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CEO of The Drop CRM @laylodotcom (YC S20) • 😇 Investor in Drapr (acq. Gap), DTCH and a few 🛸
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2023 at
@laylodotcom
- Drops to 20m Fans
- Powered 40k musicians, sports teams, live events and entertainers
- Tripled revenue (again)
- Launched Multidrops which has powered some of the biggest tours globally and drove over a $250m in ticket sales
- Launched our Shopify
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Today
@laylodotcom
we were fortunate to work with the incredible
@NICKIMINAJ
and her team around the announce of
#ThePinkFriday2Tour
Nicki being the superstar she is, drove the single most site traffic we’ve ever seen at once which subsequently overloaded our servers for about
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@arnau1700
@RitchieTorres
You mean the same UN of which Iran is the chair of the human rights council?
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@AmanKha41396393
@StopAntisemites
What does heiling hitler have to do with Palestine? Do tell
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Thrilled to share some fundraising news and more thoughts on where we’re headed
@laylodotcom
@saj_sanghvi
Thanks
@tubefilter
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Psyched to shared that we’ve now passed over 10,000 creators using Laylo as their CRM. Crazy to know we’ve grown over 5X in less than a year
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@katherinehu24
@brettkiim
@ericzhu105
@apkashyap12
@HarryLiu121
Katherine you clearly have enough seating, please sell at least one of those chairs for austerity
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June
@laylodotcom
:
- Grew to 3.5M+ fans
- Partnered w
@hellofevo
for drops w team & athletes
- Partnered with
@hoobe
for CRM + Linkinbio
- Drops w
@jellysmack
,
@thelongdrink
(collab w
@Miles_Teller
and
@braxtonbarrios
),
@KygoMusic
,
@DNCE
@emmymadeinjapan
,
@murdabeatz
,
@CAVETOWN
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Has someone built Spotify Wrapped for Google Calendar? I’d love a breakdown of who I met with last year and some insights so I can easily follow up to start 2023
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Last December we did $50 in revenue. You read that right. Today alone we did over $1k. What a year
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@dr_firstgrowth
@ReichmanShmuel
Why would a prestigious law firm want to hire students who claim they didn’t read a document they signed?
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July at Laylo:
- Partnered w/ to empower more artists on their web3 music drops. Click Get Notified, it's 🔥
- Signed two deals spanning over 1M creators, TBA soon
- New enterprise signups TikTok, RCA Records, UnitedMasters, and 10K Projects
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August
@laylodotcom
:
- 10k creators, 4M Fans
- Partners
@vspass
&
@NASCAR
- Drops
@dvsn
@Nickelback
@piercetheveil
,
@laufey
@zedsdead
@discolines
@denzelcurry
@CAVETOWN
,
@chrislake
@WS_Boogie
@inglewoodSiR
- Team + Chris Russell and Thatcher Sammet
- Rolled out custom QR Codes
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@eytanelbaz
@davepell
Seriously makes no sense. That “meh” offer is $16 billion higher than the market cap and of course Jack liked the best entrepreneur of our generation taking over and sending him $1B+ in the process. This reads like Dave played drunk telephone after reading TechCrunch
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Feb
@laylodotcom
:
📈 Best MoM% yet
📺 National TV w/
@SarahKSilverman
on
@TheDailyShow
🏈 Users in Super Bowl:
@airrack
,
@RobGronkowski
,
@RickieFowler
@jonasbrothers
🤝 Partnered w
@medallionfm
☀️ TV Show, Books and more with
@hellosunshine
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I love finding a product that I simply have to pay for.
@cartainc
just convinced me to sign up in a 10 minute call.
@henrysward
keep doing what you're doing
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The sports x web3 space seems to be one of the most exciting and valuable to the communities in them. Huge congrats to
@knightsofdegen
@DrewAustin
on another dope acquisition. This team is leading the charge
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January
@laylodotcom
:
Drops w/ Sam Smith, Kali Uchis, Sarah Silverman, Druski, Lyle Forever, Porter Robinson, WhatSoNot, Cuco, Thuy, Dr. Fresch, DVSN, Bea Miller, Logic, Zach Bryan, Gronk, Shaq, Guy Fieri, Trey Kennedy, Parklife Fest, Breakaway Fest, & Sonic Temple Fest
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Over the last 2 years
@laylodotcom
we've become Drop experts, driving over $500m to date in cumulative merch and ticket sales.
Last year on Black Friday, we helped multiple brands, artists, and creators achieve "their highest grossing day in history"
This year, we're doing a
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June at Laylo
- Wide scale rollout of our
@Shopify
Integration
- Partnered with an entire league (TBA 😉)
- "Day of Multidrops" with our most tours in one day Including
@ZHUmusic
, Summer Walker,
@fayewebsters
,
@micotoronto
and
@thebandcamino
- Partnered with Comic Con LA
-
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Awesome founder advice from
@eglyman
“Startups need to create a sense of inevitability.” For our team, investors and customers it has to feel obvious that this problem exists, it’s big, and that we are the ones to solve it.
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September at Laylo:
- Drops to 4.5M Fans
- Partnered with
@pixelynx_io
-
@alt_J
livestream on
@momentworld
- Partnered w
@genies
NFT Fashion drops
- Drops
@OfficialWillow
@TheMidnightLA
@DylanConrique
@BMSupdates
@halfaliveco
,
@JackCardenArt
@CelinaSpookyBoo
@Griz
@solocelo_
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May at
@laylodotcom
:
- Grew to over 3 million fans
- Launched new RSVP cards Wallet generation
- We aim to be one of the biggest onramp for fans into Web3
- Connected Spotify & Wallet integrations into our Instagram integration
- 3x growth in 3 months
- Partnered w/
@soundrop
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Now that we've announced our fundraise, it's hiring time
@laylodotcom
! We're hiring a VP of Partnerships
If you know someone who cares deeply about the creator ecosystem, can scale a team and wants to join a high-growth startup, please reach out
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Snapchat games are incredible. Never spent more time, watched more ads or thought so highly of the platform. $snap is a buy
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November
@laylodotcom
• Hit 2022 revenue goal early
• ⬆️ 5M fans
Events:
@Pharrell
, EDC Mexico,
@indiotamalefest
,
@SevenLionsMusic
,
@airrack
Merch & Ecom:
@NickDiGiovanni
Cookbook (
#1
trending on Amazon),
@tooturnttoni
,
@LouisTheChild
,
@cannadips
, Vale Genta
🧵⬇️
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We’ve recently been sent a few companies building the “CRM for Web3”. I’m confident that
@laylodotcom
is the single best CRM for the Web3 community and felt it would be helpful to share why:
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The secret is out. As of today, we officially support token gated Drops and we're launching with
@meaganloyst
and
@genzvcs
!
@laylodotcom
4/ To make this happen (ie: authenticating you're an NFT holder to get access to limited drops), we've partnered with
@laylodotcom
!
Once you collect your NFT, you can sign up using the link below to get our drops via text or email!
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Psyched to share our collab with
@telliesite
. If you’re looking for the one-two punch of Web3 website + direct fan messaging, look no further // shoutout to
@happeness
and
@karanortman
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It’s mind boggling how good the Laylo team is. I just feel lucky to be along for the ride.
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Is anyone building
@zillow
for the internet? Seems like a huge opportunity to map the value of digital real estate such as a podcast ad, homepage placement on a site, bio link of a celebrity, etc
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It’s wild how spot-on
@ycombinator
advice is. Pretty much everything we ignored came back to bite us and everything we accepted proved correct months or years later
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Psyched to be on
@Forbes
30u30 before I'm officially too old :)
"With nearly $9 million in funding from investors like Y Combinator and Sony Music, the startup has driven over $100 million in ticket and merch sales"
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Laylo 2021 Year In Review:
- Added thousands of creators including Calvin Harris, Celina Spookyboo, Willow Smith, Big Boi, Flume, Friday Beers, Capitol Theatre, and more
- Powered millions of fan messages per month
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October at Laylo 👻:
- Launch w/
@cdbaby
750k+ artists
- Drops
@p00ls_
,
@sg5official
,
@dvsn
,
@Roekapera
@grentperez
,
@CelinaSpookyBoo
,
@AustinGeorge
,
@genies
,
@LinksDAO
,
@Jason_Aldean
,
@gashi
@vspass
- Blocks w
@bonfire_tweets
- Press
@tubefilter
,
@musicbizworld
,
@billboard
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“Prediction for Next Wave of Startups: More advanced approached to customer CRM/lifecycle management + better content windowing/price segmentation to help you segment and serve 100 Rabid Fans + 1000 True Fans + 10000 Casual Fans + 100000 One Offs.”
😏
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March at Laylo
- Powered drops to over 7 Million Fans
- Started rolling out our Shopify Integration to select creators
- Drops from
@odesza
,
@madeon
,
@AlmostFridayTV
,
@RollingLoud
,
@ILLENIUM
@medallionfm
,
@neffex
,
@water_and_music
,
@Griz
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We are in the next generation "Napster" moment for the music industry
This song is VIRAL on all platforms right now.
But I think it's all a genius marketing stunt...
Not by Drake, but by a SaaS startup.
Here's a 30-second summary of the ai Drake song and my prediction of who's behind it. 👻
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January at
@laylodotcom
:
- Grew over 1M fans
- Launched our annual tier
- Sold out MSG 5x with Odesza and John Summit
- Signed major sports teams across NBA, NHL and MLS
- Hiring across 3 new roles
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@mwseibel
We had similar except they had us present to one of the founders of our competition who introduced herself as a coworker at the firm.
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“If you think the price of winning is too high, wait until you get the bill from regret”
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“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than
unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded
genius is almost a proverb…. Persistence and determination
alone are omnipotent." - Ray Kroc
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Finally did it. I clicked a malicious link and had my MetaMask wiped. Please pray for my
@AkuDreams
😥 whoever stole them I hope you treat them well
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If you're obsessed with running growth experiments, care about creators, and you're ready to help us scale to next 100,000 creators, we're hiring our first Lead Growth Engineer
@laylodotcom
. DM's are open
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@cenkuygur
Who is providing those numbers?
What is your distinction between Hamas members killed vs Palestinians killed?
If you don’t see the required difference you’ll never understand why Israel has to defend itself.
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Really excited to share our partnership with
@pixelynx_io
. Shoutout to
@inderphull22
for making it happening and building an insanely dope product and team. Don’t miss what comes next
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Come work with us!
We're hiring for three new roles!
Sports Account Executive
Account Manager
Full Stack Engineer
If you know someone great, retweet or tag them!
Full info here:
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Creators on Revue that just got the note they're shutting down, we'll help you move over to
@laylodotcom
for free!
You'll have all the email tools you're used to PLUS: SMS, Instagram DMs, Spotify, Shopify and more
Feel free to grab anytime here:
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Has anyone that works at Bandsintown actually used the product?
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Crazy to look back on some of the nostalgia screenshots when we were failing and constantly pivoting
Huge thanks for the early users who stuck with us through multiple product
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Things are about to get really weird
2000s: Companies create 90% of content
2010s: People create 90% of the content
2020s: AI creates 90% of content
Trying to comprehend the implications of the majority of online content being computer generated
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Going to do something stupid and predict the future of work in a tweet:
AI synthesizes information. Humans make decisions.
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Going to share a wild conversation I had with a fund manager for one of largest crypto companies. Let me preface this by saying I hold a bunch of crypto and believe in much of the future of Web3 but also understand why a lot of people are about to go to jail
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Musicians, artists & creators of all kinds are prioritizing autonomy & ownership of not only their work, but also their communities, marketing, businesses & ultimately bottom lines. Now, new technologies support their ability to remain independent along the way.
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If Open AI can raise with no revenue at a $30bn valuation, so can you
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We need a Do Not Disturb list for tech recruiters. Please build it so I can pay.
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Music:
@disclosure
,
@samsmith
,
@slowthai
,
@khaidreams
@col3trane
,
@yunggravy
,
@bbnomula
,
@TKtheLegend
•
@sonymusic
launch
• You're about to start hearing the word Multidrops a lot more 😉
• Grew our social media channels to 4 million monthly
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It’s impossible to explain how good it feels to have people love and actually use your product. It only took 6 years of experience with the opposite feeling to get here 😂
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If you've been watching this space, you already know Cooper is the undoubted leader in all things Web3 music. He's supported thousands of artists and there's not a single person I'd bet on more to take this to the next level
Proud to announce Coop Records Fund I 🎧
A $10M early-stage fund investing in the next generation of music.
Here's what you need to know 🔽
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AI generated podcasts are coming soon and they’re going to be dope.
“Make me a 30 minute podcast about the rise of Kendrick Lamar, told in the voice and perspective of Dr Dre”
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We're fortunate to work with some of the best creators in the world and it's about time we made content to promote their dopeness
If you're a graphic/video designer and want to join our new Creator Content division, we're hiring
@laylodotcom
Apply here:
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Someone I know does Artist x Brand partnerships. She brought in over $10 million this year, more than anyone else on her team.
Today she was told she can't get a promotion or raise yet because she's compensated well for her age 🤬😤
Who's hiring?
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April
@laylodotcom
- Conspiracy theory that we're Ghostwriter // AI Drake 😉👻
- Drops w
@sfoutsidelands
,
@Usher
,
@COTA
,
@6LACK
,
@aries_ix
,
@jungle4eva
,
@davido
, etc
- ChatGPT integration, Clutch, which supercharges your messages for even better CTRs
- Drops to 8m+ fans
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After years of trying to figure out how to best use twitter, I’m starting my follow list over from scratch so please don’t be mad at me!
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Community Manager went from being valued like an intern to being an absolute necessity real quick
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@Dmurr68
@canva
@NotionHQ
@beehiiv
@Calendly
@hypefury
@zapier
@anchor
@RiversidedotFM
@workweekinc
@laylodotcom
for messaging, drop pages and CRM
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I’m convinced the airlines are just fucking with us at this point
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Something awesome about working in the creator ecosystem is that the smartest founders I’ve met understand Collabs are just as important for creators as they are for companies
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TikTok & YouTube travel creators need to explore selling Google Maps favorite lists. This is gunna be a 🌊
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You either die as “instagram for music” or you live long enough to see yourself become an enterprise saas company
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@dunkhippo33
Small angel but interested! Also seems like there’s a huge gap to fill a with a newsletter/podcast around early stage movers in emerging markets
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I just published “We Built Our Company Around Chaos, Here’s Why”
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I often get asked about picking career paths and making early job decisions. I can never give a better answer than
@bgurley
in this video
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