And here's the missing part... The short 🍑 bought for $20,000 by @jayhoovy for I was afraid the QR code wouldn't be scannable, but it is! Enes (who also printed the tattoos) did a really good job. D-2

Most startup accelerators push founders to polish slide decks and pitch to a room of bored investors. I raised $5M for my company with a few TikToks. And now we're teaching this to everyone for free. From Oct 4-19, we are taking 100 Founders to a beautiful camp outside of NYC and teaching them everything we know about Building in Public. You'll live in cabins with zero distractions, build a world-class product, acquire real customers live, and ship every day while the entire competition gets filmed on camera for a Netflix-level production. You'll get the same playbook my cofounder @vtddnv and I have used multiple times to scale a new product from $0 to $1M in weeks. Then at the end of the 14 days, you'll have the chance to pitch Tier 1 VCs for millions in investment. We're covering all lodging, food, education and production. And you'll get a ton of free distribution from being a part of the show. You just get to show up, compete, and build. Applications are open now.

This might be the biggest thing we've ever done at Stan. Introducing Launchpad. We just rented out a beautiful camp in upstate New York. This October, we're filling it with 30 early-stage teams for 14 days. Here's what every team gets: - Masterclasses from $B+ founders, and everything we know about going 0>1 - A beautiful camp to lock in (lake, campfires, & 29 other teams who get it) - A production crew on site who will help you with content + reach - The opportunity to pitch for millions to Tier 1 VCs I genuinely believe that these 14 days will be some of the most helpful days of your startup career. And the entire thing will be covered for free (lodging, meals, and transport). We're going to read over 1,000 applications to find the 30 teams we believe can actually do this. If you know a Founder who's going to be rockstar-level successful, please send this to them ($500 referral bonus for every person who gets accepted). Applications close September 28. Apply here: Let's find them.

We just bought the domain for $750,000 😳 When I first started Stan, I was so broke that the best domain I could afford was 🫠 Eventually we got and that was a huge win. tried to charge us hundreds of thousands of dollar. But we were a tiny company barely making $500k. I still remember thinking, "lol I will never pay that for a domain". So there's something really special about this moment. The most special part though is that Alyssa Williams, our first ever business hire, got the deal done. Alyssa's been with us in the trenches since day one, back before we had anything. It's a beautiful full circle moment for all of us. It might sound silly, but I'm realizing buying is a beautiful symbol of grinding for years, and then seeing the fruits of your labor manifest into the real world. So this is your reminder that you can start with a shitty domain like no money, and tons of people doubting you. And one day - you can have an incredible team, incredible mission, and a 4 letter .com domain ;) Onwards and upwards Stan team!

Here's everything we built for Stanley this week. Three things, and all of them change how the work feels. Autonomous mode. He plans your entire week of content and sends it over for you to swipe through. Swipe right to approve, left to kill. Vitalii called it Tinder for content. That's exactly what it is. Except it works. Interview mode. He connects into your Google Calendar, your Slack, whatever you're already doing. Then you just say "Stanley, interview me." He comes back with "I saw you had a really interesting sales meeting" or "I saw you built a new strategy doc in Notion, want to talk about it?" You talk. He writes the post. Sends it to you over iMessage. Weekly strategy check-ins. Every Sunday he reviews your content on every platform, compares it against your strategy, and tells you the truth about what's landing and what isn't. Vitalii got his update last Sunday and it told him, "This week was great, but it's been a while since you've talked about hiring, which is one of your core topics. We're going to start working on that next week." Then Stanley carries that into everything he drafts next. See... we're shipping a ton right now. 30 PRs a day. The team is cranking. But we're still very early, and the list of things he can't do yet is longer than the list of things he can. Every single week he gets closer to being the head of content you'd hire if you could afford one. Go to to try him for free!

No better feeling than ripping around NYC on a Citibike. 😎 Vitalii and I are very lucky to get to travel the world because of our business. From LA to Toronto, London, Cannes or New York - we always make sure to bike around the city. We get some of our best thinking about the business done while biking around and exploring. It's a ton of fun, and we'll have memories for life. Wishing you guys a great weekend! And send a 🚲🚲🚲 if ur a fellow ripper 😎😎😎

It's very strange watching the frenzy occurring in Silicon Valley right now. Everyone's caught in a vicious cycle of hyperproductivity: you see someone else working 996 and talking about how hard they're working. So then you need to too. You see someone else raise a monster round and talk about "how successful they are". So then you feel the need to too. It's a mix of megalomania and fear. 90% of people are burned out, recognizing that they're working at an unsustainable rate. But capitalism waits for no one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ One day we'll all wake up and realize that things we actually wanted... We could have had for free all along: Being Human. Family. Being in Nature. Community. It'll all just be financialized by then... with a data center built on top 🫠

We built Stan to $40M by building in public - and now we've turned everything we learned into an AI Agent. This is everything we shipped this week... Content Repurposing for Threads Stanley already writes your content for Instagram, LinkedIn, and X. Now he repurposes it for Threads too. - Write one tweet, post the same thing to X and Threads at the same time - Stanley proactively pings you: "Hey John, that Instagram post outperformed. Want me to repurpose it for Threads?" - One tap. Free views, free likes, on an audience you weren't even trying to build. There's so much attention sitting on Threads that almost nobody is capturing. Feels like free money. Image Generation Stanley now plugs into every major image model out there. Last week one of my tweets hit. Within 30 seconds Stanley had turned it into an Instagram carousel, fully designed, ready to post. No designer, no Canva, no back and forth. Just the content I already wrote, repackaged for a completely different audience. That used to take me an hour. Now it takes one tap. Mobile App iMessage is still home base for me and Stanley. Texting your AI will always be the best interface. But editing a full post inside a text thread? Clumsy as hell. So now Stanley sends you a link. You tap it, pull up the app, and you're editing your post, checking insights, reviewing analytics. All in one place, all on your phone. Stanley is still really early. But we're shipping like crazy, and the feedback so far has been better than I expected. If you want to beta test him for free, click here:

Introducing Stanley: The first AI Head of Content that will help you grow your following. Stanley works just like a real employee: text him and he’ll create, edit, and strategize viral content across X, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Making viral content is hard. It requires deep research, deep platform understanding, and knowing what’s culturally relevant at that exact minute. When you ask ChatGPT to “write a social post” it doesn’t know what good content looks like, it’s not actively consuming content, and it doesn’t understand you. This is why the output is slop. Stanley solves this. First Stanley deeply understands your unique voice and writing style (and doesn’t include AI language like em dashes and “it’s not x it’s y”) Then he plugs into your day-to-day (your Slack, Notion, Calendar, Granola) and proactively suggests viral posts for you based off the most interesting things happening in your life. All you need to do is voice note him your thoughts, and Stanley optimizes and then schedules a post across all platforms. Example: Last week I asked ChatGPT "what happened on X" and got a generic summary. I asked Stanley the same thing and he told me about @JensenHuang's first post on X and the viral Deny’s comment. That’s because Stanley has a team of specialized agents that are always on. One agent researches viral posts through the X API. One studies your voice. One doom scrolls X, LinkedIn, and Instagram. 2 months ago we released Stanley in beta to 100 social media power users like @chasepassiveincome, @jayyanginspires, @MitcheIl, and @iampascio who’ve used Stanley in their daily content process. Engagement rates increased by >50% for the average beta tester. (in fact you’ve probably engaged w/ Stanley posts without realizing) Posting content has genuinely changed my life for the better: it’s helped me raise millions of $, landed me my first customers, and attracted the very best employees. Stan wouldn’t be a $40M ARR business without Content. Stanley is our attempt at democratizing that. Our mission is to help any Entrepreneur tell their story, so we'd love for you to try Stanley for free here: One more thing.. You can see a glimpse of Stanley’s power in the comments below. Drop a reply and Stanley will analyze your X content right now. It'll pull your posts, study your voice, and tell you what's working and what's not. Each reply costs us abt ~$1 in tokens. Go abuse it. (Thank you VC’s.) FYI: This post and launch video were written 100% w/ the help of Stanley (how’d he do?) See Stanley work below 👇