- Open Source CEO by Bill Kerr
- Posts
- World's Best Threads Database
World's Best Threads Database
Business, marketing, psychology and more - threads to make you smarter. 🧠
Bill Kerr
January 13, 2024
👋 Howdy to the 543 new legends who joined this week! You are now part of a 24,978 strong tribe celebrating the weird world of business together.
LATEST POSTS 📚
If you’re new, not yet a subscriber, or just plain missed it, here are of some of our recent editions.
📦 Becoming relentless: Our Jeff Bezos deep dive.
👀 Building in public: Athyna’s 2023 year in review.
🕵🏻♀️ AI trading: An interview with Composer COO Ananda Aisola.
If you’re interested in sponsoring these emails you can see our different partnership options here.
PARTNERS 💫
“We need a front-end developer for Tuesday, but it will take months to find someone in the US.” If you are looking for your next remote hire, Athyna has you covered. From finance and ops, to creative and engineering.
The secret weapon for ambitious startups. No search fees. No activation fees. Just incredible talent, matched with AI precision—at lightning speed. All up up to 70% less than hiring locally.
Interested in sponsoring these emails? See our partnership options here.
HOUSEKEEPING 📨
Today’s housekeeping is nothing more than an update. We had a huge (!!) week at Athyna, securing the #1 advisor in the world to help us keep building. On our call, he saw how we are applying AI to talent acquisition and said “I want to invest … I think this is the future of our industry”.
Also, stand by for massive upgrades in our offering at Open Source CEO in the next weeks. I have a post I’m readying to explain our 2024 plans, so I’m pretty pumped on that too. Business is hard. It’s great to feel some real momentum.
RESOURCE OF THE WEEK 🧰
If you have followed this newsletter for any length of time, you will see one common thread (no pun intended) I speak about often - reading.
To read is to learn, and to learn is to excel. And to excel, for any consistent length of time, is to eventually win. The word itself comes from the Latin word excellentia, from the verb excellere or ‘surpass’.
In sum, read consistently and you will surpass your competition.
I do not endorse Trump but I do endorse these threads.
Today’s resource ranks lower on the totem pole of reading options (just trying to be honest). I would advise our 100 Greatest Business Books, Ultimate Investor Letters and Essential Startup Reading tools are more useful but there is still a lot can be learnt from the threadboiiz and girlszz of the world.
Think of these as snackable bite sized pieces of learning. Less lift than a chapter, not as dense and a shareholder letter.
Take this thread below by David Perell on communication as a leader. Do you think there is a reason why Jeff Bezos drums down on the mantra of it being ‘always day 1’ by accident in his shareholder letters? Of course not.
Successful entrepreneurs are masters in the art of repetition. They identify the most important variables for their company, codify them into mantras, and relentlessly repeat them without ever losing excitement.
— David Perell (@david_perell)
5:53 PM • Mar 2, 2023
Another bite-sized nugget here from Greg Isenberg. Although he may seem like nothing but a dirty thread pirate, he is not. Greg is a 3x-exited founder who now advises to Reddit and TikTok. His thoughts are worth listening to.
My guide to startups:
I've lost millions, hired hundreds, raised millions and sold companies before the age of 30
Read this to become better:
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg)
4:34 PM • Jun 25, 2022
And we have people like Anne Lee Skates, partner at a16z. I think you are starting to catch my drift. There is some real golden flakes of pixie dust in here.
How a company gets its first 1,000 users often isn’t what will get them its next 10k or 100k users.
Founders need to realize early GTM channels are often not scaleable, and that’s OK. So, how should consumer companies think about GTM in the 0 to 1, pre-PMF stage?
Read on👇
— Anne Lee Skates (@anneleeskates)
6:24 PM • Jan 20, 2023
Looking for how to optimise you current hiring process. Andrew Wilkinson, also know as the ‘Warren Buffet of the Internet’ has you covered.
At Tiny, I've hired CEOs for 60+ companies and interviewed hundreds of others.
After over a decade of trial and error (and I mean BIG errors), here’s our hiring process:
— Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson)
7:04 PM • Sep 29, 2022
How about the story of why Bezos, left his high paying career at PE firm D. E. Shaw to take on the internet? Steph Smith, also now at a16z, breaks it down for you.
In 1994, Jeff Bezos famously spotted a stat that made him leave his high-paying PE job to start Amazon:
💡 The Internet was growing 2300% per year.
What are the generation-defining stats of today?
I'll post a few to kick things off...
— Steph Smith (@stephsmithio)
12:05 AM • Mar 8, 2022
The best thing about our World’s Best Threads Database is it’s categorised for topic for. Whatever you are looking for, it’s in there.
Here is everyones favourite B2B creator, Lenny Rachitsky with a thread on all the different ways you can generate moula, cheedar … cash, inside of your business.
Eight ways to make money:
1. Sell a thing
2. Rent a thing
3. Take a cut
4. Charge a subscription
5. Charge based on usage
6. Sell a service
7. Advertising
8. Charge on % of assetsMore in 🧵
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan)
3:20 PM • May 13, 2021
Even the great Sam Altman was doing it for the re-tweets at some point in the not-too-distant-past.
How To Be Successful
(At Your Career, Twitter Edition)— Sam Altman (@sama)
7:54 PM • Jan 6, 2020
Hopefully this tool can act as the in between, for when you need to switch off for a moment mid Pomodoro, to scroll the interwebs. There is certainly some very tasty brain food in there.
And that's it! You can find the database here and if you liked this you will love our other tools & resources too. We hope you enjoy them!
TWEET OF THE WEEK 🐣
Speaking of Sama, here is a throwback to the tweet summary from our first ever deep dive. Was a nice one.
I spent 40+ hours diving deep into Sam Altman's (@sama) journey to success.
What I found? A unique blueprint for success.
Here are the 8 secrets to his groundbreaking achievements:
— Bill Kerr (@bill_kerrrrr)
4:44 PM • Aug 31, 2023
BRAIN FOOD 🧠
Want the most comprehensive competitive analysis chops in your industry? If yes, then check out this Competitor Research and Strategy document by the great man, Patrick ‘Patticus’ Campbell of ProfitWell fame.
Reader beware: it’s insanely long. Luckily - it’s also insanely good.
TOOLS & RESOURCES 🔥
Every now and then I stumble upon something suuuuper cool. Last week that was CommandBar and AI-Powered User Assistance. My new buddy, James and the team have created a new acronym (love an acronym).
UAP comin’ at ya.
UAP = User-Assistance-Platform. Why do I think it's cool? You can - build a Copilot AI assistant, create product tours, in-app surveys, create killer onboarding checklists and way more. a16z backed. Give them a look.
ASK ME ANYTHING 🗣
I want to be a trusted resource for you. If you think anything I know in relation to brand, culture, global teams, sales and growth would help you unblock a problem in your weeks shoot me a line.
Ask in the comments or reply to this email and I will do my best to answer it in a future edition. 🙌🏼
TOOLS WE USE 🛠️
Every week we highlight tools we actually use inside of our business and give them an honest review. Today we are highlighting beehiiv. Plainly and simply the best newsletter platform on the market, bar none.
Substack is good for artists, Convert Kit is decent for the business of newsletters but beehiiv is #1.
 Get buzzin’. |
See the full set of tools we use inside of Athyna & Open Source CEO here.
HOW I CAN HELP 🥳
Here are the options I have for us to work together. If any of them are interesting to you - hit me up!
🌏 Hiring global talent: Check out my startup Athyna.
🧰 Want to outperform the competition: See our suite of tools & resources.
👀 Reach thousands of tech leaders: Advertise with us here.
And that’s it from me. See you next week. 🫡
Reply