Brandon Turner

@sweatystartup I have the PRX and love it

What is the best garage weight system I can fold up against the wall? I want to build out as simple but awesome garage weightroom.

@BeardyBrandon Also if they post a thumbnail that has them Home Alone-ing (both hands on their face mouth open)

A proposal: We affix all AI influencers with shock collars with small microphones and cameras. Should they type or utter the words "they cooked", the collar immediately administers a 50,000 volt shock. The voltage increases by 10,000 per utterance. Thoughts?

@realAkashAnand Video Skills

GPT-5.6 Sol is unbelievably good at creating and editing videos. It can do motion design, product demos, and animations like this one I made by simply giving it a screen recording. GPT 5.6 has the best design taste and significantly outperforms Fable, which relies heavily on repetitive design patterns. To help you experiment with video editing on it, we just launched a collection of 100 ready-to-use skills that show what’s possible and help you get started with video editing using GPT-5.6. These skills can create anything from motion graphics launch videos for your product to a 3B1B-style science explainer video. You can also use them to edit existing videos: add captions, generate motion graphics, create voiceovers, redesign visual styles, translate into new languages, and much more. If you want access to the full library, comment “VIDEO SKILLS” and I’ll share it with you. (You'll have to follow me so I can DM you.)

@noahkagan One of my all time favorite books. Cheesy, but great.

Since reading is dead. Decided to read on vacation. I missed it 🥰 Enjoying this book for some reflection on life’s priorities.

I super appreciate this post, Andrew. As you know- I’ve been going through a similar shift in how the world views me. The online hate is gnarly…. Especially since 99.9% of the mean tweets are from non-investors who know nothing about the deals we’re doing. But people LOVE to see a “successful” person fall.

My dad worked a full-time job as a meat cutter while I was growing up. Early mornings. Late nights. Lots of overtime. One day off each week. And yet, every Thursday—on that one day off—he would take one of us four kids out to lunch at McDonald’s. Sometimes he’d just come sit in the school cafeteria and eat lunch with me and my friends and make us all laugh. At the time, it didn’t seem like a big deal. Now, as a dad myself, I realize what a sacrifice it was. Looking back, I don’t remember the burgers. I remember the attention. I remember feeling important. I remember feeling chosen. To the dads who follow me: remember, kids spell love: T-I-M-E. And happy Father's Day, Dad. Love you! -Brandon

@Nate_Shields Just tired of posting here ;)

I’m guessing @BeardyBrandon was told by his attorney to stop posting? Haven’t seen anything the last few weeks.

@Jeru_of_Salem Yah, with the shares he owns in SpaceX based the IPO of SpaceX today. Crazy.

@BeardyBrandon Is he world's first trillionaire? I saw somwhere it was written like that

Elon becoming a Trillionaire....

Hey man- I’m sorry if I got too snarky. I’ve had a rough week and let it get to me and yah, my ego took a beating all week and I overreacted in some comments. I didn’t mean to imply all investors “agree” with what happened. Lots of investors are upset. I think I said just that all investors were aware of the situation via webinars and emails, and that all investors are accredited and legal partners in the deal. I don’t want to be defensive, but I want to counter lies and misinformation when I see it, and there have been so many. Hard to know what to respond to and what to ignore. But I’ll make this my last comment on the situation. Investors know where they can find me, and I’m happy to chat with them whenever. (You included.)

@VadimYuryev @BeardyBrandon Your takes and feedback is so spot on. I am an investor in two of his funds. I am on X. And I 100% don’t agree with his “snarky comments” and it is offensive to continue to read his defensive and sarcastic engagement online. To say we ALL agree is only for his ego.

That said, there were 150 investors who lost money. All aware of it ahead of time. All millionaires. All accredited. Not lenders/borrowers, but partners. Yes, this sucks. Yes, they followed me into the deal and it failed. BUT What I struggle with is this (honestly, would love your take.) There are millions of people in jobs they don't like, living lives they don't like, wasting away. So by posting online about stuff like 'hey, no one is coming to save you. Take control and go build" - if that helps someone... (and maybe it won't, i dunno.) BUT if that helps someone... isn't that worth it? I mean, it's not like i'm telling my investor's they're bad. I've appologized to them, taken ownership, given them a path to earn back. So if, let's say, 1/2 of them are on Twitter, and half of them follow me, and half of them see the post ... we're talking about a handful of investors seeing me say to a snarky comment "don't be a victim, take ownership" and they would ALL agree with it. They wouldn't be offended. So I guess the question is... do I potentially rob giving value to those who need it, just because the internet has opinions about me and one of my funds going bad?

@VadimYuryev Yah maybe. Wrote it 3 weeks ago and scheduled it.

@realdonkeyz Well - i didnt post on X. I posted on IG, and thats where they are (I think). I'm sure some are here. But yah, I get it, maybe too aggressive and bad timing.

@BeardyBrandon Ha. I’ve bought your books. I’m in the arena. I work for a family shop that would never need to make this kind of apology to the Stanford endowment. Your investors certainly saw it…unless you’re saying they aren’t on X/IG…in which case, who was the apology for on X/IG? MIMS

@realdonkeyz I get it. Maybe it was a bit much, but this wasnt to my investors. This was to someone who was not my investor, just a troll, being snarky. I'm telling him to stop being a victim and take responsibility for all areas of one's life.

@BeardyBrandon I wasn’t invested in your fund. I know what the disclaimer says about all funds being at risk….all I’m saying is that you could have waited a little while to start taking a dump on your LPs. Makes the original apology almost worthless to turn around the next week with this.

Maybe its harsh and ill regret posting it , but I have owned it... over and over and over. Said everything you just said. Over and over. They followed me. I led them. They aren't experts. But for snarky online comments who just want to find a "gotcha" so they feel big and strong about themselves... yeah, they should take ownership of their life.

Holy shit!! This is wild…claimes absolutely zero responsibility for losing other people’s money. When you invest money with someone or a company, you do as much research as you can but at the end of the day you have faith in the person that you’re handing your money over to. They are the “experts” In what they do (or they are supposed to be). You have a responsibility when you use other people’s money, and to shit on the people who trusted you and say “oh well. They should have known!” That’s such a cowardly and bullshit excuse. Exactly what Jesus would have done, I’m sure of it.

Just commented this to another, but i'll repeat it. Maybe its bad taste. but here ya go. Feel free to tear this apart :) Who's responsible? literally you. Unless someone forced you to put money into something? It sounds like it's different for you - but for me, I will NEVER give my agency (ownership/responsibility/sovereignty) over to another man or woman. The second I start blaming other people for my choices, I become a victim. Maybe you were in HK and that sucks. Sorry it went bad. (were you? Or are you just trolling me with this comment?) I've lost hundreds of thousands in other company's syndications over the past few years (3 so far). Full equity wipes. It sucks. I was just an LP. I trusted them to execute and it went south. BUT it's was my choice to invest in them, I looked at the deals, I talked with my financial advisor, I took the risk. So It's me. My responsibility. I know most people don't think this way, and that's fine. it's MUCH harder to be a man of ownership than a victim.

@BeardyBrandon Telling people that THEY are responsible for THEIR income after you just lost them $15M seems in poor taste, no?

literally you. Unless someone forced you to put money into something? It sounds like it's different for you - but for me, I will NEVER give my agency (ownership/responsibility/sovereignty) over to another man or woman. The second I start blaming other people for my choices, I become a victim. Maybe you were in HK and that sucks. Sorry it went bad. (were you? Or are you just trolling me with this comment?) I've lost hundreds of thousands in other company's syndications over the past few years (3 so far). Full equity wipes. It sucks. I was just an LP. I trusted them to execute and it went south. BUT it's was my choice to invest in them, I looked at the deals, I talked with my financial advisor, I took the risk. So It's me. My responsibility. I know most people don't think this way, and that's fine. it's MUCH harder to be a man of ownership than a victim.

@BeardyBrandon Who is responsible for my LP investments?

I dont need to convince anyone. I don't fear what people think about me online or anywhere. My investors get it, they aren't the one's complaining. And they can call me and talk to me when they have an issue or question. If I had operationally screwed up this deal, and mismanaged something ... that's a different story. These are big boy and girl investors, who partnered on a deal that didn't work out the way we all wanted.

@BeardyBrandon @AnandDugar40661 You will have a hard time convincing people none of the money went to your Hawaiian retreat lifestyle. Instead of selling courses to raise money to bail out other deals, trying to shake loose a few million to at least return fees, regardless of where they went, would go far.

If @BeardyBrandon was truly sorry he would shave his beard in penance.

@AnandDugar40661 @JoeHoulihan35th @BradSumrok I literally haven't raised for a real estate deal in years. Calm down buddy. Maybe go outside for a bit.

@BeardyBrandon @JoeHoulihan35th Maybe you should quit investing other people's money. You're just not as good as you think you are. I had the same experience in @BradSumrok's group with his students. They all say they didn't mean to lose my money but you guys all do.