Matt Tucker

@pitdesi Another barbell market

Brutal- Everlane was supposed to be the anti-SHEIN, now acquired by SHEIN for $100M It was a VC darling when it launched, raising from KP, Khosla, Maveron and others (~$145M raised) I think the bet was that consumers would pay more for ethical, sustainable basics, and that consumer may not really exist at venture scale. The low-end customer wants price. The high-end customer wants brand, taste, status. Everlane is kind of stuck in the middle. It sells “smart basics” at a premium, but I’m not sure people are willing to pay a significant premium for simple clothes over Quince, Uniqlo and Amazon. Maybe the real “radical transparency” was showing everyone how brutal fashion economics can be. Wonder what SHEIN does with it… Will they just make the same clothes in sweatshops now?

@kaiarhodes 👀

This must be why Shein reached out last week.

@ghetto_gronk 😭😭

Aaron Rodgers emerging from his ayahuasca darkness retreat to play a 22nd season

@chrislukehall @kaiarhodes @anatar Impressive !

22 seconds—that's how long it takes for a complete garment to roll off @anatar's automated assembly line. 24 hours a day. Made in the USA. This throughput means 100K garments/month from a single unit, with one operator. "Reindustrialize America" isn't a dream. It’s here.

@Jason Manifesting

Uber is going to be bought by Google/Waymo, Amazon or Tesla/SpaceX in the next year. For a “buy it now” price of $250b, one of those three companies gets a $12b a year free cash flow machine with $70b in revenue — and hundreds of millions of global customers This is the most obvious M&A deal since Instagram, Android and YouTube transformed Meta and Google Discuss

@codyaims @TryOpenX @HiLanden @siber195 @Keva388711 @bbrandonfilm Can’t wait !!

@MatthewTucker @TryOpenX @HiLanden @siber195 @Keva388711 @bbrandonfilm Thank you sir. Will share full photos after contractors finish the workshops and glass walls

I stood inside Skill Factory #000 this week. Surreal Soon we will begin moving our teams from California, Utah, and Florida to all operate in Texas This will be our new HQ

Incredible

Engineering is art

@KennethCassel That’s wild

laser welding is pretty awesome

BIG opportunity. Secular tailwind

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Currently at a restaurant and there are no less than 9 tvs with the sixers game on. This is how I imagine hell to be

Currently reading 3 Body Problem and this banger has stuck with me- “To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science”

@Dylan_Morri 🍿

Hey, should I spec a .0001” tolerance on a 34ft part and refuse to pay until it passes QC? Could be fun, I could buy the CNC machine from the factory sale

At daughters arts and crafts birthday party and young lady running it proudly starts off by saying she is a welder with a massive smile. The kids are gonna be alright 👍

@theblockspot Almost like they should have tried to make some moves before trade deadline this year instead of trading our depth

Sixers in 2018… 2nd Rd L Sixers in 2019… 2nd Rd L Sixers in 2020… 1st Rd L Sixers in 2021… 2nd Rd L Sixers in 2022… 2nd Rd L Sixers in 2023… 2nd Rd L Sixers in 2024… 1st Rd L Sixers in 2025… No Playoffs Sixers in 2026… Down 0-3 in 2nd Rd This is getting old.

@jack_watson_hfw Very cool story !!

“No” started our business. It was the mid 1940s. My great grandfather, Harold Watson, was working at American Magnesium as a maintenance superintendent during WWII. One day, he came across what was then an emerging technology: the spray metal gun. Harold instantly saw the value and wanted to buy one so he could perform more repairs in house. His boss said no. The legend goes that Harold’s response was simple. He said, “well, if you’re not going to buy this, I will.” Thus began the business that would become HFW Industries. Harold started his journey by purchasing the first commercially available spraywelder from Wall Colmonoy — a fellow family owned business we still partner with today. In the process, he became a pioneer of the thermal spray industry. None of this would have happened were it not for that boss saying no. That “no” didn’t just start a company. It helped shape an entire industry: Harold went on to serve as a technical advisor developing the first American Welding Society standards on thermal spraying. Many of these standards remain the foundation for what we and the industry do today. Suffice it to say I believe the saying that “no can be just as powerful as yes”! Pictured: Harold (in the background) and a colleague metallurgically fusing a coating to a large shaft. This is what American industrialism looks like, and we still use the spray and fuse process today!

Mac mini $599 to $799 base price increase the other day 👀

South Philly 🫶