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16 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
esports investments are a joke - there's so much dumb money in this space!

look at this "billion dollar" publicly traded company: $EGLX Image
Enthusiastic Gaming is a holdco of random assets ranging from the most popular website for The Sims, to a minority stake in the vancouver overwatch team.

It's not a bad company...it's just not worth $1b

here's a quick scan of their last quarter report
looks like they rolled up a bunch of companies:

- Bought @Luminosity for $1.5M cash, 7.5M stock
- Bought a couple agencies for $13M cash + more stock
- started trading on the TSX in january, up ~4x in a year.

They are basically an ad agency for gaming channels + websites
for the first 3/4ths of the year - they did $30m in revenue, with $50M in expenses, for a net loss of -$20M so far for the year.

- not profitable
- not durable (business model = middleman/agency)
- not scalable

how is this a $1b co? Image
people want to invest in rocketships. this is a sparkler

$8.5M cash in the bank left. Looks like they'll need to raise more money from the market to keep the show going 😅

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16 Feb
Every good clubhouse “show” would be 100x higher leverage if they did it as a podcast instead.

But hey, it’s new and hot, so follow the herd!
Btw this is for “shows” specifically. Not random convos/hanging out.

Which is why clubhouse going for shows is terrible strategy!
Eg right now- @pmarca and @bhorowitz are doing a weekly clubhouse. Reaching 5k people live.

If they launched a podcast, they’d be at 5m+ downloads a month. (See @chamath @Jason all in pod)

1000x more reach. Same format. There’s zero crowd interaction. no reason to use Clubhouse
Read 4 tweets
5 Feb
Jeff Bezo's Amazon Run:
- 27 years
- $1.68 Trillion company
- 800k people employed

Crazy run.

And 6 funny stories about the early days of Amazon
#1 - The original name wasn't Amazon. Jeff wanted to name it "Cadabra" (as in, abra cadabra, like magic)

His lawyer said the name sounded too much like Cadaver (aka a corpse) for ppl to share.

His 2nd pick was Relentless (relentless.com still re-directs to Amazon)
#2 - The company almost died because of inventory.

The whole point of an internet book store was to carry WAY more books than you can find in a book store.

But the book distributors minimum order was 10 books.

They couldn't afford to buy 10 of every book..
Read 9 tweets
3 Feb
Here's a lesson on how to do cold outreach right.

Don't ask someone for "coffee" or a "quick 20 min call"

(or worst of all - "to pick their brain". You brain pickers stay away)

Here's an example of how my cousin hustled & got connected with @chamath
On the all-in podcast, @friedberg joked that @chamath wants to run for governor.

my cousin @RohunJauhar hears that and tweets this out
One guy reaches out saying "i'll do it in a few weeks for $2k". Another says "I'll do it for free, tonight."

Rohun sketches out what he wants. Super simple:
Read 7 tweets
2 Feb
If you're a college student who wants to pay off all your loans... here's an idea for you:

It takes ~$5k to start and will make ~$30k a year of profit

It won't get you rich, it'll pay for college.

(..and will teach them more about business than they’ll learn in school)
The idea isn’t sexy. But it works:

**Plastic Moving Bin Rentals**

Everyone knows moving sucks. The worst part is being stuck with 400 cardboard boxes at the end of your move.

Instead - @benmlevy told me about Gorilla Bins. They dropoff plastic moving bins, & pickem up later.
Let’s break it down. Our goal is to pay for college (~$30k profit per year).

To do that, I think we’ll need $50k in revenue.

The avg move (a 2 bedroom apartment) is $180

To hit our goal, we need do ~5.5 moves per week
Read 16 tweets
1 Feb
Elon Clubhouse summary for those who are locked out:
Q: When are we going to get to Mars?

@elonmusk (says some smart space stuff)... I figure... idk.. ~5.5 years.
Q: What will it take to go to Mars?

@elonmusk You need a fully & rapidly re-usable rocket. Rapid is imp.. can't take months between flights. Needs to be like airplanes where the biggest cost is fuel.

And be able to send 2nd rocket to re-fuel

And be able to make fuel on mars
Read 59 tweets
31 Jan
The ancient struggle was not having enough.

The modern struggle is having too much.

Too much news, too much sugar, too much of everything at your fingertips..There's only 1 way out.
Let's lay it out:

On one side, you have "Team Dopamine":
* 24/7 news cycle, full of clickbait headlines
* Social Media, friend's pics that disappear in 24 hours
* Endless varieties of sugar & porn

going up against your tiny, 3 pound brain running 20,000 yr old software
Even if you are a smart person who tries their best to stay healthy & happy... you are going up against Fox News, TikTok, PornHub, Robinhood, Instagram

These are weapons of mental destruction.
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