Imagine a world: youre a normal person (not a founder, Netflix engineer, or tech exec). You work at a job from 9-5 (you can work more but you don’t have to). It pays you enough to support a wife and 2.5 kids, buy a house, a couple cars. After all that you have enough left over to save or invest.

In this world you’re not part of the 1%, you’re part of the majority.

This is the world your parents grew up in, and the world they took from you. You may lie awake at night worrying about climate change, or Russia, or china.. or our student loans or your kids private school education.

These are all things your parents invented to distract you from the fact that they mortgaged your future - high on irrational exuberance and tailwinds from the greatest generation, the boomers levered up and sold their children into slavery.

The worst part is that they didn’t do this in a market driven way, they didn’t create a generation of companies that solved all problems and ushered us into some post scarcity future where everything’s a utility and govt is much larger to protect you.

We’re in this situation because they got lazy and greedy. They cared more about their upside down pineapple vacations than the future of humanity. They cared more about spending power and the price of their house going up. They saw the world their parents created thru war, sacrifice, and hardship and decided they’d rather be happy than responsible.

One time VC said “we love what ur working on & wed love to stay close for the next round but it’s just too early 4 us rn”

I told him: no

He said: what do you mean?

I said: unless you can physically overpower me you have to write a check

He said: okay i want to lead the round twitter.com/i/web/status/1… If you’re having trouble raising you need to start hitting the gym twice a day. Do whatever it takes to get as strong as possible.

You’ve never going to look back and say “I wish I would have stayed natty and poor”.

I guarantee you will close your round.

Some basic supply chain knowledge so your hot supply chain takes are based not cringe.

A thred 👇

most truckers are independent contractors or work for a sub 100 employee fleet. There’s very little consolidation in the space Carrier - entity that moves stuff (boats, planes, trains, barges, vans, etc)
Shipper - pays carriers to move stuff
Brokers - intermediaries who match supply and demand
Contract - an agreement between shipper and broker or carrier that usually guarantees volume
Spot - not contract