Marketer leading business transformation at the intersection of media+technology+commerce augmented with AI. Culture | Business | Epicure | Cycling
San Francisco | Chicago
Joined August 2007
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The @chase Sapphire Lounge at LGA is far better than the @amex centurian lounge next door. Better seating, food and service. And @chase just offer us this charging point to use. #morewithsapphire. This from a near 20yr Amex plat cardholder
Doug Chavez retweeted
Eli Heidenreich has made 53-man roster for the #Steelers
Amazing story and well earned
Sad to hear the passing of @CNN founder, mavrick, amazing sailor, Ted Turner. Created a revolution in the way news is delivered, covered and consumed.
dangit...stop cutting onions! 🧅😂😘 love this DH!
THE DESTINATION IS IMPORTANT. BUT IT’S THE JOURNEY THAT MATTERS.
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Reflective and appreciative. The plays. The people. The highs. The lows. The work. The moments in between. That’s where the magic resides.
For a Pittsburgh kid who loves football, a dream came true.
Eli - you earned the right to earn a spot. Now go get it.
- Love Mom & Dad
Doug Chavez retweeted
The Steelers final pick of the 2026 NFL Draft is an OFFENSIVE WEAPON: Navy RB/WR/DO IT ALL Eli Heidenreich!
these are our @americanair updates. Honestly, what a mess from the scheduling office. Don’t blame it on WX 1398 ORD-PBI
so @AmericanAir 1398 ORD-PBI was supposed to be 12, then 1pm, then 2:20, then 3 and now 2:35. We’re waiting for 1st officer that’s in air from KC…then they pull a plain clothes 1st officer from coach seats that was deadheading…meanwhile my ENTIRE day is FL is killed because AA scheduling can’t do it’s job. THIS IS WHY WE FLY?
If you think a pizza cutter (and a really bad one at that) and a big fork are all you need to break a felon out of Jail, you're clearly not the sharpest pencil in the box...
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We had a huge launch this week. Millions of views. Thousands of comments.
Here’s why it was almost a disaster, and why it worked:
I was told to put fancy numbers in the post: X million dollars raised, Y valuation. Those giant numbers in the air behind people's heads in videos.
I was told people will only pay attention if you have lots of that stuff.
I don't agree. At this point in AI, we all just want something that works.
And Airpost works.
Vanity metrics don’t add value or keep customers coming back. And that's all we care about.
Our thesis is simple: we don't want to eliminate humans. We want to solve for the Last Five Miles of AI. We want to leverage AI where it works in advertising. Not try to force it where it doesn't.
We deliver 10-40+ ads every week for every client through our platform, and our forward-deployed Creative Strategists make sure they convert.
I don’t take pride in how much money we raised, I take pride in how many customers we’ve retained.
And so far that’s all of them.
It doesn’t make for the sexiest launch in the world, but it’s who we want to be.
Separately, we also want to give away value whenever we can. We built an easy-to-use agent that finds real comments from your real users to use in ads. We use it ourselves.
Comment “Airpost” and I’ll dm it to you.
A podium is a place for a speech. Not a rambling odd stream of consciousness talk…with no end in sight. PRO TIP: stick to the script in the teleprompter
Excited for the public launch of Airpost and the power and efficiency it will bring to the ad creative industry at large! Proud to be part of this journey with John and the team!
Today, we’re launching Airpost.
I’m 46. That’s not a cool age to found a startup. At least according to Twitter. I still call it Twitter.
I’ve loved advertising all my life. Since I was 19 and my mom told me about a movie called “Nothing in Common” with Tom Hanks where he plays an ad exec whose main job seems to be shooting hoops with his creative partner. That sounded fun.
Since then, traditional advertising has stayed… traditional.
From my 1st job out of college writing TV ads for Snapple and Fox Sports, to leading product marketing at Airbnb, I’ve seen a lot. Now the AI era is here and an entire $1T industry is about to change. Who will change it?
Why not me? Why not us?
Introducing Airpost: a platform and service where world-class creative strategists use custom-built AI to build video ads. Fast.
If you’ve ever sat down to make an ad with AI and realized 20 minutes later you’re still wrestling with that same clip… that’s why we built Airpost.
Growth teams are busy. They’re asked to do too many things as it is. They shouldn’t have to be AI experts as well. Creative strategists shouldn’t have to stare at a white box trying to decide what to prompt. They should have a partner. That’s what we aspire to be. And that’s what we’ve built our tech to do.
AI ads shouldn’t have to mean only AI footage. We have an exclusive library of over 300,000 video clips we’ve shot ourselves. Our engine uses these, along with client footage and AI footage to make the ads we deliver each week.
We’re funded by the best investors and humans we know. We bootstrapped our performance creative agency, Ready Set, to 200 people. I was always told VCs didn’t add value. If that’s true, it must be other VCs, because ours have been awesome. Thank you Zach Perret, Nate Abbott, Peter Hebert, Max Mullen and all of the firms and folks who’ve believed in us so far.
We’ve gone from 0 to $1M ARR in the six months since we quietly started working with early clients like DoorDash, Dr. Squatch, Calm and more.
So far, every customer has renewed.
To celebrate the launch, we’re giving away a superagent where you:
1) Put in your product URL
2) Get snippets of what your real users are saying on Meta, TikTok, Reddit and X
3) Paste them into ad scripts
Comment “Airpost” and I’ll DM you the private link.
It feels (a little scary but) good to be out there.
Here we go! 🚀
