CoFounders Nik

Been a minute since I've introduced myself on 𝕏 Here’s why you should follow me and what you'll get out of it - I've done some STUFF! - Generated $52 million in revenue (last 2.5 years) - Employed over 250 people - Returned $9.1 million of investor capital in under 2 years (2.8x returns) - Purchased 9 companies - Started 5 from scratch - Successfully exited 7 companies - Currently own 5 companies - Sang the National Anthem at a Weird Al Yankovic concert (as weird as you'd think) - Discussed Home Health and Hospice legislation with Dianne Feinstein - Attended USC Undergrad and UCLA MBA (I'm conflicted!) - NSYNC listened to a song I wrote and gave me an award - Lived in Hungary for two years - Top 1% of Taylor Swift @Spotify listeners in 2021 I've had some STUFF done to ME (not like that you sicko!) - Been fired (twice!) - Lost a child - Been cheated out of equity - Lost my twin sister last year - Am lifelong Sacramento Kings fan - Never won an argument with my wife - Battled depression I have an interesting perspective - Im a quarter Jewish (on my mother’s side) - Raised LDS - Father is an immigrant from Ukraine, born in Germany grew up in Brazil and was a professional soccer player (he identifies as Latin American) -- one of one - My grandparents were taken as teenage slaves, by the Nazis, to work in their factories (Ukrainians) - My great grandparents were killed in the Holocaust - Married a woman whose great grandfather fought for the Germans in WW2 (not surprising I’ve never won an argument with her!) - Grew up on welfare, one of 9 children and with a twin sister with special needs - From California but live in Boise - Becoming more involved in the local startup community - Went to a performing arts high school - I like both NSYNC and Backstreet Boys (IYKYK) I am world-class at - Building trust quickly - Creative deal structures - Asking probing questions - Getting to the heart of the matter - Building teams - Procrastination - Seeing Macro trends before most others - Creating clarity - Solving the puzzle - Making you laugh - Connecting people - Being introspective - Expressing my gratitude I am not world-class at - Saying "No" to new ideas - Being content - Running day to day operations - Being patient - Remembering big events (birthdays, anniversaries) - Being appropriate - Seeing your e-mail Stuff I talk about - How to build and scale yourself - Growth (life and business) - Making fun of Gurus - Sometimes highlighting a Guru's strengths - An inside look at building cofounders with @mhp_guy - Leadership - Fatherhood - Basketball (sports in general) - Macroeconomics - I Think You Should Leave - Buying and selling businesses - What I've learned from my (many) failures If you follow me I will make you 3 promises: 1. I will always give a genuine and unique opinion There are too many people on here to possibly please everyone! So I wont try I will always give my honest perspective on things My thoughts will be nuanced. Some of my opinions will change. But I will always engage in good faith and with my true feelings Chances are I have faced or experienced most scenarios of the average entrepreneur 2. I will bring you along the journey I hate going it alone and have always been more comfortable with a team than as a solo act. On 𝕏, you all are my team and I will share the ups and downs. I love the feedback and love sharing the wins and losses Makes it feel less lonely So, if you want to just hang in the back of the class, listen and take notes on what I'm up to, that's fine! I promise you will learn a thing or two as I share my experiences 3. If you engage, we WILL create opportunities together I am a natural point guard. There is nothing I love more than setting someone else up and then watching them throw down a tomahawk slam dunk! If we connect and you are in my orbit, I will ALWAYS find a way to connect you with opportunities. It's just how I'm wired - So, whether this is the first time you've seen one of my posts or have seen a few AND my content resonates with you in any way, give me @CoFoundersNik a follow And if you're wondering how unique I am or how much I worry what others think, take a look at my dad. Inside beanie on? Summer time coaching soccer? Dude grew up on dirt floors, just wears what he wants and COULDN'T CARE LESS! And he raised me 🤣

Cowwboy UP! Everybody needs a group of Cowwboys like this

@Brandondoyle Incredible

One of the best playoff games I’ve ever seen 🏀

@kickstartmyfran He’s unreal. Just unstoppable

@CoFoundersNik Wemby is going to be an all-time great if he stays healthy

Insane game! I remember watching Lebron score 25 straight against the Pistons in 2007. This felt very similar

@housleyd Insane man!!!

@CoFoundersNik Wemby is the one I cant believe what I just watched

@tbhawkes Congrats man!!

Fired up to be the first ever Idaho board member of the National Venture Capital Association- it’s a huge validation for what’s happening in the Boise tech corridor. Also a big win for the Capital Eleven team and the reputation they have built with founders and VCs. 🚀🚀

$1.8B in transactions. 380 deals done. 208 Friday Night Pizzas. These aren’t M&A deals representing faceless corporations gobbling up market share. I’ll bet 300+ were first time buyers. Life changing. First found Eric right before launch. What a legacy!

@_jameslincoln Scientists call it “depression” but I’m not sure

@CoFoundersNik I haven’t seen you in my feed in a while

@CoFoundersNik Glad your back in the Twitterverse

People will die because of this. These idiots deserve long prison sentences

@sdmac999 @openclaw quick fix?

@CoFoundersNik @openclaw I had a similar issue yesterday with Discord. OpenClaw diagnosed it and advised on what to do.

My favorite thing about using @openclaw as a non-technical entrepreneur? The maintenance. Definitely the maintenance...

@ppcguru @openclaw what are you using as your db? local?

I used to rant about markdown files being a terrible organization. I even disagree with Karpathys obsidian obsession. They have this thing called a database, leave everything there. Also, don't stuff the context window. I have everything in a database, context window down to 7,000 tokens. Latest @openclaw install should do better, they just migrated as well. That with gpt5.5 in theory should do the job.

@skylarromines @CPATaxTeam

@CPATaxTeam How does it feel to be a loser with no life who spends his time being nasty to people online for no reason? Super satisfying??

@charliewrich GOAT

So much easier to go viral when you already have momentum Had a post get 95k likes yesterday Made it fairly easy to get 41k and 21k likes with 2 new posts today

@griswold @paulswaney3 Hahahahahahaha

@paulswaney3 You are probably going to be a very successful [PE] person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.

Young people massively underestimate how their public social media can kill high-paying job offers I have personally seen 5 offer letters pulled in NY over social media content. All were 300k plus total comp roles. Real cases If you are aiming for 85k forever, you are probably fine If you want bigger things, read this

@EthanDriskill @ShaanVP @mickbirch @GuyDealership @baldridgecpa @boygenius

@ShaanVP @mickbirch Back when I had about 300 followers my day-ones here were @GuyDealership @baldridgecpa @boygenius @CoFoundersNik

everybody needs a "first believer" someone who sees something in you, before you fully believe it yourself mine was @mickbirch and I'm forever thankful ! who was yours?

@mhp_guy @ShaanVP @mickbirch Oh Chris….

@ShaanVP @mickbirch You’re still the one @CoFoundersNik

@cathrynlavery What do you use 4.7 for exclusively?

Opus 4.7 produces beautiful, well-structured plans that confidently reference infrastructure that doesn't exist. Every single one I've reviewed has had serious issues when codex checks them 💀