Andrea Bosoni

Look at this. To the average person this seems like a normal video that got very popular.

But behind the scenes it’s been designed to do a very important thing. It positions Jenni on par with ChatGPT and music.

A tool so popular it didn’t even need to be explained what it is.

This video is designed to make people feel like everyone else knows about it except them. 

Especially in that target audience no one wants the feeling of missing out.

A lot of them will go and Google it. They’ve been influenced without even realizing it.

Someone said that a $10–15k/month product is a hobby and not a business.

Let’s forget for a second that this is more than the average salary of most people.

For many solo founders the goal isn’t to make as much money as possible.

It’s to feel free and build a life they don’t need a vacation from.

A while ago I wrote about wanting a tool to manage my comments without having to open X and LinkedIn and getting sucked into the feed.

Buffer saw my post and reached out to me asking questions. Then they built it and gave me access to try it. Today they’re launching it to everyone.

I think this is a great example of how actually listening to your ideal customers can get you not only more sales but also free word of mouth.

My marketing predictions for 2026:

- People will start to realize that AEO, GEO or whatever you want to call it is something they can measure but not really influence besides traditional search fundamentals and building a brand real people talk about

- In an attempt to make up for all the lost search clicks most brands will double down on hiring in-house creators who can demonstrate the ability to produce original content that gets attention online

- As distribution channels shrink and acquiring new customers profitably becomes harder we’ll see more acquisitions of emerging bootstrapped players by bigger funded brands as a growth tactic

There’s a growing number of people copying my content. I know because I get tagged in the comments.

So I tried something different and sent some of them a message asking why they did it.

I got basically three answers:

“Oh it wasn’t me it was my ghostwriter”

“My AI tool made me do it”

“But everyone copies everything all the time”

Even assuming that’s true (which I’m not sure) I honestly can’t decide which one is the worst.

Social media is becoming 100% about followers, business and money. I kinda miss the old days when it was that but also more than that.

Today a lawyer told me that if you’re based in Italy and want to do a giveaway you need to notify the Italian department of the Treasury, post a surety bond, have a data server physically located in Italy, file the terms and conditions with the authorities, call a notary or the Chamber of commerce to certify the winner, submit an official closing report and a few other things 🤌

I promise you don’t have to be a 20-something who just dropped out of college to build something online. This is a limiting belief that a lot of people still have and that I really want to see disappear. I hope to see more and more older folks who hate their job and feel trapped start something on the side and be successful.

Being a marketer fucked up my mind. Every time I see something interesting I start thinking how I’d turn it into content. It’s a curse.

I took a look at the social media profiles of the founders of the top 15 startups with more revenue on this chart and 80% of them have less than 10k followers. I don’t want to draw any conclusion from this but it’s interesting because it goes against the common narrative that you need a huge following to be successful.

I'm trying the 2-hour of deep work thing and I have to say that it's skyrocketing my productivity. I put my phone on airplane mode, lock myself in a small room and close the door. I'm so used to multitasking that I didn't realize how much it was holding me back.

Tonight I’m working on day 11 of my marketing challenge.

One person who tested it mentioned that they had signed up for a few accelerators but had never taken action like this.

Another one said it made them realize they needed to pivot the product.

Someone got their first (free) user.

In general everyone agrees that it’s tougher than what they expected.

I’ll try my best to finish and ship it by the end of the month.

Sam Szuchan

Founder @ Soleo. LinkedIn strategy for industry leaders. Clients work w/ Apple, Amazon, Google + published in FT, Bloomberg, etc.

Creator of influence. Nice things folks have said about me:

"Recently, a lot of Sam's posts have been taking off. Last week, he helped me reach 400K+ enterprise professionals with a single post. A third of them from companies with 10,000+ employees. When recruiting teams start sharing your content internally, you know you're doing something right."
—Very major recruiting tech CEO

"Each time that I post [a post Sam made], 100+ people enroll in a course that changes their lives, and my business does twelve or thirteen grand in revenue in that day. A total win-win."
—B2B educator you 100% definitely follow

"Sam helped me clarify my goals and think strategically to reach 150K people in my target demographic – largely founders, CEOs, and senior execs. Prospects frequently mention my LinkedIn content."
—CEO of very cool agency working with Google and many other big tech co's!

"Sam's ability to understand who you are and become an extension of you online is second to none. He provides strategic direction, insightful research, and a relentless desire to bring your strengths and knowledge to light."
—Forbes 30u30 founder who basically invented consumer-facing recruiting tech

You have probably read a few dozen posts I've written without realizing it. Thanks for stopping by :)

Founder

Formerly Saga. Leveraging the world's largest B2B platform to create overwhelming lead pipelines for B2B firms.

"As long as the history books get it right, take some pride in letting the newspapers get it wrong."

Sam Altman wrote that in 2020. A year earlier, he walked away from Y Combinator's presidency to bet everything on OpenAI. 

Everyone thought he was insane.

YC was the most powerful platform in startup land. Direct access to hundreds of founders per year. The ability to shape how an entire generation thinks about building companies. A reputation machine that had already minted Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe.

Remember, this was 2019 - way before OpenAI’s rise. He left YC for (what was then) a nonprofit-controlled AI lab that still looked more like a research shop than a product company.

Looking back, EVERY move he made throughout his career was the maximum leverage option available to build influence, way before anyone realized:

- Chose computer science at Stanford in the early 2000s when finance was the prestige path
- Dropped out to do YC and build Loopt when he could have gone straight to Google or Facebook
- After Loopt, launched Hydrazine Capital to invest in YC companies, making himself essential infrastructure for the next generation of founders
- Became YC president at 28 and turned it into a distribution network across hundreds of startups
- Left YC to become CEO of OpenAI's new "capped-profit" structure

Throughout his entire career, he's been 5-10 years early on the most influential position possible. It's happened too many times to be a coincidence.

His pattern works because he understands how influence compounds. Every YC batch, he met dozens of founders at their most malleable stage.

He saw the raw decks, the dysfunctional teams, the early flashes of product-market fit. Some became Instacart, DoorDash, and Coinbase.

Each founder he helped became a future allocator of equity, attention, and introductions.

Their founders remembered who took them seriously when they were pitching half-finished slides.

"The question isn't 'How do I stop caring what people think?'" Altman wrote. "It's 'Whose opinions should I care about and on what timescale?'"

November 2023 proved the pattern works. When OpenAI's board tried to oust him, hundreds of employees threatened to walk. Microsoft made it clear the partnership was with Altman, not the corporate shell.

He didn’t survive through maneuvering.

He survived because of the protective layer of influence he built.

Because influence isn't a cooler job title—

It's pure leverage.

It's a 15-year bet on who and what matters later, and how you can own it before anyone realizes it’s the next big thing.

“The newspapers will get it wrong. The history books will get it right.”

That's the bet he's made his entire career - and he's making it again.

What could you build by choosing history books over newspapers?

P.S. Full breakdown of Altman's 15-year playbook in the comments

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