Zach - Magnet Maker

PERPLEXITY ESTIMATED ANNUAL RECURRING REVENUE ROSE TO MORE THAN $450MN IN MARCH- FT

My grandma lived to 92. She didn’t count calories, go to the gym, or meditate. She ate whatever she wanted, stayed up until 11 PM for decades and only slept 6 hours a night.

Why do people think a 401k is a scam?

$NKE is NOT cheap. There is no saving this brand.

We are watching major American brands die slowly

Your honor, I said "make no mistakes"

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Your honor, I said "make no mistakes"

Perplexity Computer can now help prepare your federal tax return. Select “Navigate my taxes” on Computer to give it a shot.

Perplexity Computer can now help prepare your federal tax return. Select “Navigate my taxes” on Computer to give it a shot.

I keep telling everyone that Nike isn’t what it used to be but no one listens to me. I live in Portland, Nike used to be HUGE here. Now no one cares about them and gravitate towards cheaper and better quality athletic gear. Nike’s competitors have grown significantly over the last 10 years and they have done nothing to combat them from taking market share.

Kevin O’Leary reveals you’ll become a millionaire on $69,000/year by investing 20% of your paycheck each week👀 “Take 20% of your salary of $69,000 and put it into the market each week and don't touch it”

Early morning coffee with a former colleague who was recently let go from Millennium where he was a senior analyst running his own sub book. He was lamenting why he hadn’t left the industry to buy a business 4 years ago when we were both talking about it and mentioned it must be nice to see things starting to pick up demand wise this year. I started to laugh and had to remind him of a number of things that had happened post close: 1) Seller’s son was hired as maintenance mechanic and he stole $25k of tools and only returned them when I threatened to file a police report. I had to copy his dad on emails to get him to take my threat seriously 2) 10 percent customer retiring / shutting down within 3 years post close 3) April 2025 tariffs took a 15 percent apparel customer where I packaged imported dress shirts to zero revenues - the business hasn’t come back 4) Monthly utility bills due to New Jersey datacenter buildout going from $4k a month to $10k a month 5) Now resin doubling in 3 months due to Iran conflict means my run rate resin spend goes from $500k to $1MM a year so if I can’t raise price successfully, cash flow implodes 6) All of the above while only having 2 months to learn how to run a manufacturing business from the seller with no relevant industry experience prior I told him I sometimes freak out randomly about how this whole adventure could have ruined my life lol. I asked him if he had heard I was on the verge of personally bankrutcy if he would have reached out to have a coffee - he sheepishly said no. So yeah I paid for his coffee and blueberry scone and his plan of attack is to find a new pod job ASAP. He has 2 kids and has no appetite to spend 12-24 months using his Gmail address to email brokers on biz buy sell to maybe maybe have the opportunity to buy a business with $1mm SDE at 4-5x while draining his personal balance sheet. One of the more depressing things he’s realized having lost his job at 41 in NYC is that nobody cares. The only people who are reaching out to him are recruiters and biz recruiters at other pods. I told him yeah generally at this point in life, people barely find their lives convenient - the energy to allocate time for someone else needing help when they are barely holding on at this age is pretty low. I think he will be fine as I think he’s incredibly talented, but this is another reminder people tend to over focus on the outcomes sometimes and aren’t willing to tolerate the stress or costs of different paths. The grass isn’t always greener - you have to choose your hard.

EVs are cheap to maintain? Tell that to my Tesla’s auto-wipers, which keep dry humping my windshield, forcing me to buy new blades every 12 months despite barely driving in the rain.

Tom Brady said he hasn’t used a microwave in over 10 years. Out of all his achievements, this seems like the least obtainable one for me.