Co-Founder @ Measure Studio 📈 AI-Powered Social Media Insights

I’m a 3x entrepreneur and M&A advisor who helps founders sell their businesses.

👋 WHY ME?

After I sold my first startup (Paladin), several founder friends reached out to me. They wanted to know what it was like and what I learned in the process.

A few of them were thinking about selling their companies and asked if I would help. After all, I understood the industry and probably knew most of the potential buyers.

So I agreed to help a few of those friends and found myself with a new side hustle as a boutique investment banker.

After cutting my teeth on a few deals, I realized how much I love working with entrepreneurs, so I made it official and launched my own M&A advisory practice: Quartermast Advisors.

🤝 WHAT I OFFER:

I help my clients manage the entire M&A process from start to finish, which includes:

✭ Preparing your materials (management presentation, financials, etc.)
✭ Identifying and getting in touch with the right buyers
✭ Negotiating the deal structure and economics
✭ Coordinating with legal and tax experts to protect your interests
✭ Asking thoughtful questions and providing useful advice along the way

🤔 WHY WORK WITH AN M&A ADVISOR?

Research shows that hiring a banker results in ~25% higher valuation premiums, on average.

It also frees founders up to continue operating the business and hit their targets. There's nothing worse than poor company performance during a sales process, so it's often more valuable for the team to focus on delivering good results rather than managing M&A discussions.

👨‍💻 WHO I HELP:

I stick to what I know: digital media, tech, and the creator economy. I’ve helped sell influencer agencies, talent management firms, enterprise SaaS companies, and more.

If you’ve been approached or are just thinking about selling your company now or in the future, shoot me a note. I’d be happy to chat and answer any questions.

If I’m the right fit, I’d love to help you out. And if I’m not, I’ll gladly point you in the right direction.

💬 I'VE BEEN FEATURED IN:
- Business Insider
- Digiday
- eMarketer
- Forbes
- Net Influencer
- New Economies
- PRWeek
- Scalable
- The Information
- The Publish Press
- TheWrap
- They Got Acquired
- Tubefilter
…and more

📢 I'VE SPOKEN AT:
- 1 Billion Followers Summit
- Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
- Digital Entertainment World (DEW)
- Digital First
- Digital Hollywood
- DMEXCO
- Social Media Week
- VidCon
- Youth Marketing Show (YMS)
…and more

James Creech

Humbled to have been selected as "The Most Visionary Leader in M&A and Entrepreneurial Growth – 2026!"

The good news arrived yesterday via my spam folder (clearly an honest mistake on Gmail's part).

I didn't recognize the sender, but it came from a guy with two first names, so of course I trust him implicitly.

I'm embarrassed to admit that I wasn't familiar with this prestigious publication, so I visited the domain from the sender's email address.

The website was down, but I'm sure it's because they've gotten a huge surge in traffic after unveiling such an important list.

Incredibly flattered, I wrote back to graciously accept the award. There were, of course, some important logistical considerations to work out.

The most important detail was a $2,000 honorarium that I was expected to pay. I'll be honest, I haven't won many awards like this before, so this came as a surprise. But hey, welcome to the big leagues!

In exchange for this small fee, I would receive prime cover page placement, a 10+ page feature, an exclusive video interview, and global PR exposure.

That all sounded great, of course, but I paused and thought to myself: "What would a truly Visionary Leader do?"

That's when it hit me. A $2,000 certificate and online article weren't going to inspire those around me. We needed to think bigger. Much BIGGER.

How much would it cost for an oil painting or marble bust of me, I wondered? Better yet, how about a towering bronze sculpture to truly capture my visionary legacy?

Erin quickly gave me a quote and assured me that his team would take care of everything.

The whole thing wasn't cheap, but can you really put a price on visionary leadership?

The bronze sculpture is set to arrive in 10-12 weeks, so I'll be sure to share regular updates here on LinkedIn.

In the meantime, I had ChatGPT mock up the cover art to save their graphics team the trouble. I figured it's the least I could do.

Thank you all for your support! I'm blown away by this amazing honor!!

Founder, Quartermast Advisors 🤝 We help entrepreneurs maximize their M&A outcomes. 🚀 Co-Founder, Measure Studio 📈 AI-powered social media insights.💡

My years of watching too much online video content are finally paying off.

Excited to serve on VidCon's inaugural Hall of Fame Selection Committee, which will nominate and vote on the creators whose work has shaped the creator economy over the last couple decades. No pressure. 😅

Fun to see so many old friends also on the committee! Adam Wescott, Alessandra Catanese, Avi Gandhi, Brendan Gahan, Brian Flanagan, Chris M. Williams, Eric Wei, Farhad Meher-Homji, Jim Louderback, Joseph Marchese, Lauren Schnipper, Lia Haberman, Megan Lightcap, Meredith Levine, Phil Ranta, Sean Atkins, Shira Lazar, and more!

As the creator economy matures, so does the capital landscape around it. Here are the key players:

𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 – investing in early-stage creator tools, platforms, and creator-led companies.

𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐄𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲 – acquiring and scaling established creator economy businesses.

𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐝𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬 – democratizing investment access and empowering fans to directly back creators.

𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 – providing revenue-based funding and liquidity solutions.

𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 – pioneering ways to get creators on the cap table so they can participate in equity upside.

𝐌&𝐀 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐬 – helping founders maximize their exit outcomes.

𝐌&𝐀 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 – matchmaking platforms for business buyers and sellers.

💡The takeaway: The creator economy is evolving into a full-stack financial ecosystem.

For creators and creator economy founders, that means more paths than ever to build, finance, and eventually exit meaningful businesses.

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Today is my 36th birthday 🎉

Each year, I like to pause and reflect on a few lessons life keeps teaching me. Here are a few that feel especially true right now:

𝐁𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 🎯
Life moves fast. It’s easy to get caught up in the momentum, so occasionally stop and ask yourself, "Is this actually where I want to go?"

𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐲 𝐍𝐨 🙅‍♂️
I still struggle with this and often find myself overcommitted. One thing that helps is to periodically create a "stop doing list" (the opposite of a to-do list) to remind myself that every "yes" comes with a tradeoff.

𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐟𝐟 😅
Most things that feel urgent today won’t matter a year from now. Focus on what truly moves the needle and let the rest go.

𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬 🎮
Hobbies and passion projects make you more interesting and often make you better at your “main quest” too.

𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 😂
Make yourself laugh. Make others laugh. And most importantly, learn to laugh at yourself.

𝐆𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐆𝐞𝐭 🎁
The best relationships and opportunities grow from generosity. Helping others will come back in ways you never expect.

𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐎𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 🌍
I try to visit 3 new countries each year, which is a fun goal, even if I don't always achieve it. Exploring new places and cultures is a great way to reset your perspective.

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 🤝
Life is all about the people you share it with. Make an effort to connect good people and keep in touch.

𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐬 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 🌟
I'd rather be known well, than well known. A smaller circle of people who know and trust you is far more valuable than broad but shallow recognition.

Grateful for another trip around the sun and for all the amazing people who make the journey worthwhile!

P.S. I kicked off the bday celebrations at Sugarfish last night with my fellow Pisces Dylan Harari. Fun start to the weekend!

MrBeast has acquired Gen Z fintech app Step.

Here are the highlights, and what it means for the creator economy:

𝐁𝐮𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞
• Beast Industries, the entertainment, consumer products, and CPG company founded by YouTube creator and entrepreneur Jimmy Donaldson.
• Founded in 2012.
• 1,052 employees per LinkedIn.
• Raised $650M in total funding, including a $200M investment from crypto firm BitMine Immersion Technologies last month.
• Estimated valuation of $5B, based on investor pitch decks and reporting.
• Business lines include the MrBeast media empire (including the "Beast Games" series on Amazon Prime Video), chocolate company Feastables, snack kit Lunchly (JV with PRIME), and clipping platform Vyro.
• Step is Beast's 2nd publicly announced acquisition, after creator hiring platform Vouch in Oct 2024.

𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞
• Step, a fintech app that helps young people save, spend, build credit, and manage their finances.
• Founded in 2018 by CJ MacDonald and Alexey Kalinichenko.
• 276 employees per LinkedIn.
• Raised ~$500M in combined equity and debt funding.

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 & 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
• Undisclosed

𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐞
• Expand into financial services with an existing platform and user base. Step enables Beast to expand into the heavily regulated financial industry without building from scratch.
• Leverage Beast’s massive audience to drive adoption.
• Advance Jimmy's financial literacy and wellness mission. In his own words: "Nobody taught me about investing, building credit, or managing money when I was growing up. [...] I want to give millions of young people the financial foundation I never had.”

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲?

➊ Distribution is the new leverage.

Beast Industries is harnessing the global reach of its owned media engine to sell products and services to its audience at effectively negative CAC. This creates a direct line from attention → engagement → monetization.

➋ Audience monetization is maturing.

The first wave was brand deals. The second wave was CPG. And this next wave will include software, services, and more.

➌ Creators are becoming acquirers.

From Mythical buying Smosh to Epic Gardening acquiring Botanical Interests and Modern Farmer, we’re seeing creator-led companies buy strategic assets to accelerate their growth and enhance their capabilities.

The bar has moved from “can you monetize your audience?” to “can you build an enduring, multi-vertical company around your distribution advantage?”

Welcome to the era of creator conglomerates.

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The creator economy will generate $235 billion this year.

That's bigger than most other entertainment sectors…

🎮 Video Games: $205B
🎢 Theme Parks: $75B 
🎸 Live Music: $44B
🎞️ Movies (box office): $35B
🎭 Broadway Shows: $2B

And it shows no signs of slowing down. The creator economy is growing at an impressive 22.5% CAGR -- on track to reach $528B by 2030.

What’s driving this explosive growth?

1️⃣ More and more people are creating content.

Today there are over 200M people worldwide who identify as creators. AI tools continue to lower the barriers to entry for content creation, so this number is only going to increase.

2️⃣ The nature of work is changing.

The U.S. will be a majority freelance economy by the end of 2027.

Younger generations don't want to work 9 to 5, climb the corporate ladder, and retire with a pension.

They want to be their own boss and have independent, flexible careers. As a result, we live in an era of gig work, side hustles, and content monetization. 

3️⃣ We’re living more of our lives online.

Social platforms remain the primary attention economy, with traditional media and live events competing with creator-driven content for audience time and ad dollars.

YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and other platforms continue to define culture, and creators have become an essential part of the modern marketing playbook.

📌 Bottom Line

The creator economy isn’t slowing down. It’s a global economic force that has become a central pillar of modern culture and commerce.

It’s bigger than gaming, movies, and live music, and it's only growing as technology and audience behaviors evolve.

February was a busy month for software & media acquisitions!

Here's the full list of creator economy M&A deals from last month.👇

𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 🎥
• Consumable acquired interactive livestreaming platform Fireside.
• CANDLE MEDIA℠ sold digital media company ATTN: back to its founders Matthew Segal and Jarrett Moreno.
• Jellysmack-owned Law & Crime acquired Court TV from The E.W. Scripps Company.
• Marquee Brands subsidiary Culinary Media Group acquired Food52.

𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 👨‍💻
• New Engen acquired UGC marketplace GrapevineAI.
• Disrupt Marketing acquired market research platform Imagen Insights.
• MrBeast acquired fintech company Step.
• Red Seat Ventures acquired podcast subscription platform Supercast.
• Etsy sold secondhand fashion app Depop to eBay for $1.2B.
• BENlabs sold YouTube channel management tool TubeBuddy to GameSquare Holdings Inc. for $1.4M.

𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 ⭐
• Parker Management acquired digital talent agency Estate Five Media.

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Introducing The Digital Dealflow, our weekly newsletter from Quartermast Advisors!

Each week, we break down the biggest deals, trends, and industry news shaping the creator capital landscape.

From funding announcements to M&A transactions, our newsletter equips creator economy professionals with the market insights they need to make smarter decisions.

Here's what we've got for you this week:
• Night raised $70M to fund additional M&A and expand into gaming, sports and music.
• Wasserman is reportedly exploring a sale amid the founder's recent Epstein controversy.
• Warner Bros. Discovery is reopening M&A talks with Paramount.
• LTK is reducing headcount to reallocate capital toward brand-facing tech and partnership tools.
• And more! Check out the full edition to get the latest news and updates.

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Our team at Measure Studio is hosting a private dinner for social media execs next Wed, March 18th. Free food + drinks and a great group of folks!

No panels. No presentations. Just good food, smart people, and candid conversations about where social is heading.

📍 West Hollywood
 📅 Wednesday, March 18th
 ⏰ 7:00 – 9:30 PM

We've only got a few spots left, so if you’re a senior-level social pro and want to join us, RSVP here: https://luma.com/b8acssny

It's been another busy week for creator economy M&A!

GameSquare Holdings Inc. acquired YouTube channel management tool TubeBuddy from BENlabs in a $1.4M all-stock deal.

Etsy is selling secondhand fashion app Depop to eBay for $1.2B, less than 5 years after buying it for $1.62B.

Paramount increased its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery to $108B.

Rich Sparkle stock hit a 52-week low, just one month after its $975M purchase of Khaby Lame’s Step Distinctive holding company.

...and that's just scratching the surface. Check out the full list of updates in this week's edition of The Digital Dealflow.

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What's happening in the creator capital landscape this week?

Meta acquired a social network for AI agents (Moltbook).

Netflix is buying InterPositive, Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup for $600M.

Dolphin partnered with DealMatch to expand online fundraising options for creators.

Devotion raised $4M to build an AI-powered influencer marketing agency.

Check out the full recap in our latest edition of The Digital Dealflow.

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We've got a fresh batch of creator economy M&A news for you this week!

Fixated acquired creator monetization firm Elevate Management Group.

HubSpot buys entrepreneurship media company Starter Story.

KSI invested in Dagenham & Redbridge Football Club.

SPIN acquired media outlet Live for Live Music.

And more! Get the full roundup in the latest edition of The Digital Dealflow.👇

https://lnkd.in/gNzEvs6r

Avinash "Avi" Gandhi

Building Creator Logic, the Bloomberg of the Creator Economy. Join 28,000+ Creatorpreneurs becoming their own managers through interviews, frameworks, and case studies at CreatorLogic.com. DM to partner.

My mission is to build the Creator Middle Class by helping Creators and Companies win together. 

I've spent 15 years helping Creators and companies build businesses hand in hand, as a talent agent, manager, producer, and executive at companies like WME, Wheelhouse, and Patreon. I've seen nanoinfluencers make six figures and watched million-scale Creators go bankrupt. The difference between the two is how they approach their businesses - their "Creator logic"!

Our first offering is the Creator Logic newsletter, which currently reaches 28,000+ Creators.

We also produce written and short-form video across social (@thecreatorlogic) and have brought together over 500 Creators to date at events and meetups in Southern California, New York, Baltimore, and London.

We offer 15 years of Creator-native knowledge and experience as Advisors to companies serving Creators but not native to the Creator Economy, helping them better build for, sell to, and succeed with Creators. Past and present clients include Discord, TubeBuddy, and Point72 Ventures. 

Soon we are launching paid community and product offerings to help Creators better monetize, through education and access to otherwise gatekept opportunities. 

If you're interested in exploring ways we can work together, please don't hesitate to message me or reach out via email - avi@creatorlogic.com.

Thanks!

Avi Gandhi (Creator Logic)

It's time. I'm nervous but excited to announce my new business, Creator Access Network! Let me tell you about it:

I spent the last 3 years experimenting my way into the Creator Middle Class.

Many experiments failed:

- Community - lost money (2x)
- Course - nobody bought it (embarassing)
- Accountants - fired two to find the right one
- Newsletter - 3 years, 200+ articles, $6000+ in platform fees, still <10% of my income

I spent over $10,000 before any of this stuff paid off, and much of it didn't - consulting/advising is still my primary income source.

But for many Creators, that's the price of figuring out what works. Every Creator I talk to has a version of this story.

There's no shortcut around the experimentation, and any two Creators who appear similar often have completely different businesses, arrived at through trial and error.

You try stuff because you have to - but it shouldn't be so expensive.

And now, it isn't.

I spent the last six months leveraging 15 years of industry relationships to negotiate exclusive deals with 30+ of the best companies in the Creator Economy — discounts, rev shares, and rates you cannot get anywhere else.

The result is Creator Access Network: a single membership with $6,000+ in savings on the best tools, platforms, and services in the Creator Economy.

(Your product not in it but should be? DM me)

Think of it like this: big Creators get better deals because companies want their followings. The rest of us get standard rates.

CAN changes that. I've negotiated on behalf of our members the way a (good) manager negotiates on behalf of their clients.

As a result, many of our discounts and revshare improvements are worth a multiple on the full cost of membership.

Full launch price in mid-April will $199/year, with a money-back guarantee if you try and can't cover the cost in savings or earnings.

Pre-orders are live right now at $79/year for life, the lowest it will ever be. 

If you're a Creator, or even considering building a Creator business, our membership will be worth it. 

Check out https://lnkd.in/gNksaR2s for our full list of 30+ current partners. We'll be adding dozens more in the months to come.

Powering the Creator Middle Class via Creator Access Network. CreatorAccessNetwork.com

Control what you can control.

I’m launching my new business in April.

A few weeks ago, a marketing partner of mine told me “Great, we have plenty of time. Let’s chat in March.”

But I know how it goes.

I’d follow up in March.

Wouldn’t hear for a week, because people are busy.

Then we’d get into onboarding, but they have lots of clients so it would go slow.

And inevitably, we would not be ready for launch, or we would be sloppy about it to get started in time.

So I just lied.

I said “Oh, but I wanna do a pre-launch campaign in March, so we should start now.”

They said “OK,let’s hop on a call.”

Took a week to schedule.

Took another week and a half to get the actual onboarding process started.

Now we are in onboarding. That’s supposed to take 2 weeks, but I bet it takes 4.

And that means we will be ready to go 1-2 weeks ahead of time.

Just enough to handle an inevitable last minute change or crisis.

I can’t see the future, so I’m just trying to control what I can control.

And sometimes that means telling a white lie in the best interest of both parties.

How do you control what you can control?

📸 Something else I can control: my appearance.

Picture of Avi Gandhi wearing jeans, boots, a button up, and bomber jacket on his way to control what he can control

This VC has 90 celebrity investors, money in 4 unicorns, and gets most of his deal flow...from Instagram?

I sat down with Marshall Sandman, co-founder of Animal Capital, to find out why:

1. Seed stage funds have to create alpha out of thin air. 

In Marshall's words:

"The Andreessens, the Founders Funds — they're indexing. They might invest in every single Y Combinator startup and they're totally fine when 60% or 90% fail. It doesn't matter to them. 

Seed stage funds have to go out and create alpha out of thin air. I would just like for a few more of those founders to show up at my door."

His answer was a daily Instagram Reel series targeting 300 videos. He's on Day 48.

2. Why Instagram and not LinkedIn? 

"Founders are scrolling Instagram at 1am to turn their brains off."

He'd know. He built Animal Capital by cold DMing 3,000 celebrities to find investors.  

80% of that outreach was on Instagram. 

LinkedIn is where founders go when they're in work mode. There's value in that - it's how I've built my own business.

But Instagram is where they actually live.

3. Keep the content tight, focused, and high value.

"If all you take away from today's video is that convertible notes are cheaper to raise than equity rounds — that's the takeaway."

Every video comes from a question someone sent him in the DMs.

He's responded to roughly 300 DMs and 90% of comments over the last 48 days. 

He knows it won't scale. He thinks it's worth it anyway.

40 founders have already reached out. 

Brian Kelly (The Points Guy) slid into his DMs. 

People are asking to invest in the fund itself.

"Even if one great founder comes out of 300 videos, I will have done my job."

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Marshall's content playbook is what I call the Reverse Monetization Model in practice. 

Marshall isn't selling to his audience — he's using content to acquire the thing that matters most to his business: proprietary deal flow.

He's offering to give people money, they're coming to him, and he's picking winners who will generate him a much higher ROI. 

Hence, "reverse monetization".

It's also a reminder that your audience isn't necessarily where you think they are. While ICPs are a useful tool, customers are human beings with full lives outside of work - even in B2B.

Follow Marshall at @marshallsandman on Instagram. Worth the follow.

What other B2B Creators and businesses have you seen work OUTSIDE the B2B content ecosystem of LinkedIn, email, and podcasts?

Instagram post by Marshall Sandman of Animal Capital talking about how a founder should pay themselves 

Negotiations don't have to be so serious.

I sent this meme to Dani Zacarias during our partnership negotiation to bring on SendOwl for my new company, Creator Access Network.

She laughed and gave me an extra six months.

(Of what? You'll find out soon!)

Build strong relationships and have more fun.

You'll probably end up doing better business overall!

Wanna see what we were negotiating? Check out https://lnkd.in/g5gWx7WP

MORE meme featuring Kylo Ren from Star Wars

Everyone complaining about the new (female) XBox CEO is just averting their eyes from the crime that’s already been committed.

Phil Spencer’s the one who is guilty of destroying XBox. 

He didn’t do it fast, either. 

He made it slow, with many years of bad decisions and worse programming.

Long-term poisoning. 

A thousand cuts. 

An insidious cancer.

But yea, let’s get mad about the new CEO who hasn’t even done anything yet.

When the “gamer guy” y’all are “wishing well”already destroyed what you and I used to love.

🙄

AI image of Phil Spencer pouring poison on an Xbox

What are the best startups raising money in the Creator Economy right now?
I want to know which ones are:

- Raising Seed, Series A, or Series B
- Serving a huge segment of Creators by solving a painful problem
- Launched product with signs of product-market fit (Seed) or actual product-market fit and meaningful revenue (Series A+) 
- Great economics (profitable or obvious path to profitability)
- Seeking funds to supercharge revenue and/or profit growth 

Let me know - I'd love to connect them to the fund I advise!

It is absolutely bonkers to me that there's a company that can tell you which of your customers are influencers AND give you all their social data:

- content category
- follower counts
- view counts
- bio content
- bio link info
- if they do brand deals, promote affiliates, have OF, sell merch, etc.
- like 20 other things

Across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, Twitch, and more....

And you're not using them to supercharge your marketing.

Comment "data" if you want to learn more and I'll DM you.

What to do after getting laid off….

Start a business. Maybe not your dream, but the new reality of the world.

You were meant for more than filing TPS reports so your CEO can get a $100M bonus for laying you off.

Corporate jobs are a fairly new concept, born out of the Industrial Revolution.

Before that, you either worked for a government entity (the minority - these jobs were #goals) or you were partn of a small business.

- Farmers selling at market
- Shops and taverns and their owners and staff
- Blacksmiths, weavers, dressmakers, cobblers, carpenters, and other tradespeople and their apprentices

Then the Industrial and Computer and Internet Revolutions happened and created huge corporations filled with millions of white collar workers.

For a while, those jobs paid really well.

Now, a gallon of milk is $5, a $5 burger is $15, and rent and childcare together cost more than the median income of the US.

And with 23% effective unemployment (accounting for people who are making poverty wages or have given up), companies have no incentive to raise salaries.

As corporate jobs are quickly eliminated and wages decline, I believe we're going to return to a new paradigm of small businesses entrepreneurship and employment.

Primarily housed on the internet.

Entirely driven by content.

That's the thesis behind my new business, Creator Access Network - to help enable this new small business paradigm and build the Creator Middle Class.

Because corporate jobs aren't how anyone is going to achieve the American Dream anymore.

Agree?

P.S. Thanks Dani Zacarias for a great conversation. I always think bigger when we chat! Excited to have SendOwl as a partner in CAN!

Everyone wants big celebrities and influencers as their customer...but I don't.

They don't need me, and I don't need them.

Creator Access Network offers the absolute best discounts, rates, and revshares on the market for the top Creator software, platforms, products, and services.

Think 
- 60 free trials when the standard is 14 days
- 25%-50% discounts on monthly and annual software subscriptions
- A free URL for 5 years
- Up to $400 cash for using a business banking and credit card account
- 80/20 revshare on affiliate commissions for 20,000+ brands (industry standard is 70/30)

And a ton more.

Creators making millions probably don't care about saving a few hundred bucks.

Creators focused on getting more views to drive AdSense and brand deals probably aren't investing in other ways to make money.

Creators who have figured out their business models are probably more interested in scaling than experimenting. 

And that's all OK.

There are millions of people making content and trying to figure out how to turn that content into income.

The only way they'll succeed is if they try stuff.

Creator Access Network is for the Creator Middle Class and those aspiring to it - the solopreneurs and Creators building and experimenting to move their businesses forward, so they can try more, spend less, and keep more of what they earn.

Right now, we're offering the lowest price we will ever offer for those who pre-order membership - just $79/year forever. 

We'll increase the price to $89/year once our beta goes live week of March 29th, and once we fully launch week of April 13th, membership will cost $199/year.

I guarantee you will either save or earn enough to cover the cost of membership within a year or your money back.

If you're building as a Creator of any kind, join now - https://lnkd.in/gNksaR2s

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