April Cordova

a guy once asked me on a first date what my exit strategy was on my current portfolio i almost proposed on the spot he also knew what a 1031 exchange was reader, he did not feel the same way. but i respected it.

got a dog named Koozie and my neighbor Darell is obsessed with him. He sends me texts when he is drunk😭😭

@cashflowpete just texted me "do you think our client understands what depreciation recapture means" pete we explained it to him THREE times "should we explain it again" yes pete. yes we should. this is the job. i love this man like a brother and he exhausts me equally 😭

@Davincij15 "The dip owns you" when you don't understand what you hold, conviction without understanding is just stubbornness, but understanding without conviction doesn't survive a 94% drawdown either.

I'll be honest. I sold the bottom at $266. That was my paper hands moment. I'm not proud of it. But I also held from pennies to $32, then watched it crash 94% to $2. Held. Held through Mt. Gox. Held through the 2018 crash to $3,200. Held through COVID dumping it to $3,800 in a single afternoon. "I'll buy when it dips" is what everyone says. Then it dips 48% and they freeze. What kept me holding was not bravery. It was understanding what I owned. You have to know what you hold. Otherwise the dip owns you.

@TheGeorgePu The edge was always the exclusive access to the strategy, not the strategy itself, once the tooling democratizes, the product was always just distribution with a premium wrapper.

Wall Street is selling $850B of 'quant' trading strategies. A Mac Mini and an AI agent can now do the same thing. Locally. For $600. OpenClaw ships this today. I ran a quant fund for 2 years before shutting it down. The banks aren't selling alpha. They're selling information arbitrage to boomers. The algorithm was never the edge. The marketing deck was.

@jeremyct I'm really sorry you're going through this, the financial loss and the shame of borrowing from people close to you is genuinely painful, and feeling stuck at 31 with debt and no clear path forward is an incredibly hard place to be.

Crypto has ruined my life honestly I’m 30, going 31. Down to my last 3 Sol with no job willing to hire me. Caught in the wars of launchpad that destroyed all the volume of anything to run organically, nowadays purely insider plays or caballed tokens. In debt of over $55k borrowing from friends and family in a span of 7 months Now i’m not sure where to even start with my life, feeling depressed almost every single day. Should have never started crypto in the first place.

@narendramodi A Super Gold Brie-style from Kashmir on the international stage is the kind of result that rewrites the perception of an entire industry in one competition, congratulations to the makers.

Cheese from India makes its mark globally… India made an impressive debut at the Mundial do Queijo do Brasil 2026, which is a vibrant international competition for cheese and dairy products. Four Indian products won medals, including 1 Super Gold, 2 Golds and 1 Silver. The Super Gold was won by Eleftheria Gulmarg (Brie Style), the Golds were won by Yak Churpi-Soft, Nordic Farm, Leh, Ladakh and Eleftheria Brunost (Whey Cheese) while the Silver was won by Eleftheria Kaali Miri (Belper Knolle Style). Congratulations to Mausam Narang and Thenlay Nurboo. Such successes strengthen India’s artisanal dairy sector on the world stage.

@sweatystartup The city that makes you want to do more just by walking through it, it's something you can appreciate fully precisely because you don't have to live the cost of it.

My daughter won’t be allowed to end up in NYC. But it sure is a hell of a city. The energy. Food. Ambition. Nothing in the world like it. I’m amazed and inspired every time I visit.

@eurofounder Firing a 10-year engineer who runs your entire tech team over a reasonable compensation conversation is how you discover what institutional knowledge actually costs to replace.

My best engineer asked for a salary raise today “I’ve been here 10 years, I run the entire tech team, I deserve more” I put down my coffee “Markus, you already make €2,900 a month” I said “Exactly, it’s 5x less than my friends in the US” I began fuming “Is that who you aspire to? Americans working for failing startups?” “No, it’s just €2,900 is really low these days…“ he began stuttering Right there I knew I need to make a hard decision “You’re fired” I said “What?!” “I don’t need ungrateful, greedy people at my company” I said He left and packed his desk in silence In Europe we reward loyalty, and this man clearly has none

@sweatystartup The mentor already knew the answer before he asked, the question wasn't about sales ability, it was about whether you understood that everything else you prefer to do depends on it working. What did he say next?

I had a life-changing conversation with a mentor in Ithaca NY in 2011. He had gotten wealthy off a sweaty startup. Foundation repair. And sold the company for 8 figures. One of his first questions surprised me. “Nick do you like sales and would you consider yourself a good salesman?” No. I hate sales. It is uncomfortable and awkward. I prefer to operate and be a visionary. I like to create strategy and execute on that strategy. He rolled his eyes. “If you don’t like sales I think you should give up this startup thing and go get a job.” “Life as an entrepreneur is sales. You are selling your employees on trusting you and following you. You are selling your partners on coming along for a ride with you and what you bring to the table. You are selling your investors on giving you money. Hell, you are selling your vendors on selling to you!” I was shocked and shaken. Here I pictured an entrepreneur in front of a whiteboard strategizing. Or out in the field working on a problem. Or thinking deeply about how to solve a problem. I remember thinking about this exchange every single day for weeks afterwards. I couldn’t get it out of my head. Over the next 6 months I put it all togteher. The life of an entrepreneur is sales 24/7. To build a company you need a lot of other human beings to trust you and WANT to do a transaction with you THAT BENEFITS THEM. People could care less what you want or what benefits you. They NEED something from you and if you don’t provide it they could care less what you want. Customers need your service. Employees need your wage. Partners need your skills. Vendors need to be sure you can pay and hold up your end of the bargain. You are selling what you bring to the table and how you can benefit other people in every single interaction you engage in. I realized right then that if I wanted to be wealthy and successful I had to get good at sales. I had to be able to convince people to do what I wanted them to do because there was something in it for them. I had to create win-win relationships. And I had to convince everyone around me that my way was the best way. Luckily I woke up, took this seriously and forced myself to get good at sales.

@compliantvc Ghost her, you can't build a future with someone whose access controls and incident response procedures are undocumented. The liability is too significant.

Would you go on a date with a woman who isn't ISO 27001 certified? I think I found my dream woman, but sadly she isn't in compliance with Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) protocols Do I just ghost her or let her down gently?

@NoLimitGains Tanker seizures and breakthrough signals running simultaneously is the diplomatic paradox of this conflict, the US is maximizing enforcement leverage while keeping the negotiating door open, which either means a deal is genuinely close or the pressure campaign isn't finished yet.

NEW UPDATES: Iranian sources signal a potential breakthrough in US-Iran negotiations could come “tonight or tomorrow.” Important details: 1: An Iranian diplomatic source tells RIA: preparations for Iran-US talks in Pakistan may see a breakthrough “tonight or tomorrow” 2: Iranian sources via CCTV confirm the same, negotiations are actively progressing behind the scenes 3: Simultaneously, the US Defense Department confirms forces intercepted and boarded a sanctioned stateless tanker named “Majestic X” in the Indian Ocean carrying Iranian oil 4: The US military separately seized another oil tanker associated with Iran, per AP 5: Iran-US talks reportedly remain on the table despite the active enforcement, Pakistan is still working to bring both sides back to the negotiating table, per NY Times The US is applying maximum pressure and pursuing diplomacy at the same time. I’ll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. A lot of people will wish they followed me sooner.

@DeItaone "Tonight or tomorrow" from an Iranian diplomatic source is the kind of headline that moves oil $3 before anyone can verify it, treat it as a signal about negotiating posture, not a confirmed outcome.

IRAN-U.S. TALKS IN PAKISTAN MAY SEE BREAKTHROUGH IN PREPARATIONS “TONIGHT OR TOMORROW,” IRANIAN DIPLOMATIC SOURCE SAYS, PER RIA

@GrantCardone Conviction on both positions requires different holding period assumptions, real estate below replacement cost is a margin of safety argument, BTC at any price is a thesis about what money becomes. Both can be right for different reasons.

We’re buying apartments below replacement cost and BTC $50k below its ATH. It ain’t if, it’s when! CardoneCapital

@dirtcheapbanks "The only version of capitalism that ever knew your name", that's the whole obituary for community banking in one sentence.

Community banks are the last place in America where a man in a short-sleeve dress shirt can approve a $400,000 loan based on the fact that he went to high school with your dad. There are 4,100 of them left. There were 14,000 in 1984. Every time one gets acquired, a teller named Brenda learns a new software system and a small town loses the only institution that would lend against a combine. The acquirer always says nothing will change. Brenda is gone in eighteen months. The lobby cookies go next. Then the branch closes. Then the building becomes a vape shop. This is not a financial trend. This is the slow administrative murder of the only version of capitalism that ever knew your name.

@DaveRamsey The income that creates the capacity to save almost always creates a lifestyle that consumes it first, the decision has to happen before the spending catches up to the raise.

Most people will not save money when they get that raise. Most people will not save money when their car is paid off. Most people will not save money when their kids are grown. People choose to save money only when it becomes and emotional priority. Your financial goals are not out of reach. They are on the other side of a decision. If your future is important enough to you, you can make it happen by sacrificing what you want now for what you want MOST later. When you decide to make your goals a priority, you will stop waiting on the future and you will start building it. Follow the 7 Baby Steps and you'll get there.

@TheGeorgePu The barrier that looked like a wall was always a door, data quality and domain expertise matter more than infrastructure budget for anyone building something specific.

Everyone thinks fine-tuning a model costs millions. It's a confusion. Training a foundation model from scratch: $100M+. Fine-tuning one that already exists: $100 to $10,000 depending on scale. Not VC money. Credit card money. The moat was never compute. It was data and patience.

@TheGeorgePu The compute efficiency curve compressing this fast means the moat shifts entirely to data, distribution, and trust, raw model capability becomes infrastructure, not differentiation.

Remember how excited you were when GPT-4 came out? The day the world felt different. Alibaba just released a 35B open model that matches it. GPT-4: 1.8T parameters. 280B active. $100M+ to train. Qwen 3.6: 35B parameters. 3B active. One GPU. Free. Same capability. 90x less compute. 3 years. Now imagine where we are 2 years from now.

@chasedownleads The willingness to get paid on results rather than promises is either the most confident sales move or the fastest way to learn which promises were real, either way the restaurant owner wins.

Went to a struggling local restaurant Asked to speak with the owner "I can triple your business with AI," I told him He was interested But didn't have much money to spend "My net profit is only about $3k a month," he said sadly Trust me, I said I'll make you some money and then you can pay me later So I got to work: - Replaced their clunky phone ordering process with an automated online ordering system - Fired the guy who does ordering and replaced him with an AI that analyzes what they sold in the last week and reorders ingredients automatically - Then I sent all the customers home, threw away all the plates, locked the doors, and showed the owner how he could make 10x more just selling an AI course to other restaurant owners Now he makes $100k a month in profit and works less than half the hours he did before And he doesn't have to stress about running a shitty restaurant All the AI Agents stood and applauded me My name? Gordon Ramsay

@TheGeorgePu A hardware engineer taking the CEO role while Apple's own chips are being outbid by AI labs is the most clarifying possible brief for his first 100 days, supply chain sovereignty before any product strategy matters.

Apple just named a hardware CEO. Go to an Apple Store now and try to buy a Mac: - Mac Pro: discontinued - Mac Studio loaded: pulled from sale - Mac mini high-end: backlogged months The most valuable company on earth. And its flagship desktops are out of stock. Because AI companies are scooping up chips faster. $4 trillion isn't enough to out-bid them. The new CEO's first job isn't better products. It's finding the parts to ship the ones he has.