XOutlier
Download .zipAdd to Chrome

Jesse Pujji

@jspujji182k followers

Tweets about building profitable, ambitious companies. Exited @ampush. Now CEO of @GatewayX, the only founder fellowship for seedstrapped, AI founders.

Open on X
Top outlier
69.7×
Best organic post
Peak views
5.6M
Single post
Bookmarks
131k
Across 90 organic posts
Last scan
Oct 16
Community cache
Posts 90 posts
#DatePost↓ OutlierViewsLikesRepostsBookmarks
1Feb 18, '24Man, these Zuck memes today have me dying laughing. It turns out there are a lot of things money can’t buy. Here are my favorite memes:69.7×5.6M11k7343k
2Nov 19, '22In only 2 weeks, @elonmusk has managed to: + cut costs 75% + ensure his team is fully aligned/bought in to his way of working + leverage the media to get billions of free impressio29.1×041k3k544
3Aug 17, '25Request for @nikitabier. I see it on all social platforms. I load the app, see something I want to read. Then the feed reloads and I lose it… can we fix this?26.7×2.1M5.9k78402
4Jul 15, '22Facebook & Instagram are NOT listening to your conversations. What they are doing is MUCH more effective! Here’s how it works👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽22.3×016k4k7.3k
5Jul 17, '24There's a $1.5B startup that: • Raised $0 funding • Grew from a $3K investment into $500M+ in annual sales in 4.5 years • Operates with ONLY ~60 employees You probably have their p20.3×1.6M2.6k1993.8k
6Jul 10, '24This man runs a $6B startup from a remote village in India. It: • raised $0 funding • has 100M+ users • generates $1B+ in ARR Here’s the bootstrapped story you’ve never heard of:19.4×1.5M5.8k7413.1k
7Sep 15, '21Starting a business can be painful. You feel lost 97% of the time - the ups and downs are gut-wrenching. I wish I had a cheat sheet of principles for my first startup. So I wrote o15×09.2k2.3k6k
8Dec 25, '21Facebook is NOT listening to your conversations. What they are doing is MUCH more effective! Here’s how it works👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽13.7×09.8k2.4k4.3k
9Jan 1, '24Being an entrepreneur for the first time is painful. You feel lost 98% of the time - the ups and downs are gut-wrenching. I wish I had a cheat sheet for when I started my first com13.6×1.1M2.7k3796k
10Jan 11, '24My tax bill just went up 200% WTF! Why are we not hearing more outrage about IRS Section 174? Companies are required to capitalize ALL R&D expenses and NOT count them as a taxable 13.5×1.1M1.6k190679
12Dec 5, '23He’s a former Navy SEAL who accidentally turned a $39 jiujitsu belt into $100M+ business. What’s even crazier? The idea came to him while on a top-secret mission in Southeast Asia.11.9×950k1.7k1881.2k
15Apr 22, '22I asked 30 Shopify store owners making $2,000,000+ "What’s one Shopify App you can't live without?" Here are the 10 apps every Shopify store must know 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽10.6×05.9k8135.5k
16Jan 24, '23I just sold my company for life changing $$$. 13 years later, I'm an overnight success. Here are 13 lessons from the journey, by year:10.3×819k1.1k75704
17Jul 25, '24I hired a guy who took his last company's sales from $1M to $17M. His secret weapon? ZoomInfo. Bet you didn't know ZoomInfo can do all this 👇9.9×791k1.2k733.8k
19Mar 2, '23I've landed > $100,000,000 in business because of what I'm about to share. It's the forgotten, ugly stepchild of sales. The most botched part of the process. Yet, A+ entrepreneu9.7×775k1.8k1713.7k
20Mar 18, '22He just bought the most expensive home in LA for > $100 MILLION. But he's a self made, bootstrapped entrepreneur. Here's his story 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽8.6×07.2k1.2k2.5k
22Jul 21, '22Two mediocre students did everything wrong while taking $10,000 in credit card debt and turning it into a $67 BILLION company. The crazy part? They were profitable from day 1. This8.5×06.7k1.3k2.7k
23Aug 1, '247 publicity stunts that went HORRIBLY wrong: #1 - Steal My Identity!8.1×646k96035463
24Dec 15, '21Being an entrepreneur for the first time is painful. You feel lost 98% of the time - the ups and downs are gut-wrenching. I wish I had a cheat sheet for when I started my first com7.9×04.9k9123.5k
25Oct 27, '21Leadership is hard. One of the hardest parts is delegation. How much guidance do you give? When do you do it yourself? When/How to track others to-dos? As a young leader, I wish I 7.7×04.7k1k3.3k
26Sep 24, '23I’ve always wondered how CEO’s run billion dollar companies and thought "could I do that?" Then I learned from a friend at Salesforce how Marc Benioff does it with his executive te7.5×600k1.7k1832.5k
28Jul 23, '21Two mediocre students did everything wrong while taking $10,000 in credit card debt and turning it into a $67 BILLION company. The crazy part? They were profitable from day 1. This7.4×05.7k1.7k1.7k
29Apr 13, '22Everyone has ONLY one problem. And it's the SAME problem. It's called: The Upper Limit Problem. Here is everything you need to understand and solve it 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽6.8×04.1k7963.1k
30Jun 3, '22Leadership is hard. One of the hardest parts is delegation. How much guidance do you give? When do you do it yourself? When/How to track others to-dos? As a young leader, I wish I 6.7×04k7553.1k
31Dec 1, '21Twitter is the greatest university in the world. The best part is real time access to a diverse set of experts Here are my favorite 23 accounts to follow. They delight, inspire, an6.7×04.1k6853.1k
32Jul 28, '22My mentor is a founder who you have never heard of. But he: • Built a $10B company • Acquired 12 MEGA brands • Gets home daily by 6pm • Built one of the most amazing cultures I've 5.9×03.5k5902.8k
33Dec 11, '23I’ve always wondered how CEO’s run billion dollar companies and thought "could I do that?" Then I learned from a friend at Salesforce how Marc Benioff does it with his executive te5.8×460k1.5k1962.2k
34May 25, '21100 days ago, I co-founded a business. Totally bootstrapped. Today, it’s doing $50K in MRR growing 50% per month. Here’s the story...5.7×04.5k3732.3k
35Mar 4, '22Two Teenagers pitch 100+ VCs with no success. Instead, they bootstrapped their startup to millions in profits until VCs came calling. The crazy part? Today the company is worth ove5.4×04.5k9281.5k
36Mar 13, '22Want to DOUBLE your productivity this week? Try my SHORT Sunday ritual:5.2×03.3k4572.4k
37May 5, '24I consistently close sales in 30-minute Zoom meetings Steal my format: 2 Min: Small talk ↳ "Where are you today?" etc 2 Min: Magic question ↳ "What led you to take this meeting?" I5.2×413k1.4k1214.5k
38Jul 3, '21Is Facebook listening to your conversations? No, they are not. They are doing something MUCH more effective! Here’s how it works👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽4.8×03.6k1k1.2k
39Dec 8, '21I attribute a lot of my success to being really really good at email. Here's my playbook for how you can handle 50K+ emails/year without breaking a sweat 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽4.7×02.5k3482.5k
40Oct 1, '23I was supposed to go camping with my 8 yo son today. But it didn’t happen. It’s something we’ve done a couple times a year since he was 4. I usually look forward to it as our speci4.3×343k98929161
41Aug 20, '21Two Teenagers pitch 100+ VCs with no success. Instead, they bootstrapped the startup to millions in profits until the VCs came calling. The crazy part? Today the company is worth o4.3×03.5k7861k
42Sep 17, '21A 39 year old former farm boy turns $250,000 into a $13 BILLION company The result? He's the second richest Black man in the US Here's the unbelievable story of the largest tech co4.2×03.5k7461.1k
43Mar 7, '24The most impactful quote on God I’ve ever read: (Also apparently Einstein and Spinoza were Sikh!?) When Einstein gave lectures at U.S. universities, the question students asked him4.2×332k1.3k2282.1k
44Mar 23, '22Last week, I asked my followers for the best advice they’d ever received. I got 166 replies. Today, I picked out my 15 favorites 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽4.1×02.9k5501.6k
45Oct 29, '21At 27, she took her $5,000 life savings, a good idea and tons of hustle to build a BILLION dollar business. The Crazy Part? She had almost no prior experience in business. This sto3.8×03.2k6631k
46Feb 18, '22Startups are hard! One of the hardest parts is managing your team. How much guidance do you give? Do you do it yourself? When to track others to-dos? Starting out, I wish I had a c3.5×02.1k4361.6k
47Jul 30, '21A turkish immigrant used a commodity product to turn a $800,000 SBA loan into $10 BILLION. This is an incredible story 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽3.4×02.9k697714
48Jan 7, '22Two mediocre students did everything wrong while taking $10,000 in credit card debt and turning it into a $67 BILLION company. The crazy part? They were profitable from day 1. This3.3×02.8k495952
49Aug 11, '22I asked a mastermind of Shopify store owners making $2,000,000+ "What’s one tool or service you can't live without?" Here are the 9 every store must know 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽3.2×01.5k2221.8k
50Jul 15, '21In less than 6 years, this Nigerian Immigrant bootstrapped a software biz from 0 to $3 BILLION The crazy part? He has no idea how to code. He was a sales guy. Time for another Boot3.1×02.3k641801
51Dec 22, '212021 has been the best year of my life... So here are 21 things I learned, that you can use, to make 22 yours👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽3.0×01.9k3491.3k
52Jun 29, '21A 50 year old immigrant monk bootstrapped a biz from nothing to over $1 BILLION in sales with 30%+ profit margins. It took only 8 years. The crazy part? It doesn't even have 200 em3.0×02.6k544723
53Aug 27, '22Wow, everyone Twitter is a REAL community and my heart is so full right now 1 mo ago, we boarded an early morning flight from Milan to Frankfurt. My daughter left her backpack on t2.9×03.4k427201
54Dec 30, '21The founder I most look up to is someone who: • Built a $10 billion company • Acquired 12 MEGA brands • Gets home daily by 6pm Here’s 12 timeless lessons from one of the greatest e2.9×01.9k3021.3k
55Feb 16, '24Allow me to RE introduce myself. I’m Jesse. I was born and raised in St. Louis, MO USA. My parents were immigrants from india. My dad is an entrepreneur and my mom is a teacher. I 2.9×228k69032306
56Dec 10, '21She broke every rule and turned $70K into a $30 BILLION company One my favorite Bootstrapped GIANTS of all time 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽2.8×02.3k405819
57Feb 10, '221 Year Ago Today, I co-founded a business. Totally bootstrapped. Today, it’s doing >$3 MILLION in ARR growing 20% per month. Here’s the story...2.7×02.2k2181.1k
58Jan 18, '22Recruiting is sales. Fundraising is sales. Marketing is sales at scale. Sales is the #1 skill for any startup, VC or bootstrapped.2.7×03.1k519201
59Oct 22, '21Two college friends turned a $10 domain name into 25 BILLION dollars. Completely bootstrapped. From $0 to $400 million revenue in 9 years. And now, going toe-to-toe with Amazon. He2.7×02.2k392772
60Sep 14, '22One question I get a lot: Is Zuckerberg a “visionary” or did he just get lucky? The answer is visionary. How do I know? I tried to compete with this guy. And in 2005, we spoke for 2.6×02.3k219843
61Aug 11, '21Two sales guys used cold calling and data to turn their credit card debt into a $23+ BILLION public company. The best part? I interviewed one of them! This is the wild story 👇🏾👇2.6×02.1k320861
62Sep 5, '21A 17 year old high school dropout turned a $10K loan from his mom into a $1B+ company. The crazy part? They’ve never bought an ad. This is the crazy story 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽2.6×02.1k387726
63Sep 8, '21Entrepreneurship and startups are more about action than intelligence.2.5×02.9k552132
64May 4, '21She turned $70K into a company worth over $30 BILLION and broke every rule along the way. Thread time about one my favorite bootstrapped GIANTS 👇👇👇2.5×01.8k402847
65Mar 26, '22Leadership is hard. 98% of the time you feel lost. You are guiding others but barely know how to guide yourself. How do you motivate your team? When do cheer vs correct? When I was2.4×01.8k279952
66Apr 26, '221 Year Ago, I started actively using Twitter. Since then I've: • Launched a venture studio • Founded 3.5 startups • Launched a podcast • Grew from 2k->135k followers Here's what2.4×01.6k1501.1k
67Sep 24, '21A 27 year old dyslexic ADHD deadbeat turns $10k into $600,000,000 Here’s the incredible story of how he went from his parents basement to building a massive CPG startup in less tha2.4×02.1k310705
68Nov 5, '21Bootstrapped entrepreneurs always have the last laugh. A son of Iranian immigrants turned a single LA retail store into a $1,000,000,000+ ecommerce giant. All with $0.00 in funding2.3×01.9k353713
69Sep 10, '21A project manager and a failed DJ use their severance packages to bootstrap a web design agency. It fails. The crazy part? Their side hustle turns into a ubiquitous $10 Billion Saa2.3×01.8k399644
70Jun 19, '21Over the years, I get 1 consistent Q when it comes to Zuckerberg. Is he a “visionary” or did he just get lucky? The answer is visionary. How do I know? Bc in 2005, we spoke for an 2.2×02k251627
71Nov 16, '22I never understood why business/first class board first. A decade ago, I lived briefly in the Middle East. They waited until the whole flight was boarded before having biz board. L2.1×03k5358
72Dec 24, '21A 40 year old animator-turned-teacher almost lost it all while bootstrapping a $35 website into a $1.5 BILLION startup. This is HER amazing story 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽2.0×01.7k300551
73Sep 22, '22For years, I looked for a great SaaS startup idea 11 mos ago, I found it! And started it with an amazing team I think it will transform commerce During our private beta, customers 1.7×01.1k110779
74Jun 23, '21The most consistent and counterintuitive reminder I give entrepreneurs: Amazon only sold books for its first 3-4 years. Facebook was only in colleges for its first 2 years. Apples 1.7×01.8k332228
75Aug 27, '21A dyslexic, ADHD, burnt out programmer moves across the world for love. After losing his job, he bootstraps a biz to $5M ARR. The crazy part? Today the company is worth over $184 B1.7×01.5k208489
76Jun 22, '2218 months ago, I co-founded a business. Totally bootstrapped. Today, it’s doing $400K+ in MRR growing 20% per month. Here’s the story...1.7×01.2k110760
77Oct 1, '21A villager from rural India turns a rough draft of a networking app into a $5+ BILLION SaaS Giant Here’s the true story of how he’s bootstrapping a 100 year startup and giving it a1.7×01.4k313388
78Jan 24, '22Being CEO of a startup is a terrible job: • First in, last out - Every Day • Bad pay • Parents always asking when you'll get a real job I do not recommend it1.7×02k25778
79Feb 2, '224 months ago, I founded my first SaaS company. Ecomm stores using it during the alpha saw a 48% lift in conversion rate. I think it will transform commerce. Here's the story (and h1.6×01k134660
80Nov 12, '21At only 27, this son of Taiwanese immigrants went from being fired on Xmas day to bootstrapping a BILLION dollar company. The best part? He built the whole thing by solving his fam1.6×01.3k278430
81Dec 31, '2111 Predictions for 2022 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽1.5×01.2k226476
82Aug 13, '21In 2010, I was 25 and bootstrapping my first startup. A random phone call turned into $150,000 of capital with NO dilution This is the story of one of my greatest hustles👇🏾👇🏾👇1.5×01.2k137544
83Jan 3, '22A regular reminder I give entrepreneurs (and myself): - Amazon only sold books for its first 3-4 years - Facebook was only in colleges for its first 2 years - Apples reboot had onl1.4×01.6k258175
84Mar 21, '22Recruiting is sales. Fundraising is sales. Marketing is sales at scale. Sales is the #1 skill for any startup, VC or bootstrapped.1.4×01.7k24677
85Jan 28, '22A gang member turned door to door encyclopedia salesman gets fired from corporate life. He goes on to launch 2 world renowned brands. The best part? He started the first one with $1.4×01.2k218339
86Feb 21, '22Can anyone explain to me why fundraising gets more press than bootstrapping?1.3×01.4k12959
88Mar 25, '22Being a startup CEO is a terrible job: • First in, last out - Every Day • Bad pay • Parents always asking when you'll get a real job I do not recommend it1.3×01.6k15490
90Apr 19, '22Recruiting is sales. Fundraising is sales. Marketing is sales at scale. Sales is the #1 skill for any startup, VC or bootstrapped.1.2×01.4k217122
91Dec 17, '21At 19, this mediocre student and pizza delivery boy dropped out and launched 6 exercise-related apps. All of them failed. The crazy part? On the 7th try, he bootstrapped a $1,000,01.2×01.1k140327
92Dec 27, '21A 50 year old immigrant monk bootstrapped to over $1 BILLION in sales with 30%+ profit margins in just 8 years! The crazy part? It started as a retirement side project. Buckle up f1.1×0976184314
93Jan 23, '22I don't want to retire (ever) But I do want the freedom to do anything I'd like1.1×01.4k13652
94Nov 19, '21At 31, this Korean-American immigrant bootstrapped a business from 1 client to over 6 BILLION DOLLARS in revenue. The amazing part? Her business is now the largest WOMAN owned busi1.1×0929175288
95Jan 30, '22Luck is the most overlooked factor in success1.0×01.3k14035
96Sep 10, '21You can be the 9001st competitor in a market and still become a 20x+ millionaire. Few understand this.1.0×01.2k110123
97Sep 21, '21Starting and running a company for 1 year teaches you more than most MBAs0.9×01.3k12327
98Sep 18, '21It always astounds me how many barely competent people get paid amazing amounts because they aren’t afraid of asking for it.0.8×01.2k8464

Scan another creator

@
@karpathy@levelsio@paulg@naval@marclou@illyism

Run this on any account.

XOutlier builds this table for every public profile you open on x.com, with live data and every post, not just the top 50.

Add to Chrome Download .zip