Tactic
One VA per two employees for ~30% more productivity
Justin Mares runs Kettle & Fire with one virtual assistant for every two team members, trained to take repetitive work off people's plates, which he credits for roughly 30% more productivity. He also pitches automation-as-a-service: someone who embeds in meetings and continuously automates processes.
“I think the average company— and we do this at my company— could just be 30% more productive. Like, we have basically one virtual assistant hire for every two people that we have that are on the team. And we give them like a training that's like, here's how to use virtual assistants, get all of the repetitive stuff off your plate.”
Steal thisHire one trained VA for every two employees and systematically offload repetitive tasks to lift team productivity ~30%.
Idea
A shared 'global blacklist' alliance for dating and social app safety
Bradford pitches an industry alliance where independent dating and messaging apps share a blacklist of bad actors and predators, so a banned user can't simply move from The League to Hinge, Bumble, or Coffee Meets Bagel. No current business model is incentivized to share that data.
“What we've wanted to always build is sort of this global blacklist, I guess you could think of it, where there's all these bad actors. And all of us are the non-Facebook and the non-Google people. We like don't have huge databases and machine learning teams and giant infrastructure to prevent like thieves from getting on the apps and stuff like that. And we're all literally solving the same problems.”
Steal thisBuild a shared trust-and-safety blacklist co-owned by competitors so banned bad actors can't just hop platforms.