Will Nitze

Founder, IQBAR (iqbar.com) 🍫+💧+☕️

🍫 Founder/CEO, IQBAR (iqbar.com)
🎙️ Co-Host, "Eating Glass" Podcast
🎓 Harvard BA

Founder/CEO

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The answer is not to minimize wrongness.

It's to minimize the COST of being wrong.

So you can cycle through many, many wrong answers without dying.

That's the highest-odds path to getting to the *right* answer.

The alternative is buying a lottery ticket.

Run faster, Run longer, and/or Run in unique directions...

1/3 gives you a fighting chance.

2/3 gets you above 50% odds of making it.

3/3 creates an inevitability of success.

"Grass roots" growth sounds romantic.

It isn't.

Most of us are playing an old-school, economies-of-scale game.

Which means we start in a painful (i.e., un-romantic) unit economics hole.

The best (and, arguably, only) path out?

Volume.

And then a careful *leveraging* of that volume.

The best way to achieve volume?

Taking big swings early.

To me, that's romance.

The path to The Goal is the inverse of The Goal.

Reduce optionality so you can later maximize it.

Concentrate bets so you can later diversify them.

Channel negative emotions (jealousy, comparison, anger) so you can later jettison them.

Etc.

Of course this only works if you...

1. know *when* to flip the switch (timing is everything)
2. are able to *actually* flip that switch (many refuse to)
3. *avoid psychological disaster* along the way (which is mostly a function of how you execute on 1 and 2)

Purists get to be admired.

Strategic compromisers get to win.

Aidan Brannigan

Digital Content

I create content viewed 300M times/year, driving 7 figures in revenue, but my parents still think I'm unemployed.

I’m the Founder of No Boring Brands, the content agency behind the highest performing brands on socials.

We're generating 100s of millions of organic views for our clients. 

Also...

- I built the largest marketing meme page on IG in less than 2 years
- I lost $500k in crypto when I was 20 
- I've been featured in WSJ and AdAge
- I lost a spam eating contest to Joey Chestnut in front of 14,000 people 
- I've run meme campaigns for a $100B+ company
- I spoke at SXSW about memes
- I'm currently trying to gaslight myself onto Under Armour's board of advisors
- I own a network of work meme pages on IG with a following of 130,000 doing 15,000,000 views/month

Creator

I do a bunch of fun stuff

The smartest person on the planet is not Elon Musk.

It’s whoever uploaded those 10 hour long fireplace videos on YouTube.

That passive income has to be insane.

I Make Memes for a Living | Founder & CEO @ No Boring Brands | The Agency Solving Organic Social for Niche Brands

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I’m hiring 3 full-time (W2, not 1099) in-person (Baltimore) creator roles in the next 45 days to be a part of No Boring Brands.

Full job posting for each role is going live in ~7 days.

Do with this information what you will…


✉️ aidan@noboringbrands.co

I chose an unorthodox route after college.

I didn’t take a job in corporate, instead I moved to Austin and worked at a startup.

After a year living there I moved to Baltimore to go full time on my business, No Boring Brands.

And I get asked a lot about measuring success.

Unlike a lot of other people, I don’t measure success in dollars.

And that’s because I have no money. 

#entrepreneurial

I Make Memes for a Living | Founder & CEO @ No Boring Brands | The Agency Behind the Highest Performing Brands on Social

Am I jealous of people my age with corporate jobs?

No.

2 of my paychecks equal one of theirs. Do the math on that.

I’m doing just fine.

Noboringbrands.co

I just turned 25. That’s surreal to say out loud.

And I felt like giving back today. I wanted to provide some value.

So in honor of my 25th birthday, here are 25 things

when someone on your team tells you they can't come into work because of snow (they work remotely)

noboringbrands.co

People talk a lot of crap on LinkedIn's notifications.

But bro, are you kidding me Instagram? 

Thank you for letting me know that itsjesslyon and 60,540 others liked my post.

Much wow, very valuable.

This world is sick.

Baltimore got 6 inches of snow and 2 inches of ice this weekend. It hasn't been above 30 degrees.

And some a**hole left this little guy outside overnight.

I'm done with people.

To help the little guy out, visit noboringbrands.co

I’m 25 and building long term wealth.

Why?

Great question. It’s not what you’d think.

It’s because short term I’m absolutely screwed. 🔥

#enterpreneur #rich

I’m a little disappointed in my ability to close.

We had 3 brands interested in working with us at SXSW.

I felt our Offer was rock solid:

Brand pays us $10k. And the only requirement is that there are no requirements. Let us cook.

And none of them pulled the trigger.

Mistake.

The amount of attention they would’ve gotten…

Channels totaling 160,000 followers, doing 20M views/month across LI, IG, and TikTok.

We’re going to be in a content house for 7 days with 5 other creators whose names you absolutely know.

We’re going to have a videographer with us for 3 days.

And most importantly, you’re going to have me in the content.

Last year at SXSW I belly flopped into a CLOSED DOWN pool for content with Sprout Social.

Last year at SXSW I snuck into TWO YouTuber meet ups. One with AJ Eckstein 🧩 Eckstein, one with Joshua Smith.

Last year I walked 20,000 steps/day, walked into every single event whether I had a pass or not.

And I’m going to do it again this year, documenting everything. Who wants their logo to be a part of it all?

$10k. Oh and the only requirement is that there are no requirements. Let us cook.

Outfit of the day.

So eager to provide some value to the shareholders.

New challenge for myself the rest of the week:

Only using the "suggested reply" option in Gmail.

This is going to ruin relationships.

"Hey Aidan, let's touch base next week. I have a funeral to attend to on Thursday that is bogging me down for the week."

"No worries – we can put the "fun" in funeral on our catch up next week David."

three things:

1) just booked my flight to Austin for SXSW in March
2) i am looking for a brand to pay me $10,000 with zero creative restrictions and zero brief to get them a boatload of content while at SXSW

serious inquiries only

Sharks, I am still seeking a $10k investment…

From a brand who wants me to get them content while attending SXSW.

I only have 2 requirements, you wire me $10k and the other is that there are no requirements. Just let me cook.

3 interested so far 👀

sometimes i just be forgetting shit

like that was important, why did i forget it

12 hours to respond is a skill issue.

Speed isn’t a nice-to-have in GTM.

This is why teams use Clay 👇

• Route inbound the second it hits
• Enrich leads instantly
• Trigger outbound before the prospect forgets why they filled out the form
• Build GTM workflows that don’t rely on Jacob’s cortisol levels

#claypartner

I mean this with full offense to Utah, 

I am seeing substantially too much content about Utah on my Linkedin timeline

#whatisutah

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