leaving bali

Hey friends, you know me from Twitter, Magic Sales Bot, Sales . co, or when you tried to sell me life coaching at the gym the other day.

Quick updates for work: The calling AI, the scraping, the content AI have all led to some interesting Growth Partner ideas.

I’ve got 3 companies that I’m “advising.” It lets me go deeper - joining some sales calls, talking with their product teams, owning a chunk of their CRM, write some custom code.

A while back I said this was something I wanted to grow towards so it’s cool that it organically came up. My idea here is that I’ll come in, help these guys towards product market fit personally, have a dope story to tell, and be able to charge the next vc-funded startup $50k for this.

While I’m doing this, I’m having a lot of fun scraping. It just scratches that itch in my brain. I scraped 50k+ substacks the other day for one of these partners and started sending emails to the writers that are gpt-based “responses” to their newsletters.

It excites me that I could sell my sawdust here, too. What if I could become the database guy? Apollo and ZoomInfo are great for contact data, but what about when you want context behind that data? I could turn around and sell this substack data, parse out the sponsors and sell that db, scrape job postings to get data on who’s using backend tech like Snowflake, etc.

The possibilities are endless. I could launch a db a week if I put my balls into it.

Bali

I’m on my last few days here. The waves are preposterously huge due to an Indian Ocean swell. Some friends are visiting. The sky is bluer and the sun is shinier.

I’m going to the US, buying a delivery van, and building it out. It’s a lot of planning. I’m drawing out electrical grids for chrissakes. I’m more excited for the build than I am to live in it, I think.

But I ask myself - will I leave Bali forever? As much of a pull as this project is, there’s a push from here too: Big development is taking away the tranquility, a lot of my friends cycle through, I want to be a citizen where I live.

At the same time, life here just flows. Maybe I come back, maybe I don’t. But I definitely want this new project - it’s how I keep growing. I already mastered Bali and feel like the mayor of my small corner. Time to go be a beginner somewhere else.

Love,

Ryan