Give Yourself 2 Years + VCF Files

Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast · Sep 9, 2026 · 20m · transcript

In this episode of Business Brain, we uncover a dead-simple texting hack most businesses are ignoring: sending a VCF contact card with your very first message so your name and logo land in your customer’s phone instead of a random number. It’s a credibility boost, it sidesteps spam filters, and almost nobody is doing it yet. If you text customers at all, this is your move.

Then we revisit the two-year experiment: one year to learn, one year to execute. We break down why Stripe had only fifty customers after twenty-four months, why you shouldn’t quit your day job before the…