David Whitcomb

@drowningbycode @The_Robz @SoFi Bread Financial is still at 3.9! It’s only savings though. So just park excess there.

In recent weeks, Trump took his assault on small businesses another step further by signing an Executive Order to gut the CDFI Fund. In response, RM Maxine Waters released a fact sheet to educate the Trump Administration and members of the public on the importance of CDFIs.

The latest @FDICgov Quarterly Banking Profile indicates bank lending has grown for three straight quarters and banks are well positioned to continue supporting their customers and communities. Read more: aba.social/3QBgUEM

@realEstateTrent @matt_mlyons I think som Hilton or Hyatt hotels have adjoining rooms as an explicit feature. Marriott does not. I’ve traveled with a family of 6/7, and it’s hard. On a trip to Paris and Amsterdam last year, we paid for AirBnBs because the hotel cost was ludicrous and rooms tiny

@matt_mlyons How do you ensure a connecting room when booking online?

Where do families w/ three kids stay when they travel? Two hotel rooms? Pay 3x for a large suite? Airbn? Feels like the travel budget is 2x for fam of 5 vs 4.

@sytaylor Up next- Simon Taylor and @soupsranjan discussing the uptick in fraud due to the continued acceleration of AI tools

I JUST TRIED THIS AND OMG IT WORKS Wow. Wow. Wow I'm sorry, I try to stay away from hyperbole I really really do. But lets face it everyone when making a website uses a few other sites as inspo. This is that but 100x faster.

@mi_jim @AmerBanker A tale as old as time. They’ve been doing this for at least a decade now.

USAA sues Regions Bank in latest mobile deposit lawsuit buff.ly/4jMaxfs | @AmerBanker

@hissnkitten @Rainmaker1973 Do it! It’s relaxing and great for real leather shoes and boots!

@Rainmaker1973 Omg is that what people are getting some at the airport? Bc I’ll get my boots shined if so lol that’s amazing

A thorough boot cleaning [📹 angeloshoeshine]

@Clagett My gen X college experience started with 3.5” floppies, then to Zip drive, then to usb sticks in a 4 year period. It wasn’t only music!

Gen X is always mad because they had to replace their record collections with a tape collection that they had to replace with a CD collection that they had to replace with an MP3 collection,and now they need a subscription to listen to music.

@sytaylor What a roller coaster for the employees. I wonder how many clients are already gone and how much revenue will be preserved.

Wow

@operatingcan @Davidjpark96 This is a great response. See a need. Meet a need. Benefits both.

@Davidjpark96 I have no advice But I just want to note, on the "inability to fill the other seat" I go on walks a couple times a day and need more people to just chat on the phone during that. Unstructured, biz or personal, just chat. So I'm happy to fill that other seat :)

Despite the newfound success with my startup, my personal life has been challenging Earlier this year, when I went to visit New York, I was really excited to spend time with my friend But when I arrived, I immediately got an acquisition offer, and I spent the whole month locked in my room preparing data and going through DD I didn’t even get to share one meal with my friend, and unfortunately she passed away shortly after I left New York I have enough money now to afford a table for two anywhere in the world, but it’s impossible to fill the other seat This past year I completed our largest acquisition yet, and it was quite stressful dealing with the lawyers, bankers, and accountants Speaking and thinking became so cumbersome that when I met with my girlfriend I’d regularly reply with grunts or nods She would chastise me and say that I was never present because I was so hell-bent on finishing this acquisition Well, I was able to get the deal done, but she broke up with me because she ran out of patience I told her that I could change, but she said it’s too late and that her heart had left me 🥲 It was hard to hear this from the person I planned to marry I fear that I’ve unintentionally made some Faustian Bargain What else would explain my cancer diagnosis right after hitting $1M ARR? Each new level of startup success came with it a new trauma Sorry to write a super personal post, I promise I will get back to the regularly scheduled positive + actionable startup advice soon But the fact of the matter is I have literally sacrificed everything for my startup There are other founders who seem to have a healthy social life while also running a startup, but I haven’t been able to figure out that balance I write this post because it’s clear to me now that if I don’t figure out this balance I may end up with a pretty lonely + sad life I’ve started going to therapy and trying to find things that make me happy outside of lowering churn and increasing user counts It’s led me to rekindle my love for creative writing and I take a lot more walks now Tbh I still miss my girlfriend and I still put a high number of hours into my work But each day I find new things outside of my startup that make me happy, and that’s been very encouraging I’ve got a lot to figure out, but for now, I’m cautiously optimistic about this more balanced life!

@Shotz018 😂

@siawayforward @engineering_bae @film42 - this looks like it’s up your alley

Hi eng friends. Going into a season where I'll be strictly working at the intersection of backend services and data pipelines i.e. migrations, endpoints etc. So far, I've learned stuff randomly, but looking for a good book to formally understand this lane. Any ideas? Tyia

@khaslett And my own typo! Female! Female related fraud!

@khaslett I read the first line and though it was email related fraud😂

In a 6mos study of mail theft-related chick fraud, FinCEN found: - 44% of checks stolen thru the mail were altered and then deposited - 26% were used as templates to create counterfeit checks - 20% were fraudulently signed and deposited fincen.gov/news/news-rele…

Today is a win. My 18yo UVA first year just told me they want a data science minor because doing data analysis with google colab and Jupyter notebooks in an intro to DS lab was fun.

@jasonhenrichs @khaslett Then let’s get coffee! Are you coming for a fintech reason?

@whitdotcomb @khaslett I'll be there this month!

Good question, great question. I bought this hat in 2019 to play a Monticello/Rev War themed-escape room before I left Charlottesville, but they had an even better hat to wear. (Note the outfit).

@film42 Numbers everywhere! That’s hella confusing.

The longer I look the less I understand how much this order costs.

@khaslett This is amazing, though it’s in the middle of nowhere. Probably only 2-2.5 hours from both Charlotte and Charlottesville though, which i could be advantageous.

DO I HAVE A ONE COOL AND RICH FRIEND?! keen-summit.com/project/virgin…

@film42 But now, I’m watching fly fishing on YouTube

@whitdotcomb The best fly fishing content out there is from wild fly productions. youtube.com/watch?v=37HBe3…

@film42 , what’s the best way to watch a fly fishing tournament?