Road to $1M ARR day 43/60: people people people

vc lunch. walk with YC founder. happy hour with 49 people

Day 43 of the $1M ARR sprint.

Sent the first proposal today that perfectly captures what Earleads 2.0 actually means.

Shared the summary with the team. Everyone loved it. When your own team gets excited about what you’re selling, you know you’ve nailed something real.

This proposal could be the template for everything we pitch going forward.

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Morning coffee walk with a YC founder changed my perspective on meetings.

No conference room. No slides. Just walking through NYC talking strategy. The conversation quality was completely different. More honest, more productive.

Coffee + walk + conversation is my new default for founder meetings.

What’s wild is i tried this exact same approach with founders in Paris. Every single one ghosted me lmfao.

Then we wonder why the US market is so far ahead. The comparison is getting embarrassing at this point.

My French founder friends who actually succeed all think like Americans. No surprise they’re crushing the French market while everyone else debates tax zucman.

i’m bringing this energy back. The hunger. The urgency. The default to action over discussion.

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Tomorrow’s lunch with a VC is another signal we’re moving right.

They’re adding Earleads as a trusted GTM partner on their website. Not because we pitched them. Because we delivered for their portfolio companies.

One VC relationship unlocks 30+ potential clients. The math on portfolio access is insane. Could build a $10M ARR with just 10 solid VC partnerships.

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About to head to West Village for a happy hour hosted by my friend who runs knock2(.)ai.

We’ve been their customer for months, they handle website visitor deanonymization.

One of those tools that sounds optional until you realize it’s generating qualified pipeline on autopilot.

NYC founder events hit different. No pretense. Everyone’s building something real. Everyone’s one connection away from their next breakthrough.

Will report back tomorrow on whether it was worth it. (In NYC, these things always are.)

ARR: $815K → Target: $1M | Days remaining: 17

See you tomorroooww 👊

O.

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