Josh Hubberman 👀

@michaelmiraflor @WillManidis @cxy "What was lost was friction. The argument. The being in the room. The orientation towards something that mattered. The relationship between capital and labor and the transcendent that made something neither could produce alone." ✨ So many more thoughts. Thanks for the @

@WillManidis @cxy @jhubberman

New for @thescga: Every other Thursday night at the Rancho Park GC driving range, something different and poignant is happening. Enjoy this piece on @supermodi and @swangworldwide for the Fall issue of FORE Mag: foremagazine.com/featured/modis… #golf #LosAngeles

A culture of instant gratification cannot produce anything eternal

@jacksondahl 🎯

Sometimes at night I just think about getting to drink coffee the next morning

Pre-@FWBtweets FEST dinner last night. 🤫 @cxy @cthdrl @jhubberman

@michaelmiraflor @FWBtweets @cxy @cthdrl So great having you out!

Like the role of silence between the notes of a song, we often find that the most important part of the work we create is what we choose to leave out. What must be obscured for true meaning to emerge?

"Authorship fragments, patronage returns"

Cultivating space for thoughtful experimentation in and around music; new structures to enable vision and context. Come pull up. Thanks for being the catalyst @cxy ✨

profound is the right word @cxy

@Brendon_Thomas Big

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@Brendon_Thomas @GolfersJournal Forever inspired by your manifesting this thing out of your brain while leaving a mark on this sport!

Over 7 years of @GolfersJournal and the #brokenteesociety. Still can't believe this is all actually happening! Truly grateful for the support of our members. As a thank you, we're doubling the member discount today. Go wild, fam.

@bennygiang @a16zcrypto @futureprimitive @stevejang @jayden_windle Congrats Benny!

Exciting news! We are a part of the @a16zcrypto CSX program this Fall in NYC. @futureprimitive was started by @stevejang, @jayden_windle, and myself on Oct 2021 with a simple idea of bringing human culture onchain. Nearly 3 years later and a ton of trial and error. I can confidently say we've built one of the best teams to take @PERdotMA and @erc6551 to the masses. Fun fact: I've been an avid listener and fanboy of @a16z podcasts, writings, and events since I was a young teenager. I still remember @smc90 opening every show with "Hi everyone welcome to the a16z podcast..." It's truly a dream come true! The teenager inside of me is screaming happily that I get to be apart of this experience. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!! 🙏 Special thanks to those who helped us along the way: @jay_drainjr @carrawu @blauyourmind @0xMasonH @AriannaSimpson

@Brendon_Thomas @GolfersJournal “Golf magazine subscription” elicits some real garbage that doesn’t encapsulate the 🪄 of a @GolfersJournal membership.

@GolfersJournal is still so underground.

A scene is made of people bound by narratives. For there to be narratives, people must experience a journey to find the thing they love. To be interesting, the journey must incorporate friction to overcome and people to relate to. Algorithmic feeds remove friction & people.

@gregisenberg DM incoming.

I'm looking for business partners. People who want to build a portfolio of cash-flowing internet businesses. But first, some context: 4 years ago, I walked away from WeWork. I had sold my company to them, watching as they raised and then incinerated $20 billion. It was unbelievable. Painful. I vowed never to be part of something like that again. In the aftermath, I found myself at a crossroads. This was 2020 and the tech world was obsessed with chasing unicorns, but I wanted something different. Something sustainable. I spoke to the people I respected in Silicon Valley. And declared I wanted to build cash-flowing businesses and raise $0 of VC. They looked at me like I had three heads. "You're going backwards," they said. "You're wasting your time," they warned. "You'll startups will eventually get crushed by VC-backed competition." Damn, lol. But I was tired of my fate hanging on a "yes" from VCs in Palo Alto. I craved control over my destiny. So, against all advice, I started Late Checkout, my holding company. It was profitable from day one - a stark contrast to my WeWork experience and a rarity in VC land. My goal - scale internet businesses powered by community, and on our own terms. The journey wasn't easy. We burned through millions and made more mistakes than I care to admit. But we persisted, and gradually, we cracked the code on scaling SaaS, marketplaces, and agencies. We discovered that the real power lies in building engaged audiences, fostering tight-knit communities, and finding creative ways to grow. Take our agency, @meetLCA, for example. You've probably never heard of it, but we're pulling in clients at an average of $1 million per year creating the interfaces for lots of the AI products and non-AI products you use everyday. It's like we've created a modern hybrid of IDEO and McKinsey, reimagining the future for our clients. And we did it all without a dime of VC money. Just one little funnel that works every single day. This has been the most enjoyable chapter of my career. I highly recommend holdcos for internet companies. You might enjoy it too. So, who am I looking for in a business partner: Maybe you're a solopreneur, and it's getting lonely. You've built something great, but you're hitting a ceiling. Or perhaps you're running a VC-backed startup, but you're dreaming of turning it into a cash-flowing powerhouse. (And maybe buying out your VCs – I can help with that.) Or you might be an indiehacker who builds incredible products that just aren't getting the attention they deserve. If any of these sound like you, here's what I'm offering: For businesses doing $500k-$5M, we could acquire a stake and scale it together. For those starting something new with a solid track record, we might provide the capital you need. Yes, you'll share the pie. But you won't go it alone. You'll work directly with me and my team. We'll be there to unblock you when you're stuck, to unstick you when you're trapped. We bring our playbook, our network, and our capital to the table. This isn't a distant, "call me quarterly" arrangement. We're in the trenches with you, day in and day out, helping you build something truly remarkable. This is the type of thing that sounds fun to me. And might sound fun to you. So, I decided I'd put it out there. So here’s my ask of you: 1) If this sounds like you DM and reply to this post. Ill respond to the most interesting ones 2) If this isn’t you, all good. Like always, I’ll share my learnings along the way. It feels like internet startups are at a crossroads. More and more are choosing the non-VC route. Id love to work with you.

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@JackSpallone @factory__fm @bigvibessss is the truthhhhhh

My goal today was to chat with Yuri, the most active user of @factory__fm, about why he spent the weekend using the app. When I reached out to him, he told me he already wrote something he could share. Yuri is a poet. Some things he wrote, for me, capture the essence of what I love about Factory. Some examples: "The invitation to talk about music awakens some strange compulsion in me that wants to be seen and brings me joy."


 "Building a personal cartography of albums feels beautiful and magical. I could talk about music in this way all day." Thank you @bigvibessss 🙏 Read the full post and comment (and support Yuri!): inpublic.fun

@Brendon_Thomas @Titleist I prefer boring L-to-L dinker 72’s

The new @Titleist GT Drivers have me excited about playing golf in ways I had forgotten about.