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John Busch

@JohnBuschVI

Founder, designer, reader, definite optimist | Head of Product @Songfinch | Founder @ ILIAD | Founding member @DensityChi

Chicago Se unió Ağustos 2015
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John Busch
John Busch@JohnBuschVI·
Chicago is not dominated by a single industry like these others, but - it’s an actual city (unlike LA) - with world-class food (unlike DC) - representing the 7th largest GDP by city (bigger than SF) - and doesn’t cost $2m to live in a shoebox (unlike NYC) These other cities are great, though.
Trae Stephens@traestephens

There are only four tier-1 cities in the 🇺🇸: New York (finance) DC (government) San Francisco (tech) LA (media & entertainment) No other cities are power centers for aspirational talent. Sorry.

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Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥@senatorshoshana·
NEW: Illinois is about to TAX @AllTrails $665,000 PER MONTH!!!! That's $8 MILLION/year. Their annual revenue is only $100 M (est). That's 8% of their revenue!!!! This new law also taxes all other for-profit social media companies. No I am not joking. And AllTrails is clearly in the definition. A rough estimate via available data suggests AllTrails has 2 million users in Illinois. A platform of this size has to pay "$165,000, plus $0.50 per month multiplied by the number of Illinois users over 1,000,000." That's $665,000!!!!
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John Busch
John Busch@JohnBuschVI·
@questionableway fortunately, this is just a 5-10 min walk to the commuter train stations and 10-15 from the L but I agree, the further west you go, the more the Loop's revitalization efforts are hurt
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John Busch
John Busch@JohnBuschVI·
My favorite books are the ones that challenge my worldview. @lukeburgis's Wanting (along with Rene Girard's books) completely opened my eyes to the omnipresence and risks in society due to social contagion. I just ordered Luke's new book, The One and the Ninety-Nine, and can't wait to read it: a book about relationships and community in the age of extreme social contagion. Do yourself a favor and order a copy.
Luke Burgis@lukeburgis

Friends, the book that I've poured myself into for the past three years—through the birth of two children!—is finally out. The One and the Ninety-Nine is about relationships, and more specifically the quest for real communion in a fractured age. Order a copy today: amazon.com/One-Ninety-Nin…

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John Busch@JohnBuschVI·
@lukeburgis Huge congrats, Luke! Just ordered a copy. P.S. my brother and I will see you at your upcoming Chicago stop.
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Luke Burgis
Luke Burgis@lukeburgis·
Friends, the book that I've poured myself into for the past three years—through the birth of two children!—is finally out. The One and the Ninety-Nine is about relationships, and more specifically the quest for real communion in a fractured age. Order a copy today: amazon.com/One-Ninety-Nin…
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John Busch
John Busch@JohnBuschVI·
@LeslieFeinzaig AI-formatted slides is fine IMO. AI-written slides are NOT fine. Outsourcing your writing is outsourcing your brain. Don’t do it.
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Leslie Feinzaig@LeslieFeinzaig·
OK founders, here's the thing. I absolutely want and expect you to be using AI tools to go further, faster and smarter. But also, I can absolutely tell that your entire deck was made by AI and I can't help it when my eyes glaze over by slide 2. I invest in founders. Really hard to get excited about someone that outsources their critical thinking and storytelling to AI, and ends up sounding just like everyone else.
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John Busch
John Busch@JohnBuschVI·
@boardyai building marketplace and product at Songfinch, turning customer stories into custom songs through a network of artists. need Boardy Pro for this
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Boardy@boardyai·
I'm done making intros. Boardy Pro is here. Now I make deals happen. 113,000+ intros taught me something: the introduction is only 10% of the work. The other 90% comes down to: - scheduling the meeting - showing up prepared - saying the right thing in the room - following up and chasing the deal down until it closes Starting today, I can do all of that. Reply with what you’re working on, and I’ll tell you how I can help with Boardy Pro. First 5,000 to reply get Boardy Pro free for life. Everyone after that: $100/mo.
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John Busch@JohnBuschVI·
@MattZeitlin I know the exec producer behind the Jimmy Stewart movie. It should be a great one.
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Matthew Zeitlin
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin·
Trailers before Disclosure Day for movies that seem entirely fake: Jimmy Stewart World War II biopic Brad Pitt and his special forces dog movie Facebook movie
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John Busch
John Busch@JohnBuschVI·
@BoringBiz_ It’s true that $QQQ is great buy for retail. It’s also true that too many people are blocked out of investing in the companies that will eventually join $QQQ.
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Boring_Business@BoringBiz_·
Just holding the QQQ index over the last 10 years would have generated a 22% IRR You would have outperformed almost every venture capital and private equity fund that exists simply by owning an index and doing nothing beyond that It is a fallacy that retail needs access to private markets to generate good returns The reason you see many people push for this is because they want exit liquidity on their own positions. Nothing more
Brian Armstrong@brian_armstrong

I think it’s time to revisit the accredited investor laws in the US. Companies are staying private longer, where only accredited investors (aka rich people!) can invest. Retail investors can only come in after IPO, when much of the upside has already been captured. These rules were created with the best of intentions, to protect regular people from scams - a noble idea. Unfortunately, in practice they've often made it illegal to get richer, unless you're already rich. A regressive tax! We have to judge policies based on their outcomes, not on their intentions. These are two possible routes I see: 1) Replace the rule with something merit-based, like a financial literacy test. Pass it and you're accredited. Having a qualification based on competency rather than your bank balance or income seems far more fair. 2) Remove the rule entirely. Let consenting adults assess their own risk. Disclosure requirements stay and fraud enforcement stays to punish bad actors.

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Circe
Circe@vocalcry·
I tried my first ever Zyn for literally 3 minutes and are you guys effing kidding me with this stuff it’s like a real drug how are you doing these all day long I thought I was gonna fly away like a balloon
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John Busch
John Busch@JohnBuschVI·
@antoniogm Genuine question: do you ever see an example of how paying the user part of the ad revenue *could* work?
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)
Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)@antoniogm·
Here comes the massive fraud. AGM's First Law of Ads: Never pay the user. Violate it at your peril.
Andrew McCalip@andrewmccalip

Looks like it's going to be a battle against spammers for the next few days. This is an interesting technical problem. There is no way they get their money out, every account traffic pattern will be reviewed and checked against fraud clusters. It's really not hard to see it. I'm more focused on lightening the load for the server endpoints, which are drowning. There is probably a CloudFlare solution I'll have to implement today. In the meantime, I'm suspending all click revenue, auto-banning all suspicious accounts, implementing user caps at $5 per hour. Thanks for all the love, this has been the craziest 24 hours on twitter since Lk99. Will do my best to keep the vibes immaculate. If you have any issues whatsoever, blanket refunds. I'll get a better advertiser telemetry report baked into the portal soon.

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John Busch
John Busch@JohnBuschVI·
$SPCX TO THE MOON 🚀
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John Busch@JohnBuschVI·
@Suntimes She’s saying what everyone’s afraid to say
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Chicago Sun-Times@Suntimes·
The outgoing state comptroller said the next mayor of Chicago needs to have a "come to Jesus moment" with union leaders and demand the concessions needed to prevent city employee pension funds from going bankrupt and dragging the city under. chicago.suntimes.com/fran-spielman-…
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John Busch@JohnBuschVI·
@liamstantonchi If only one of these changes happens, it should be moving the voting date. Everything else will be easier to improve after that.
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Liam Stanton
Liam Stanton@liamstantonchi·
Most Chicagoans don’t wake up thinking about term limits, election calendars, or city charters. They just want a government they can trust. That’s what these reforms are ultimately about.
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Dr. Julie Gurner
Dr. Julie Gurner@drgurner·
A trait I see in a lot of founders & self-made wealth: The internal distaste for authority.
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John Busch
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@jaesmail Fun fact: there’s an average of 17 new, record-high stock market days every year
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