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PhD in AI · Marketing for AI startups · Founder of STATUR

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Do TikTok Account Farms Work? Keep the 40-Post Test, Drop the Fake Comments

Author: Louis Korczowski October 24, 2026 0 Comments

Do TikTok account farms work? A PhD in machine learning audits the 1,000-account playbook: what works, what breaks, what is legal and what founders keep.

marketing ideas, startups, Strategy

dice system, format testing, founder-led content, FTC endorsement guides, HumanPost, TikTok account farm, TikTok slideshows

A post with its comment section: the top comment, marked with one orange dot, links to every comment below it, showing how the next readers herd.

How Your Startup Can Use Its Comment Section Like the Russian Government

Author: Louis Korczowski October 24, 2026 0 Comments

Comment section strategy for startups: what Russia’s comment armies get right and wrong, herding research, comment traps vs engagement bait, and a founder handbook.

Ideas, marketing ideas, Strategy

comment section, comment trap, Cunningham's Law, engagement bait, mass psychology, Sinan Aral, social proof, TikTok comments

One hour of founder time flowing into ten short-form videos, one highlighted in orange.

How Founder-Led Startups Make Short-Form Content at Scale Without a Full-Time Content Team

Author: Louis Korczowski October 24, 2026 0 Comments

How founder-led startups make short-form content at scale without a content team: one primary channel, one hour a day, five to ten pieces, and shares read first.

marketing ideas, startups, Strategy

Alex Hormozi, Cluely, creative-led growth, David Ogilvy, founder-led content, Gary Vaynerchuk, Paul Graham, TikTok algorithm

A retention curve compared with the usual curve of 20 videos, with KEEP, CHANGE and an orange CUT marker where viewers leave.

What David Ogilvy Would Do With TikTok Analytics: the Testing Loop Behind Hormozi’s $4M Content Machine, Now Run by AI

Author: Louis Korczowski October 23, 2026 0 Comments

Hormozi spent $4M over 40 months on his content machine. How to run its short-form testing loop with AI, without fooling yourself, by a PhD in AI.

AI, marketing ideas, Strategy

AI content analysis, Alex Hormozi, Angus Sewell, content testing, David Ogilvy, dice system, retention curve, TikTok analytics

Line chart of attention on a bought launch post falling with an 80-minute half-life, captioned: A million views rents the timeline for one day.

Startups Now Buy Their Viral Launches on X. A Million Views Rents the Timeline for One Day

Author: Louis Korczowski October 23, 2026 0 Comments

Startups now pay networks of accounts to make their launch go viral on X. What it costs, why it fades in a day, the rules, and what to build instead.

marketing ideas, startups, Strategy

a16z, Andrew Yeung, Cluely, launch video, social proof, startup launch, viral launch, X algorithm

Gustave Doré engraving of the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865: seven climbers on a snowy rock ridge, the leader at the summit raising his hat while the others follow below him.

Paying UGC Creators on Performance Beats Agencies. Only Founders Who Lead Their Creators Will Win

Author: Louis Korczowski October 21, 2026 0 Comments

Paying UGC creators a share of ad spend beats agencies. But the model is linear. The founders who lead their creators will win.

marketing ideas, startups, Strategy

Cal AI, creator economy, founder-led content, Lukas Pakter, performance creator program, Trybe, UGC ads, Wispr Flow

I Used Board Game Theory to Get Hundreds of Millions of Views on TikTok

Author: Louis Korczowski October 21, 2026 0 Comments

How a PhD in AI and a game festival president used board game theory and the slot machine math of TikTok to build a short-form content method.

marketing ideas, Strategy

B.F. Skinner, dice system, Eugene Wei, game theory, short-form content strategy, TikTok algorithm

Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia I (1514): a winged figure sits in melancholy among abandoned geometry tools, a polyhedron and a magic square.

Can mathematicians Survive AI?

Author: Louis Korczowski October 14, 2026 0 Comments

OpenAI posted 722 AI math papers. Are the proofs correct, who will check them, and how do experts survive AI? A PhD in AI on verification and understanding.

AI, Ideas, Strategy

AI and jobs, Cédric Villani, formal verification, Hugo Duminil-Copin, Lean, mathematics, OpenAI, Terence Tao

Pygmalion Adoring His Statue by Jean Raoux, 1717: the sculptor kneels in love before the ivory statue he created as it comes to life.

Can an AI Fall in Love?

Author: Louis Korczowski October 10, 2026 0 Comments

Can an AI fall in love, and can you fall in love with one? A PhD in AI and neuroscience on the three systems of love, functional emotions in models, and the day OpenAI switched off a personality.

AI, ChatGPT, Ideas

AI companions, AI emotions, Anthropic, GPT-4o, Helen Fisher, neuroscience of love, parasocial relationships, Semir Zeki

Sisyphus pushing his boulder uphill, painting by Franz von Stuck, 1920

Why I Quit AI Research to Work in Marketing

Author: Louis Korczowski October 9, 2026 0 Comments

I have a PhD in AI. What is happening right now gave me an existential crisis, and I changed career. The reasoning, the sources, and the best objections from my community.

AI, marketing ideas, startups

AI research, AI startups, career change, David Ogilvy, founder brand, marketing, Yann LeCun

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