Nick Bear

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Nick Bear

Nick Bear

@luxuryfounder

Building a luxury medical device company - starting with the most effective anti-aging topical ever engineered.

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Nick Bear
Nick Bear@luxuryfounder·
@thedulab And planet fitness is $25/month. All the equipment 99% of people need and clean showers.
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$16/month unlimited biking to get anywhere in the city. $6 roasted meat over rice, $5 10 dumplings, $7 haircut in Chinatown. $1.50 pizza slices everywhere. $12 lamb over rice at Kebab Express and Halal Munchies etc enough for 2 meals. $3 coffee and pastries at Matto. Countless deals combined with BOGO offers on Uber Eats that come out to $5-10 per meal if you pick up Don't subject yourself to neurotic tomfoolery if you don't have to but if you ever have the urge to cosplay first world squalor then rest easy knowing you have the overnight ability to save hundreds of dollars per month at any given moment without needing to introduce additional friction to or materially perturb the flow of daily life
ted@tednotlasso

hot take: manhattan is relatively affordable outside of its main bottleneck - rent - if you're willing to forego the luxury layer its functional layer is very low-cost: public transport (big one), coffee, pizza, delis, free parks + museums + events most people want luxury tho

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Nick Bear@luxuryfounder·
@realEstateTrent More wealthy people created post-covid than lifestyle infrastructure to support them. A great show of this is Lake Como. The top end hotels are primarily patronized by Americans, which means a huge % are New Yorkers. ADRs have increased 45-50% since 2019.
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StripMallGuy@realEstateTrent·
Not sure what is going on right now, but if you’re looking for an apartment, a nanny, or trying to get your kid into a private school on the upper east side of nyc, you’re in for a shock.
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Michael J. Miraflor
Michael J. Miraflor@michaelmiraflor·
Among my hottest takes are: - Disney adults (esp with no kids) are ruining it for families by inflating the cost of everything. - Disney adults should seek therapy to deal with childhood issues, not more trips to Disneyland. - Disney should not cater to Disney adults. It’s for families. It’s for the kids.
The New Yorker@NewYorker

For the most devoted fans, Disney has engineered an ecosystem of financial entanglement that goes far deeper than park tickets or merchandise, which keeps the magic—and the debt—perpetually compounding. In 2023, Ashley, a freshman at Quinnipiac University, in Connecticut, had $15,000 in her bank account. Excited by her newfound freedom as a college student, she decided to start going on solo trips. Walt Disney World, in Orlando, Florida, seemed like an obvious choice. She went during her winter break. Then she returned, six times, in two years. Soon enough, her account balance had dwindled to just five dollars. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many adults who have accumulated Disney debt seem to be chasing a feeling from their childhoods. One woman, who has been to Disney World more than a hundred times, said that visiting the parks takes her back to a time when she had fewer worries: “It’s the nostalgic feeling of what brought you joy when you were little and you didn’t have the stressors of adult life.” Read more about the Disney adults putting themselves in debt for the pursuit of magic: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_JqtFg

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Nick Bear@luxuryfounder·
@VirtualElena for everyone asking how to get started...just subscribe to the New Yorker and get access to every single issue for the past hundred years.
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Elena@VirtualElena·
the amount of alpha lying latent in archival issues of soft talk, wired, spy, the new yorker, etc is unparalleled and largely un-mined and while this might be sacrilegious to say in the age of monitoring the situation, i truly believe that the best way to understand the present is just read a bunch of longform from the 80s/90s and understand the past in a way that most people who lived through it can’t even conceptualize
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Nick Bear@luxuryfounder·
If you are celebrating a life milestone at a restaurant, hit the easy button and go to a Danny Meyer restaurant. They will make it memorable and have zero service hiccups.
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Nick Bear@luxuryfounder·
Anyone going to Luxe Pack nyc next week?
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Nick Bear@luxuryfounder·
@TASH__P congrats! our started at just a few months. it will go great.
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TASH@TASH__P·
Today’s my daughters first day at daycare ❤️( read this with this tee grizzley - first day out intro instrumental in the background )
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Nick Bear@luxuryfounder·
@kalesha Wild decision making. 'this one small part of our brand reinvention is just for cool people in greater LA, and the rest of it is for you masses.' Feels like they could have also picked one nice store in a major Texas market.
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kalesha@kalesha·
you isolate audiences when they can only participate in drops digitally you isolate audiences when you only invite white nyc influencers on a brand trip you isolate audiences when you put a sephora inside a kohls to make things 'accessible' but dont place marquee products in store you isolate audiences when your artist only tours major markets there's a reason why niche creators convert higher, there's a reason why real beauty lovers buy direct from the brand, there's a reason why salt lake city is the best US tour stop there's power in the niche. there's power in creating meaning for the sake of meaning. there's power in doing things unconventionally.
kalesha@kalesha

I have lots of thoughts on drop culture, specifically the gap x VB collection it sold out online almost immediately & you can only get it in store at the grove, santa monica, crystal cove, & irvine spectrum I understand why drops are only available at select retail locations but its very isolating to the average customer

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Nick Bear@luxuryfounder·
I've been talking to a European enzyme and reagents company to understand if they can help me with something. It's reassuring to see this response from Claude.
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Nick Bear@luxuryfounder·
@kalesha That makes sense. They are actually living life in them.
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kalesha@kalesha·
I don’t think Louboutins are for everyone in the same the way attending a bar would be. but it’s very obvious in how the young it girls post that Loub culture is back in a way I haven’t seen since maybe early Instagram days. they’re dancing in them, going out in them, subtle flexes of red bottoms in photos. I think the only difference this time is they love posting the red bottoms all scuffed up.
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kalesha@kalesha·
who is writing about the resurgence of Louboutins amongst Gen Z
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Andrew Ettinger 🇺🇸
Andrew Ettinger 🇺🇸@ettinger·
Introducing USVC — a new fund from @AngelList, for individual investors, starting at $500. One investment for exposure to private tech companies — from early-stage startups to companies scaling toward IPO. → usvc.com Venture capital funded the early stages of nearly every major tech company you use today. But historically, most people couldn't invest until the IPO, when the early growth was already captured. USVC is how you invest in venture capital. The portfolio already includes xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, Sierra, Vercel, Crusoe, and Legora. USVC is the venture layer of your portfolio. @ankurnagpal is leading USVC as GP / Portfolio Manager, @naval is the Chairman of Investment Committee, and @cyantist @ariellezuck and Jeff Fagnan are joining as advisors. The future has shareholders. Become one of them.
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Nick Bear@luxuryfounder·
I imagine that French-origin fashion was the default "cool" choice that required absolutely no thinking. People that succeed in an uncool field will try to find a way into the default cool fields of fashion & entertainment. I think about this in terms of Bannon, Mnuchin, and even Bezos and others - you can have all the financial security from your uncool industry, but the allure of acceptance by fashion & entertainment is always there. It is *so* cool to have a producer credit.
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Michael J. Miraflor
Michael J. Miraflor@michaelmiraflor·
You’d think given their brand positioning, Palantir would base their merch off of iconic Americana vs… a French chore coat silhouette. An iconic item with roots in French blue collar work, and Bill Cunningham (legendary fashion photog). The opposite of American exceptionalism.
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Nick Bear@luxuryfounder·
I listened to a podcast a few years ago with this guy who runs a concierge service for wealthy people. He said something along the lines of If you have a private jet, there are a lot of people you need to show up to work to put your jet in the air. The guys that fuel it up, fix it, work the ramp, etc. And they all need to make a good income to support their families and to feel valued and supported. People seem to forget that.
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Nick Bear@luxuryfounder·
@VictoriaFutures @internpierre does this on the reg. asks very direct/detailed questions to SAs and gets phenomenal intel on how the brand is doing and what types of people are buying
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Victoria Buchanan@VictoriaFutures·
have been spending a lot of time in retail and sales associates are such an untapped fountain of knowledge that more brands should be in conversation with on the regular.
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Nick Bear@luxuryfounder·
@RosenZone I am really looking forward to this. I have half a can of zero every night w/ dinner and I wish the caffeine free was more readily available in the US
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Nate Rosen
Nate Rosen@RosenZone·
Respectfully, what is the point...
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Nick Bear@luxuryfounder·
@thekingmob I truly hope the attendance numbers are abysmal.
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James Denman
James Denman@thekingmob·
Absolutely crazy shit. (And i’m going to the England game at Metlife). A proper pisstake in a series of pisstakes. Maybe some classic England away behavior will ensue.
Adam Crafton@AdamCrafton_

Exclusive @TheAthleticFC New Jersey’s NJ Transit this week discussed pricing close to or around $150 for round trip from New York Penn Station to MetLife for World Cup games. Earlier this week, we reported it would be $100+. This is *even* higher. nytimes.com/athletic/72024…

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Nick Bear@luxuryfounder·
@landforce "GTM" is such a funny rebrand. My day business is b2b healthcare technology, so every so often new founders ask me for advice on starting up their "g2m motion." And I'm like..."so you wanna learn how to create a lead list and sell to them?"
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Colin Landforce 🛠
Colin Landforce 🛠@landforce·
I don’t think this is sexism - I think it’s just another example of tech’s disdain for marketing. “GTM” is the apex example of this. It’s literally just sales and marketing but SV culture looks down on that so they rebrand. “Marketing Manager” became “Head of Growth” to protect the fragile egos of nerds. “Solutions Architect” lol Weird world
yammi@sighyam

just watched this lady’s video where she argues that the language surrounding marketing roles is going through a rebrand/process of masculinisation in order to make them sound new/data driven and “serious” for men

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@thedulab @realEstateTrent @michaelmiraflor @VirtualElena @TASH__P @johnfio_ @kalesha @ettinger