
Jordan Walker & Justin Mitchell (Yac): The $400k Tweet
BUILD with Blake Bartlett
How to Amp Up Your Twitter Game
Jordan rihtli is the co-founder and CEO of yaktor.com, a voice remote control company. He talks about how to amp up your Twitter game with friends you've met on line. The two are also looking for ways to make their brand more visible in real life.
Yac started as an agency side project. But after winning a big Product Hunt hackathon, investors started tweeting at them. In a few days, Justin and Jordan were now startup co-founders, and those tweets turned into a $400k seed round. Hear how Yac made Twitter their best channel for everything, and how you can create real community online.
Key Takeaways:
[2:10] How did Jordan and Justin go from So Friendly to starting Yac?
[3:18] Are Jordan and Justin in a tech hub?
[4:02] What was it like to build Yac?
[7:00] Justin talks about how Yac certainly got bigger than expected.
[7:47] Justin and Jordan speak about the $400,000 tweet.
[11:06] Justin and Jordan initially felt it was unreal to get funded for Yac.
[12:33] Justin and Jordan started the trend of remote meetings prior to the pandemic.
[12:53] Did the origin of Yac feel like a product-market fit?
[13:42] Justin and Jordan explain how Twitter played a big role in the second phase of developing Yac.
[16:03] Jordan shares how they kept connecting through Twitter.
[17:45] How did Jordan and Justin make Twitter work for them?
[21:28] Be genuine, be nice, and keep doing it.
[22:26] Jordan talks about Emilio, a key member of Yac.
[25:59] Real is what converts.
[26:35] What does community mean for Jordan and Justin?
[30:52] When you have a hidden agenda, everybody knows.
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