Austin Rief ☕️
@austin_rief
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Co-founder & CEO @MorningBrew | Owner/Investor @oceans_xyz | Opinions Are My Own
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If you're not on LinkedIn, you're really missing out.
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While LinkedIn was down today, here is what you missed.
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Best Excel trick I've ever seen.
How to import PDF data into Excel.
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Twitter: "Bezos left Amazon to work on space exploration"
Reality:
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"After first 2-3 millions, a paid off home and a good car, there is no difference in qualify of life between you and Jeff Bezos"
Agree or disagree?
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YouTube Q4 revenue: $8.6B
Netflix Q4 revenue: $7.7B
YouTube content budget: ~$0
Netflix content budget: $14B
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News: Bitcoin tanking as investors look for safe havens like $AMC and $GME
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I can't believe this post is still up.
Absolutely crazy.
Vote her out.
Israel just bombed the Baptist Hospital killing 500 Palestinians (doctors, children, patients) just like that.
@POTUS
this is what happens when you refuse to facilitate a ceasefire & help de-escalate.
Your war and destruction only approach has opened my eyes and many…
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Idea: $GME but instead, one of the stocks I actually own.
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3 guarantees in life:
1. Death
2. Taxes
3. Bitcoin 100k
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If your CEO doesn’t know what “EBITDA” means, I would start looking for a new job.
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It is funny how everyone I know who has $2-3m thinks the "magic number" is $10m.
And everyone I know who has $10m thinks the magic number is $25m.
And everyone I know who has $25m thinks the magic number is $100m.
"After first 2-3 millions, a paid off home and a good car, there is no difference in qualify of life between you and Jeff Bezos"
Agree or disagree?
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Both
@elonmusk
and I have a combined net worth of $300 billion.
Both the vaccinated and unvaccinated can spread the virus.
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If you're not on LinkedIn, you're really missing out.
Stumbled upon this gem today.
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THREAD: Here are 10 insights I've learned over the last 5 years from cofounding and selling business.
On startups, investing, marketing, and career advice:
👇👇
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Jon Stewart was one of the first people who made it acceptable to publicly talk about the lab leak “theory”.
Now it’s on the homepage of the Wall Street Journal.
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If you're the most junior person in a meeting, the easiest way to stand out is to take detailed notes and send them to the group afterwards.
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Ryan Reynolds is one of the most talented entrepreneurs on the planet
- Today he sold Mint Mobile for $1.35 billion
- In 2020 he sold Aviation Gin for $610 million
- He bought Wrexham F.C. for $2.5m
- Not a bad actor as well
@VancityReynolds
may be the next Richard Branson
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This level of mastery is mind-blowing.
Whenever I think I’m getting good at something, I watch this.
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If you liked Bitcoin at $60k, you're going to love it at $0.
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INSANE fact of the day: Apple's market cap has grown $700m PER DAY since Tim Cook became CEO in 2011.
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One year since the best "job pitch" I've ever received.
Lesson: Shoot your shot.
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Startup idea:
A place to communicate with previous tenants of apartments you are looking to rent.
I'd pay for a 15 minute call to hear directly from them about the pros and cons of the apartment.
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Overachiever 10 years ago: got into Harvard at 17 and works at Goldman
Overachiever now: skipped college to make millions off of a YouTube account, writes a substack and owns real estate across the country. Oh, and they’re only 17.
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The Head of Comms at Robinhood has the worst job in startups today.
Will be fun dealing with WSB, Dave Portnoy, Chamath and the Twitter mob.
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What's a scam that's become so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?
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The end is near.
1. The U.S. added 916,000 jobs in March.
2. Unemployment fell to 6%
3. 100m doses of the vaccine have been given out
The Roaring 20s are here.
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I'm proud to run a media company that calls Hamas what they are: terrorists.
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"After the next $1.9T in stimulus, 40% of all dollars in circulation will have been created in the last 12 months" -
@APompliano
🤯🤯
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One of the greatest 3 act plays in the history of Twitter.
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@mikekarnj
I have an idea:
What if we took a bunch of airbnbs and put them in the same building and centralized cleaning? I think it would make it cheaper.
We could also centralize check-in and customer service too. They could probably even support a restaurant too if we had enough.
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Imagine quitting your job because Elon was going to be your boss only to find out... Elon is not going to be your boss.
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BREAKING: A16Z is leading the seed round of SBFs new startup, offering 15 minute grocery delivery.
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Liquid Death is the fastest growing non-alcoholic beverage of all time 🤯🤯🤯
They will do $130m of revenue in 2022 selling... Water. In. A. Can.
Pure marketing genius.
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Apple:
- $111.44B of rev in Q1
- Highest YoY growth rate since 2015
- Stock Price: Flat
GameStop:
- Memes. Lots of memes.
- Stock price: 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
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Every kid I know who sold weed in high school is currently shilling an NFT project.
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The best businesses in the world expand their target market
-Nike convinced the world that everyone is an athlete
-Apple convinced the world that everyone is a creator
-Shopify is convincing the world that everyone is an entrepreneur
Champion customers and they will reward you
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There is no way any product manager at Resy has ever used Resy.
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What our grandchildren are going to cancel us for:
1. Eating meat
2. Not trusting self-driving cars sooner
3. Our sugar intake
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Looks like my kids are going to community college.
$TWTR and $SNAP are going to put my future kids through college.
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I’ve stopped drinking alcohol for the last 12 hours.
A few observations 🧵👇
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Maybe we should be sending out the stimulus money in Bitcoin.
The $600 will turn to $2,000 in a week anyways.
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A founder just said to me: "It's amazing having a baby. I have something to care about that isn't shareholder value"
I just wrote down that investment to 0.
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People who DM me on LinkedIn for a "quick 30 minute introductory call" must think I have 100 hours in a day.
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My mom: "Austin, what is EBITDA"
Me: *cracks knuckles*
"I have waited my entire life for this moment"
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2019: Drunk texting your ex
2021: Drunk buying flights to Miami
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The best advice I ever received was to increase your "luck surface area".
- Work hard
- Befriend likeminded people
- Learn faster than others
If you do that, you will get lucky at some point.
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Huge learning as a founder:
Everything takes way longer than you think.
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Returns YTD...
ETH 233%
BTC 116.25%
S&P500 10.91%
DOGE: 5122%
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Look at this $1.7m apartment on the Upper West Side.
Spending $1.7m on an apartment just to be allowed to spend $15k per month on maintenance...
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Thought of the day:
Your 85 year old self would probably give anything to be doing what you’re doing today.
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Remember when you used to leave your office during the day to go somewhere 20 minutes away to meet with someone for 30 minutes?
How insane does that sound now?
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There's nothing worse than someone who has never built anything giving startup advice.
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Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for $10 billion
Satya Nadella large acquisitions:
- ZeniMax Media in 2020 for $7.5b
- GitHub in 2018 for $7.5b
- LinkedIn in 2016 for $26.2b
Nadella gets a lot of credit for his push to the cloud, but we should talk more about his M&A.
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It's amazing that people get pissed about paying $2.99/month for a streaming service with 50,000 movies and TV shows but have no problem paying $23 for a cocktail at a bar.
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"Follow your passion" is complete complete crap.
People are passionate about things they are good at. Get really good at something, and you will become passionate at it.
Then you will make enough money to follow your original passion in your free time.
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The biggest con of our generation is Apple destroying their competitor's ad businesses in the name of OUR "privacy".
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THREAD: Here are 3 common hiring mistakes I've seen when building an early-stage startup.
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BREAKING: The tech world discovers it is enjoyable to live in a tropical climate year round.
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1/ When
@morningbrew
began spending money on paid acquisition in 2018, 2 small insights exploded our growth ~10x in a year.
Small insights can have a huge impact.
Here is what we learned.
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Should we add
#Bitcoin
to our ticker?
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1/ I often get asked how
@MorningBrew
got its first 10k subscribers. So, I’m just going to share some thoughts here:
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Wall Street Bets 🤝 Dave Portnoy
🤝 Burn The 🤝
Hedge Funds Down
AOC 🤝 Ted Cruz
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Worst part about crypto:
The kids who were running MLM schemes in high school in 2009 are the ones who bought BTC in 2012.
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My favorite piece of advice is to increase your "luck surface area".
- Outwork everyone
- Grow your network
- Learn something new every day
If you do those 3 things, you will get "lucky" at some point in your life.
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I can't believe that there is still not a $100b internet real estate business.
Zillow: $30b
Redfin: $7b
Opendoor: $12b
The world is being digitized, and home-buying the is the last industry to go digital.
This industry will be worth 10x in 10 years.
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Watched Wolf of Wall Street last night to prep for a big week of day trading on robinhood.
Wish me luck.
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Rule of thumb: If you don't learn something new when interviewing someone, don't hire them.
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Before you make fun of that kid who still believes in Santa, just remember you still believe that Bitcoin should be at $100,000.
Merry Christmas! 🎄
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Zero interest rate phenomena:
1. NFTs
2. Starting a podcast
3. Miami
4. Great resignation
5. Working as an engineer for all 5 big tech companies at once
What did I miss?
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The New York Times is a gaming company, that markets itself as a news company.
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It is tough to explain the power of Twitter to someone who doesn't use it regularly.
Nowhere else can you make friends for life, learn from the smartest people in the world, and connect with people you look up to.
Long Twitter.
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Imagine being the reason one of the innovative companies in the world leaves your state... and then being PROUD of it...
🤯
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We’ve reached the point where there are more people who write newsletters than read them.
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Most founders won't admit it, but nothing motivates someone quite like proving doubters wrong.
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Crazy stats on American travel:
- 33% of Americans have never left the country.
-11% (36m people) have never even left the state they were born in!
h/t
@c_gro
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According to Instagram, every human I've ever met is currently on a beach in Tulum.
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When
@Jack
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Are they going to do it on Clubhouse or Twitter Spaces?
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COVID's business impact demonstrated in 1 sentence:
Disney+ has hit its five-year subscriber target in just eight months. 🤯
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I’ve met hundreds of founders who have made $10m or more in a large exit.
They all now want the same thing: to own a cash flowing business
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The best businesses in the world expand their target market
-Nike convinced the world that everyone is an athlete
-Apple convinced the world that everyone is a creator
-Shopify convinced the world that everyone is an entrepreneur
Champion customers and they will reward you
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