Tamba Investor Update Q1 2024

Hello wonderful people (and Jeff)

It’s 3 pm, the sun is bright, the weather is mild - and I’m writing this email from the hot tub at the Fairmont, Pac Rim in Vancouver. Things are good. I’m back in Vancouver for TED 2024 and it has been a wild week of meeting some of the most fascinating people on earth.

Some highlights from TED:

• Hungout with Kesha in the same hot tub I’m writing this from

• Asked Justine Musk to write a villain based on me for her next book

• Showed Chris Hadfield the creepy video I took of him in the Toronto subway in 2015 where my flash went off and I fumbled and dropped my phone.

• Had Al Gore scream at me about climate change while I ate lunch. I liked it.

Tamba Updates: 4X again?

In my last update 3 months ago I said we quadrupled our business YOY in 2023 and cheekily said that we plan on doing that again in 2024. I don’t know what the next 9 months hold, but we’ve generated more revenue in Q1 2024 than all of 2023!

Additionally, We’re negotiating a staff augmentation deal that alone could be worth in the seven figures. Fingers-crossed. This deal fell in our lap because one of you got motivated by our ambassador program in my last update, and sent a couple of leads our way.

If this deal goes through they will make anywhere from $70,000 to $200,000 as a referral bonus.

Three months ago I had a weird pang of anxiety. It was 10 am, I was sitting at my desk looking at my three massive screens, and I had no idea what to do. And it wasn’t just that day - it had been like that for weeks, maybe even longer. I was no longer needed to lend a hand designing, coding, or even managing any of our multiple projects. I felt utterly useless as I stared at my screens.

So, I went for a walk and had a chat with Hamza 3 (i.e. my inner Hamza) - and Hamza 3 made an excellent point: This was the plan all along, for Hamza 1 and Hamza 2 to work on the business and not in the business - and we had done it. We had spent the last 6 months hiring the best and it had paid off!

Personal update: I put on 8 pounds of muscle in 8 weeks…

After a year of non-stop travel (12 major trips!) last year, I was quite burnt out come January. I was ready - nay, dying to get back into a fixed routine. Some of my friends started a muscle gain competition and I decided that I too would compete.

The goal was simple - we start with a DEXA scan, and then 3 months later whoever has gained the most muscle relative to their starting point wins. I trained hard (6 days a week). I ate 200g of protein a day. And I saw huge improvements! I gained nearly 8 pounds of muscle in 2 months (I joined a month late). And I didn’t even come close to winning. Chris Sparling placed second with a gain of 15 pounds in 3 months. And Rajiv Khaneja destroyed us all by gaining 20.6 pounds of muscle (with science and without steroids). I’m trying to convince him to launch a muscle-building course on Routines.

Hamza 2

Hamza 2 went to SXSW and shot some guns. I didn’t want to mention it because this information adds no value to the reader, but Hamza 2 insists that as half of Tamba, he be included in this update in some form.

Routines:

Routines is now a real business with a full-time staff of 3 people, and 2 part-time. Alas, not all is good and dandy. Google’s last algo update in early March dropped our organic traffic by 40%! We’ve since started to creep back up - but it was a healthy reminder not to be platform-dependent. We are launching our newsletter and social media campaigns in the coming week.

In a nutshell:

• Revenue is up 4X from Q1 2023 to Q1 2024

• Team size is up 40%

• New Tamba Website

• Gained 8 pounds of muscle in 2 months

• Hamza 2 got married

PS: We just launched a brand new website (Tamba.ca) and would love your feedback

Random Ask:
I want to build a stoicism app with Ryan Holiday. It will make him a lot of money. Can someone intro me?

That’s all for now :)

PS: If you hate this email, we have an actual unsubscribe button now because someone got super mad at me for sending them this email. We’ll see how they feel about the glitter bomb.

Cheers!

Hamza J
Cofounder - Tamba.ca
Founder - Routines.club