chris dankberg

@realEstateTrent Ny?

This is not a post about X

@conorsen Great point. Been wondering the same. Nobody has asked that question. Doesn’t seem great

If the progression of pro sports ownership is billionaires -> private equity groups then in the end won’t there be some sort of publicly-traded index product for PE groups to get some exit liquidity?

@jamesonhaslam Milk was a bad choice

If one more person tells me to create an AI agent for this I will drive off the Coronado bridge

@sportsrapport 🙋‍♂️

Proud/ashamed to admit I knew this was the New Haven train station

@austin_rief Uhhh. No

It feels like everyone I know living in top east coast cities (NYC, Boston, DC, Philly) is either moving to Florida or thinking about moving to Florida.

@ModeledBehavior @garrytan They can own more than one. But its even harder to get the second than the first.

@garrytan At Chick-fil-a, franchisees are only allowed to own a single location because the expectation is they will be in founder mode and very highly engaged in that one location.

I went to BJ's Restaurant last night with my kids. The bathroom was disgusting. The front of house was kind but sloppy and slow. The food upset my stomach and I woke up at 4am this morning because of it. Whoever BJ is, they probably aren't a real person, because everyone acted like nobody's name is on the door. I studied the management history of BJ's. The original founders left after the seventh location. Then it was sold to their accountants. Then it went public. Then the CEO resigned last year after 19 years and was replaced by an interim board member from Darden Restaurants, who was then replaced by a "Chief Concept Officer" promoted to CEO. The CFO also quit. Roaches behind the takeout counter in Coral Springs. Rodent droppings and mold in the ice machine in Pembroke Pines. An "F" retention score on Comparably. Glassdoor reviews that say "management turnover is high... that should say quite a bit about the company culture." Seven layers of management between the person cooking your food and anyone who owns the outcome. General manager reports to area director reports to regional director reports to regional VP reports to SVP of Operations reports to the COO (who started in January) reports to the CEO (who started last year). 218 locations. Founders long gone. Managers rotate every 18 months. The kitchen is run by compliance checklists, not pride. A dirty bathroom is nobody's personal failure because it's nobody's personal restaurant. This is the stewardship crisis in America in one building. In Chinese restaurants, the 老板 (laoban) is there. He tastes the food. He watches the kitchen. His family's reputation is the business. The restaurant is clean not because of health inspectors but because his name is on it. Haidilao built a $30B hot pot chain with less than 10% employee turnover. Servers can give you free dishes without asking a manager. Why? Because they're treated like stewards, not interchangeable parts. The West replaced stewardship with professional management. MBAs who optimize spreadsheets for people they've never met. CEOs who've never touched the product they sell. Politicians who sign the bills and spend the people's money but never checked the money built anything that helped the people they claimed to care about. Founder mode isn't new. It's the oldest idea in Chinese business culture. We just forgot it. The best founders I fund at YC are natural stewards. They own the outcome. They're in the kitchen tasting the food. They care about the bathroom. Most of society's problems are a stewardship crisis. Not a lack of resources or technology or intelligence. A lack of people who give a shit because their name is on it.

@TevinMcreynolds @DarnayTripp Jamie moyer had a long and fruitful career

@DarnayTripp Uhhh not really. Check the FB velocity.

Lucas Giolito through two innings: pretty good!

@BrendanPorath Elite tuite 👏

Tommy Gainey watching from home

At some point we all have to reckon with what the Bay Area becomes/is. I was also there in the mid to late aughts (and left). Its been powering the economy for 30+ yrs. Up to all of us to decide if we’re still ok with that. A lot easier to overlook the dark stuff when you’re not in it everyday.

@MikeIsaac Yeah, if the person saying it is 23-25 then fine whatever.

My whole thing is beyond a certain age (30 for most people), it’s better to find a place that’s stimulating but more supportive of leading a balanced life than trying to play these lottery ticket games that so few win:

@kendallbaker Well. First among them is the ‘remote’ itself. But for bars it’s mostly just trying to figure out what conforms, how do you wire the Tvs. Dtv made it easy. Its anything but.

@chris_dankberg I'm working on a story as we speak! What's been your experience?

Is it? It's 2026. Streaming isn't some new concept. If a sports bar doesn't have Prime (which bars can get through DirecTV), another one will

@theHillisHome @buffalobergendc @BullfrogBagels CYM and pop up too?

Hmmm. Pearl’s in 2nd place is solid but where are @buffalobergendc and @BullfrogBagels in this ranking?

@buccocapital @davidsenra 😂😂

@davidsenra Enjoy your work but candidly hard to make sense of your hostility toward introspection when your entire show is built on asking people to introspect about their success

Dana White on why he doesn’t believe in introspection: “If you just sit around and talk about your fucking problems all the time it actually makes it worse. I never take in any negativity. I literally block it out. I block all the noise out. Like these guys who report on what we're doing that have no clue on what we're doing? Why would I want to hear anything they have to say? They're zeroes. They've literally never done anything in their life, especially in this business. Why would I listen to anything that they have to say?” CC @pmarca

@RSI_Lance Larry Wayne Headley

Happy birthday to former hot corner stalwart Chase Headley, whose fine career is unfairly considered a disappointment because he went absolutely fucking bananas in 2012. baseball-reference.com/players/h/head…

@sdutkirKDKenney @Padres @AztecBaseball This was great, Kirk.

Thoughts about Tony Gwynn today on what would have been his 66th birthday got me thinking about his sweet swing — on a golf course in Iowa. @Padres @AztecBaseball sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/09/kir…

@buccocapital Great rec!

I recently re-read this collection of essays by Joseph Mitchell. He perfected the art of narrative nonfiction and is probably your favorite writer’s favorite writer He famously had writer’s block for the last 30 years of his career. He kept showing up to his office at The New Yorker, kept working, but never published another piece for three decades I’d start with his essay “The Old House at Home” about McSorley’s Old Ale House, the oldest bar in New York newyorker.com/magazine/1940/…

@jc_bradbury Thats not the only conclusion

This is team propaganda, not a realistic description of the Whitecap's financial state. How do the owners expect to sell a team for $500 million if they've really lost this much money? Answer: The team isn't losing money.

@landforce Cc @jasonc_nc

This is so sick. You can import a whole range of late 90’s Toyota obscurities for like dirt cheap now because they’re over 25 years old. My neighbor has a 4x4 diesel fire truck that’s just a 4 Runner on the inside. $13k landed with broker fees.

Mason Miller Joins the DSG! - Life as an elite closer - Change of scenery from Oakland / Sac to SD - His Walk Out Song - How the Trade went down - How fast can he throw - Much More Real Talk. Couldn't of been a cooler dude. We're lucky to have him in SD youtube.com/watch?v=MFIE56…

@conorsen @BullandBaird No Homeland is criminal

@BullandBaird The Bear at #6 is just trolling.

Band of Brothers at 44 is a crime.