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Alex Macdonald
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Alex Macdonald
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I build magnetic products, brands and companies for the highest performing people on the planet //// Founder & CEO - @joinsequel / 1 x exit - Velocity Black
📍LA 🇺🇸 (made in London🇬🇧) Katılım Ağustos 2011
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All big design leaps forward for heritage brands are badly received.
I think it’s right to have clear design differentiation between the electric and ICE car lines though for a brand like Ferrari.
I think the interior is great. Exterior is not to my taste.
FearBuck@FearedBuck
Ferrari has officially unveiled its first-ever all-electric car, the Ferrari Luce. Deliveries begin Q2 2027. • Starting price: $640,000 • 1,050 HP, 0-60 mph in 2.4s • Four electric motors with 800V architecture • 122 kWh battery, 280-mile EPA-est. range • 350kW peak charging speed • Four-door, four-seater design • OLED screens + 5-level paddle shifter torque control • Simulated “musical” motor sounds inside & outside the car
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@tomfgoodwin Price’s Law: square root of a company’s employees - drive the majority of the value.
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I don’t like saying this. But especially in America , I do think most offices are massively over staffed.
The number of people tripping over each other , just attending meetings, just doing busy stuff all day long is insane. People create work, and delay decision making.
And then , about one person in 15 , actually needs a huge team but someone has nobody
I don’t think the solution is to fire people, I just think companies should be doing more.
Take any large company and it’s quite surprising how little stuff they actually put out that matters. Think of all the things they could be doing
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@SahilBloom In the UK we call this ‘tall poppy syndrome’ - but the crab analogy is much better.
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Everyone needs to read this...
The Crab Mentality
(a visual thread)
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@antoniogm It’s disgracefully selfish.
Particularly when you consider older people on the plane and those who may be immunocompromised.
Same applies to public transport and going in to the office.
You’re not a hero for ‘braving it out’ and infecting others.
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I did the LAX Private Suite experience last week, where I was on a UK Department of Business and Trade charter flight to LAX with a fabulous group of 200 UK founders and government people heading to LA for the Greater Together LA event.
It is indeed extremely cool walking off the plane into a small room, customs guy takes a photo of your passport with his phone, and you're in. That took like 30s, and 10s later you're in the LA sunshine and your waiting car.
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This is what my baggage reclaim looks like with this travel hack.
Alex Macdonald@alexfmac
My first company sold more than $100m in travel to HNWIs. This the ultimate travel hack: Use private terminals + fly commercial 90% of the benefit of flying private for 10% of the cost. Arrive minutes before your flight rather than hours. Avoid the chaos of the main terminal. Dedicated Customs officer and security. Private car to the plane. Examples: Private Suite (LAX, Dallas), Heathrow VIP, Gatwick Signature.
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From plane to uber with my checked-back loaded in under 15 minutes. With an Aperol Spritz while I waited.
I fucking love America. 🇺🇸
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@ChristineKayNew @SteveBakerFRSA You just need to build anything. It doesn’t matter if it’s luxury or council houses. It’s exactly the same impact - particularly with foreign buyers and 2nd homes taxed significantly
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@alexfmac @SteveBakerFRSA Here’s how to fix it. Build council houses like the old socialists did, particularly the Tory one.
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Build, baby, build: why it is imperative for the UK to crash house prices
Our boomer-backed gerontocracy govts over multiple decades have:
‘Pumped cheap credit into a system which restricted new building’ (@SteveBakerFRSA)
Here’s how to fix it:
Chris Williamson@ChrisWillx
The UK housing crisis is not going well. In order to alleviate its acute housing affordability crisis, London has been set a target of building 88,000 new homes per year over the next decade. Last year construction started on just 5,891 – 94% below target, a 75% year-on-year decline, the steepest drop in the country, the lowest tally since records began almost 40 years ago and the lowest figure for any major city in the developed world this century.
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Just landed in the US for comparison and you’re treated like a real customer.
With global entry I walked straight through.
EU will no doubt continue to self-sabotage.
Alex Macdonald@alexfmac
It’s a pretty miserable experience travelling to Europe with a British passport now. Id suggest ‘punishing’ the tourists without whom your economy would be considerably weaker is a rather stupid strategy.
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@Cliffinkent Yes and that point was also correct.
Look at the graph and the source data.
Reading comprehension again at all time lows.
Regardless, good luck, in your war against old people dying from hear exposure - a noble mission for sure.
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Energy policy in Europe kills more people than guns in the US.
I imagine this looks even worse when you include deaths attributable to cold in the winter.
Heat is also a massive suck on productivity.
Lee Kuan Yew attributes Singapore’s economic success to A/C!
Bryan Beal 🎧@bryanrbeal
The craziest statistic you will hear all year: more Europeans die from summer heat than Americans die from guns
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@Cliffinkent Heat deaths in the US are 3x per
Capita was my point.
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Gun deaths in the US - 13.1 per 100,000
Heat deaths in Europe - 9.4 per 100,000
How is 9.4 3x 13.1?
For completeness, That's Europe excluding Russia.
As you're now changing the goal posts to just the EU, US gun related deaths are still higher per 100,000
13.1 Gun deaths vs 10 Heat Deaths.
Either way your clikbait point is incorrect.
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The best part of having Remus is how many people he makes smile.
He changes everyone’s day for the better.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yashar
“The best part of being alive is that sometimes there’s a dog”
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@ukboomers John & Margaret’s era will soon be over.
Alex Macdonald@alexfmac
Build, baby, build: why it is imperative for the UK to crash house prices Our boomer-backed gerontocracy govts over multiple decades have: ‘Pumped cheap credit into a system which restricted new building’ (@SteveBakerFRSA) Here’s how to fix it:
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And the back garden. Used to be lawn, roses, an apple tree, a vegetable patch. A nightmare to maintain. David's done away with the lot. Plastic grass throughout. Even put in a fake palm tree, very Mediterranean. No mowing, no weeding, no bees. He can charge more now. 🇬🇧
John & Margaret@ukboomers
You should see what our David has done with his latest buy to let. A tired old 1930s detached. He's modernised the lot. New plastic windows, properly insulated. The original front garden was a maintenance nightmare so he's tarmacked it over. Parking for four cars now. He's painted the brickwork a smart grey. Tenants love it. The neighbours aren't happy but they should see it on a sunny day. A sight for sore eyes. Some people just have vision. 🇬🇧
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@alexfmac @SteveBakerFRSA Can’t see anything on immigration in here, one back when you’ve factored it in
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@moving_charlie In combination with changes to planning and building regs they absolutely will.
The ONLY proven measure to sustained reduced prices throughout history is increasing supply.
It’s proven again and again and again…
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@alexfmac Here’s the flaw in your otherwise solid plan: builders won’t build if doing so heralds 20% price falls.
Supply doesn’t lower prices.
Reducing lending multiples will lower prices without needing unnecessary new builds.
There isn’t a shortage. There’s an affordability crisis.
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@NorthstarBrain Oxygen literally hurts us.
Live your life.
Die with memories, not dreams.
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everyone is clowning this guy today
As an Italian consultant, who enjoys fine wine:
“Never touch alcohol. It’s pure poison.”
We all know this. But life is beautiful. You know why?
Because some things that we love hurt us. Because optimisation is not the end goal of our existence.
It’s moments. Of joy, community, sharing.
Sharing a glass of wine, sharing a tipsy chat.
I’ve always felt awkward when someone is TERRIFIED of a little alcohol…
something isn’t right.
My dad could drink and work and talk with the family. Daily.
I have nothing against Steven btw, there are more people like him nowadays.
Are we becoming a more health conscious society or did our bodies and psyche become so frail?
I blame it on the sleep measuring devices that gaslight you.
The ancient romans would just wake up and conquer the world, another day in the office, after 7 glasses of wine the day before.
Am I missing something?
Mikli@CryptoMikli
Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life “It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again” “It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused” “I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”
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This is what you call a sacrifice for your country.
Thank you for your service @soundboy
Oscar Sykes@OscarSykes7
Ian Hogarth is a legend
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@rowanajmarshall @SteveBakerFRSA I know, excellent. Long way to go though to get back to affordable levels for working people.
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@alexfmac @SteveBakerFRSA Don't disagree but house prices are already falling. Near collapsing in real terms: housepricedashboard.co.uk/?tab=change&st…
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Equally the only the reason the boomer-industrial housing complex worked for the past 20 years was cheap credit.
Gilts are now spiralling and the chickens will come home to roost…
Alex Macdonald@alexfmac
Build, baby, build: why it is imperative for the UK to crash house prices Our boomer-backed gerontocracy govts over multiple decades have: ‘Pumped cheap credit into a system which restricted new building’ (@SteveBakerFRSA) Here’s how to fix it:
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