Chad Carleton 🪄📦

@AaronOrendorff @stamps_miranda 🥹

@stamps_miranda @ChadCarleton HARD AGREE!

Officially the 🐐is @ChadCarleton I know because get to spend my time doing cool stuff for this really really good company. SBJ Dynamic Dozen No. 1 🎉 sbj.net/stories/2026-d…

I’m only as good as our team

@MarcusMilione HELL YEAH

you've just got to get into the arena and start throwing your weight around. Irrational self belief from the Wolverine Worldwide earnings call

@businessbarista @tenex_labs @AnthropicAI This is rad. Congrats

Anthropic just made a massive bet on small business AI through Claude for Small Business. This story is profound & personal for many reasons I'm about to share... 1) @tenex_labs is @AnthropicAI's official AI transformation partner for Claude for Small Business. Some highlights of the partnership: - We co-built the Cowork small business plugin: 31 skills built around the workflows SMB owners actually run (planning payroll, closing the month, chasing invoices, running campaigns). - We co-created the Claude SMB Tour: a 10-city, free, half-day workshop for 100 SMB leaders per stop. Starting in Chicago today. 2) Bringing SMBs along for the AI ride is so important for our country: - Small businesses are 44% of U.S. GDP. They're plagued by scarcity of money, of people, of time. AI can bring them abundance. - If every SMB gets a 10% lift in profits from this technology, that's a $1.41 trillion increase in U.S. GDP. - And the point most people miss: SMBs can move faster with AI than any Fortune 500. No crippling bureaucracy. No governance overhead. No corporate politics. If you want to see what's possible, read the recent Fortune piece on Rick Chorney. 29-year-old high school dropout. Started a janitorial company in Abbotsford BC in 2023. Year one: 7am to 1am, 7 days a week, $14/hr. One day he spent 4 hours figuring out how AI could help. Automated intake. AI receptionist for $99/month (replacing a $4K/month role). AI email triage cut his inbox to 20 minutes a day. Year 1: $242K. Year 2: $1M. Year 3 (projected): $1.3M. He works 8-hour days now. Takes vacations. Uses Claude as his business advisor. Rick is the roofing contractor in Tulsa, the bodega owner in Queens, the local accountant in Birmingham. He is the gold standard of what we need to help every SMB in American become. 3) I was this SMB audience for a big chunk of my entrepreneurial career. For most of @MorningBrew's life, we were a small business. Small team. No venture funding. Big aspirations. Scarcity was a breeding ground for creativity, but it was painful too. Worrying about payroll. Working insane hours. Saying no to anything that wasn't mission-critical. When I look at what AI can do today, I can't stop thinking about how much further we could've gone, and how much faster, if we'd had this magic in our fingertips. I want to make sure the next person building their version of the Brew gets to feel and harness that magic.

We took #1

Flying to Springfield MO to get an award nbd

@dieworkwear @RajWebshar You’re a master at good approachable rebuttals

@RajWebshar people definitely dressed up for photos, but here is a natural street scene of NYC in 1981. footage taken from the behind-the-scene commentary for Peter Bogdanovich’s "They All Laughed"

Have you ever noticed that people dressed better in the past? Even in the summer, when it was scorching hot? Why is this? 🧵

Your cardboard is about to get more expensive. Should see ~8% rise.

@TimothyDooner 28 baby!!!!

Chattanooga is number 49 on WalletHub’s list of best summer travel destinations 2026

@RossMackay111 You need to chat with @cybership_io

@blaketiggy @natolisnuggets I can’t ship short life perishable foods, but can def point you in the right direction.

@natolisnuggets @ChadCarleton

Who’s got the plug to help with shipping around the country

You got your tariff refund!! So you’re gonna give back that discount we gave because tariffs were too high, right?

@YacineSibous Kudos to you. Man in the arena. Excited to see what you build next.

Well, that was a crazy turn of events. Three weeks ago, I thought Parker was going to be acquired in a deal worth nearly $90M. Yesterday, we filed for Chapter 7. I spent most of my twenties building Parker. We went from an idea in YC to processing over $1B in annualized volume, pioneered products that became standard across fintech, and built something I believed could last for decades. And now it’s over. I know there’s going to be speculation about why Parker failed, but a lot of what’s being said online is simply not accurate. Over the last few years, we faced leadership turnover, a much tougher market, slowing growth, and the realities of trying to scale a venture-backed business after momentum fades. Earlier this year, we decided the best path forward was to pursue a sale of the business. We ran a process and spent months working toward a potential acquisition that ultimately did not close. After that, things moved quickly. The hardest part is the impact on the people involved: •Customers dealing with disruption •Employees losing jobs they worked hard for •Investors who believed in us losing money What I am proud of is the team. Parker was built by incredibly talented people who deserved a better outcome than this. Helping them land somewhere great is my top priority right now. If you’re hiring operators, engineers, designers, finance, credit, or growth talent, please reach out. To everyone who believed in Parker over the years: thank you.

@Molson_Hart Re read the story today. Appreciate the humility and transparency. It appears there’s a way to legally leech out of people for eternity and it makes me sad this is possible in America

After the publishing of this article, my company was sued in bankruptcy court. That case was just dismissed along with 2nd bankruptcy. So now we are returning to district court for the 4th time in year 8. Situation is getting so interesting that we might need a part 2!

I can’t exaggerate how important it is that you and your significant other have a similar sense of humor

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@Financials4me @reaganreese_ This was a great write up and you are dumb

@reaganreese_ Flying AF1 and your topic is food? Grow up

I flew on Air Force One. I'm here to talk about the food. I’m not a foodie. I don’t have a go-to restaurant critic or strong opinions about tasting menus. But what I do have is a genuine, almost embarrassing enthusiasm for the meals served aboard AF1. My food review as a 🧵 1/7:

@BillDA 😂😂

@ChadCarleton Hey Chad incredible work never being too busy So many other 3PL owners are too busy, it’s really refreshing to see all you’ve accomplished in the busyness space.

LinkedIn DM’s: Hey Chad, incredible work “doing what is says in your bio”

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