Jeff Hazard

@BuzzPatterson Yes! Gardnerville, Minden, Genoa - great spots!

Any peeps live on the Reno area? Either burbs or downtown? What are your thoughts about living there?

@Chris_Orlob Agree - curiosity and biz acumen are key in today’s economy - would also include Grit - they gotta really want it…..

I talk to 3-5 Chief Revenue Officers every week. Guess what we talk about? What separates their best reps from others. Here’s 4 patterns I hear every week:

@petergyang Tahoe, Carmel, SF,Napa, North Bay Coast, Yosemite, Shasta / Mt Lassen - great weather for hiking or playing golf / pickle any where in the Bay burbs

Life in the Bay Area burbs with family - Costco, library, and playgrounds. Been to the zoos, cal academy, and Golden Gate Park many times as well. Want to do something other than work and vibe code but kinda bored out of our minds tbh 😅

@samdblond Congrats @samdblond - fantastic hire of @BobbyLukeman as well! Champagne drop looks familiar!!!

We're launching Monaco today. Monaco automates customer acquisition and revenue growth for startups. The platform disrupting sales with AI has finally arrived.

@grantcohn What?

Brock Purdy is playing like Jimmy Garoppolo tonight.

@Wejolyn Sorry for your loss - prayers to your family - awful

My son passed away last night, he was hit by a car. I will probably not be on X for some days. I’m just trying to deal with the shock and the absolute destructive pain of this.

@Hadas_Gold Or maybe those that know David know that he is a man of integrity and cares deeply for America and its interests…

I’d love to see the texts behind the scenes getting everyone to post these types of messages

@DavidSacks Horrible story. Thank goodness we have @DavidSacks in this role for the U.S. government. David has put country before himself….

INSIDE NYT’S HOAX FACTORY Five months ago, five New York Times reporters were dispatched to create a story about my supposed conflicts of interest working as the White House AI & Crypto Czar. Through a series of “fact checks” they revealed their accusations, which we debunked in detail. (Not surprisingly the published article included only bits and pieces of our responses.) Their accusations ranged from a fabricated dinner with a leading tech CEO, to nonexistent promises of access to the President, to baseless claims of influencing defense contracts. Every time we would prove an accusation false, NYT pivoted to the next allegation. This is why the story has dragged on for five months. Today they evidently just threw up their hands and published this nothing burger. Anyone who reads the story carefully can see that they strung together a bunch of anecdotes that don’t support the headline. And of course, that was the whole point. At no point in their constant goalpost-shifting was NYT willing to update the premise of their story to accept that I have no conflicts of interest to uncover. As it became clear that NYT wasn’t interested in writing a fair story, I hired the law firm Clare Locke, which specializes in defamation law. I’m attaching Clare Locke’s letter to NYT so readers have full context on our interactions with NYT’s reporters over the past several months. Once you read the letter, it becomes very clear how NYT willfully mischaracterized or ignored the facts to support their bogus narrative.

@NTmoney You are up early Nick!

The thing about “elites” is there are people who are truly elite at what they do. Those people push society forward and must be celebrated. But there are many more deceptive elites who are not at all great at what they do but act like they are. They tend to have a zero sum mindset and seek to keep society stagnant to keep their slice of the pie. Beware of deceptive elites.

@sweatystartup Read the Defining Decade - hits many of your points!

My advice for 18 year olds: 1) Avoid the 3 Vs (video games, vaping, vorts betting) and it will be impossible not to succeed. 2) If you meet a beautiful girl you can trust, don't be an idiot. Marry her. 35 years old and single will sneak up on you and the best girls get wifed up quick. 3) Getting it out of your system is a myth. The travel and exploration will form bad habits and come back to bite you later. 4) Nobody wants to hire you out of college. Your only asset is energy. Bring the energy to everything you do. Respond to emails instantly. Find things you can improve and get after it. 5) If you're motivated by money, learn to sell. Sales people are the highest paid people at every company. 6) If you can't handle your booze, stay away from it. 7) NYC is overrated. Plus you could get sucked in and end up 35 and single, which is the disaster scenario.

@redwood_ryan_a Xero!!!

Quickbooks is boiling me like a frog. 26% price increase across 5 entities in 18 months. It's just a couple dollars here and there but I'm realizing that this is just going to continue indefinitely and I'm just not here for that. Has anyone found a viable alternative?

@shawngorham Choose Xero

Quickbooks raises prices like storage bros in 2021 Subscription fatigue is real I pay for 5 entities - this adds up quick. Quickbooks going online was the best thing intuit ever did (for themselves) Use to buy a new version every other year for $100 and had unlimited entities and files. Rant over - this is one of those expenses I hate to pay.

@APompliano Defining Decade

You have to recommend one book to a young person to prepare them for a career in the business world. What are you recommending?

@immad @mercury @sequoia @sparkcapital @MarathonMP @coatuemgmt @CRV @a16z Congrats @immad

1/ Today, @Mercury announced a $300 million Series C in a mix of primary & secondary funding at a $3.5B valuation, led by @Sequoia, with participation from @sparkcapital, @MarathonMP, @coatuemgmt, @CRV, & @a16z. I’m deeply humbled by the growth we’ve experienced. 🧵

@sal_castaneda LEGEND

Sad news: legendary KTVU anchor Dennis Richmond has died. He was 81 years old. ktvu.com/news/legendary…

@wildland_zko @elonmusk - Zeke does great work trying to eliminate fire risk in Northern CA. How can we make sure he continues to get funding? His programs drive a strong ROI. Saving the Feds and CA $ in fighting wildfires.@wildland_zko

We got news today that due to Trump's new executive order freezing all Federal grants (paused by a Judge today), we might have to stop work on a project we are doing to map wildfire threats and design thinning and burning projects adjacent to communities across Plumas County. The same USDA grant program is paying for similar work we are doing for Shasta and Yuba Counties. Are we supposed to lay off our entire staff until DC gets their shit together? Does anyone in government know how hard it is to retain skilled people? I'm not sure if many people understand how much of the U.S. economy, especially in rural parts of America, relies on Federal grant money. The grant freeze (among many other things) would halt most of the wildfire hazard reduction projects in the country, stop most road/highway projects, shut down most rural clinics or drug treatment programs, delay delivery of fire trucks and rescue apparatus to fire departments, and lay off most Federal contractors, including loggers and off-season firefighters who are working on fuels thinning jobs for the US Forest Service. Disruption is needed, but uncertainty is bad for business and hurts a lot of people that just want to do the work.

@MaioccoNBCS Yes!!!!!

Done deal. Robert Saleh is the 49ers’ defensive coordinator.

@AustinJenkins07 Good always beats evil….

Also some cool color on how this was a true sliding doors moment We were driving from Philly to DC for Army Navy doing pizza all the way. Had been in the car for about 8 hours, done about 10 reviews, and we had just called it a day.

@BrettFavre Class act

Mark definitely left an indelible mark on the game. I hope this controversy brings attention to just how great Mark Gastineau was. He belongs in Canton. Merry Christmas, everyone. Brett.

I want to clear the air on the footage released showing a small dustup between myself and Mark Gastineau, the former New York Jet, so here’s a 🧵.   (1)

@Kazanjy No cell phone no deal / I give out mine and then ask for theirs

Founders: SMS / iMessage is a dramatically higher signal / lower noise channel for doing deal communications. As soon as have a first call with a prospect, grab their cell phone number out of Apollo (use their Chrome extension), and text them immediately after. “Jeff, great to see you again - this is Pete. Wanted you to have my cell number.” Same in LinkedIn connection message “Jeff, great to see you. My cell is #XXX-XXX-XXXX for your convenience.” Set up iMessage comms early and then leverage is throughout your deal.