Snapshot · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Galloway argues Tesla is a great car company that should trade at roughly 30 times earnings, approximately one-fifth of its actual valuation, not 150 times.
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Tesla is a great car company that should trade at 30 times earnings, not 150. When SpaceX IPOs, the 'Musk Riz' money currently parked in Tesla will migrate there, leaving Tesla priced as what it is: a premium auto company, not a tech conglomerate.
The real AI job threat isn't automation replacing workers — it's one AI-fluent person replacing five. A single analyst armed with AI agents can do the work previously requiring an entire team. This is the reshaping that matters.
Despite months of meticulous preparation, Starter Story's initial launch attracted zero users — a humbling reminder that building alone guarantees nothing.
A single Reddit link post quickly drove 100 visitors to the Starter Story website, igniting the founder's belief in social traffic.
After reformatting content as a native self-post (no direct link spam), the post exploded with hundreds of upvotes and thousands of readers.
By posting again and again with the native-content strategy, the founder's posts repeatedly hit Reddit's front page, reaching millions of readers.
Before Reddit banned his domain, the founder converted his viral traffic into an email list of tens of thousands — a self-owned audience independent of Reddit.
Redditors eventually organized a petition to ban starterstory.com posts, effectively ending the Reddit growth channel — but the email list was already built.
The Reddit attention strategy ultimately served as the foundation for a million-dollar business, proving that free distribution channels can replace paid marketing.
The key tactic was keeping content fully on-platform (no direct link spam), then adding a small link at the post's end for users who wanted more.
With a thriving email list and a self-owned audience, the founder quit his six-figure New York City salary job to go all-in on Starter Story.
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