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I've read a bunch of articles about a "clever hack" the author used to get into an accelerator where they hyper-target a facebook ad to one or two influential people to convince them to accept their application. I imagine it's being done a lot now.

I wonder what percentage of the ads sama sees while browsing facebook linkedin or twitter are hyper-targeted specifically towards him.

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There are lots of accelerators out in the wild. Some of them are modelled on reality TV with prizes and judges and montization schemes based on something other than billions of dollars in capital appreciation for the portfolio companies.

In such accelerators, there is a lot of emphasis on SEO and pitch decks as the road to value rather than products. Sometimes this correlates with selling SEO expertise and pitch deck coaching as components of an accelerator's revenue stream. Despite these reducing runway. Facebook or pornhub campaigns might demonstrate suitability for that type of program.

On the other hand, press releases are not a viable minimum product for most companies.

Bothering Sam Altman As A Service?

On a related off-topic topic, does anyone know why AdWords doesn't allow super specific keywords? i.e. if keywords get under X hits then AdWords won't enable them even if there might be a few perfect people who will enter those keywords.

I read that article, too. But it was done with LinkedIn targeting and it didn't receive the recipient directly, but he got a lot of messages from friends. So in the end, they got the contact. Don't recall the URL, though. :(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9957083 ?

Hmm.. makes me think, there should be a way to delist yourself from getting targeted albeit paid one. Kind of paid version vs free version.

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