Trung Phan - Twitter Legend, Content Creator and Startup Founder (EP.238)
I’m excited to have creator Trung Phan on the show today. He’s mastered Twitter, even getting Elon Musk to talk to him, and that’s impressive. Trung’s one of the funniest and interesting feeds I follow on Twitter – covering business, the media, and tech. I wanted to find out how it feels to be in the center of a hurricane of memes and pick his brain on what he’s thinking about media moving forward. It’s always fun talking to someone at the top of their game, so I also wanted to find out about his new AI startup, Bearly AI. I've managed to pull a few tips from him on the magical mystery of going viral, and a few twitter feed tips everyone should find useful. Enjoy! Guest - Trung Phan, Co-Founder of Bearly.AI, Co-Host of the Not Investment Advice, Opinion Columnist at Bloomberg howardlindzon.com, www.bearly.ai, trungtphan.com, trungphan.substack.com Twitter: @howardlindzon, @TrungTPhan, @NIApodcast, @PanicwFriends, @knutjensen linkedin.com/in/tp23 #fintech #invest #investment #venturecapital #stockmarket #finance Show Notes: Introduction (00:34) Welcome Trung (02:35) Trung’s early life (04:17) First time going ‘viral’ (06:24) Studying at McGill (09:19) Going viral on Twitter (11:04) Is going viral worth it? (13:21) Gas founder Nikita Bier (13:37) 1 degree from Elon Musk (13:56) Putting in the hours (16:40) Attention is a scarce resource (17:36) 10X your tweets (19:39) Hashtag advice (21:47) Twitter is the top one percent (24:11) Managing a massive following (26:12) Why Elon bought Twitter (28:28) Improving Twitter (30:31) Letting Trump back on Twitter (34:45) Interacting with Elon (36:03) Media ‘barbell’ strategy (37:24) Who Trung follows (38:56) Trung’s AI startup (40:13) The first billionaire solo creator (40:25) Build the audience first (43:52) Bearly AI overview (47:32) Wrapping up (50:23) Closing thoughts (52:48)