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5 Tweet Tuesday - January 14 2025

5 Tweet Tuesday - January 14 2025

Shaan Puri
January 14, 2025

💎 5 Tweet Tuesday 💎

Out of 500M daily tweets, only 5 deserve your attention.

Here’s this week’s starting lineup:

#1 💎

Success is being excited to go to work and being excited to come home.
— Will Ahmed (@willahmed)
2:57 PM • Jan 8, 2025

The best ideas are “compressed”. This might be the best compressed definition of success.

#2 💎

getting your shit together requires a level of honesty you can't even imagine. there's nothing easy about realizing you're the one that's been holding you back this whole time.
— blue (@bluewmist)
2:23 PM • Jan 11, 2025

I love this - honesty is the starting blocks of success.

When I sold my last company, the buyer (Mike) was telling me about how he had built the largest site on the internet for buying gold (yup, gold bars, coins)

They grew like crazy, mostly thru google SEO. He ranked #1 for people searching “buy gold online”

I was excited. I know nothing about SEO. So I asked him “what were the best SEO hacks you used to hit the #1 ranking on google?”

Here’s what he told me:

They were ranked #5.

Everyday, they complained, tried to think of clever hacks, shortcuts to get to #1

One day, Mike printed out the website for the 4 pages ranked ahead of them. He laid it down and said: “ok let’s be honest. Why the hell would google rank us above these? Are we actually a better search result?”

“No”

Ok, let’s fix that.

For 6 weeks straight, they laser focused on actually improving their page, and (magically) they climbed the ranks and hit #1.

Sometimes, the fastest way around the obstacle is through.

#3 💎

“Do you talk to users?”
“I am the user”
— David J Phillips (@davj)
3:13 AM • Jan 11, 2025

#4 💎

tupac once said... "just because you lost me as a friend doesn't mean you gained me as an enemy. i'm bigger than that. i still wanna see you eat, just not at my table"
legend.
— blue (@bluewmist)
3:16 PM • Jan 8, 2025

I’m going to start quoting all rappers the way people quote philosophers.

#5 💎

My arch nemesis just told me that I'm not his arch nemesis. To him, I'm just a normal nemesis. I feel so stupid. Fuck my life
— sean (@DilettanteryPod)
8:51 PM • Jan 10, 2025

😂

PS - I’m hiring 1 killer person for my startup. We went from $0 to $5M+ run rate in 12 months. Bootstrapped. Profitable. (haven’t announced the company publicly yet)

Biggest need is a killer sales/BD person. Maybe you’ve been early at a fast growing B2B co, or you ran an agency / service company of some kind as CEO.

If that doesn’t describe you, but you’re awesome. Feel free to hit me up. I’ve got lots of stuff cooking.

Just reply to this email with:

Link to your twitter (and/or LinkedIn)
1-2 sentences about the most impressive thing you’ve done in your career.

PPS - new good TV show alert. Landman on paramount+. It’s like if Breaking Bad and Friday Night Lights had a baby. I give it a 8.8 outta 10.

What’d you think of today’s edition? Hit ‘reply’ to this email and lemme hear it!