Business & Startups Threads

@miadmaleki

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1/11 Kharg Island is a 5-mile strip of coral in the northern Persian Gulf, but it handles ~90% of Iran's crude oil exports and earns Tehran the bulk of its ~$78B/year in energy revenue. President Trump called it Iran's "crown jewel." He's right. <span class="quote-card" data-quote-index="0"></span>...

@itsalexvacca

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Tech debt almost killed Notion. With only a few weeks' runway left, the founders left SF, moved to Kyoto, &amp; rewrote the entire app. No launch. No hype. Just a quiet resurrection. Today, Notion's worth $10B. Their monk-mode product strategy every founder should study: ...

@BrianFeroldi

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The most confusing term in accounting: Stock-Based Compensation How does it work? Why is it controversial? Here’s a complete overview (in plain English): ...

@matt_gray_

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Look at this guy. Age 22. $15K in debt. Depressed. Now, he makes $8.7M a year while traveling the world and living his “dream life”. Here’s exactly how he did it (my story): ...

@NickDiFabio1

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Don't spend $1000 on an iPad for your kids. Instead, use AI to create a children's book on Amazon that profits $2000/month. It can pay for their college, allowance, &amp; birthday presents. Here's how to do it:...

@sinclairdta

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<a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/-zI0ZgKM0xA?si=H4pqTeSi9ageiQyE" color="blue">youtu.be/-zI0ZgKM0xA?si…</a> A blind executive collapsed at work. Stroke. When she woke up, the neurologist gave her what he thought was good news: "The stroke hit your visual cortex. Since you've been blind fro...

@BlackScholesMan

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Joint Interagency Task Force 401 is a transformational moment in counter-drone (C-UAV) history. The last time I saw something similar was for MRAPS back during the second war in Iraq. It went from 0 to 50B in one year so things can move quick! Here is my list of companies that I own and why in orde...

@sinclairdta

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My Micronutrient Wake-Up: Rhonda Patrick’s Essentials for Founders Who Can't Afford Downtime I was grinding late, brain fog hitting hard, energy crashing despite sleep and coffee. Then Rhonda Patrick's micronutrient deep dive flipped the script—turns out modern diets starve our biology of basics we...

@shaneparrish

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10 Lessons From Fred Smith, the founder of FedEx 1. Not trying guarantees failure: Fred Smith spent his childhood in leg braces. Doctors said he’d never walk normally. Through thousands of hours of excruciating therapy, he didn’t just walk; he became a varsity athlete. “Fear of failure must never b...