Podbit · Pivot
Creators have displaced ad-agency executives as the true power brokers at Cannes Lions. With 500 creators attending in 2026 — up from 400 the year before — the festival that was built to celebrate the ad industry now belongs to the people the industry used to ignore.
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Recording in front of a live audience at the Adweek House at Cannes Lions, Kara and Scott open with their usual combative warmth. Scott declares he has barely left his hotel, nostalgically recalls meetings with Martin Sorrell, and observes that MrBeast has replaced the agency titan as the festival's celebrity. A drone show spotted over the coast inspires a characteristically irreverent detour, before Kara redirects to substantive Cannes takeaways. The live audience is visibly entertained throughout the preamble.
PropGPT launched with 20 downloads a day and strong influencer marketing but hit a ceiling at $1,000–$2,000 MRR. High download numbers masked a critical flaw: almost nobody stuck around after the free trial ended.
Eyal and Yali made a bold bet: stop all marketing, go back into the cave, and rebuild PropGPT from scratch. Four months of pure engineering and design work with zero revenue growth — and it paid off massively.
After rebuilding, PropGPT relaunched at $1,700 MRR. Within 2.5 months, it peaked at $40K MRR and 2,000 downloads in a single day. The product hadn't changed its audience — it had changed how well it served them.
Users didn't want a sports betting analytics tool — they wanted to be told the answer. Eyal realized their app was making users do the work when they just wanted the result, and that single insight drove the entire rebuild.
Step 1: know exactly who you're building for. Step 2: worship your data. Step 3: obsess over in-app analytics to find drop-off points. Step 4: scale with influencer marketing only after the product converts. In that order.
A 45% download-to-trial rate sounds great — until you see 13% trial-to-paid. That gap isn't a marketing problem. It's a product problem. Eyal breaks down how to read these signals before they kill your business.
Their 70th influencer video hit 600,000 views and single-handedly pushed PropGPT's ARR from $8,000 to $38,000 in three days. Influencer marketing has a lottery-like upside — but only if the product can hold the users it acquires.
Most founders struggle with distribution. Eyal and Yali had it nailed from day one — and still failed. Their story proves the rarer, less-discussed truth: a great go-to-market strategy is worthless if the product can't retain users.
Get a co-founder who has your back. Be scientifically honest about whether your idea has real demand. Once you convince yourself, it becomes an order of magnitude easier to convince investors and team members to join you.
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