What's New: MrBeast's pitch decks leaked, and they aren't pretty
(from the latest issue of the Indie Hackers newsletter)
Here's what you'll find in this issue:
- MrBeast's pitch decks are hella ugly.
- Claude AI now sees your PDFs.
- $6.5K MRR with 3 bootstrapped products. Jim Raptis left VC behind.
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MrBeast's pitch decks leaked, and they aren't pretty 🔎
MrBeast may be the most popular creator on YouTube, but at the end of the day, he’s still a creator who needs to make a living. And, like most other creators, part of his income comes from selling ads and sponsorships.
Thanks to the MrBeast Burger lawsuit and Business Insider, we now know what a sponsorship pitch deck from MrBeast looks like.
It’s a pretty standard deck, except that it's...ugly.
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Claude AI can now see your PDFs 👀
It’s been an exciting couple of weeks for AI company, Anthropic. Late last month, Anthropic released a computer-controlling version of its flagship Claude AI model that can type, swipe, and click.
This week, the company upgraded Claude’s visual capabilities to see, rather than just read, PDFs.
Before now, Anthropic extracted text from PDFs and fed it into Claude as a prompt. This meant that the model wasn’t getting any information on graphic elements like tables, charts, and images.
In the news 📰
📚 TikTok launches an updated version of TikTok Academy, a marketing education platform.
📺 Netflix is removing nearly all of its interactive titles.
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🛍️ Using Instagram Shopping to drive ROI.
📉 The elimination strategy: Why "more" makes your SaaS worth less.
💀 The customers who repeatedly buy doomed products.
He left VC funding, and is now at $6.5K+ MRR 💰
After successfully raising over $388K in venture capital, then exiting, Jim Raptis is breaking out of the VC world.
He now has a portfolio of three bootstrapped products (MagicPattern, BrandBird, and SuperMotion), and plans to put them on autopilot while he builds more.
Here's why he believes that bootstrapped goals should be smaller.
Channing's tweet pick 🐦
Most indie hackers — especially solo founders — would love for "revenue per employee" to become a thing. —@channingallen
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Special thanks to Jay Avery for editing this issue, to Gabriella Federico for the illustrations, and to Stephen Flanders, Darko Gjorgjievski, Katie Hignett, and James Fleischmann for contributing posts. —Channing
