Houston Golden

I’LL MAKE YOU A LINKEDIN INFLUENCER. 🔥 𝗕𝗔𝗠𝗙.𝗰𝗼𝗺 🔥 LinkedIn’s Golden Child. Half billion views. Forbes Top 12 Innovators. Author of The LinkedIn Bible. My kids say I’m hilarious.

🔥 Do YOU want to become a LinkedIn Influencer with an engaged audience of ideal prospects ready to work with you? (𝑦𝑒𝑠, 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜)

🛑 Get in touch 👉 b͟a͟m͟f͟.͟c͟o͟m 

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Houston Golden is the founder and CEO of BAMF.com — a growth marketing agency based in Venice Beach, CA.

BAMF is known as the world's leading LinkedIn marketing agency for a reason— they get results. 

With over half a billion organic LinkedIn views, our clients are the most viewed people on LinkedIn. If you’ve spent any time at all on LinkedIn, you’ve seen their posts.

They are the masterminds behind some of LinkedIn’s top influencers and entrepreneurs, including Russell Brunson, Rob Dyrdek, Prince Ea, Mark Manson, Jay Shetty, and dozens more.

But, beyond that, Houston is most passionate about helping smaller entrepreneurs make it big, whether it’s by turning them into industry influencers and lead generation machines, or putting them in a position to hit massive growth.

Houston has authored 5 books on the subject of LinkedIn, known as The LinkedIn Bible Collection, been featured in countless high-profile publications, consulted for Fortune 500 companies, and still remains to be an avid surfer and all-around family man. 

He does all of this because he, too, started out as a struggling entrepreneur before turning $0 in seed capital into a business that’s worth millions of dollars.

From bootstrapping to being recognized as one of Forbes’ Top 12 Innovative Founders. It’s been a wild journey for him.


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Do you want to attract more leads and supercharge your sales?


Let us implement our exact proven system to get you more leads with less effort by using content to elevate your personal brand and build trust with key decision-makers at companies you want to land as clients.

Learn more here 👉  grow.bamf.com

Founder & CEO

Surprisingly effective growth marketing for badass business owners.
10X your brand with the world’s finest LinkedIn influencer marketing services.

A few of the companies we've helped...

Pioneer, Compass, NERD, Mindvalley, Tenzo Tea, Loft, O-Live & Co, Unicorn Snot, FCTRY, Deputy, Wine Access, BEAR Powerfoods, Newchip, Pininfarina, Foursixty, KlientBoost, Data Science Dream Job, and many many more... 

We’ve driven pretty badass results
Our clients have amassed over 350 million organic views to date, and have generated over tens of millions in new revenue with our help.

Because, really… helping business owners is what I’m all about.

I started BAMF to help others achieve the same results I enjoyed from my own personal LinkedIn efforts.

In fact, I was so successful at generating organic interest on LinkedIn that I’ve been profiled in publications such as Forbes, BuzzFeed, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg, and more.

Our innovative approach to LinkedIn content creation has been so effective, it’s practically put our lead generation on autopilot.

BAMF grew into a multi-million dollar agency in a matter of months, using little more than the same LinkedIn growth hacks you can learn for free in my LinkedIn Bible guide.

Whether it’s done-for-you or do-it-yourself...

The BAMF system executes proven LinkedIn growth processes, transforming our clients into influencers and their businesses into growth engines.

I’ve used it myself. I’ve used it to help hundreds of other entrepreneurs. 

Now I’d like to help you, too.

Just reach out to me and we can get started.

Drop me a note 👉 houston@bamf.com

Jamie Siminoff turned “no” into a billion-dollar exit.

His smart doorbell idea, Ring, was passed on by every investor.

Too early.

Too niche.

Not worth it, they said.

He went back to work.

Tweaked the product.

Built a community.

Stayed in the game.

Then Amazon bought it for over $1B.

Years later, he walked back into Shark Tank.

Not to pitch, but to invest.

The same door that closed… opened a better one.

Rejection doesn’t mean stop.

It means not yet.

Keep building.

The plot twist is coming.

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BAMF is the world's leading LinkedIn ghostwriting and personal branding agency for founders, founded by Houston Golden in 2017.

We pioneered the LinkedIn personal branding industry - creating an entirely new category that didn't exist before. Our expert ghostwriters craft authentic, viral content that transforms founders into recognized thought leaders.

Since 2017, we've generated over 1 billion views for 500+ clients including Jay Shetty (40M+ impressions in 1 year), Rob Dyrdek, Russell Brunson, Prince Ea, Mark Manson, Dave Rogenmoser (Jasper.ai), and Sujan Patel.

Houston Golden authored The LinkedIn Bible Collection - downloaded by 100,000+ people worldwide and the #1 book launch on Product Hunt. He was recognized by Forbes as one of the "Top 12 Innovative Founders to Watch."

Services:
• Viral Content Ghostwriting
• Strategic Personal Branding
• Elite Profile Design & Optimization
• Thought Leadership Development
• Targeted Outreach Campaigns

Track Record:
• 1B+ organic views generated since 2017
• 500+ founders transformed into LinkedIn influencers
• 100,000+ LinkedIn Bible downloads
• Forbes "Top 12 Innovative Founders"
• Pioneered LinkedIn personal branding for founders

Founded: 2017
Founder & CEO: Houston Golden
Website: bamf.com

Our Ultimate Written LinkedIn Training System. 📖 
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Book Author

The LinkedIn Influencer Academy by Houston Golden 👋 
Master the Lucrative Art of LinkedIn Lead Generation & Thought Leadership 🚀 

BAMF Academy is the most comprehensive LinkedIn lead generation training on the planet — get armed with battle-tested tools to get qualified ready-to-close leads on autopilot.

If you’re looking to leverage the power of LinkedIn to bring you more business, you’ve come to the right place.

Inside the Academy, you’ll learn.. 
✅ How to consistently grow your lead pipeline on LinkedIn
✅ How to create an irresistible LinkedIn profile to attract buyers
✅ ​How to effortlessly turn dozens of prospects into closed deals
​✅ And so much more!

Lead Instructor

Excited to see you inside! 👇 👇 👇 👇 
Hey BAMFs! Houston, founder of BAMF here and I want to personally welcome you to our awesome BAMF community. Our group is one of the largest communities online of business owners who are killing it on LinkedIn. Meet new friends, learn from legends in the industry, and become a BAMF when you join our Facebook community clicking here!

Community Builder

Makers of BEAR POWERFOODS BEAR 🐻 BEAR is an award-winning meal shake. It has more nutrient variety than a kale salad, more protein than 3 eggs, and more probiotics than 4 kombuchas with only 5 net carbs. Recent winner of BevNet's New Beverage Showdown. 🏆 

Advisor

Founder, CEO, Chief Growth Hacker

Director of Growth Strategy

Preeminent startup accelerator in Los Angeles and an industry leading equity crowdfunding platform operating under the new JOBS Act regulations. 

Responsible for managing lead generation strategy and implementation. Managing the sales pipeline and completing testing of all lead sources to produce weekly and monthly reports showing optimization. Accountable for securing new lead sources and executing a comprehensive strategy to create a successful sales pipeline for the entire sales team. 

Design, launch, and manage marketing campaigns:
- Facebook Ads (design ads, create custom audiences, A/B test, optimize ROI)
- Email Newsletter for Investors and Founders 
- Outbound email campaigns for lead generation
- Create custom landing pages for lead generation/marketing
- Manage content marketing calendar and blog updates

Director of Lead Generation and Marketing

Developed a social marketplace software for communities to create "Hubs" to list Goods, Services, Jobs, and Rentals.

Social commerce just got easier. Selling your handmade creations, renting your bike to a traveler, or offering your professional jobs and services, Hubify helps you get deals done with elegant technology. Connect with customers like never before and get paid securely with the tap of a finger.

www.hubify.com

Founder / Developer

CloudMedia (www.cloud-media.com) is a creative digital agency that focuses on modern web development, media publishing, and designing online brands.

Web Developer, Designer, Digital Marketer

Assisted in developing dating app that went viral and gained 50,000 users in 3 months. Designed iOS app and managed development team. Wrote business plan that was accepted into 500 startups accelerator. 

CTO, Product Design

Worked for our head of technology as a software engineer. Developed our community crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform with a focus on clean code, UI/UX, and product design.

www.thrdPlace.com

Front End Engineer

As an assistant at Briggs-Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty, I helped with accomplishing daily tasks such as holding open houses and compiling data from research using Excel. 

Also, I developed, designed, and maintained two websites for an agent’s personal real estate business: www.christyberryrealestate.com and www.greenfamilytips.com. I created the second site as a social marketing initiative to help establish her image as “Dallas’ Top Green Realtor.”

Web Designer, Real Estate Agent

The internship detailed below led to my employment in the promotions department of 98*7FM. As a member of the promotions team, I helped organize our flagship Hollywood Tower Penthouse events with numerous big names in the alternative rock industry such as Cee Lo Green, Linkin Park, Jimmy Eat World, Vampire Weekend, Temper Trap, Mumford and Sons, and more! 

I worked with other members of the promotions team on 98.7FM sponsored events at venues all throughout the Greater Los Angeles area, including Vans Warped Tour 2010, US Open of Surfing at Huntington Beach, Sunset Strip Music Festival, Rock ‘n Roll Expo, Dodgers Games, and many more sponsored events. 

The daily aspects of my promotions job would vary depending on the events scheduled each week, but I worked every Saturday and Sunday at our broadcast from LA Live (Staples Center), and every Monday I was assigned to a different bar which our station would sponsor for Monday Night Football. www.clearchannel.com or www.987fm.com

Programming & Promotions Assistant

Clear Channel Communications is one of the largest radio companies in the country and owns thousands of stations. As an intern in the programming department of Clear Channel, I worked hard to increase the productivity of the station 98*7FM. 

My daily duties included tallying song request sheets for both KYSR 98*7FM and KIIS 102.7FM, pulling Air Checks, and editing Flip videos on iMovie for the “987fmradio” YouTube channel. I worked on the 98*7 Rock Star Contest by seeking out and contacting local bands. I loaded shows into Prophet, contributed to online marketing/blogging, updated the Indie Music Review, assisted the “Music in the Morning” show with Darren Rose, and called prize-winners for promotions.  

Outside of the office, I worked numerous events at the Hollywood Tower Penthouse, and other events throughout Greater Los Angeles.

Promotions Intern

As Chairman of “Music in the Commons,” I organized and hosted over a dozen concerts around Vanderbilt's campus. My band “The Neon Eon” performed at many of the events. Also, I came up with the idea of recording a Music in the Commons album, pitched the idea to the Dean of the Commons, Frank Wcislo, and received a $5,000 grant to make my idea a reality.

 The ten track CD was recorded at Wilder Side Productions, and the Vanderbilt community received it with much acclaim at our Music in the Commons end of the year music festival, which I organized featuring all of the artists from the album. http://houstongolden.com/music/music-in-the-commons

Chairman, Music In The Commons

Headquartered in Dallas and Nashville, Pharos Capital Group (“Pharos”) was founded in 1998 and has managed capital through three private equity funds. 

My job was to analyze each article in the “Wall Street Journal” pertaining to the private equity industry and summarize a daily report of the current market trends. I substantiated this market summary with an Excel spreadsheet, which followed the major mergers and acquisitions in the world economy. Also, I processed due-diligence and analyzed business plans of companies seeking investment from our firm. www.pharosfunds.com

Analyst, Intern

I’LL MAKE YOU A LINKEDIN INFLUENCER.   𝗕𝗔𝗠𝗙.𝗰𝗼𝗺   LinkedIn’s Golden Child. Half billion views. Forbes Top 12 Innovators. Author of The LinkedIn Bible. My kids say I’m hilarious.

A quiet reminder:
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Some people are holding it together with tape and coffee.
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They show up with a smile, meet deadlines, laugh at jokes.
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But their world might be heavy right now.
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Not every storm is visible.
Not every strong person feels strong.
Not every kind gesture is small.
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Compassion doesn't cost anything.
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But it changes everything.
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Be the reason someone’s day gets a little lighter.
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Even if it’s just a nod.
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A “you good?”
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A bit of grace.
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The world’s hard enough already.
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Let’s not add to it.

Risk assessment is a real skill.
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Some people just learn it the hard way.
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Like this thief who sized up the job, made a move, then quietly reconsidered when the math stopped matting up 😂
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Even chaos has logic.
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You just gotta know when to fold.

Checking a zero balance and realizing...
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it all went somewhere that mattered.
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That's not failure.
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That's just adulting with integrity.
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The reset always comes.
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Keep going.

Nobody's handing out happiness.

You kind of just... build it yourself.

From small things.

Quiet things.

Things that don't cost much but somehow mean everything.

That's not a consolation prize.

That's actually the whole point.

Some seasons aren’t about growth.
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They’re about holding the line.
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Paying the bills.
Keeping the team together.
Shipping something, anything, just to stay in motion.
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It doesn’t feel inspiring.
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But it is resilience.
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The stories we admire most?
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They’re built in the quiet chapters.
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The months no one claps for.
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If you’re still showing up, still trying, that matters more than you think.
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Not every step has to be a leap.
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Keep going.

That moment you realize the new guy definitely stretched the truth on his resume.
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Then you watch him stay late every single night for two months straight, quietly figuring it out.
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Turns out the gap between who someone is and who they want to be isn't always a red flag.
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Sometimes it's just someone betting on themselves before anyone else would.
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The ones willing to grind through that gap are usually the ones worth keeping.

Not everyone who leaves a stable job is running away from something.

Some are just running back to themselves.

The 9-5 wasn't a failure.

It was a detour.

One that probably taught more than expected.

But when the entrepreneurial itch comes back, it doesn't really leave until you scratch it.

So why not now.

Somehow, it just clicks.
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One day you're stressed about timing,
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Plans falling through,
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Things not making sense...
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Then, without warning, something small lines up.
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A person, a decision, a moment.
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And you realize it had to go this way.
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The job you didn’t get?
The trip that got delayed?
The season that felt like a mess?
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All of it quietly moved things into place.
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I used to think I had to control every step.
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But now I try to trust the weird detours.
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Because more often than not, life connects the dots backwards.
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And when it does, it’s pretty beautiful.

Entrepreneurs are crazy.
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When the flight’s canceled, they drive.
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When the supplier ghosts, they find a workaround.
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When the budget’s gone, they still launch.
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It’s not always glamorous.
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Sometimes it’s duct tape and a borrowed laptop.
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Sometimes it’s asking for help when pride says don’t.
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But the throughline?
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They just keep going.
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Adjusting, adapting, improvising.
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Not because it’s easy.
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Because the mission still matters.
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Entrepreneurship isn’t about having the perfect plan.
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It’s about making progress anyway.

I thought starting a business would feel like unlocking a secret level.
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What it actually felt like was:
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forgot my login
spilled coffee on my laptop
got ghosted by a designer
then launched anyway with a janky version at 1am
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It wasn’t smooth.
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It wasn’t cinematic.
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But it moved.
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And sometimes that’s the whole point.
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Keep moving.
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Fix it later.
Laugh at it later.
But go.
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You don’t need a perfect start.
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You just need a real one.

A multimillionaire investor's advice to people in their 20s?

Stop trying to get it right.

Start trying to get it real.

Raoul Pal says your 20s are made for bold experiments, not perfect plans.

Fail fast. Learn faster.

Balance comes later.

Right now, just explore.

Honestly?

Pretty refreshing advice in a world that glorifies having everything figured out at 23.

Sometimes you just need someone in your corner.

Not to fix things.

Not to have all the answers.

Just to remind you that you're not crazy for trying.

For me, that’s been my wife more times than I can count.
My kids, without even knowing, remind me why I keep pushing.
And my family, who always makes me feel like I’ve got a safety net.

I’ve also had friends, coworkers, even random people say something small that turned my whole day around.

It doesn’t take much to lift someone.

A message.
A moment.
A little belief.

If someone’s done that for you lately, tell them.

They might not even realize how much it helped.

Sometimes being an entrepreneur just means waking up to a problem you didn’t plan for…

and solving it before breakfast.

No playbook.

No heads-up.

Just a surprise curveball and a decision to make.

It's not the glamorous part.

It doesn’t make it to the highlight reel.

But it’s where the muscle gets built.

The calm after the chaos isn’t luck.

It’s a skill.

A quiet kind of grit that says:

“Didn’t see this coming. Still here. Let’s go.”

Success isn’t always about scaling fast.

Sometimes it’s just about staying steady when the unexpected hits.

And doing it again tomorrow.

What do you do when you accidentally buy a town?
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Turn it into a dinosaur park, apparently.
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Mark Cuban bought Mustang, Texas for $2M, mostly because it was the only town for sale.
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Then connected the dots to Dino Don, his Shark Tank investment building life-sized animatronic dinosaurs that've wowed over 5 million people.
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The result?
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Dinosaur, Texas.
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A literal Jurassic Park vision coming to life.
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Wild what happens when curiosity meets capital.

Plot twist: having a plan doesn't mean life will follow it.
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And somehow, the most growth happens in the moments that went nothing like expected.
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Losing control of the script isn't failure.
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It's usually just the beginning of a better one.
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Stay loose.
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Stay curious.
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The detour might be the whole point.

Bad week. Bad month. Might even be a bad year.
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But watch an entrepreneur in that season.
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They're annoyed.
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Tired.
Still moving though.
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Not because they've figured it out.
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But because stopping genuinely doesn't feel like an option to them.
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That kind of optimism isn't naive.
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It's just built different.

I used to think confidence came after you achieved something.

But lately, I’ve realized…

It usually shows up because you decided to try anyway.

Even when you’re unsure.

Even when you don’t feel ready.

Most of the people you admire didn’t wait until they “felt” like experts.

They just started acting as if they belonged in the room, and slowly grew into it.

Not pretending.

Just choosing to show up as if it’s possible.

That shift changes everything.

People start trusting you more when you start trusting yourself, even a little.

So if you're waiting for permission... this might be it.

Opportunities don't expire loudly.
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No alarm.
No countdown.
No warning.
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One day the market shifted, someone else shipped it, or the problem got solved without you.
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The entrepreneurs who win aren't necessarily smarter.
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They just treat speed like a skill they practice.
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Move before everything feels ready.
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Figure it out on the way there.

There's a whole category of lateness that just can't be explained.
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Not traffic.
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Not an alarm.
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Something so random and perfectly timed that no one would believe it even if you tried.
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A dog.
A neighbor.
A completely unhinged sequence of events.
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And yet, still showed up.
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Life gets chaotic and weird and sometimes the universe just has other plans.
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Getting there anyway is quietly one of the most underrated things people do.
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Who else has a story? Drop it below 👇

I advice on Product Management | Growing your customer base | Career Growth

2X-Founder | Author | Growth | Ultra Runner | Writer

From failed startups to scaling Truepush to 100B+ notifications monthly and 4,500+ customers worldwide, I've learned what it takes to build products people need and grow them relentlessly.

I built Truepush from paper wireframes to becoming a top 10 global player in our category. At Alohaa.ai, I doubled sales within just 3 months and drove consistent month-over-month revenue growth.
Beyond business, I push limits personally. 

I recently completed an 82.4km ultra run during a 12-hour stadium event. Mountains, travel, and nature are where I find liberation through both excitement and boredom.

Learning obsessively fuels everything I do. I've devoured 336+ books, and continuously invest in courses (Mindvalley, MasterClass, Matt Gray, Justin Welsh, Reforge and more).

When knowledge compounds with consistent execution, results follow:

- Built a 25,000-person startup community across 3 cities
- Published 250+ LinkedIn posts in 2024 alone
- Recognized among the top 1% of mentors on Topmate.io
- Created Solopreneur OS to help others identify market gaps and build growth systems

All while maintaining 7 hours of sleep nightly, seeing friends regularly, and maintaining my unusual preference for vegetables over chocolate (though I love both).

Want to build something great? Let's connect.

Manoj Surya

OpenAI just raised $110 bn (Rs. 10 lakh crores only/-)

Only that much.
Only,
On...

Sorry, taking time to process.

2X Founder | Author - The Serotonin Addict | Head of Growth | Ultra Runner | I write on Growth for B2B and Personal Learnings

Arundhati Roy wrote 4 hours a day for 4 years to finish  The God of Small Things. It made her a millionaire quickly. After 20 years people still talk about it, buy it.

I saw an ad of a lady who wrote 773 books in a day (must obviously be AI). No one have any Idea of at least one of her books.

AI can make you a pseudo-author, but without you writing from your experience, or from deep research (for non-fiction), or putting your soul (for fiction), there is no art; readers will know. They will drop it, they won’t like you.

ChatGPT can create Ghibli art better than a human drawing, but sitting in front of a live artist hits differently. You make memories.

AI can make anything, but it won’t create memories that art with soul can make.

PS: I use AI to save you from my bad grammar and typos.

And yes, it’s okay to use AI to write blogs, QnAs, etc., as long as you know how the hell you want your output to be and why you want the output the way it is.

Your expertise is how you make it work, and the depth of knowledge in that field is still an art.

There are 3 types of people who smile a lot in Starbucks or Thirdwave

1) Friends
2) People working on a new Idea, together
3) People who are still hiring people into Ponzi-like schemes

Just my observation (3rd type seems constant, and it's disappointing)

I was so impressed by how well YANC Club sessions are organised and the quality of cohort is super cool. 

I wish I had something like this when I started.
Happy to share things I know.

Thanks for the invite Swaminathan.

🎙️YANC Talks: Miles Before Milestones

Just 100 days of travel
Countless customer chats
Early morning runs
And learning to sell before building.

He didn’t start with scale 
He started with steps
Steps across cities
Steps on the track
Steps into customer conversations

From selling first to building later
From running miles to capturing markets 

Manoj Surya showed YANC Club members that growth starts with mindset and marathons train more than legs.

Thank you Manoj Surya for the wonderful session and showing us that grit compounds faster than talent.

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There is too much BS on Linkedin these days and I am staying back out of necessity to connect with relevant people.

With AI, everyone started to say

1) 30 hours saved
2) $500k in pipeline
3) I am working with 11 AI agents

Fine, good, but - 

1) 30 hours saved - But along with it, share the quality of work it did, screw ups, learnings too
2) $500k pipeline, but based on your industry standard, whats your TAT  from pipeline to paying customers, are you getting revenue?
3) 11 AI agents. Fine. So? I will hire an intern and ask them to create 100 agents. What does it prove?

If you are sharing something - either tell us the quality you bench mark or revenue. Only these two are signals. Rest all is noise. 

PS: The noise level of BS is feeling like bad AQI in one of the large cities we know.

At Alohaa we work with Voice bots and Voice Streams, and I keep getting curious, here is why - 

While the mass is adapting to AI on Text, Voice AI has its own challenges. 

In India, the accent starts changing in almost every district. This means that to train one language, you can't just train in one accent or dialect. 

There are multiple companies building good models that can understand multiple Indian languages, accents, and dialects. And it's amazing to see how good they are.

Pair it with Voice latency on Telecom lines (Which we are trying to solve with Voice Streams)
Pair it with the issue with getting numbers into spam(Which we are solving use few methods)
Pair the Telecom rules in India with different sectors. For examples in the Financial Sector, with TRAI rules with 1400(promotional) and 1600(Transactional) number series, which started to show lower pick up rates.

While the AI models are one big step for Indian languages, another challenge is the Infra + Regulations.

At Alohaa, we wrote a book on how to be compliant for the Fintech sector and gave those away for free at events we attended, consulted with a few NBFCs to migrate and avoid penalties, and see where we can help or collaborate.

At least in the Voice AI ecosystems, multiple companies have to work together and grow the Industry as collaborators, friends, and grow together rather than growing thought a Enterprise sales cycle.

We try our best to do this from Alohaa, and hopefully the circle grows

PS: If you know anyone working in the Voice AI Industry, do tag them. The more the merrier.

Manikanta Thrivikram

Need help (and I know it's a long shot asking on LinkedIn) - 

I self-published "The Serotonin Addict" book, and so far sold 225 books in less than two months (total 30 unique reviews on Amazon). 

I am looking for established publishers, 
so they can bring a better reach for the book than me.
I heard having references would help,
so checking here if anyone here can help me with a referral.

Please let me know.

PS: I started sending direct emails already, but the usual response time is 6 weeks to 6 months.

AI is helping people to save time or make money only for those who know what they want from AI tools.

I know a person who works hard. I asked him if I could be of any help.

He keeps saying - I am looking for the best people to work for.
He has high standards.
A lot of people admire his work and follow him
He have high social status in many places
He feels like he is doing everything

And all this can be true.

But, it took me a while to realise (after so many conversations with that person) that he feels he is the best and given that he can do others' work, he will do better than them.

I have a feeling that one reason he keeps failing is that he wants perfection and looks at most people as unworthy, subconsciously. With someone of that mindset, I don't know how much one can go ahead.

For me, I made peace and moved on.

It's easy to avoid people who hate you,
but people who subtly put you down,
It's hard to detect. 

PS: He is a nice person in general, super helpful. But we are different people in different scenarios. It's the work scenario of that person I mentioned. Thankfully, I did not need to work with this person at any time.

People are complex, and it's best to box their behaviour to the scenarios and not demean them as a whole, as much as possible, so we all can co-exist more peacefully.

For SaaS products, you have AWS credits,
What do you have for Voice bots to deploy on Telecom lines to make phone calls?

From Alohaa , we are planning to give 10,000 minutes of voice streaming (soon)
Which is more than you will need to deploy your bot, test it out, and launch in the market.

Working out on the launch plan currently,
But if you want to take advantage of getting this early (or people you know)

If you are offering companies to deploy your voice bot to make phone calls, 
DM me, we are here to support.

Do share your 1) website, 2) stage of development for the voice bot with me on DM, 3) email id, and 4) phone number. (So it's easy for us to evaluate, reach out to you to coordinate, and avoid to and fro conversations of the obvious)

PS: Once we launch and reach out to ecosystem partners, the turnaround time to verify and give you credits may take time, so if you reach out now, we can get you those credits with less wait.

No lock-ins, no contracts.

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Do things that AI can't do, like 

sleeping well
eating well
exercising
meeting friends
travelling
reading books
telling jokes
learning languages

What will you add to the list?

In India, most of the adoption feels like it's coming from coders, like everywhere else, but in marketing, it feels like it still needs a lot of adoption. 

The reason, my guess is, is purchase parity. For a product that is $100 in the US, we see the same perceived value at $40. 

Images and videos using AI are not cheap. Even other AI tools in marketing don't feel cheap. 

Another reason could be that Marketing needs a lot of experimenting. With code, you can see the output. With marketing, it's still a guesswork. So it may feel safer to go with what's already working than try new tools (the results are visible after a few days or weeks sometimes).

For experimenting, at least for the small to medium startups, it feels like a lot because you end up spending a lot. 

If we compare people versus AI tools, AI feels much better, but got to see how much it will be a common practice soon. 

PS: Or maybe the adaptation is good, and I may not be seeing it well in immediate circles. What's your observation?

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It’s a good read in your break, travel, weekend or breaking your weekdays pattern (while helping you set hard long term goals and making them doable)

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AI is helping me do many things and it's scary, here is why -

Firstly, I see myself as a generalist in understanding, and having depth with marketing.

Secondly, with AI (using Claude code), I know I can build few things, but then, do not know if I can understand scale or depth.

I haven't focused enough on creating agents, but it will be inevitable not to create agents and get things done.

So anything with some understanding of agents(easy part) + strategy(hard part) can make agents do - Research, compose data, send emails to relevant people for research, build specific landing pages based on personas, make content for ads / seo  (or even run campaigns by themselves in the future)

While I can take this data, use whispr like tools, talk to my command line (or just input the data from research) and let the claude agents orchestrate things and build a product, while I read a book, make tea, or go out for a walk.

There is something called The Jonah Complex - It is the terrifying realisation that you are capable of far more than you are currently doing, which creates pressure to live up to that potential. 

It's that, now you know you can do so many things, and the pressure build up gets the best of you (while we try to catchup with AI, try to avoid burn out while making 20-30X decisions in short time, that we are used to).

If the potential to create anything is scary, I don't know what is.

We will only remain sane, only when we are clear of purpose and direction (at least on the SaaS side of things)

Or else, it's easy to be lost, pressured and even broken now living up to what we can do. And anything that makes us value less isn't worth it.

Things are changing top down (early adapters -> everyone else).

Time to embrace the change. Sooner the better.

PS: The above automation, even to make it, needs conviction, time and a mental framework how things needs to be done and what output you intended to get(hard part). Once we know, it's easy to get things done.

The hard part (direction and purpose) never changes.

Vibe coder, vibe marketer, vibe writer. Fine. Let’s also vibe some good life? Just saying.

A good piece of writing advice is that you have to write as you speak, 
and with tools like Wispr Flow (speech-to-text tool), I feel like you can just speak and it writes, 
So, more or less, it's in the speaking language. 

This week I wrote two posts with Wispr, and the engagement was pretty good. 

When I went back and read those posts, I did feel like they were more natural, conversational, and made a point across quickly(saved a ton of time).

PS: Even this post is written like that.

AI Anxiety - here is how I plan to deal with it and do better things with life.

A short read.

Hey Reader, I don’t know about you. But things changing in AI are not very exciting for me, yet. I am a marketer. Last year, I tried 50 tools and publ

Open article: AI Anxiety - A Personal Discourse by Manoj Surya • 5 min read

3 questions to meditate about AI

1) Are you giving deep inputs to get deep outputs?

2) You are saving time with AI, what are you using your free time for?

3) If you are automating things, has it increased your revenue / month? Or it’s just saving time only?

You need to be clear on all these, or else AI being useful is just an illusion

what other points would you add here?

Forming an identity and believing is the hardest 

I published a book if someone says I’m a writer, it will take me a moment to realise it is true

I ran for 12 hours covering 82.4km and yet on the day of the run, at the start like, I felt I did not belong there

With marketing sometimes it works in 3 days sometimes in 3 months, easy to have self doubt if I know things well

The voice of imposter syndrome for any creator or a good operator is usually high

Over the years I learnt to see it as a background noise. Nothing more, noting less

If you have imposter syndrome despite results, just know it’s normal

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