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21 Mar

@CNBC

Elon replying to a thread I did of him & Bezos made one of India’s biggest news site (Hindustan Times).

Meanwhile, @CNBC is sleeping at the wheel. 🤦‍♂️

(h/t @AbhishekLpd)

“Twitter user Trung Phan...captured people’s attention after Musk shared his response to the tweet.”

I can confirm that I am a “Twitter user”.

hindustantimes.com/trending/elon-…

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.@htTweets, if your audience of 8m wants the nitty gritty on the life of a “Twitter user”...my DMs are wide open.

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@TrungTPhan

20 Mar

No one:

Not a single person on earth:

YouTube:

also related (Reddit hates YT Premium 😂)

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@TrungTPhan

17 Mar

1/ This is Lex Greensill.

He founded Greensill Capital to disrupt "supply-chain finance", a $7T industry that supports global trade.

A few months ago, Greensill was headed for a $40B IPO. Now, it's likely worth $0 (oh, and Softbank is involved).

WTF happened? 🧵

2/ First, what is supply chain finance (SCF)?

Let's say you supply widgets to a car company. Typically, you give CarCo 90-120 days to pay its invoice for the widgets.

Waiting for the money sucks, though. You have working capital needs that CarCo's money could help with.

3/ Let's say your invoice to CarCo is $1000.

A bank or lending organization will offer you this SCF deal:

1⃣They advance you $990 upfront
2⃣Take on the credit risk of CarCo's bill owing
3⃣At 90-120 days, CarCo pays the full $1000 and the financier profits $10

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@TrungTPhan

15 Mar

1/ In 2018, retired NHL'er Ryan Whitney says he loves vodka + pink lemonade on the Spittin' Chiclets podcast.

The drink mix goes viral.

In less than a year, Pink Whitney Vodka is in stores. It has now sold 15m+ bottles worth $100m+.

Amazingly, the story starts w/ a tweet🧵

2/ After 11 years in the NHL, Ryan Whitney retires in 2015 and plots his post-playing career.

Interested in starting a hockey podcast, he tweets at another NHL player (Paul "BizNasty" Bissonnette) saying that he needs "a partner."

3/ Bissonnette is still playing professionally and can't commit.

So, Barstool Sports hockey blogger Brian McGonagle (AKA Read Admiral AKA RA) replies: "a partner, eh?".

In Oct 2016, Whitney starts going to RA's home in Boston to record the hockey pod -- "Spittin' Chiclets".

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@TrungTPhan

1 Mar

1/ In 2004, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos met for a meal to discuss space.

It was one of their few in-person interactions.

The conversation they had perfectly captures the different approaches they've taken to space exploration.

Here's the story 🧵

2/ For Bezos, the path to the meeting began in 1999 when he and famed sci-fi author Neal Stephenson watched the film "October Sky" (about NASA engineer Homer Hickam)

After the viewing, the Amazon founder told Stephenson he always wanted to start a space company...

3/..and Stephenson said "why don't you start today?"

Stephenson -- author of classics such as "Snow Crash" -- was hire #1 and put together a team of thinkers and engineers.

Bezos dropped in on the team one Saturday a month, mostly to discuss alternatives to chemical rockets.

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@TrungTPhan

26 Feb

Shaq got a pre-IPO investment in $GOOGL in 1999 after overhearing 2 Google employees chatting in a hotel

Shaq made $300m in his career and his portfolio is insane:

*17 Auntie Anne’s Pretzels franchises
*40 24-Hour Fitness gyms
*150 car washes
*~155 Five Guys locations
*$10m stake in Papa John’s
*90s stake in $AAPL
*Sacramento Kings minority ownership