Jordan Walker Justin Mitchell (Yac): The $400k Tweet

pYac started as an agency side project. But after winning a big Product Hunt hackathon, investors started tweeting at them. In a few days, Justin and Jordan were now startup co-founders, and those tweets turned into a $400k seed round. Hear how Yac made Twitter their best channel for everything, and how you can create real community online./ppbr/ppstrongKey Takeaways:/strong/pp[2:10] How did Jordan and Justin go from a href=https://www.sofriendly.com/ rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankemSo Friendly/em/a to starting a href=https://www.yac.com/ rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankYac/a?/pp[3:18] Are Jordan and Justin in a tech hub?/pp[4:02] What was it like to build Yac?/pp[7:00] Justin talks about how Yac certainly got bigger than expected./pp[7:47] Justin and Jordan speak about the $400,000 tweet./pp[11:06] Justin and Jordan initially felt it was unreal to get funded for Yac./pp[12:33] Justin and Jordan started the trend of remote meetings prior to the pandemic./pp[12:53] Did the origin of Yac feel like a product-market fit?/pp[13:42] Justin and Jordan explain how Twitter played a big role in the second phase of developing Yac./pp[16:03] Jordan shares how they kept connecting through Twitter./pp[17:45] How did Jordan and Justin make Twitter work for them?/pp[21:28] Be genuine, be nice, and keep doing it./pp[22:26] Jordan talks about Emilio, a key member of Yac./pp[25:59] Real is what converts./pp[26:35] What does community mean for Jordan and Justin?/pp[30:52] When you have a hidden agenda, everybody knows./ppbr/ppstrongMentioned in this episode:/strong/ppa href=https://openviewpartners.com/newsletter/#.YfRAM-rMIuU rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankSign up for OpenViews weekly newsletter/a/ppa href=https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanlwalkerrr/ rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankJordan Walker, Co-Founder/a/ppa href=https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsthisjustin/ rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankJustin Mitchell, Co-Founder and CEO/a/ppa href=https://www.yac.com/ rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankYac/a/ppFollow a href=https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakebartlett rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankBlake Bartlett on Linkedin/a.nbsp;/ppPodcast produced by a href=https://openviewpartners.com/ rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankOpenView/a./ppView our a href=https://openviewpartners.com/blog rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankblog /afor more context/inspiration./ppa href=https://www.linkedin.com/company/openview-/ rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankOpenView on Linkedin/a/ppa href=https://twitter.com/openviewventure rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankOpenView on Twitter/a/ppa href=https://www.instagram.com/openviewventure/ rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankOpenView on Instagram/a/ppa href=https://www.facebook.com/OpenViewVenture/ rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankOpenView on Facebook/a/p