Trump’s Vague Iran Remarks Spark War‑trade Market Swing
Trump’s live 20 mins speech over. He opened saying Iran is decimated. Didn’t say if US is withdrawing war. •Brent Oil rose again by 4% •Korea and Japan stocks lower by 1-3% •USD up slightly •Gold lower by 3% Total opposite of yesterday’s performance. War Trade is still On apparently. Do Your Own Research.
Activists Target Hidden ONE Cash, Driving Discounted Value
Another standard-looking activist headline, but for those in the know, this situation runs a lot deeper. I’ll explain. Elliott is asking shipping firm Mitsui OS&K for better cash returns to shareholders. Quite a standard approach for activists everywhere, and Japan is...
Trump Predicts Hormuz Opening as Brent Spikes 2%
Trump says the Strait of Hormuz will "open up naturally" Brent oil prices rise nearly 2% (a session high for the day) https://t.co/7fvQPaw1Bv
Trump Attributes Gas Price Surge to Iranian Attacks
TRUMP: "Many Americans have been concerned to see the recent rise in gasoline prices here at home. This short term increase has been entirely the result of the Iranian regime launching deranged terror attacks against commercial oil tankers and...
AI Should Automate Emails, Meetings, and Hiring
everyone's talking about AI replacing middle managers but the real unlock for me would be for AI to: - do my email - replace the need for all my weekly meetings and 1:1s - make hiring loops more efficient 😂
Colorado Leads in Expanding Apprenticeship Opportunities
Apprenticeships are a valuable way for students to gain hands-on experience, earn money while developing skills, and create pathways to good-paying jobs. Colorado is leading the way in expanding access to apprenticeships and connecting Coloradans with the skills employers need....
Threads Thrives on Reposted Viral Images, No Credit
The key to Threads success is taking a viral image from another platform and posting it here with the caption "this wins the internet today" and no other attribution
Understanding Candidate Psychology Boosts Offer Acceptance
Great candidates don’t disappear by accident. Most are lost in moments that could have been influenced. In this session, we break down the psychology behind candidate decisions—so you can turn more conversations into accepted offers. w/Pete Radloff and Jim Stroud The Psychology of...
War Boosts Iran's Nuclear Weapon Prospects, Says Mearsheimer
Distinguished UChicago Prof. John Mearsheimer on Pres. Trump and Netanyahu's FAILED war goals: “The chances that Iran will get a nuclear weapon have increased significantly as a result of this war.” https://t.co/ZvNgg6aqnl
Leverage View-Through Attribution to Boost Meta Campaign ROI
Something we're noticing across multiple 8-figure brands we're managing. After the changes to click attribution Meta started to heavily favor and over-utilize view-through attribution. As we swapped some brands over to 1DC/7DC exclusive optimization the total back-end performance and profitability is growing...
NHInsight HR Transformation Services Profile Receives Comprehensive Review
.@NHInsight's #HRTransformation Services profile on SD Worx by @ERennie_ is a comprehensive assessment of the company's offerings and capabilities: https://t.co/pdfmMsFnwF #HRservices #HR #AI #GenAI #Payroll #workforce #talent #Recruitment #WFM https://t.co/4EA7QUE8br
Netflix Targets 18‑49 TV Viewers in MLB Debut
18-49 👀 Netflix Connects with TV’s Dollar Demo in MLB Debut https://t.co/bBajOiM693 via @sportico @crupicrupicrupi
Leverage Your Position to Correct Pay Disparities Safely
When you're dealing with finding out that a new hire with less experience is being paid 30% more than you due to market rates. THE LEVERAGE PLAYBOOK – HOW TO FORCE A MARKET CORRECTION WITHOUT GETTING FIRED:
New BP CEO Vows a Simpler, Stronger, More Valuable Company
Post-Woodside; BP should be ‘simpler, stronger and more valuable’, new CEO tells staff via @FT https://t.co/NSv8P5m0KX
Strong Economic Data and Peace Hopes Cut Recession Odds
Solid eco data released this morning.. war resolution hopes... much lower recession odds @kalshi https://t.co/rx3rkIwTm6 https://t.co/5VMb1dBm0q
Amazon Eyes Globalstar Acquisition; 2028 Target Alerts Triggered
Wow, $AMZN in talks to buy $GSAT Been solid one all year, Jan 2028 calls hit my alerts 3/31 https://t.co/OvcOV5QTT1
Master the Game, Not the Grind: $200M Exit
my friend owned one radiology clinic then he acquired 23 more structured correctly zero personal capital exited the platform for $200M he didn't work harder he learned a different game
Balancing Growth and Ethics in AI Marketing
#TimTalk - How can companies balance growth with the need to be ethical in AI-driven marketing? with Nicole Alexander https://t.co/3iLT5JKwip via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #TechNews #Marketing #MarketingStrategy #MarketingSuccess #AI
Break Down Quota to Earn $250K This Year
Want $250K this year? Reverse engineer it: • $200K OTE • $800K quota • 12.5% commission rate • Need $1.2M in closed ARR • $40K avg deal = 30 deals needed • 20% close rate = 150 opps needed • That's 3 new opps per week Don't start your...
Clear Structure, Not Trauma, Builds Team Trust
Trusting your team becomes easy when: → expectations are clear → SOPs exist → outcomes are defined → work is visible Most “trust issues” are actually structure problems and also your own trauma but that's a convo for another day
Gulf War Triggers Asian Price, Debt, Scarcity Crisis
In this article, “how the Gulf’s war is becoming Asia’s crisis too,” The Economist magazine analyzes the three main transmission channels: “prices, debt and scarcity.” #economy #asia #middleeastwar #growth #inflation #debt @theeconomist
Juniper's Revenue Soared to $673M with 22% Margin
Juniper Networks revenue ramp from 1998 to 2000 was a sight to behold 0 > 4m > 102m > 673m With 22% net income margin @vkhosla cooked https://t.co/jsIBekI6Wy
AI Threatens Simple 9‑5 Jobs, Prepare for Complexity
There’s nothing wrong with wanting a “simple” 9-5. Go in. Do work. Minimal drama. Go home. But there’s a growing mismatch between that goal and what the market has available. The more a role is: predictable rules-based low interaction low stakes The more it's a candidate for...
Timing and Messaging Triple Paywall Conversion Rates
I built a skill for Claude Code that optimizes in-app upgrade screens so free users actually convert to paid. It rewrites your paywall from the ground up — triggering it at the moment of value (not buried in settings), showing what...
Figma's IPO: Record Pop, Then Record Plunge
Figma holds two stock price records: 1. Biggest "IPO pop" of major IPOs (or any SaaS company) since 1999 2. Largest subsequent loss from the IPO pop after 6 months (see thread) https://t.co/Z7h6AnLHkI
Turn AI Threats Into Career Accelerators in Three Steps
RT Worried AI might put your leadership role on the chopping block? I share 3 moves to turn AI disruption into a career accelerator for you #AI #Career @Star_CIO https://t.co/mIefOcbMM8
Growth Must Outpace Hype for Sustainable Investment
With any private investor froth, it's always a race for the company to grow into its valuation with business with sustainable economics before reality hits and ends the party. That's when the market reluctantly turns from speculation to investing.
AI Is Flattening Organizational Hierarchies, Says Research
Research suggests organizations are using AI to flatten structures. I share more on The Peggy Smedley Show. https://t.co/a1uNVYByyy #IoT #sustainability #AI #digitaltransformation #PeggySmedley #podcast
Witness Benten Woodring Build World‑Changing Innovations From Scratch
Watch @bentenwoodring. His work will change the world. You’re getting a chance to see him build from the ground up.
EVO Allocates All Excess Cash to Share Buybacks
$EVO to distribute 100% of excess cash to share repurchases "The board has decided to distribute 100 percent of excess cash, exclusive to any M&A activity. The distribution of excess capital will generally be done through repurchase of own shares." - 2025...
Say No: Keep Scope Tight When Deadline Stays
It is the final week of development. Leadership suddenly wants to turn your simple MVP into a full-featured product. The deadline remains exactly the same. HOW TO RECLAIM CONTROL:
Hold Longer, Compound Returns to 25x Instead of 5x
Nothing particularly new here in the capital allocation framework or the underlying idea of holding great assets for longer. It is more of a reminder… But as one speaker at the conference said: if you do excellent work, generate a 5x MOIC,...
Satirical Book Chronicles Year of US Tariff Chaos
In honor of tomorrow's Liberation Day anniversary, I worked with Claude to draft a pretend book about the insane-but-totally-real things that happened over the last year of US "emergency" tariff chaos. Here's the first cut: https://t.co/1srdrUh4Gz
Harvey CEO Regrets Secrecy, Wishes for Public Building
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg's big regret: not building in public. "There was a lot of secrecy in the beginning. If I would do things over again, I would have figured out how to build in public faster." Being secretive wasn't deliberate or...
Real Startup Metrics Reveal Harsh SaaS Success Reality
Everyone shows their wins. Their MRR. Their "we hit $10K in a weekend" screenshots. I'm going to show everything. We started building Vora IQ before AI coding tools actually got good. The hard way. And now we're putting our real numbers —...
Fake Fees Masked Franchise Losses at Boston Chicken
Boston Chicken redux. Boston Chicken parent lent money to franchisees; that money then did a U-turn and became fee income to itself. So they effectively transmuted their own capital into income, which of course Wall Street loved, until it turned...
Raimondo Discusses Chips, AI, and US‑Europe Strategy
Really enjoyed chatting with former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimando today @CFR_org. Talked chips, CHIPS, China, AI, US-Europe relations and more. Find it on the feed next week https://t.co/zslTYa4yH1
Diversify Like Amazon: From Books to Cloud Dominance
Best example that you should NOT focus on just one product but keep trying new ones might be Amazon If Jeff Bezos did he'd be still selling books Instead now Amazon with AWS is the backend of the entire internet https://t.co/YKn8XFwKGP
Baidu's New English Wiki Boosts US Visibility
Baidu's English pages appear to be exploding in visibility in the U.S. It looks like it's tied to the core update, but I think it's actually that they launched an English Wiki site within the last week: https://t.co/O54gTff7C8 https://t.co/R6b5Ntxk0B
Dumb Ideas Win when They’re Smart Under Other Assumptions
There are many successful startups where the initial idea sounded dumb. And when the initial idea sounded smart. And many failures in both cases too. But if it sounds dumb, it had better be "smart under some assumption that we disagree on."
Assessments Build Shared Language for Better Team Fit
Personality assessments are less concerned with articulating an individual's work style. Instead, they are powerful inasmuch as they create a shared language for advisory teams to discuss individual role fit, from workload to personality. https://t.co/C2rSx28zLD In this article, Senior Financial Planning...
Focus on One Product, Avoid Spreading Too Thin
"NOOOO yoU SHOuLd FOcUs ON oNE proDuCT yOU CAN'T succEED If YoU SpReaD yoUrSeLf ToO tHiN" Ah yes like Apple, Google and Microsoft did? Right? Right?! https://t.co/0rhB0dwFen
Hormuz Closure Amplifies Global Trade, Inflation, Financial Strain
Hormuz disruption deepens global economic strain across trade, prices and finance Latest @UNCTAD report on Hormuz 1⃣Energy corridor halted: The Strait of Hormuz remains “practically closed,” disrupting a critical share of global oil and gas flows. 2⃣Trade losing momentum: Global merchandise trade is...
Airwallex Turned Down $1.2B, Built $8B Empire
In 2018, Stripe offered $1.2B for Airwallex. They refused and built an $8B company instead. Here's how they did it👇
Meta’s March Bug Skews Click‑only Attribution, Hurting Optimization
I think this is a good visualization for the impact of TWO major Meta items in March. 1. An overspend bug that occurred on Sunday 3/16. Spend spiked against 0 reported value. (lots of refund coming) 2. The changes to click based...
AI Hasn't Boosted April Fools, Proving SaaS's Inevitability
AI should have enabled infinitely more April Fools gags. But we saw basically the same amount we always saw. April Fools is a good abstraction for why conventional SaaS is not going anywhere and why companies aren’t going to build...
Tariffs Prove Economists Right: Economy Slumps
"Most economists predicted that the economy’s performance would be negatively affected [by the tariffs]. Thus far data overwhelmingly indicate that is what has happened." https://t.co/TXnARw94Md https://t.co/mKF3Gb7Cg2
Trump's Talent Tariff Fails, Costs Rise, Legal Battles
My new Capitolism @thedispatch reviews another poorly-designed Trump tariff that had a chaotic rollout, imposed major economic costs, failed to achieve its objective, & spurred legal challenges. But this one is on foreign talent. "Trump's Other Tariff" https://t.co/8uDH4VwDDJ
Steve Jobs Secured Apple Funding via Cold Email
"Source: Direct - Steve Jobs, the founder" TIL Steve Jobs funded Apple with a cold email
Europe Readies Red Sea Force as Houthis Threaten Bab El-Mandeb
European Red Sea Task Force Ready For Attacks Amid Fears Houthis Could Close Bab el-Mandeb Strait Concerns grow that the Iranian-backed rebels could close the waterway, drastically exacerbating the global oil crisis and opening a new front. https://t.co/aVVe6CgGk5