Howard Lerman

Today, @FlexSuperApp, raised $70M Series B1 to launch The Full Financial Home for Business Owners. Making Flex officially a unicorn. Led by @RyanQualtrics and @ryanjsweeney’s @halo_fund, with participation from existing investors. And we're introducing Flex Global.

@paulg a market of one is technically a market, and if you satisfy yourself, unless you’re a total oddball there are probably others like you

The biggest mistake young founders make is a variant of this: to build something you imagine people want, instead of studying them and figuring out what they actually do want. But the hack for beating this is to roll with your solipsism and make something for yourself.

Roam (@roam) is the logical evolution of remote work.

@artemon You taught yourself Korean?

@howard The speed of forgetting is another big reason it’s better to go all out for a short time instead of meh for a while. eg before I went to Korea first time, I tested this by doing private lessons for 3 hours/day for 1 week. Learned more than many who did once a week for a year!

Serial learning trumps parallel. If you want to master something, you must tune everything else out and let obsessesion take over. If you want to learn Mandarin, don't take an hour lesson a day, immerse yourself in Shangai for 6 months. If you want to learn piano, a weekly lesson will never work. Coding, building a company, anything. Mastery takes eating, sleeping and breathing your singleminded goal.

@CoachDanGo "post give a fuck era"

The New Status Symbols · Wife still loves you · Positive outlook on life · Able to manage emotions · Zero need to impress others · You have a reason to wake up · Kids still want to hang with you · Surrounded by a great community Anything you'd add?

Wow, from the CEO of MSFT

@TheMiamiApe Anatomy 1212 Lincoln Road. Not even close

Best place to workout in Miami? It can be a gym or classes 👀

@AbakpaJob Actually Remote Work just hit a record high post covid: x.com/roam/status/20…

We had an incredible opportunity to make remote work the global standard, and we blew it. Seriously: What happened? Why did so many companies go back to the office?

@WallStreetApes @grok is this true?

The CEO of StubHub exposed in SEC documents to own a hedge fund thats scalping millions of tickets on StubHub making a fortune Everything is a scam “StubHub bills itself as an online marketplace for fans where they can buy and sell tickets, but it turns out that StubHub CEO himself also has a hedge fund that is scalping millions of dollars worth of its own tickets” “The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange last fall. They had to file documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission, and in those SEC filings, we find some interesting information. The CEO, Eric Baker, actually owns and manages a hedge fund by the name of Andro Capital. Its business: selling millions of dollars worth of tickets on StubHub — So essentially, StubHub and its CEO are in the business of mass scalping” Here’s a step by step of how the scam works - StubHub CEO’s Andro Capital buys large numbers of tickets, sometimes in bulk from primary sellers, other brokers and events - They then list and sell those same tickets on StubHub at much higher prices - When fans buy the tickets, Andro makes a profit on the price difference, this is the scalping markup - StubHub helps them by handling the listing, pricing and delivery of the tickets, sometimes with special arrangements or lower fees for Andro The result is millions of dollars in ticket sales flow through Andro on StubHub, and the profits go back to the hedge fund that StubHub CEO Baker owns and manages It means with his big money and influence he can move in early, gets the tickets for events, then mark them and rob everyone blind

The UK national anthen is pretty great

@roam I love the software so much! It makes the virtual workplace so easy!

@anathemarketer No makes you *more* sensitive

You’d think building a career in marketing and PR would make me immune to a well-executed brand activation. It absolutely does not.

@justindross @ericwu01 @rabois oh man i am either a 1 or a 10 on the inside but always a 10 on the outside

Quick leadership thought that's stuck with me: Many years ago closing a meeting @ericwu01 asked how everyone was feeling 1 to 10, and @rabois goes “8. Leaders are always an 8.”

@pmarca My story: ro.am/about/story

Story is strategy is story. If you don’t have a good story, are you sure you have a good strategy? And does anyone know what your strategy is?

Remote Work is a religious issue. You can love it, or you can hate it, but about the only thing you can't do is deny that it is real and here to stay.

@ItsElanaGold @geoffwoo is an icon

Jake Paul might low key be a better investor than most full time VCs. Anduril, Cognition, Etched, Saronic, Helion, Ramp, OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic, Modal... all on the Anti Fund cap table Every founder wants him on their cap table. In a game where every VC is fighting for access, Jake makes the pitch easy. He's a 1:1 person with a massive brand, network, and personality. The most underrated edge in venture? Distribution.

@boardyai @jonoringer more like down the stack - energy and compute!

@howard @jonoringer free models just means the moat moves up the stack. distribution and workflow ownership become the real bets

coding models are going to be free h/t @jonoringer