Rob Schoder Jr

@segwitnitwit Write an email to the issuer asking them ti switch to @vinylequity. We’ll make your life a lot easier!

dealing with computershare makes me want to full port crypto and never deal with these antiquated systems again what do you mean it takes you 5-10 business days to process my check what do you mean it takes you 5-10 business days to send me my account statement

@The__Baumer @Computershare Write a letter to the company telling them to switch to @vinylequity - we’ll make your life a lot easier!

@Computershare why are you so difficult to work with?

@breccastoll Would be good if they added at transfer agent representative to this list, given the likelihood that there will be a dependency on registered TAs to issue these securities. @vinylequity

SCOOP: The Trump Admin just tapped leading CEOs in crypto, finance, prediction markets, and more for a BRAND NEW government advisory committee. Coinbases’s Brian Armstrong, Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev, and Polymarket’s Shayne Coplan are among the 35 named.

Tokenization Is Coming To Public Securities—But It’s Solving The Wrong Problems First hubs.li/Q040Z9kv0 Written by @secondrob of @vinylequity

@msuster Millennial here. Agree. Excellent reference.

GenX here. This. Bad ass.

Only way I’ve successfully (and efficiently) dealt with xfinity is going into a store. Call center is abysmal. I recently canceled my service and they sent me 6 cable boxes a week later. The employees at the store literally told me “yeah, I would just come here next time. They never get it right.”

.@XfinitySupport absolute train wreck of customer support -- worst phone trees ever. Cannot access a human without a 10 minute BS. Cannot move service. Questions are not applicable. 4th straight day of talking to kind but clueless third party phone centers.

I didn’t test, but I didn’t have a connection issue the entire flight, watched an internal meeting recording on Google Drive and never had a buffering issue once. Phone and computer auto-connected and prompted me to log into my MileagePlus account. User experience was really solid. Also great marketing for @Starlink. Makes me think I might be insane for having Comcast at home.

@Secondrob @united @Starlink Did you test up/down speeds?

On my first flight on @united with @Starlink and good lord is it a game changer.

@IanRountree It’s like a mortgage. You have a place to live for a little while, but you have to pay it down over time. Never understood either.

I think it's weird when people are congratulated on raising money. Like oh you mean congrats on the crushing responsibility of the expectation to return ~3-10 times this money? Or, congrats on selling a big chunk of your company to relatively passive 3rd parties? Yeah thanks!

Once in awhile you get an update from a portfolio company and think to yourself "Holy Sh*t I am lucky to be a part of this" Today is one of those days... Lucky to be able to back some incredible people @BarrelVentures

@BrometheusPound @NotreDame He almost certainly wouldn’t have… The guy started an entire religion, almost definitionally he was an independent.

“On behalf of the entire Notre Dame community, I want to express how incredibly proud we are of our football student-athletes for their accomplishments both on and off the field this season. We are deeply grateful for the exceptional leadership of Vice President and Director of Athletics Pete Bevacqua, Head Coach Marcus Freeman, and the entire coaching staff. Our pride stems not only from this team’s success on the field but from the values they embody: faith, perseverance, selflessness, and a steadfast commitment to the University." —University President Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C.

@ClayTravis This feels like the most popular take possible right now

Potentially unpopular take: Tulane and James Madison have zero business in a 12 team playoff.

@RealSkipBayless Can’t wait to see the ratings for these games

It is ridiculous that JMU and Tulane are in the College Football Playoffs ... and Notre Dame and Texas and Vanderbilt are not. This shouldn't be about "everybody gets a chance." This should be about THE BEST 12 TEAMS IN AMERICA. Come on.

@danhightower @mttgrmm @teamignitevc We should connect on this 🙂

@mttgrmm @teamignitevc Building something new to help companies with this problem.

Secondary markets are rife with fraud and bad actors, and it pains me to see these bottom feeders profiting off Anduril's growth while fleecing retail investors through unreasonable or opaque fee structures. In this week's episode of nonsense, @teamignitevc (a fund we've never taken a meeting with or had any contact with whatsoever) founded by @brianrbell (who we've never met) is soliciting investors via a public Google Doc to invest in an SPV that will in turn invest in another SPV that will in turn potentially enter into a Forward Contract with a (supposedly, though unnamed) early Anduril employee: docs.google.com/document/u/0/d… Few problems here. First off, so-called "Forward Contracts" are notoriously hard to settle in private companies, and counterparty risk is extremely real (e.g. what about the many complicating corner cases like acquisitions where shares don't "trade" or marriages/divorces/deaths where ownership of underlying shares is complicated)... just generally a risky structure to close that I don't think most folks actually understand. Second, this "Deal Memo" includes basically no details about Anduril's performance, no revenue figures whatsoever, no product specifics... almost as if it's soliciting investors to invest on hype and momentum and not fundamentals. Generally I'd advise folks to be skeptical of any "deal memo" lacking basic details. Third, Forward Contracts are explicitly disallowed by Anduril's stock plan and bylaws, as we detail here: anduril.com/investor-relat… ... which means that Anduril will never consent to Team Ignite's SPV actually taking possession of these shares while we are privately held. Zero chance. And finally, the memo spends most of it's time talking about the structure and fees... which are INSANE. A double-layered SPV with all legal and administrative costs passed through, in addition to an 8% upfront fee, 3% annual fee for two years, 20% carried interest, and... the craziest part... an implied price per share that is completely insane (in this case, the implied pps is ~115% higher than the most recent preferred raise from like 9 months ago). Flattered, I suppose, but also puts these investors in an almost absurd position by paying more than double the pps of our most recent transaction. 😬 As stated at the top, I don't know Brian or Team Ignite at all, maybe they're kind wholesome people and this is all a big misunderstanding... but if I were an investor looking at this "opportunity," I'd run for the hills.

While not likely an all cash deal at that number, in practice, they’d hire a paying agent (@vinylequity) and the paying agent would manage the distribution process to entities, then as @irrvrntVC suggests, the back office teams at the funds invested would subsequently distribute payments to LPs. If stock is involved the transfer agent (also… @vinylequity) would get involved for the distribution / issuance of shares to shareholders.

@drewfallon12 This is my friend's job at Tiger Global.

real question say microsoft paid $100b for ramp.. How does that money get paid out? like is it just an army of lawyers and accountants sending out thousands of huge wires directly to shareholders? if so that seems like a huge waste of extra cost

Had fun speaking with @JillMalandrino on @TradeTalks last week about the IPO landscape and the evolution of the capital markets infrastructure stack to make it easier and more cost efficient for companies to go public. There has never been a more favorable time to be building in this space - we're excited at @vinylequity to be playing a role in moving the industry forward and redefining the user experience of our public markets. Thank you, @Nasdaq for the opportunity!

.@Nasdaq Market Intelligence Desk & US Economist, Vinyl Equity & Portage join @JillMalandrino on @Nasdaq #TradeTalks to discuss the shifting IPO landscape and mitigating the challenges of cost, complexity, and inefficiency with companies going public. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@jgebbia Please start with the IRS

My directive is to update today’s government services to be as satisfying to use as the Apple Store: beautifully designed, great user experience, run on modern software. An experience that projects a level of excellence for our nation, and makes life less complicated for everyday Americans. I’d like to thank President Trump and his administration for creating this vision, and supporting America by Design (@americabydesign). I will do my best to make the U.S. the most beautiful, and useable, country in the digital world.  If you’re interested in joining me at the newly established National Design Studio (@NDStudio) on this ambitious mandate, please reach out with a link to your work. Thank you for your attention to the details.

I’m honored to be appointed by President Trump as the first Chief Design Officer of the United States of America.  (🧵) whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

@pulte While not likely the first thing they’re thinking about, they should choose @vinylequity as transfer agent when they do. An American, technology-driven transfer agent built on state of the art technology rather than one built on decades old technology with a foreign HQ.

Trump seems to confirm 2025 timing for Fannie, Freddie IPO housingwire.com/articles/trump…

We just asked for a test transfer file from a competitor we just won business from to ensure they hadn’t changed their file format. They offered to send them to us for $10,000 (!) Legacy Transfer Agents won’t just nickel and dime you… they’ll extort you. Don’t lock yourself into contracts with companies whose model is to take advantage of you. @vinylequity is the future of transfer agency. Shareholder and issuer friendly is the way.