Founder Used Claude to Mine Old Emails, Tested 14 GTM Motions Before One Worked
julianweisser · x · 2026-10-22
On the Solo Founders podcast, jimmydouglas says building a venture-scale business toward $100M revenue requires constantly trying to disprove your own assumptions — a habit from his Tesla days. He had Claude dig through his old emails and board decks, which showed the team tested 14 different go-to-market motions; about 10 generated revenue but none grew fast enough, until they found the one that took off.
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