I started a design agency in 2020 called LCA. This month, it made $845k.

But here’s the story of how it started.

That day, I met with a well-known venture capitalist in Silicon Valley.

He told me I was wasting my talents.

He was discouraged that I was thinking so small.

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This seemed to strike a chord. So, I expected on this with along with a few tips on how to come up with great ideas.

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Tell me why acquiring NextDoor is a bad idea.

It's down 75% since IPO.

And it feels wildly undervalued to me.

1) Cash $432.68M
2) Valuation is $524M ($956M - $432.68M)
3) Weekly active users 42 million

So they are valuing a weekly active user at $10.28/user

went on my friend greg's pod again

dropped 7 business ideas and the exact way grow them

two of them are

'quickbooks integration for xyz'

thousands of keywords, grow with SEO and sem

'google ads for for xyz'

grow by youtube videos for target keyword rank on google

BONUS

Status symbols today:

- Long Strava runs
- Empty calendars
- Caring about microplastics
- Electric cars
- Mortgage rate below 3%
- Having lots of followers or being off social completely
- Being sober
- Eating 'clean'
- Type of water you drink
- Private school for kids
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I met someone cool yesterday.

21 years old. Solo-founder. Dropped out of school to build a SaaS product that’s doing $4M ARR. Zero employees. Immigrant with english as a second language.

I'll share the convo (without giving away his business):

Me: “How many employees do you

95% of meeting attendees secretly don’t want an AI recorder in the meeting.

To me a startup unicorn isn't a billion dollar company.

It's this:

You find a VC-backed startup doing $5M ARR and burning cash. It's been around for 10 years, raised $20M, and based in SF.

You swoop in, buy it for pennies on the dollar. Recap the company so the old