Running a creator ad sales agency // Ex @CloudKitchens // Built and sold @nutmegsoccerco
New York, NY
Joined January 2020
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My marketing tactic was just featured on @GoodMarketingHQ 😱🥳
I always find it crazy how big a role chance plays in life.
If Rae didn’t walk into that restaurant, does Chris ever become an actor? Maybe. Probably. But maybe not. We’ll never know.
His entire career started from a chance encounter. Crazy.
Before Hollywood, I was living in a van in Hawaii and waiting tables at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. One day, the incredible Rae Dawn Chong walked into the restaurant, and naturally, I went up to her table and said, “Hey, you’re a movie star! What are you doing here?”
She asked if I could act, and I said, “Fuck yeah, put me in your movie!”
She asked for my phone number. The only problem was I didn’t have one. So I gave her my buddy Mike’s number instead. A couple days later, Mike casually mentions, “Oh, by the way, someone called you.” ARE YOU KIDDING ME, MIKE?!
I called her back, and sure enough, she was serious. I drove over to pick up the script, went back to Mike’s house, and read all 120 pages three times in a row. First script I’d ever read. My character's name was Devon, and I remember thinking, “Sweet! I could totally play a Devon!”
I showed up to the audition with every line and inflection mapped out in pencil. Rae told me I could act and offered me the part. I asked if we were shooting in Hawaii. Nope. Los Angeles.
I had about $60 to my name, a bag of clothes, and some rollerblades.
Then Rae told me they'd fly me out. And I remember thinking right then and there, my life just changed forever. I'm going to be an actor.
That little movie was Cursed Part 3, a low-budget horror comedy that opened the door to Hollywood for me.
I'll forever be grateful to Rae for taking a chance on a kid working at a shrimp restaurant. Everybody starts somewhere, and this is where it all began for me.
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If you work around Union Square/Flatiron you gotta try Glaze.
This was $15 for chicken thighs and grass fed steak. Idk how they make it this cheap. Maybe VC pays for it.
Way better than your average slop bowl.
I just followed up with someone 19 times and finally got a reply.
Friendly reminder that you're not being persistent enough.
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Is Mimi’s frozen yogurt making more money than Anthropic?
Wtf is this line man. It’s freaking frozen yogurt
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The retail rep at Buck Mason just pulled a great sales trick on me.
I asked about their Oxford shirts. They didn't have any on display, so he went into the back to grab them.
He came back out to the showroom and told me he's put them in the dressing room ready to try on. He didn't bring them to the showroom for me to see. He knows I'm most likely to buy if I try them on, so he made it as easy as possible for me to do so. "They're already in the dressing room ready for you."
I try them on, love one of them, and buy it.
Reminder to always make it as easy as possible for someone to buy from you.
My friends and I took the ferry up the Hudson to West Point yesterday to watch the Army Tulane game.
Really fun day trip from the city. The West Point campus is beautiful.
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I played soccer on this field tonight. Scored 4 goals. Had an absolute blast.
NY is the greatest city on earth.
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I just made this recipe and it turned out incredible.
@ChefGruel thank you 👏👏
andrewgruel.substack.com/p/s…
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Instinct is fucking incredible.
One of those products where technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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I just made this. It turned out very good.
