Your parents put you down and never picked you back up.

Hello friend,

Here's what I'm thinking about this month…

We just released Tiny's Q3 earnings:

• $46M revenue
• $7.3M Adjusted EBITDA
• $4.9M of debt paid off, a 14% YTD reduction.
• $9.8M recurring revenue

Wins:

🎬 Letterboxd: Hit 15M registered users (+62% since acquisition, just over a year ago)

📄 Clean Canvas: Revenue up 32% since acquisition

☕️ AeroPress: Launched AeroPress Premium, an all metal and glass version of our iconic coffee maker

💰 $4M+ annual savings from cost rationalization, with full impact expected in Q4 2024 & 2025.

I'm thrilled about everything we're building right now. Jordan, Mike, Austin, and the rest of the team are absolutely crushing it. If you have a business you'd like to sell us, or know someone who does, email austin@tiny.com and tell him I sent you.

I had a really fun time on my friend Greg Eisenberg's podcast last month.

His format is simple: I brought 3-4 startup ideas that had crossed my mind recently and we dug into each. I hope you steal one for yourself. Listen here

I've been rediscovering Blue, my favorite Joni Mitchell album. Every few years, I get obsessed with it. I can't underscore enough how mind bogglingly beautiful it is. Listen to the lyrics: A Case of You (YouTube)

There was a day, many years ago, when your parents put you down and never picked you back up.

The same is true of many wonderful things in life. Tim Urban put it poignantly in his 2015 piece The Tail End:

"It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person parent time. I'm now enjoying the last 5% of that time. We're in the tail end."

This doesn't just apply to parents. Many life experiences follow a similar pattern. As we age, we meet fewer new friends. We stop seeing live music. We travel in less adventurous ways. For most people, unfortunately, our worlds gradually contract...

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That's all for now…

-Andrew