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What up XO fam. I've had plenty of caffeine this morning so I'm going to be firing from the hip on this one. Example: Guys (and gals). Listen. buying MRR is lovely. Here's proof (and 13 people agreed). If you haven't tried
Platform risk is when another company controls your destiny. This week there was a big scare with Twitter's enforcement of a policy they claim had been around for a while. Twitter’s new developer terms ban third-party clients | Engadget Twitter has quietly updated its developer agreement to
Hey it's Danny. Happy new year! January 1, 2022 we had 3 full-time employees at XO Capital. Myself, the operator, 1 engineer and 1 support person were operating Sheet.Best, ScreenshotAPI.net and WorkClout. In March 2022 we acquired Inlytics.io. Shortly after, we brought on 2 more
2022 proved XO's business model. We were able to source deals, close them, grow them, and in some cases sell them. We grew to 6 full time people (not including myself and Henry). We joined the 6 figure club and proudly bootstrapped our way to low six figures
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It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead. I think that misunderstands how most people think and where software actually comes from, and more importantly, it isn’t a path to change how companies actually work.
Those with the most to lose are often the least likely to take big swings