Francis Santora🐹

Figure is valued at $39.5B. Founder Brett Adcock plans to make a robot for every human being. Compare this to a typical startup. Maybe they make meeting notes or scheduling a bit smoother. That just doesn’t change things the way Figure could. So it simply cannot grow as large.

I can’t believe I have the same number of followers as epic 😂

Pretty accurate based on my time there.

Next @AcquiredFM should be another obscure centicorn from Wisconsin that runs a critical industry https://t.co/o8poTwUzCr

Many amazing companies like target and Merck are boasting dividend yields comparable to long-term treasuries. Then they also have Appreciation possibilities.

Just found out I used to work for a Sequoia company 😂. They scooped up a few shares in Epic from one of the handful of original angels.

Sure he was carrying $1200 in cash and hanging out with MS 13 members, but who doesn’t do that? https://t.co/wGwz16CDEu

How was he not deported then? https://t.co/ifMq5cKk95

Media has spent more time on Hegseth signal chats than they did on four years of a demented president

Elon going full David Koresh lol https://t.co/rp3NnoAKrB

Is this at all feasible?

$1.57 for a lighter. That’s the only thing I bought from China last week. With a trade war going on, I started to wonder: how much do I actually buy from China? So I decided to track all my purchases for a week and find out. A Week Inside the Santora Household I made no effort not to buy from China or to buy American in general. I only looked at the “made in” after I bought each item. Turns out, I don’t buy much from the Middle Kingdom. That barbecue lighter was my only purchase. Even if tariffs went to 500%, it would make very little difference to me. In fact, I was surprised how little I buy from abroad. I spent about a dollar each on some chips from Canada and a bar of German chocolate with almonds (yum). But the grand prize went to India — $50 for vitamins. Every other cent I spent was on an American product or service. What I Actually Spent Money On When you consider where my money goes, this makes a lot of sense. Almost all my spending goes to two things: housing and food (both groceries and eating out). Housing doesn’t come from abroad (although some construction materials may). Very little food comes from abroad either, and almost none of it from China. China mostly sells us manufactured products. And because I already have the goods I need, I seldom buy any new ones. Moving Away from China For many years, China was our biggest trading partner. But now, they’ve been supplanted by Mexico. Canada is close behind China, and has actually passed China at certain points in recent years. My spending is a lot like most Americans. The biggest expense for Americans is housing, followed by transportation, food and insurance. Almost none of that money goes to China. For the odd manufactured item like a lighter, we can go elsewhere. It’s a pretty simple object — I’m sure Mexico can make them. Electronics are a little harder. But already, India and Vietnam are muscling in on China’s business. Wrap-Up This trade war could be a lot less important to Americans than the media says. Most of us don’t actually buy much from abroad in the context of our total budgets. Our purchases from China are an even smaller fraction of our spending. In a $30 trillion economy, Chinese imports count for just 1.5%. In time, we’ll probably make a deal with China. But until then, the average American isn’t likely to suffer much financially. Most of what we need, we make ourselves. How much have you bought from China recently?

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Acquired says Epic is run from a farm in rural Wisconsin. This is only sort of true. They took over a dairy farm and made a corporate campus there because it was a big piece of land that they could find. But it’s just outside Madison Wisconsin and the area is really more suburban than rural. I know because I used to work on that very campus. Nonetheless, I’m looking forward to hearing the episode.

Goodbye Pope Francis! https://t.co/13ROkVGnIR

Wisdom from Tom Hulme at GV. If it's good enough for him, it's good enough for me. https://t.co/16euDBo2LU

Papardelle with maitake ragu highly recommended https://t.co/cMGu1Kc6oH

Always diligence potential investors, especially a lead. Go to his portfolio on the firm’s website or on Crunchbase. Pick a few companies and contact the founders yourself. You don't want any wackjobs on your cap table. And they're definitely out there.

I took a Lyft back home from my friends last night. The driver asked me how much I paid $19 I told him. He said he got $11. He was mad about it, but the ride took only 10 minutes. To me that seems like a pretty great wage

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