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Founder @trycrewai (YC S23) | prev @microsoft | DM me if you need developers

San Francisco, CA

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Joined March 2024

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Jake Johnson

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Excited to launch @trycrewai 's new Developer of The Week program! Every week, from this account, I'll be sharing a SWE candidate I pulled directly from the @trycrewai platform who is open to work and ready to start now P.S. was previously an engineer at a @Sequoia -backed

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Jake Johnson

1 month

If you're thinking about applying – our (successful) @ycombinator application had: 1. $0 revenue 2. No actual product or users 3. No previous founding experience ... and an idea that we ended up changing (multiple times) once we got in anyway

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Dalton Caldwell

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The application deadline for the YC Fall 2024 batch is in 8 days

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Application tips that helped @trycrewai get accepted to @ycombinator (S23) 👇

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When @ycombinator and @garrytan repost 🤯

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@trycrewai @ycombinator List of real applications to YC: getintoyc(.)com Interview advice from @ycombinator itself: ycombinator(.)com/interviews Conciseness test for your interview: jamescun(.)github(.)io/iPG/ DM me if you have more questions. Check out @trycrewai if you need developers!

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@trycrewai @ycombinator Some more miscellaneous tips: • Do mock interviews, preferably with YC Alums. I'm happy to help with this, so DM me! • Don't stress if they interrupt you during the interview. It's neither a good nor bad sign. They just have a question and they don't have a lot of time.

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@trycrewai @ycombinator Tip #2 – Be concise. This goes for both the application and the interview. Most questions should be answerable in 1-2 sentences.

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The deadline to apply to @ycombinator fall 2024 batch is tomorrow. I reviewed 25+ applications that ppl DMed me over the weekend. Here are the most common mistakes I saw founders making 👇 1. Not being concise enough – Don't give a justification or long explanation for your

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Jake Johnson

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@trycrewai @ycombinator The typical YC application goes like this: 1. You apply 2. 10 minute interview | 5% 3. You hear back if you're accepted! | <1% However, we actually had 2 interviews! Our first was the standard 10 mins, and our second was almost an hour. So tip #1 is: be prepared for anything.

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@trycrewai @ycombinator Tip #3 – Know your product and users. You need to be able to answer every conceivable question about your product, market, and users.

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If you're thinking about applying – our (successful) @ycombinator application had: 1. $0 MRR 2. No product and no users 3. No previous founding experience and no network in Silicon Valley ... and an idea that we ended up changing (multiple times) once we got in anyway

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Every day I am reminded of how lucky we are @trycrewai to have gone through @ycombinator . Went through the S23 batch literally a year ago and we're still finding new customers through YC connections

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Sometimes you go months without any inbound And sometimes you have a week where you get enough leads to triple your ARR Last week was one of those weeks @trycrewai Finally starting to reap the rewards of the months of heads down grinding and it feels SO good

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@trycrewai @ycombinator Tip #4 – Don't BS anything. If they ask you a question, and you don't know the answer, be honest.

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Acceptances starting to roll out for @ycombinator F24 batch Has me reminiscing on our time in the S23 batch To everyone who has gotten in, congratulations, you have no idea how lucky you are! To everyone who was rejected, keep building and apply again. It's worth it.

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21 days

Weekly recap @trycrewai ⚡️ - Had our largest week of organic inbound ever - Converted the biggest contract we've ever had - Tested a new cold outbound strategy, which bombed (and taught us more about our bounds) - Site refresh incoming Our busiest (and most fun) week yet!

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Jake Johnson

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From nothing to explosive growth overnight What did I do? 1. Researched popular tweet formats 2. Repurposed them with my own content/experience 3. Targeted high-profile retweets (posted things I thought certain large accounts would repost) Become a student of the game

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Some of y'all asking me to spend 10-15 mins on your app and you don't even follow me 😭 Cmon dawg

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Jake Johnson

25 days

The deadline to apply to @ycombinator fall 2024 batch is tomorrow. I reviewed 25+ applications that ppl DMed me over the weekend. Here are the most common mistakes I saw founders making 👇 1. Not being concise enough – Don't give a justification or long explanation for your

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Labor Day founder spikeball was a success! Beautiful day in the bay — enjoyed pizza and some great matches. Our tournament winners got to take home: - $500 courtesy of @trycrewai - A spikeball hat and shirt courtesy of @spikeballchris Huge shoutout to everyone for coming,

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Jake Johnson

21 days

Our CEO @mrinalsingh02 was featured in an article by @sfstandard SF is experiencing a revival and tech is leading the way Come join the Bay Area boom loop 🔁

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Mrinal Singh

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“Go west, young man” Our business grew more in the last 2 months since moving to SF than it did in the 10 months prior S/O to @garrytan and @ycombinator for making the city noticeably better since we did the S23 batch - “[Singh’s] experience of the city’s post-Covid

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After sourcing and vetting thousands of developers from India, we @trycrewai put together some of our learnings on how to go about hiring top Indian devs. Check it out below 👇

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Mrinal Singh

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We source and vet ~3,000 developers / month from India to find "10x devs", so we get the question: "What should I look for?" Pretty often from founders The @trycrewai guide to hiring 10x devs from India: 🧵

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If you're a founder in SF, come to our Spikeball event! All skill levels welcome, including ppl who have never played before We're providing free pizza and a chance to network with other founders And a $500 prize if you participate in the tournament!

Founder Spikeball · Luma

Spikeball tournament - $500 top prize!!! - Free Pizza Come compete with fellow founders in a Labor Day spikeball tournament. Top prize is $500. You must have a…

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Jake Johnson

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@nicocerdeira @ycombinator I would say just don't die. We've finally hit an idea that is working because we stretched our funds and were able to make it through multiple pivots. You never know when you're gonna find an idea that works, so just stay alive!

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Weekly recap @trycrewai ⚡️ - Finished our public facing materials for @WebSummit (see you soon, Lisbon) - Shipped two new features enabling clients to better track and manage employees - Sourced new partnerships at @SaaStr Lots in the works - more updates to come 🔥

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Huge shoutout to @spikeballchris for sending us gear for our upcoming @spikeball event in SF! Event is September 2nd, 11am-2pm We're providing: - Free pizza - A $500 cash prize if you play in the tournament - A chance to network with founders If you're in SF, we'd

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Deadline for the @ycombinator fall batch is in a few short hours. For those of you finishing up your application... One of the questions I see people getting wrong the most is "What do you know about your business that your competitors don't?" Let me explain 👇 So many

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Today is the day. The application doesn’t take long. It orients you to the right questions. Be a part of the very first Fall YC batch.

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Omg One of our contractors just found a bug in Stripe's API @trycrewai devs are SO CRACKED

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We launched @trycrewai today with multiple customers and daily revenue growth 🚀 Getting here was really hard. For anyone thinking of starting a company, here are the top 3 struggles you’re definitely going to face ⬇️

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A fun last few days for the @trycrewai team on @X :)

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This is what back to back banger posts looks like If ur not doing founder-led social, your company is missing out You can build your entire business on @X

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Jake Johnson

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Oh and check out my company @trycrewai if you need developers

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Jake Johnson

2 months

Officially launching @trycrewai tomorrow – can't wait to share what we've been working on. We're gonna help a lot of startups save a lot of money 🚀

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Jake Johnson

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Looks like @ycombinator interview requests are still rolling out... DM me if you want advice on your interview and repost this to help someone else!

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2 months

I’m super proud of the team at Crew and all the work we put in to get us to launch day. It’s only up from here 📈

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Please, please apply. You never know. We applied on a whim and it changed our lives.

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Hendrik🇧🇪🇺🇸 - YCs24

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5 days to apply for @ycombinator ’s new Fall batch! Let me share one thing; you’re never too early and applying multiple times is a great sign you’re serious about it!

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This is why SF > anywhere else. Founder spikeball over the weekend with @_alexshaq @MarkNatiello @mrinalsingh02

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@ycombinator S24 batch is almost over. My advice to founders for their last month at YC – help each other. Contribute your skills and insights to the other companies in your batch. The relationships we've built by doing this have given us: - Our first customers - Some of our

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#2 Emotional whiplash There are going to be times in your business where nothing is working, you’re making no money, and you’ll start to think all of your work has been pointless and you’re going to fail. Then, there will be the “we are so back” times, when you feel like

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Jake Johnson

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Founders – Your first customers will often come from your network. This was the case for us at @trycrewai , and we still find customers this way. So, as an early-stage founder, building a network is critical. How? • Go to events. • Join social clubs. • Get to know the

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@MECEMike @ycombinator An idea and a well-rounded founding team. That's it.

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Makes a ton of sense and is super exciting for founders! Now, at any given point in time, if you want to leave your job and go to @ycombinator You don't have to wait

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Jake Johnson

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Thank you to @VictorPontis @danqing_liu for building such a great product to host our event! @LumaHQ

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@gotasmallone @ycombinator A fair point – the acceptance rate is so low that anyone who gets in can consider themselves lucky. But our story should show that it's at least worth trying!

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@menhguin @ycombinator You’d be surprised though… we’re not the minority!! Tons of YC companies have literally 0 traction when they apply

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2 months

#3 Good things take time When your business is just getting off the ground, you’re probably going to have many many weeks and even months where absolutely nothing is working. But you have to keep showing up every day, and over time your work will start to compound and things

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Jake Johnson

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B2B founders – don't hire a sales team too early. If you haven't built a brand, it's going to be extremely difficult for a salesperson to sell your product to strangers. Instead, pitch your customers personally. You will: • Experience selling your product firsthand – You'll

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@ajiteshleo @ycombinator With how low the acceptance rate is, yes we definitely feel lucky. But that's sort of the point, you don't know everything they're looking for and if they decide to take a chance on you, it can change your life.

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@philipp_parzer Should’ve used @trycrewai . Our candidates have yet to call for a single coup!

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@g_devsarmah @trycrewai @ycombinator Of course! Feel free to DM me if you have any more questions

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2 months

She probably isn’t responding bc of the outage

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I don't think you guys fully grasp how big this is. Around a billion computers are bricked worldwide, mostly corporate ones. This isn't just an online service going down for a few hours. Every affected computer needs to be rebooted in fail mode and have a driver manually

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#1 Finding a good idea The answer to this problem is simpler than you may think. If you don’t have a problem of your own you want to solve, go out and talk to people in the industry you want to start your company in. If you’re interested in recruiting, go call 300 people in the

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@0xriyadh @ycombinator Even if we just had an idea, I think we explained it well, showed understanding of our target market, and have a well-rounded founding team (engineer, finance/business person, product person)

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@amkim2003 This should be a real feature

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@griswold @ycombinator Even if we just had an idea, I think we explained it well, showed understanding of our target market, and have a well-rounded founding team (engineer, finance/business person, product person)

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@jonkkillian @ycombinator Applied with a saas idea to fix company culture, then to an AI copilot for investment bankers, now we help startups find and interview great software talent

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@Uncensored_AI @ycombinator We have 6 figures in revenue, so we are finally starting to see some product adoption. Idk if I'd call it "successful" yet, but getting there!

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Jake Johnson

2 months

Help me settle a random office debate from yesterday: Who is more globally famous, Roger Federer or Taylor Swift?

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@nathan_covey @mktgnik @zalkazemi @philipp_parzer @activenode Thanks for the shoutout Nathan! The content grind never stops

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@mrinalsingh02 @PhilNoLimits @saastr So cool

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@vchennai2 @ycombinator Good luck!! Hope you join the fam :)

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1 month

@sethroberts861 @TridentTruee @MarkFromMV What’s particularly sad is the Padres just showed that by spending more, your team generates more revenue. Owners shouldn’t be in it for profits. Owners should be in it to win it.

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@TheRabiiMalik @hxshim__ Honestly a great life motto

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@LinkedIn bruh

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@edgarasben @AdaChoudhry @HelloShueti @valhalla_dev @_mctrinh @BarbogDaFinka @Hakopla1 @AI_Arav @jay_taiwo_ @Runtime44 Let’s goooo

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@owenoktay I’m convinced there are some Taylor haters who don’t wanna admit it

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@nathan_covey @ycombinator You got it Nathan!

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@Tawheed @hthieblot @fdotinc @ycombinator @HF0Residency I think NYC is just so big that there is always going to be a group of founders somewhere who are tuning out the noise

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@piotrgerke @ycombinator You got this!!

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@heyjainam @ycombinator Yes - we had a 3 person team with 2/3 technical founders

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@nick_linck Or just stay in the U.S. and hire the devs from Bangalore remotely

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@mrinalsingh02 @Spikeball 🙋‍♂️

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@AlexLee611 @truewindai @ycombinator You love to see it. Moved to NY for a while but I gotta get back to the bay

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@afrokayie @ycombinator DM our growth lead @owenoktay

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@EngJerryMontero @garrytan @ycombinator We didn't have a product built yet, so no! Best of luck with the app Jerry!!

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@dipperdao @ycombinator Have you had much success with cofounder matching in general?

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@NamanyayG @ycombinator Feel free to DM if you want any advice

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@spikeballchris @_alexshaq @MarkNatiello @mrinalsingh02 Hey Chris! We play at Fort Mason, Tunnel Tops Park, and James P Lang Playfield here in SF. Just DMed you about a tournament event we're hosting soon in SF, would love to hear your thoughts!

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@umairs02 @trycrewai @ycombinator Thank you bro!

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@0xriyadh @ycombinator Absolutely! Hop in my DMs

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@RyanthatsmeYup @trycrewai I’d give it a shot anyway — also, YC has a cofounder matching service. Maybe you can find someone before the deadline!!

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@silxapp @trycrewai @ycombinator What’s your company?

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@nebnella @ycombinator We hadn't started either!

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@spikeballchris @Spikeball I’ll save you a slice :)

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@jonkkillian @ycombinator Yeah one of the great things about YC is they can help you find new ideas to explore – they have so much market knowledge and a birds-eye view of what's working and what isn't from hundreds of startups

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@pyRails @ycombinator Yes!

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@rubenharris @BetsyZEO Congrats! Love to see a fellow YC founder succeed

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@xephas_official @garrytan @ycombinator Yes!

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@nathan_covey @ycombinator Thanks Nathan! You guys got this

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@DanielisLucky That’s what I’m sayin

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@slavasazhin83 @AphiyaNow @AtokiMories @tomiamida @DmitriFadin @ycombinator You got it! I was surprised when we were accepted. Prepare hard for the interview and you'll do great

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@nathan_covey Goal is to create content that our ICP for @trycrewai will be interested in. The larger our audience of potential customers gets, the more inbound leads will come in. We got a ton of inbound from last week already!

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@veekay_21 @ycombinator Just posted a thread with some tips

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