Prt2: Growing First 1000 (this newsletter) to 10k Subscribers
In part 2 we talk about how I got First 1000 from 2k to 10k. We talk about every strategy I tried, what worked and what didn't .
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Prt2: Growing First 1000 (this newsletter) to 10k SubscribersIn part 2 we talk about how I got First 1000 from 2k to 10k. We talk about every strategy I tried, what worked and what didn't .
Since Part 1 about growing First 1000 from 0->2k, 877 new people signed up (this issue was released last Wednesday 🤯). We are now 11,000+ members strong. Thank you thank you thank you <3. 👨🏫 Some Recap + more contextI started First 1000 on May 21st 2020, I remember it as if it was yesterday. What I did not mention in part 1 was why I actually started First 1000. I signed up to Substack on July 16 2019 after reading Andrew Chen’s memo on why he lead their Series A round. This was literally the day the memo was released, and one of the first bets Andrew made at A16z (someone I truly admire). At the time, I was living in Egypt and was applying to grad school because it was one of the very few avenues for me to immigrate to the 🇺🇸. In mid April 2020, just a month or so before I started First 1000, I (finally) got the feedback call from the admissions office of UC Berkeley telling me why I didn’t make the cut. The main reason they cited was my GRE writing score. I had scored in the bottom 23 percentile. (GRE is this stupid exam grad schools make you take…similar to the SATs or GMAT) From 2k->10k
😰 What didn’t work ?
When Trump got banned from Twitter, I put together an archive of his feed (<24 hours after the ban), so people can access his old tweets. I launched it on Product Hunt and thought this would go crazy. I even had all these scenarios running through my head of being picked up by CNN or NYT in the following hours (I even prepared my comments). But it didn’t work. It was horribly designed and I didn’t put in the hours to promote it. As I came to learn…things just don’t go viral…unfortunately. The second product I rolled out, under the hope of going viral was a Merch Store for the All in podcast. All in podcast is my favorite podcast and it is hosted by Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks and David Friedberg. At the time, they came up with the idea to outsource a lot of aspects of the podcast to the fans. Fans can create Merch, Intro Songs…etc They, being influencers in the tech space, would just promote these products and help their fans make some money from their podcast brand. I guess when 4 mega-millionaires/billionaires host a podcast together they don’t really care about making a few hundred thousand dollars.
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