The Tiny Post snail mail subscription grew from $0 to $60K MRR in 7 months using only 6 organic TikTok videos and zero paid ad spend.

“She went from zero to 60k MRR in 7 months through like six TikTok videos. All organic, no paid ad spend.”

Successful app founders are validating demand with viral TikTok videos before writing a single line of code, inverting the conventional build-first-distribute-later playbook.

“They didn't actually build the app first. They created the viral video first.”

Zach Yadegari's business plateaued at roughly $2 million per month using influencer marketing alone, and scaled further only after adding performance ads on Instagram and TikTok.

“We got to about $2 million a month just from influencer marketing. The thing is after that we kind of plateaued a little bit. And what really got us over the hump, the next step was running ads, performance ads on Instagram and Tik Tok.”

ByteDance fair value estimated at $800B-$1T, versus a secondary market valuation of roughly $300B.

“Most people think the fair value of this is closer to a trillion dollars are certainly to 800 billion.”

Oracle is cited as a likely major new investor in the restructured TikTok US entity, which would be valued well below ByteDance's estimated fair value, making it a potential high-upside position.

“That Tik Tok US will be partly owned by bite dance, but I think they have to keep that owner ownership threshold under 20%.”

Using AI agents to identify micro-influencers averaging 1,000 views per post across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, then offering a $200 base fee plus a $500 bonus for posts that exceed 50k views, is presented as a scalable, low-cost viral marketing playbook.

“I would do is like I have multiple agents doing research on Tik Tok, Instagram, and YouTube trying to find accounts that have like an average of about a,000 views over the last 20 content as an example. And I would have my agents like reach out to a lot of them and suggest a base fee of something like 200 USD. and then if they break something like a 50k views on their content, talking about my product, I would offer a bonus of about 500.”

TikTok is testing an ad-free subscription tier priced at approximately $3 to $4 per month.

“I don't know if you saw this, but TikTok is testing a $4 a month product, $3 a month product, and I thought that was interesting, an ad-free product is something that I think gets them out of trouble with privacy issues.”

Jason Calacanis on TikTok's ad-free subscription as a privacy shield.

“I don't know if you saw this, but TikTok is testing a $4 a month product, $3 a month product, and I thought that was interesting, an ad-free product is something that I think gets them out of trouble with privacy issues.”