

Wow Google is on FIRE this week. They just released a major update to NotebookLM and the new slide functionality is incredible!

Turn your sources into a detailed deck for reading OR a set of presentation-ready slides. These are fully customizable too so you can easily control the look, feel and content.

Check out this presentation it made from one of my sources. 

It took two minutes and for educational purposes I'm posting the version it created with zero edits.

What do you think? Does it look like slop or is AI finally getting good enough to handle building out decks?

Creatingyourfirstagent

Will ChatGPT be the new App Store? 

With its over 800 million weekly active users it's a very real threat to existing platforms

Combined with the crazy retention graphs I've seen, and the fact that it is increasingly becoming the "first step" users take when trying to solve a problem 

Building for ChatGPT could be the next big opportunity.  

I tried out their Apps SDK, it feels clunky 
and the current capabilities feel limited 
but there is lots of potential in building for what it COULD BE in the future.

Here is a quick demo of what I was able to build in an evening, it's a financial advisor app that connects to Plaid so it can give you personalized and real-time guidance.

Starting to wonder what interviews will look like in 12 months.

New Google research paper just dropped (it's a fun one)

"Introducing Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning"

Another attempt to apply neurophysiological patterns to LLMs 

Their big argument: 
1. Human memory = two systems (short and long term)

2. There is an active process in the brain that transfers/consolidates short term memory to long term

3. Anterograde amnesia = consolidation process is broken (no change in long term memory)

4. Current LLMs have anterograde amnesia, they only have short term memory (attention) 

5. Long term memory is locked in pre-training 

6. Nested learning uses a series of nested "modules" that operate on different time scales and context, essentially enabling the consolidation of short term memory to long term memory (learning)

OpenAI just dropped a 20 page guide on "Building an AI-native
engineering team". 

It's worth reading the full thing, but I've also been really loving using the new Google image model to create visual summaries of articles to keep for future reference.

Here's an example output based on the full 20 page guide:

Jay Yang

Acquisition.com

Social Media Strategist for Alex & Leila Hormozi

Pre-Production Strategist for Alex & Leila Hormozi

The Spark

Writer

I help established entrepreneurs scale their brand and market their products using social media.

Founder

AppSumo

I worked directly with Noah Kagan (Founder & CEO of AppSumo) to strategize, create, and grow his social media brand and email newsletter. Led the social media campaign that helped make Million Dollar Weekend a New York Times bestseller.

Head of Content to Noah Kagan

Z Fellows

Grew the Z Fellows Twitter account from 1,066 to 22,369 followers in 1 year and newsletter from 3,460 to 6,000+ subscribers.

Content Strategist

The Startup Archive

Developed the content creation and distribution system that grew the Startup Archive Instagram account from 0 to 160,000 followers and Twitter account from 0 to 40,000 followers in 9 months.

Perch

Marketing

Good People Digital

Researcher & Copywriter

The Newsletter Nerd

Started and scaled a B2B newsletter media company to exit within 5 months.

beehiiv

Created and launched the beehiiv 101 resource.

Growth Marketer

Hi, I’m Jay Yang.

I believe you don’t need permission to create your own opportunities.

When I was 16, I cold-emailed Tyler Denk, the CEO of beehiiv, with a list of ideas on how I could help. That email turned into an internship where I built beehiiv 101—a course that’s helped hundreds of users unlock the platform’s potential.

At 17, I sent Noah Kagan, founder of AppSumo, a 19-page pitch deck breaking down gaps in his social media and email marketing—and how to fix them. That landed me a role as Head of Content, where I led campaigns (like the one that made Million Dollar Weekend a New York Times bestseller).

These days, I help entrepreneurs scale their brand, grow their audience, and market their products more effectively.

When I’m not working, you’ll find me:

• Playing pickup basketball at the local gym.
• Picking up and putting down heavy things (roughly 10-12 times).
• Hanging with family and friends.

Can’t believe I turned 20 today…

What a wild journey it’s been so far:

When I was 16, I cold-emailed Tyler Denk, the CEO of beehiiv, with a list of ideas on how I could help. That email turned into an internship where I built beehiiv 101—a course that’s helped hundreds of users unlock the platform’s potential. 

At 17, I sent Noah Kagan, founder of AppSumo, a 19-page pitch deck breaking down gaps in his social media and email marketing—and how to fix them. That landed me a role as Head of Content, where I led campaigns (like the one that made Million Dollar Weekend a New York Times bestseller). 

At 18, I decided to try my hand at the game of business and scaled a ghostwriting and creative agency to six-figures within its first year. 

At 19, I dropped out of college to work on Alex & Leila Hormozi’s media team, and self-published my first book You Can Just Do Things, which became an Amazon best-seller.

…and now I’m 20.

Part of me feels like I have to follow it up with something even bigger and grander this year. 

But the older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized how important patience and playing the long game is to your long term success.

So when I feel restless or anxious about my future, I zoom in.

I will write daily. I will read daily. I will lift daily. I will learn daily. I will help others daily.

If I do those things, I cannot lose.

Here’s to another trip around the sun! ✊🏼

Social Media Strategist for Alex & Leila Hormozi | Author of You Can Just Do Things

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Pretty cool thing to wake up to - got featured in Forbes!

You can just do things 🫡

Alex & Leila Hormozi’s Written Media Strategist | Author of You Can Just Do Things

I turned 20 two weeks ago…
Here’s how I got here:

When I was 15, I googled “how to make money online”.

That led me to start a music promotion YouTube channel where I’d promote underground artists songs to help them get exposure.

I posted every single day for an entire summer… but the channel didn’t go anywhere :(

But it did teach me the power of online content and value creation.

At 16, I realized I needed more guidance on how to run an online business, so I cold-emailed Tyler Denk, the CEO of beehiiv, with a list of ideas on how I could help him.

That email turned into an internship where I built beehiiv 101—a course that’s helped hundreds of users unlock the platform’s potential. 

At 17, I sent Noah Kagan, founder of AppSumo, a 19-page pitch deck breaking down gaps in his social media and email marketing—and how to fix them.

That landed me a role as Head of Content, where I led campaigns (like the one that made Million Dollar Weekend a New York Times bestseller). 

At 18, while in college, I decided to try my hand at the game of business and scaled a ghostwriting and creative agency to six-figures within its first year. 

I learned a ton about offer creation, sales, onboarding, client success, marketing, and operations.

At 19, I dropped out of college to work on Alex & Leila Hormozi’s media team as a written strategist writing tweets, ads, VSLs, YouTube scripts, and emails.

I also self-published my first book You Can Just Do Things, which became an Amazon best-seller.

To be completely honest, those two decisions were the scariest decisions I’ve ever had to make.

…and now I’m 20.

And I’m still just getting started 😈

If I could go back and give my younger self one piece of advice - it would be this:

>> Do more things that would make your 10-year-old self proud. <<

The goal is to look back and be able to say…

“Everything we said we’d do, we did.”

The quickest way to change your life is to put yourself in an environment where you feel out of place and force yourself to level up.

Since joining Acquisition, I've been in rooms with deca-millionaires and centa-millionaires. I've led meetings, worked with vendors, run learning workshops for the team, and pitched ideas to the company's leaders.

In nearly every one of those situations, I felt slightly out of place.

And that was the point.

Mimicry is fundamentally baked into the psychology of every human being.

Rather than trying to fight against it, lean into it, use it, find the best people you know, and spend as much time with them as possible.

Work with the best in the world. Lift with people stronger than you. Run with people faster than you. Hang out with people happier than you.

You become who you surround yourself with.

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A reflection on turning twenty…

(Link to full blog in the comments)

Reminder to self:
"Never let your quest for more distract you from the beauty of enough."



This Thanksgiving, I keep reminding myself that I'm living the life my younger self once prayed for.

This past year has been absolutely wild...

• My content agency crossed six figures, and then I shut the whole thing down.

• I published my first book (which became an Amazon bestseller), dropped out of college, and moved across the country to join Alex & Leila Hormozi's media team.

• We broke a Guinness World Record and made $106M in 3 days.

• I ran my first marathon. Got featured in Forbes. And built my Instagram to over 250k followers.

When you see it all listed out like that, it looks like everything just clicked into place.

But honestly, there were so many nights where I'd lay awake, staring at the ceiling, wondering if I'd completely blown up my life for nothing.

The weird part is that all these "highlights" probably made up 1% of my actual year. The other 99% felt pretty ordinary, messy and uncertain.

It's only when I look back now that I can see how much actually happened.

And that's what I keep forgetting:
That growth happens in the quiet stretches, not the headlines.

Whenever I catch myself complaining or feeling sorry for myself about some random little thing...

I stop and think about how 15-year-old Jay would absolutely lose his mind if he knew about all the cool stuff we've experienced this year.

I met so many incredible people who became real friends. I learned more than I thought possible. And I'm finally starting to feel proud of who I'm becoming.

While I'm still just scratching the surface of the things I want to do with my life... I'm beyond grateful for everything that's happened thus far.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Here's to many more incredible experiences with incredible people.

- Jay

Ps. YOU CAN JUST DO THINGS (!!)

Happy Thanksgiving!!

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"Don't be so busy planning the future that you forget to live in the present."

Stop worrying

Creators and content teams...
A hill I'm willing to die on:



You're probably not paying enough attention to your written platforms.

And here's why:

It's well known that YouTube and Instagram are incredible platforms for reaching people and driving revenue.

So most content teams believe they should allocate more resources to those platforms.

BUT... there's a caveat.

While that is a directionally correct statement, there is additional nuance that needs to be taken into consideration.

You see, written content isn’t just one of the platforms. It’s the foundation of all the other platforms.

Tweets become:
• YTCP posts
• Threads posts
• LinkedIn posts
• Facebook posts
• Instagram posts
• Scripts for shorts
• Scripts for YT videos

So even though Instagram or YouTube may get more total impressions than X...

A large percentage of those impressions are driven from X content.

So... what’s the conclusion?

Written content shouldn’t be an afterthought.

When the writing works, every downstream channel performs better. When it doesn’t, the entire system underperforms.

I turned 20 this past Friday...

What advice do you have to make the most of this next decade? 👇

This idea might actually change your life:

HOT TAKE:
A leader's job is NOT to tell their team what to do...



A leader's job is to set the standard.
To create guidelines.
To give support.

To make their team look good to everyone else.

If a leader is constantly:
- stepping over their team
- chasing the spotlight
- protecting their ego above the mission

... run the other way.

You won’t grow under someone who needs to be the star.

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