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Something I really appreciate about you: you consistently talk about your work like doing a great job really matters to you.
Xavier Armand
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Xavier Armand
@x_armand
CEO at Vaan (acquired): The Design-led Shopify Platinum Agency | Webby Judge | fdr OrderBump (acquired) | eComm, service biz, and the NBA. Father of 2. 2x Exits
- Shout out to all the entrepreneurs running profitable 7 figure businesses with no investors.
- Replying to @NoahRyanCoPeople think tech is a good business. Scientific publishing is the single biggest racket of all time. Imagine being a newspaper that charges the customer to read AND the journalists to submit work AND charges the journalist to PUBLISH! AND CHARGES THE UNIVERSITIES ACCESS TO THE
- Large brands trying to go DTC hire Deloitte for $350/hr, spend 2 years and $5-15M and it's a train wreck every time. They should be strategically acquiring independent eCommerce agencies.
- Very concerned that DTC Twitter is now mostly people who work together circularly congratulating each other for working together.
- Mini-SaaS is magical. Order Bump is now at 5 figure MRR. 85% retention. Shout out to all the indie app devs out there
- Them: $250K??? People pay that for a website? Me: Yes. And often a lot more actually. Them: Forreal? Me: The website generates $200M per year in revenue. Spending 1/8 of a percent on it is rather reasonable. Them: 🤯🤯
- I wish 75 year olds used Twitter so that I wasn't force to read life advice Threads from 30 and 40 somethings
- Replying to @ZachLowe_NBAMAKE A DEAL WITH THE RINGER HAPPEN ALREADY
- New biz call today. 60% of current leads in pipeline come from Twitter 🤯 And I only have 2100 followers. Crazy.
- 2nd daughter arrived yesterday morning. She's incredible. Mom is happy and glowing. Blessed. 🙏🏾
- So many of these new DTC brands lack soul. Created by capitalists to try and exploit a business model. You can tell immediately. The brand: uninspired. The product: contracted out. The opportunity is still vast for the product obsessed.
