Welcome to Growth: Recent Episodes
Dillon Carter, Johnathan Lyman
Dillon and Johnathan dive into the nuances of operating an e-commerce business and taking it to the next level, while still staying true to its goals and larger purpose. Sometimes they get off track and talk about whatever's neat. Presented by Vendrive.
Topics:
- Johnathan vents about how he's feeling this week
- VC money
- AMZ Weekly shutdown
- Building the Seller Journal newsletter
- Smart decisions
- Writing because it feels good
- Being a knowledge worker
Links:
- Givemeyourdangemail.com
- Freshly
- Metabolic Meals
- Huel
- Free Thermal Printer - Seller Journal
- Best Banks for E-commerce - Seller Journal
- Farnam Street
- Dilloncarter.com
- Johnathan.org
- Raspberry Pi article
- Forte Labs
- Know When to Hold 'Em - Kenny Rodgers
- Never half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing - Parks & Recreation
- Buy War Bonds
Topics:
- Hygge
- Project 333
- Used Luxury Goods Market
- Coffee
- A new wholesale platform?
- iPhones
Links:
- Flag and Anthem
- Animal House
- Ministry of Supply
Topics:
- Introducing Jack Tompkins & Pineapple Consulting
- What do I do with the data I have?
- Utilizing Excel
- Tableau vs Excel
- Getting Started with Tableau for the First Time
- Low-quality data create low-quality analysis
- Pro tips
Links:
- Tableau
- "Oaky Afterbirth" from The Office
- Pineapple Consulting
Topics:
- About Lee LeFever
- Common Craft: explainer videos
- What it means to be “Big Enough”
- Building a business that ‘you’ want
Links:
- Common Craft
- Google Docs in Plain English
- Lee’s book: Big Enough
Topics:
- Introducing Joe
- What is Quiet Light?
- The choice of business
- Mitigating risk
- Buy vs build
Links:
- Gawker Media Lawsuit
- Defector
- The Deadspin exodus story
- Buy Then Build
- Quiet Light Brokerage
- Quite Light Podcast
Topics:
- Social media advertising
- Affiliate marketing
- Advertisement optimization
- Adversarial customers
- Direct mail
Plus 11 minutes of bonus aftershow:
- AI
- Ham
- Coffee
- Pumpkin Spice Soap
- Fall
- Candles
- The candle in the email
Links:
- Vendrive Careers
- Book: Traction
Alternate Titles:
- Pulling a Gmail
- I’m a Fall Guy
- There are little treats inside
- Physical nuggets of related things
Topics:
- Reviewing Dillon’s first coffee order
- Managing lists of tasks and chunking time
- Selling to businesses
- Earworms
Links:
- Limitless (TV show, movie)
- MIT Open Courseware
- Subvocalization
- GTD: Getting Things Done
- “We’re here when you need us” commercial
Alternate Titles:
- Kind of Normal
- All I want in life is your approval
- Mechanically Engineering
- Consciously aware of my drinking
- I can use words
- Reviewing the coffee soft launch
- Keyboard Follow Up
- Zapier
Links:
- Keychron K1
- Apple Magic Keyboard
- RPAs
Titles:
- They are really round
- I am a mouser
- I’m hearing a lot of clicking
- I am a basic white girl
- Flavored watches
- Your inner white girl
- Dirty Greasy Cheeseburger
Topics:
- Shooting for the moon when your neighborhood will do
- Dillon’s post on reverse engineering goals (Airtable)
- Shopify 2 months in
- Smile
- Shopify API
- Liquid
- New tech
- iOS 14 NFC Tags
- Todoist
- Reclaim AI
- Wing App
- Retrobatch by Flying Meat
- Personal Air Cooler
- Keychron K1
Alternate Titles:
- Bodily Motions in Your Mouth
- Manage Multiple Hats
- Hashtag Business
- The Moment You Get Strangers, You’ve Won
- You Gotta Steal Some Stuff
- Big, Massive, Sexy Goals
- Beep Boop
- I’m Addicted to the Aisles
- A Human’s Hour
- The Human’s Human
Topics:
- Introducing Chris and his team
- Micro Funds/SBA Loans
- Deal Structures
Links:
- McKinzie: Jumping forward 10 years in 90 days
- 76ers’ motto
- Geico Photo Wall
- Global Wired Advisers
Topics:
- Introducing Steven
- Biggest areas of struggle for Amazon sellers
- Amazon as an advertising/acquisition channel
Links:
- Blizzard news clip
- My Amazon Guy
- The Anti-Amazon Stratechery article
- Steven’s YouTube Channel
Alternate Titles:
- Water Homies
- I thought this was a creamer podcast
- Welcome to Creamer with Half and Häf
- I am bright
- Creamer Talk
- A very liquid conversation
- Mistakes were made
Pre-show:
- The weather in Australia, Boston, and Seattle
Main show:
- Andrew’s backstory
- Applying logistics and process to an existing business
- Forecasting & Inventory Planning
- Loss aversion
- Selling more with less stock
- safety stock
Links:
- Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Logisticshelp.com
- YouTube
- Your Processes S.U.C.K.
- 12 Principles of High-Performance Warehousing
- Satisfactory
- I, Robot
- How long you should spend automating a task
- Treadmill Desks
- In-home auto car wash
- Libertarian paternalism
- Nudge
- Denmark’s digital government
- Getmagic.com
- Wing
- The Power of Defaults
- Exponential Wisdom
- Google Auto-reservation demo
- Hierarchy of Needs
- Door-to-door fuel delivery
- Filld
- Booster
- Cynch
- WeFuel
- Ultraworking.com
- KitKat v. Greenpeace
- Black Mirror
- The Entire History of You
- San Junipero
- Striking Vipers
- Ready Player One
- Ready Player Two
- Dune
- Chia at brand24.com
- Brand24
- Course on Media Management
- Skillshare
- Udemy
- Brand24 Blog
- Meetup group
- Facebook group
- Virtual Freedom by Chris Ducker
- Hug Your Haters by Jay Baer
- Carlos on Instagram, Telegram
- Airtable
- American Express Cards
- Business Cash
- Platinum
- Plum
- Chase Credit Cards
- Freedom Unlimited
- Sapphire Preferred
- Sapphire Reserve
Alternate Titles:
- It’s Garbage Day
- Just the One Time
- The First One’s Free
- Churnin’ and Burnin’
- Broke-Ass Airline
- ¿Por qué no los dos?
Pre-Show
- Sean Parker & Napster
- Captain Crunch
- World of Warcraft
Main Show
- Dillon’s planning system
- Probability Stacking
- The Circle of Competence
- The Feynman Technique
- Ramit Sethi
- 15-Minute Crash Course on Keepa
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect
Rejected Titles
- Business Shaman
- We Lost All of the Gurus
(Also featured: A simpler intro!)
- Storage Wars
- TwinSpires
- TensorFlow
- Creating an AI to bet on tennis matches
Rejected titles:
- Effectively Lazy
- I Can Feel That Tingle
- Bookie on My iPhone
- Eclectic Set of Money-Making Extracurricular Activities
- This Guy Bets
- Your Multi-Threading Capabilities Are Astounding
- How do I Flip a Refrigerator?
- Knowledge-y Learning Things
Pre-show
- Westworld
Main show
- Algorithms to Live By
- Todoist
- How to Successfully Use Defaults to Streamline Your Life
- Noah Kagan’s Instagram Post
- 7 Moats of Defensibility
- 1,000 True Fans
- Traction
- The 16 Models (and which is right for you)
- 9 Mountains of Traffic
- The E-commerce Leader podcast
- Shopify: Reunite
- Stratechery: Anti-Amazon Alliance
- Shopify Shop app
- Superhuman
- and their tracking shenanigans
- Gmail’s 100ms rule
- Mythbusters on right turns
- XKCD #927: Standards
- Dominos: 30-minutes or it’s free.
- The BARF Method
- Buy-In
- Appreciation
- Relationships
- Family
- Cracking the VA Code
- The SICC Method
- Scheduling
- Issues
- Communication
- Culture
- Time Doctor
- The Lead Generation Formula
- FreeUp
- OutsourceSchool
- Find Nathan on:
- Intercom
- Metrics
- KPIs
- OKRs
- LTV/ACV
- The Apple Magic Keyboard
- Kinesis Freestyle2
- The Human Solution
After Show
- Logitech K860
- AMZWeekly
- Monkeylearn.com
- Bubble.io
- Sendfox
- Process.st
- The Replaceable Founder
- Building an Efficient Wholesale Workflow
- Michael Gerber’s The E-Myth Revisited
- Sam Carpenter’s Work the System
- Mike Michalowicz’s Clockwork
- Mike on Wholesale Made Easy
- Dr. Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto
- Hal Elrod’s The Miracle Morning
- Spark email client
- Adapt podcast
- Federico Viticci on MacStories
- Automators Podcast
- Keyboard Maestro
- Cap tables
- 1987 stock market crash
- Accrue Me
- the calculator
- The 7-figure Blueprint (Vendrive)
- Hedonic Adaptation
- Guitar Center locations
- Ebook price-fixing lawsuit
- Whispernet
- James Bond Globetrotter Suitcase
- Mr. Porter
- Floris
- Porter’s 5 Forces
- Kiva Systems
- The Wholesale Made Easy Podcast
- Dillon’s Facebook Group
- Vendrive
- Aura
- Define: M&A
- Script Kiddies
- Coding resources:
- Python
- Zapier
- Apple Macbook Pro
- Keyboard Maestro
- Text Expander
- Hazel
- The OAO Framework
- ScanUnlimited
- AirTable
- Slack
- Stack Exchange
- Quants
- Clockmaking
- Explore/Exploit
- Gary Vee on Eating Shit
- Wing
- The Jetsons
- Foldimate
- Levels of Autonomy
- Comma.ai