We will buy close to $30,000,000 worth of goods from China this year with an average of 85 day payment terms blended. These are 9 frequent mistakes I see founders make when sourcing from China 🧵

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Messenger > Message If you struggle to convince someone you work with on a strategic shift / pivot: Get an outsider to tell them the exact same thing as you. In 9 out of 10 cases this helps me get my way.

The eCom industry has such an incredible pool of hardworking talent working on really small outcomes It’s remarkable

Be like JayJay and Ole from Hike footwear: •⁠ ⁠Go all in - in your early 20s (college school dropout) •⁠ ⁠⁠Iterate by never settling for small PMF (found $100K a month and $1M a month businesses and shut them down) •⁠ ⁠⁠Go all in on educational funnels and expand your TAM massively •⁠ ⁠⁠Scale Meta to $7M a month in adspend •⁠ ⁠⁠Have your default be "attack mode” Episode will come out in the next weeks Sign up in bio to be notified.

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I had 102 eCom brands doing $6B+ in the room last week in Shenzhen. I’ll be sharing my 10 lessons from the event on Friday 12 PM ET to my newsletter’s list. Link in bio

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There are two ways to resign as an employee. 1. Gracefully 2. Ungracefully The above is MECE. Its binary. Under one, you put the employer first and, as a result, get maximum lifetime value of that relationship. I've had three founders leave Peak21 to launch a $30 million company, a $50 million company, and a $100+ million company. In all those instances, the employee, as they resigned, said they were grateful for the working relationship and said they would only leave once all transition-related matters were closed off, regardless of what their employment contract said. Basically not quit 30 days prior to BFCM then leave contractually 15 days prior. Needless to say, very clear why they're hyper-successful. After leaving, it's not because of me, but it's because of their attitude towards work. "What can I do for the company? Not what can the company do for me? " => Winner An ungraceful way of quitting is the inverse. I've stopped taking 2. personally a long time ago. But its the type of people I don't help post leaving. I withhold any helpful advice, feedback or grace. I stop opening doors. Generosity goes to zero, because all of the above are gifts reserved for 1.

The future is here. Food and eCom deliveries by drone in Shenzhen. Hanging out with @LostLeBlanc after the founders alpha summit last week

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Just did a podcast recording for founders alpha with @MattOrlic We just debriefed on my 4 day bi-annual event in Shenzhen (alternates with HK for the canton fair) Many big takeaways but the biggest one is that non of our US friends know anything about black hat direct response advertising and the tactics that come with it. We will be breaking it down in detail for anyone who could not attend the event

Thank you for coming Brandon

Excited to have @fulfilio as a sponsor this year (we use them for @LinjerCo)

Everyone is coming in today

I can attest to this video being a real representation of evolve members Shaun is one of our keynotes at Shenzhen this week and he’s the current Taylor swift of ecom

I’ve been chatting with Devin over X over the past 12 months. A lot of my mentees are on Next and are doing really big numbers - excited to see them share how you can implement it in your business also. I’ll try to see if we can share a simple recording or the slides after

Last minute prep of opening remarks ahead of the event

👀 launching something new. Guess how much I paid for the domain

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