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Steven Jacobs

  • Austin, Texas
  • Family Man
  • Music Industry
  • Investor
  • Real Estate

I live in Austin, Texas with my family. I work in the music industry, invest, and buy real estate.

I'm part of the team behind Rave Jesus, opening Another Nine indoor golf in Pflugerville, and running Beached Inn in Port Aransas.

Lately I'm building Rave Jesus

Every so often I write about business, investing and family. Subscribe to get new posts by email.

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My businesses have been featured in

  • The New Yorker
  • Forbes
  • Business Insider
  • TIME
  • The Atlantic
  • VICE
  • Variety
  • BuzzFeed
  • Rolling Stone
  • The Hollywood Reporter
  • Billboard
  • Complex
  • Pitchfork
  • GRAMMY
  • NME
  • Stereogum
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About

Professional idea starter

I'm a family man in Austin, Texas who can't stop starting things.

I'm a little obsessed with AI. I use it every single day to build, write, design and ship. Ideas that used to take months now go live in a weekend.

  • Claude
  • Replit
  • Grok
  • Gemini
  • ChatGPT
  • + whatever's new this week
  • Started over 100 businesses. Most of them have been failures, and every one taught me something.
  • Currently running about 13 of them.
  • My businesses have been featured in The New Yorker, Forbes, Business Insider, Time, Rolling Stone, Billboard and more.
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TadasG 💻✓@tadasgedgaudas

This is crazy.

AI Bible app released 2 months ago is already at $150k MRR.

App lets you scroll the Bible and talk to specific verses like you would be talking to your pastor.

(screenshot is from appkittie.com)

Image from @tadasgedgaudas: This is crazy. AI Bible app released 2 months ago is already at $150k MRR. App lets you sc
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James Camp 🛠,🛠✓@JamesonCamp

Courtyard (or any of these businesses) can sell the same trading card over and over without ever shipping it.

You pay $50 and open a pack worth about $48

Courtyard instantly offers you $41 for it.

9 out of 10 people take the cash, usually within 21 seconds statistically

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Issybeatz✓@Issybeatz_

I’ve got a theory.

When people don’t create
music
art
ideas
anything…

they start creating problems instead.

Unused energy gets weird.

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George Mack✓@george__mack

Winston Churchill used to lay 200 bricks per day to keep his mind busy when feeling down. Depression hates a moving target.

Image from @george__mack: Winston Churchill used to lay 200 bricks per day to keep his mind busy when feeling down.
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Drug Money Capital ™️✓@TheDrugMoney

Your entire relationship with money changes when you start working around people who make far more than you without breaking a sweat.

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Mistress Dividend✓@mistressdivy

“If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive through it”

~German World Cup fan