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A founder explains why he shares revenue screenshots and failures publicly. The goal is simple: earn trust from strangers in a market full of deception. Transparency answers questions and builds a narrative people can believe.

A founder explains why he shares revenue screenshots and failures publicly. The goal is simple: earn trust from strangers in a market full of deception. Transparency answers questions and builds a narrative people can believe.
being transparent and building things in public, like truly sharing the highs, lows, and lessons and whatnot. Where did that philosophy come from and how did that impact Visualize Value as a whole business?
I can't remember exactly where the philosophy came from, but I think the root of it is like, how do I get people that don't know me to trust me? There's a lot of people selling stuff on the internet. There's a lot of false promises. There's a lot of people that are a little bit dodgy with the truth, shall we say, right? Manipulate the narrative. Yep. So I think the shortcut to getting people to trust you is to just be completely transparent about what you're doing and answer people's questions when they have them. Like I started posting revenue screenshots way back in the day, which I think is a huge— was a huge like boon to the narrative in general.

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