life update: bro everything is awesome in a way I wish everyone could experience. Ridge will GROW more this year than we did in TOTAL revenue in 2024. Podcast network helping thousands. Making millions. Shows are now more popular than ever. Beautiful wife. Perfect son. Its a level of blessed that I wish on everyone. WE ARE ALL SO FUCKING BACK.

I was offered $480,000 for my company's data. I didnt sell. why? I think there are three equally likely scenarios that could play out: 1- this is a total bubble and benign mid sized ecom brand data isnt that vaulable, and I just missed out on 480k... oh well 2- just by using the model layer, adding mcps, adding agents, they are going to get all my data for free anyway... and I just missed out on a free 480k 3- if someone is willing to pay me 480k for my data, then my data is worth a hell of a lot more than 480k idk why the demand is so high, idk why so many people are in the space now, but apparently my data is an asset. and if its 480k now, maybe it will be 4.8m next year. and maybe the only assets in the future are the ones with privately held data. I dont know the space well enough to make a call, but when you get random cold emails offering you 6 figures, maybe just wait a bit. - so if you run the expected value here, maybe a 30% chance the data is worth 10-100x the 480k. 2/3rd chance its worthless and I missed out on a free lambo. Im good just riding it out

Lots of entrepreneurs are running their businesses like the Boy Scouts. treating everything they do like they are going to get a badge for it "I dont discount" "well I am bootstrapped" "thats off brand" no one cares. the only scoreboard is the cash flow your asset can produce. if its enough to live the life of your dreams- congratulations, you won but some people are trying to run a business like a damn nuzlocke (making up rules just to make the game harder) there are no points awarded for pain, suffering, and stress induced balding do whatever it takes to get to the cashflow required. in whatever way works for you. you arent in the boy scouts. you arent even in a race. its more like a late night walk. you can stop whenever you want, but you dont because who knows what you might find around the corner

Have you been sued in California for wire tapping, just for using a meta pixel? Thousands of Ecom brands were getting shake down requests for nothing more than a conversion pixel. Every settlement was $10,000-$50,000 bucks, right out of the pocket of small business. I was sued multiple times. As of today, that won’t ever happen again: I thought this was the wrong reading of the law and wanted to do something about it. My internal team worked with the eCommerce alliance. They put time, money, and resources into changing this law. I really didn’t do much. But as a result of their hard work- No one else will be sued for this ever again. The work of the eCommerce alliance, backed by postscript, just saved the entire ecom industry probably 30 million dollars a year. Huge shoutout to Gina from my team for getting this done. Ridge could have just kept paying it. But that’s how these things win. Ecom brands are too fractured, everyone too cheap, everyone being crabs in a bucket. It takes brands and great partners like postscript to work together to make the industry better. I just saved your brand $25,000 bucks. You can thank postscript for that.

Never angel invest in a founder if their insta has: - a private jet pic - a photo dump from Europe - them DJing You want to find nerds, locked in basements, with bad posture

What's going to survive in the world of AI? email? number one use case for agents (muse, bot, dot) is scanning your emails. influencer? whole feed is ai. website cro? all agentic shopping. no people on site. only one thing feels ai proof... ADS. get good at making and scaling ads.

which way ecom boi

stunning. brave. bold. shocking. what they have built will change the world and the pace of ai forever. can someone watch the video and explain what they do though? thanks

I just canceled AT&T. These fucking idiots can not repair a fiber cable in Los Angeles. My internet has been out for 3 weeks. Every day they say it will be back within 48 hours. They send workers, the workers say they can’t fix it, has to be solved by headquarters. But the company is so dysfunctional that they aren’t allowed to talk to headquarters. So they come back again and again. I try to call and explain- But if there is an outage, you get auto hung up on and told to check the app. Legacy telcos are fucked. They are too dysfunctional to repair their infrastructure. Their infustructure is to old and must be repaired. I live in an urban area. A street full of neighbors In a major American city. And they can not repair the line. Btw- My starlink has worked great the whole time. All in on starlink. No longer a back up You should buy a Starlink before your fiber line breaks too.

consumer investing is in a VERY bad spot. heres why: even if sales are good, even if you are growing, why should an investor buy? warby parker is an amazing brand. but compared to Nvidia? Nvidia grew revenue over 100% last quarter. Profit was up over 100%. They did 60 BILLION IN PROFIT. in ONE QUARTER. No fooling, no add back, GAAP profit. Are you growing 100%? is your profit up 100%? Reformation just went public, they will grow 20%. they trade at the same multiple. The AI trade is so powerful, the revenue so sticky, so large, all contracted, at such insane growth and profit... why buy anything else? You think diversity. But if nvidia implodes, is nike the safe heaven? is walmart? or does everything blow up anyway. Nvidia has a triple threat: - massive scale (60 billion in profit in one fucking quarter) - massive growth (growing faster than any company at their scale ever) - with GUARANTEED revenue. all contracted and presold. so if you dont have scale, cut their multiple by a third. if you arent doubling, cut it in third again. if you dont have guarenteed revenue, again cut it. if nvidia trades at 24x, you are worth less than 7x NET INCOME This is the reality that public market investors are demanding. Oura is an amazing business. data play, subscription, lots of pros. but it aint nvidia.

with ai, it feels like im selling candles and we just watched the first light bulb turn on I bet 99% of SAAS builders feel this

Just saw a leaf hit the ground. busting out the fall fit STAT

everyone in fashion grew up wanting to be ralph lauren. the next generation is growing up wanting to be Ronnie. must listen up from the very talented @markbrazil

Lots of people giving you advice have a safety net. "follow your passion" "dont sell out" "stay true to your art" super easy to say if your parents will bail you out. if you are a normal person- IGNORE THAT. GET PAID. DO WHAT IT TAKES. It will be long nights, burn out, doing the jobs no one wants to do. doing shit your friends dont understand. if you are lucky, maybe your kids can be artists or whatever. but you need to lock in and get your ass to work

If you can get the bag, you MUST secure it. You can not afford to be the victim of a near bag experience.

The biggest lie in consumer: Run rate. “Yeah I’m on a 20 million run rate” No subscription, no guarantee. We are discretionary spending. One trend flip and it goes to zero.

what if everything went right: - obesity is cured, one shot and its done - blue collar boom, average hard working americans are making fucking bank - self driving cars are here and will save 10,000 lives a year (and lots of kids!) - data centers are bringing their own water and power; electricity will actually get CHEAPER! - world peace can happen at any moment - everyone on earth is going to have a FREE* ai tutor, assistant, and worker - ai wil let researchers super charge their work, we will cure horrible disease faster - we are going to build a permanent base on the moon before 2030 - the dodgers are going to win ANOTHER world series - ridge wallet will release some more amazing products this q4 everything is getting better, faster. if you feel it isnt, that is on you. people will be healthier, richer, with new ridge wallets and world peace. it is all happening guys. we made it.

agentic ai bots will solve all of the worlds most important problems

I think it might be the best time in human history to LOCK IN

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