SMB Civil Construction
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SMB Civil Construction
@Stretch672
SMB, Aviation, Life, Phizz, Random biz quotes, mostly from my coach.
St Paul Katılım Mart 2020
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@Stretch672 Huh???
McKinsey analysis of SMB exits, estimates 665,000 annually
Homes 4M annually
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Yeah.... but there are 100x or 1000x as many house deals trading as biz deals.
Mike Bolen@mikebolen
A 68 year old Realtor told me today he's cleared $200k a year for ten straight years Then he said the part that actually matters "The grind is getting to me. Feels like there are more Realtors than ever." So we looked it up. His market. Tampa. 22,000+ agents. "Wow. I knew there were a lot. This is incredible." Then he turned to me. "Mike, how many business brokers are there in the entire United States?" 5,500 One city has four times more Realtors than the entire country has business brokers
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Joined an "Old Bucks" hockey group last Feb.
Just had a party for the outgoing commissioner. A fair amount of the crew is in their late 60's and early 70's.
They have been playing noon hockey every Fri since 1975!
Truly inspirational!
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@cryptojourneyrs His last name should tell you all u need to know. iykyk
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The Leopold Aschenbrenner situation explained.
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund has reportedly sold its entire public stock portfolio after major losses on AI infrastructure bets.
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Friend/relative I grew up with. Has called me ~12 times in the last 18 years.
Every time, it's cause he's needs something from me, or he's selling a new product.
Ignore, tolerate, humor, block, buy, something else....?
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I've said this before and I'll say it again. About 1/3 of the guys I play hockey with at 11am 3 days a week, have their cell phone on the bench and r "working remotely".
Texts and emails b/t shifts.
SMB Attorney@SMB_Attorney
Remote work isn't the problme. Hiring losers is the problem. You have to get these people out of your business. They are poison. According to the same study: > Hybrid workers are actually worse due to the confusion part-remote, part-in-office creates > The average faker spends ~5 hours per week just looking busy. That adds up to roughly 32–33 days or nearly 7 full workweeks every year. > Attempts to monitor actually make it worse, as cheaters game the system with mouse jiggling and other tactics You need to have outcome based metrics that tie work to actual qualitative KPIs that are impossible to game. If that's not possible, you need to call them into the office and watch them.
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That pretty much goes for all Rx. Normal antibiotics are like $5 from the street pharmacies in Cancun etc.
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes
A family needed an antibiotic for their kid but the price with their insurance was $2,500 for 14 tablets The price for this exact same antibiotic at a pharmacy that doesn’t accept insurance, that’s self pay, only cost $18 Insurance is marking up the price almost 14,000% Insurance is a scam and they are the reason for they astronomical prices We need healthcare reform. How is this racket allowed to keep operating
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THIS IS F*CKING DISTURBING!!!🤯
A leaked Anthropic document just came out in court. Their own words:
"Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world."
Next line: "We don't want it to be known that we are working on this."
They planned to shred every book on the planet, in secret. And they almost got away with it.
It starts with theft. Anthropic stole 7 MILLION books from pirate sites to train Claude, because their CEO said paying authors was too much of a "slog."
Then the lawsuits hit and they needed a legal way to keep going. So they hired the ex-head of Google Books and sent him to publishers to ask for permission. Publishers said no.
That's when they found the loophole.
Buy millions of real, physical books. Cut the spines off with a hydraulic blade, scan the loose pages, and throw what's left in recycling.
One vendor offered to destroy 2 MILLION books in 6 months. That's 11,000 books a day.
Now the insane part.. destroying the books is what made it legal.
If you scan a book and keep it, that's a crime. If you scan it and shred it, that's fair use. A judge actually approved this, which means the shredder WAS the legal strategy.
They still paid $1.5 billion for the stolen books, the biggest copyright settlement in history. Works out to $3,000 per book.
And the scans are locked in Anthropic's private library forever. Nobody outside the company will ever see them. The authors got a shredded book and nothing else.
The part I can't stop thinking about is that a book on a shelf lasts 500 years without power, wifi, or a subscription, and the AI it was destroyed for gets thrown away in 18 months.
They killed something permanent to feed something disposable.
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This guy SMB's.
All you ETA searchers, what's your move?!
John Beck@dirtyhandsops
Fun week. Both trade leads are hurt - outside of work Both sales reps quit
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@BrianMcDonaldIE while def out of control, he's lucky the chute at least slowed him down!
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Those afraid of heights, look away.
A base jumper in Russia’s Ingushetia lost control almost immediately after opening his parachute, was spun through the air and carried towards the rocks.
Convinced he was finished, he shouted: “That’s it, I’m f*cked.”
He was saved by landing in a snowdrift and escaped without injury.
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Yes.
We are tracking Axon, too.
They always try to push it after Flock, because they are not listening to your concerns.
They are just hoping you will move on.
So remember after #Flock, prepare to #AxonAxoff
#DeFlock #Surveillance #fyp
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Probably the beat tweet of Nick's career, so far.
Where do I send the check?
Nick Huber@sweatystartup
If you're new to the real estate community on X this is a must-read. A thread on how most real estate folks structure deals with outside investors. Most GPs utilize the "preferred equity" structure when they raise money from outside investors. They "syndicate" deals. Here's the basics:
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🇮🇱🚨 In secretly recorded meetings, Israeli Jews, Hanan and associates claimed involvement in 33 presidential-level election campaigns worldwide, saying 27 were successful.
They described offering services such as hacking email/messaging accounts, sabotage, and large-scale social media disinformation via software that could control tens of thousands of fake profiles.
The group marketed itself to political clients, private companies, Florida fat Jewish congressma, gay jewish mexican podcasters and intelligence agencies
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The math behind dating is getting straight-up unhinged… and romance is no longer financially viable for a ton of people.
Check it out:
Back in the 1940s a classic movie + burger + soda date cost $1.10 total. Adjusted for inflation that’s like $12 today.
Even in the 90s it was still under $30 in today’s money.
Now the average “all-in” date (Uber, grooming, dinner, tip, the whole thing) is $189.
Meanwhile nearly half of singles are straight-up saying dating isn’t worth the money anymore.
People are only going on 12 dates a year on average (down from 14), and a lot of Gen Z and Millennials say the costs are blocking their actual financial goals.
You’ve got this wild K-shaped thing where 14% of people claim their dates cost zero… and another 14% are dropping $300+.
Love is starting to feel like a luxury good.
Lots of second order consequences including increased divorce and lower birth rates.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
The average cost of a date night in the US has climbed to $189, representing a 12.5% increase from $168 in 2025, per WSJ
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@TheNolanGore Can go both ways. Sometimes, the fastest growing, most profitable companies are absolute chaos.
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Criticize my thesis…
When investing in businesses a lot of weight should be placed on small seemingly insignificant things….like the organization of the uniform closet.
Here is a picture of our uniform closet.
We keep it stocked weekly.
We give everyone a set when they start.
We charge cost after that.
Take it out of payroll.
It just shows we are organized and care. That carries over to all sorts of stuff in the organization.
Worth judging right?
*this is largely a reflection of my team’s diligence. I am proud of them.
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The United States just bombed a massive ship in the Strait of Hormuz, wrongly thinking it was transporting Iranian gas.
It wasn’t.
Killed crew members and destroyed the ship.
This entire operation is massive clusterfuck of ignorant decision after ignorant decision by the US.
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