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Motion (Creative Analytics), Recharm, Foreplay.co, Billo, Air are dead. In just weeks, we’ve cloned their products & are giving it away free to get you AI-generated ads (that’ll actually win): Ad making is painful: * Brainstorming 100 unique, 40-second scripts is painful. * Manually matching 20 clips (from your 10,000-video library) to each shot in your 100 unique scripts is even more painful. * Creating 10 permutations of each of the 100 ads (for A/B testing) is maximum pain. * This writing is getting very long, but imagine voiceovers, captions, music, & manually uploading all 1,000 ads to Meta & TikTok on top of this. Icon (icon.me) solves this pain: * All you have to do is swipe right or left on AI-generated ads. * We handle scriptwriting, script-to-shot matching (using existing videos from Google Drive + AI-generated videos), permutations, voiceovers, captions, music, & more. * Swiping right will also automatically create ready-to-launch adsets across all channels (Meta, TikTok). The soon-to-die companies we're replacing have been baked synergistically into Icon to make you AI-generated ads with the highest chance of winning. Our pricing is $99/mo (less than their combined cost of $10K-$25K/month) and $10 per right-swiped ad (this is where we make our money - if our ads are trash, swipe left and we make nothing). Like this post & comment "make" and we’ll make you 1 AI-generated ad for your brand. Also feel free to get started at icon.me. P.S. We’re doing $30K referrals for founding engineers (if you make the intro)!

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Icon (icon.me/careers, AI Ads)?is looking for students who want to drop out. Of our team, 4 of us are dropouts (icon.me/team). We're also funded by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund & execs of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Cognition, & Pika (icon.me/investors). We find dropping out to be a strong signal for being an A player (self-belief, willingness to deviate from norms, etc). Apply here if this sounds like you: icon.me/careers Alternatively, if this sounds like someone you know and you make the intro, we'll pay a $30K referral.

[$30K referral] Icon (icon.me/careers, AI Ads, NYC) is looking for Founding Engineers (full-stack, 0-1 product). We're 8 weeks in, did $55K in month 1, have a team of 9 (icon.me/team, 4 dropouts, 2 ex-CTOs, 3 ex-CEOs), and are funded by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund & execs of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Cognition, & Pika. We hire A players only and accordingly go above market/are generous with equity. We can also acquire startups (if you're thinking of winding down and this would be helpful). Apply here (if this sounds like you): icon.me/careers If this sounds like someone you know and you make the intro/we hire, we'll give you a $30K referral.

Announcing Admaker: get ready-to-run ads with AI (uses AI for hook A/B testing, B-roll video layering, captions, & voiceovers). Problem: it’s tedious finding new trends/winning ads on the internet, adapting it your brand, layering the best videos on top (from your library of 10k videos), & producing it. Solution: * Swipe right or left on ready-to-run ads generated by AI (based off winning ads we automatically find for you) * Use AI to create 20 variations (different hook or human) of the ready-to-run ad you just swiped on for easy A/B testing Go to icon.me to create winning AI Ads with Admaker today! P.S. We're also looking for founding engineers ($30K referral bonus). We're 7 weeks in, did $55K in month 1, have a team of 9 (icon.me/team, 4 dropouts, 2 ex-CTOs, 3 ex-CEOs), and are funded by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund & execs of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Cognition, & Pika. We hire A players only and accordingly go above market/are generous with equity. If this sounds like someone you know, please DM me.

Excited to introduce Icon: we help brands create winning AI ads with real creators. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin). The future of marketing is in authentic relationships between brands, creators, and their audiences. As people get tired of overproduced ads, they seek authenticity. Brand-creator partnerships offer a win-win for everyone: brands are able to run authentic ads, creators can make a living, and their audience gets trusted recommendations. But brand-creator partnerships are painful to pull off. Two main issues often come up: mismatched audiences and bottlenecked content creation. Firstly, creator audiences don't always match a brand's target customers, limiting ad performance. Secondly, the process of filming and refining content can be mind-numbing, with endless reshoots making fast iteration nearly impossible. Icon is solving this for the first time: partner with the right creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’ve already partnered with brands like BUBS Naturals, Backbone, Mila, Immi, Obvi, & Dog Is Human. Our mission is to help anyone go viral with perfect storytelling and this is just the beginning. Try Icon today by signing up and generating your first AI ad. In addition to investors at the top, we’re also backed by Eric Wei & Will Kim (Karat), Alex Botez (Chess), Kevin Hartz (A*, Eventbrite), Max Altman, Ben Braverman, Thomson Nguyen (Saga), Ron Shah & Ash Melvani (Obvi), Roman Khan, Nick Shackelford, Steph Liu (Levitate), Jimmy Kim (Sendlane), Reilly Opelka (Tennis), Jess Cervellon (Open Late Collective), Kevin Lee (Immi), Justin Mares (Kettle & Fire), Sara Du (Alloy), David Senra (Founders Podcast), & Jason Wong as well as founders of Eight Sleep, Yotpo, Siena AI, Replo, Novel, Parker, Platter, & Aftersell.

Announcing Admaker: get ready-to-run ads with AI (uses AI for hook A/B testing, B-roll video layering, captions, & voiceovers). Problem: it’s tedious finding new trends/winning ads on the internet, adapting it your brand, layering the best videos on top (from your library of 10k videos), & producing it. Solution: * Swipe right or left on ready-to-run ads generated by AI (based off winning ads we automatically find for you) * Use AI to create 20 variations (different hook or human) of the ready-to-run ad you just swiped on for easy A/B testing Go to icon.me to create winning AI Ads with Admaker today! P.S. We're also looking for founding engineers ($30K referral bonus). We're 7 weeks in, did $55K in month 1, have a team of 9 (icon.me/team, 4 dropouts, 2 ex-CTOs, 3 ex-CEOs), and are funded by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund & execs of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Cognition, & Pika. We hire A players only and accordingly go above market/are generous with equity. If this sounds like someone you know, please DM me.

Excited to announce Creative Library: use AI to automatically classify & organize videos, turn text to video (B-roll/A-roll), split full ads into video clips (to use as building blocks), & more. One way to think of Creative Library is that it’s like Google Drive or Dropbox but with auto-classification/organization of clips using AI (the AI looks at the video and decides which labels to assign to it). Creative Library is a brand’s building blocks for Admaker. More on Admaker in the next post (see screenshot to see our full suite of tools). DM me to start using Creative Library today (and creating winning influencer ads)! P.S. We’re also looking for great founding engineers/a founding creative strategist so also DM me if this is you or someone you know ($30,000 referral).

Excited to announce a new Icon teammate (Engineer 4): * Caleb Tan (Pallet, Imprint, Docusign, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign dropout) DM me if you’re interested in making winning ads with AI! P.S. We’re also looking for great founding engineers/a founding creative strategist so also DM me if this is you or someone you know ($30,000 referral).