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Chris Josephs

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1052 total appearances

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

But as long as it's controversial and as long as it is informative or funny, that's how you kind of grow the things to the scale that you would want.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

Yeah. I mean, and. I do them probably once or twice a week. But earlier on in the early Pelosi days, and these aren't built for virality again. They're not built to, like the investigative journalist piece aren't built to, and they're not supposed to get millions of views.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

Yeah. I mean, and. I do them probably once or twice a week. But earlier on in the early Pelosi days, and these aren't built for virality again. They're not built to, like the investigative journalist piece aren't built to, and they're not supposed to get millions of views.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

Yeah. I mean, and. I do them probably once or twice a week. But earlier on in the early Pelosi days, and these aren't built for virality again. They're not built to, like the investigative journalist piece aren't built to, and they're not supposed to get millions of views.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

But if you remember back in 2022, when everyone was talking about the political stock trading, we kind of did have two different approaches to this. Like we had the Pelosi tracker. It was around 30,000 followers. It's like, do we go to the meme accounts? Do we kind of just create funny Pelosi talking on the phone? Hey, I want $100 million of this. Like that will go viral and things of that.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

But if you remember back in 2022, when everyone was talking about the political stock trading, we kind of did have two different approaches to this. Like we had the Pelosi tracker. It was around 30,000 followers. It's like, do we go to the meme accounts? Do we kind of just create funny Pelosi talking on the phone? Hey, I want $100 million of this. Like that will go viral and things of that.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

But if you remember back in 2022, when everyone was talking about the political stock trading, we kind of did have two different approaches to this. Like we had the Pelosi tracker. It was around 30,000 followers. It's like, do we go to the meme accounts? Do we kind of just create funny Pelosi talking on the phone? Hey, I want $100 million of this. Like that will go viral and things of that.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

But the investigative journalist piece is like if you take a piece of content and say Pelosi bought NVIDIA. One tweet, the meme-y one, Pelosi bought NVIDIA. Can't believe it's inside of trading. That's such corruption. I can't believe she's allowed to do this. That's kind of the viral meme page. The investigative journalist example, though, is Pelosi bought NVIDIA.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

But the investigative journalist piece is like if you take a piece of content and say Pelosi bought NVIDIA. One tweet, the meme-y one, Pelosi bought NVIDIA. Can't believe it's inside of trading. That's such corruption. I can't believe she's allowed to do this. That's kind of the viral meme page. The investigative journalist example, though, is Pelosi bought NVIDIA.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

But the investigative journalist piece is like if you take a piece of content and say Pelosi bought NVIDIA. One tweet, the meme-y one, Pelosi bought NVIDIA. Can't believe it's inside of trading. That's such corruption. I can't believe she's allowed to do this. That's kind of the viral meme page. The investigative journalist example, though, is Pelosi bought NVIDIA.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

Interestingly, six months before that, they passed the CHIPS Act, which they were allowed to have $40 billion of investments. That $40 billion of investments trickles down to U.S.-based companies, which is around $13 billion of it. X amount of that could go to NVIDIA. This may be why she's buying follow for more to come.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

Interestingly, six months before that, they passed the CHIPS Act, which they were allowed to have $40 billion of investments. That $40 billion of investments trickles down to U.S.-based companies, which is around $13 billion of it. X amount of that could go to NVIDIA. This may be why she's buying follow for more to come.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

Interestingly, six months before that, they passed the CHIPS Act, which they were allowed to have $40 billion of investments. That $40 billion of investments trickles down to U.S.-based companies, which is around $13 billion of it. X amount of that could go to NVIDIA. This may be why she's buying follow for more to come.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

And that's the sort of investigative journalist that then turns into an Instagram reel. It turns into a TikTok and it builds accountability and trust because no one else is doing it to that degree. Everyone is doing the fun meme thing. page stuff that gets tens of thousands of likes.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

And that's the sort of investigative journalist that then turns into an Instagram reel. It turns into a TikTok and it builds accountability and trust because no one else is doing it to that degree. Everyone is doing the fun meme thing. page stuff that gets tens of thousands of likes.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

And that's the sort of investigative journalist that then turns into an Instagram reel. It turns into a TikTok and it builds accountability and trust because no one else is doing it to that degree. Everyone is doing the fun meme thing. page stuff that gets tens of thousands of likes.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

And that's honestly why a lot of the meme pages don't like on a product guide, like their product is selling advertisements. Whereas with us, it's like we have a full on product built behind this that makes millions of dollars because we have put the time and effort in to make sure that it provides value.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

And that's honestly why a lot of the meme pages don't like on a product guide, like their product is selling advertisements. Whereas with us, it's like we have a full on product built behind this that makes millions of dollars because we have put the time and effort in to make sure that it provides value.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

And that's honestly why a lot of the meme pages don't like on a product guide, like their product is selling advertisements. Whereas with us, it's like we have a full on product built behind this that makes millions of dollars because we have put the time and effort in to make sure that it provides value.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads

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