I almost got acquired

Sup nerds,

The plan?

Fly down to Costa Rica on a founders retreat hosted by beehiiv’s founder Tyler Denk. Spend $10,000 and get acquired for $3 million. Become memehiiv.

Did the plan work?

Let’s just say I’ve officially added beehiiv to my LinkedIn….

Here’s how the week went down, nerds:

Wednesday 2/19/25

7 AM flight out of Newark.

Fuck me.

I need to be on my A game for acquisition talks. Can’t sleep. Stayed up all night. Get to airport early. Preparing for acquisition talks (making memes in the United Club Lounge).

Pass out on the plane. Wake up in paradise. Jump in a van to the house.

We’ve got a beautiful mansion on the cliff overlooking the beach. I need me some billionaire wisdom so I kick it by the pool and read The Technological Republic by Palantir founder Alex Karp then I take a nap for a few hours.

Everyone gets here one by one.

We hit the hot tub and start doing intros.

Tyler explains that intros won’t be typical 5-minutes ice breakers.

Each intro will be 45-60 minutes going into our business and challenges we’re facing done sporadically over the next few days. I’m like oh fuck I’m exhausted and dont have the attention span to pay attention to that and I’m also about to be acquired.

But we jump in and immediately what I realized was that it was so much better than some bullshit 3-minute intro ice breaker.

1 founder shares about his journey going from 0 to $2M ARR in 9 months, his early teenage businesses, and mistakes he’s made both in his business and personal life. Another shares about his $20M+/year business, the problems he’s facing, and the long-term vision. Me? I yap about my 7-figure meme empire.

Acquisition is in the fucking bag. I’m rich.

I go to bed feeling ready to take on the world.

Thursday 2/20/25

Wake up.

Costa Rican coffee hits different.

Head outside and start making memes (very serious bizness).

Do more intros.

Drink more iced coffee.

Then I tweet a stupid idea I had from the night before about a CRM for prostitutes. It goes viral. 7k likes and 700k favorites.

Then yoga class in the sun.

You probably don’t realize this because I’m a very online cyberpunk nerd, but I used to be a huge yogi. I worked at a yoga studio and got my teaching license in college.

But as my business has grown, the opportunity cost of being offline has risen and it’s been harder for me to find time to unwind and do yoga and meditate. This was part of my motivation for going on the retreat (besides closing a 8-9 figure acquisition). I needed to relax a bit, I’ve been grinding like a madman and yoga hit nice. “After this 8-9 figure acquisition, I’m gonna do so much yoga,” I think to myself. “Maybe I’ll even open a yoga studio—”

Then we jump into presentations and software demos.

The memelord is up first.

I do a demo of Memelord Pro and show our coolest pro features like face swapping and our viral video editor:

People are blown away.

The acquisition is in the fucking bag.

Then I share the pilot for a show I just filmed 😉.

I’ve done software demos before, but I’ve never put a show up on a screen for everyone to watch. Insane feeling. What I always dreamed of. Absolutely surreal to have it up on a TV in a Costa Rican mansion and everyone laughing their ass off. Hell yeah.

By the end of the night, I’m feeling so hyped up I cold email a billionaire CEO of a public company about a branding idea and within 3 minutes, he signs up for Memelord Technologies (the pro plan because obviously he doesn’t have a micropenis). A billionaire signing up for Memelord Pro? No fucking brainer. Add another 0 to the acquisition price. I think that’s 11 or 12 figures now.

Friday 2/21/25

Walk down hill and grab coffees with da boys.

Talk about politics and one of my favorite books Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Then a deep convo with one founder about marriage and girls. “You gotta get married before you’re rich bro,” I tell him. “Find a girl who knows you before you get the bag. It hits different”. I know this because I’m about to be acquired for 12-22 figures.

Drink coffee and work outside.

My tweet about a CRM for prostitutes is still going viral so I figure I should jump on it. I open up Vercel v0 (a no-code AI builder) and tell it to build me a “pink and white CRM for massage parlors” and then I do a little edits 😂

Then we jump into more presentations/demos.

Tyler shared how he keeps his beehiiv team accountable with a weekly success list he sends every Sunday and then a wrap-up at the end of the week. He also shared a slide deck around his vision for beehiiv (aka memehiiv).

Then Tyler and I record a podcast.

I wasn’t planning on recording a pod down here (too busy thinking about very serious acquisition) so I didn’t bring any equipment but we’ve been meaning to record one forever and figured fuck it. We talk about newsletter growth, memes, and the 27-40 digit acquisition and changing the name to memehiiv.

Then a fleet of masseuses come through to the house at 4.

I’m talking a full fleet. Like a van full of 4 masseuses. Much-needed when you’re stressed out in the middle of getting acquired for 42-69 figures.

Then dinner time and we all pass the fuck out.

Saturday 2/22/25

Wake up. Write. Boat time. Celebrating acquisition.

Ok at this point you probably realize I’m joking about getting acquired.

I’m never selling Memelord. I’m building an empire of software and content and I’m gonna run this thing until I’m old and grey.

But that being said, I did become the Memetic Advisor for beehiiv CEO Tyler Denk.

“What does a memetic advisor do?” you may ask. It’s a prestigious role, probably the most important role at the company besides the guy who catches all the bees.

My role will entail:

• Helping beehiiv go viral on socials

• Advising Tyler on memetic warfare against competitors

• Flying down to meet Tyler in Medellin, Colombia 1x/quarter to hand-deliver memes in a USB drive

• Lots of boats

Please wish me luck on this exciting new career opportunity.

Memes of the Week

The face swapper is so dirty lol.

Thank you Memelord Technologies!!

Thanks for reading nerds.

Create some cool shit this week.

Jason “The Memelord” Levin

Founder of Memelord Technologies, Author of Memes Make Millions, Memetic Advisor to beehiiv