Brian Groat

Tweets about Micro-PE, Entrepreneurship and Small Business Finance.

Hire me as your accountant 👇

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

I LOVE working.

I just want to be able to stop whenever, for as long as, I want.

14 hour days? No problem. But I want to be able to unplug at a moment’s notice when my best friend calls.

Work all weekend? Sweet. But I want to take a month off if my Dad is sick.

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

@ApexTradeFund I have lost access to the 2FA device that I used to sign-in, but still have access to the email address and phone number associated with the account.

I can not raise this through traditional support channels because I require to be signed in

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

This gets crazier than you’d think.

My epigenetic age has not changed for 6 years (biologically 26, chronologically 33).

I eat crap, exercise when I remember, drink 3 nights a week.

But I told my wife she wouldn’t have to bury me and I keep my promises!

[DR22 Ω 🪬🎭 @DejaRu22]

If you’re in deep enough rapport with your own body you can just simply eat McDonald’s and tell your body its healthy af increases testosterone lowers cortisol raises iq… your body can just accept it.

You need to be placebomaxxing.

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

If this is still on the table I’ll take this bet.

Best case:
- I win, am the greatest money manager on Earth, and get $250k I don’t need

Worst Case:
- I have a cool story with the author of a book that changed my life

[Ramit Sethi @ramit]

I will never forget a guy on here claiming he could make 20% returns so I bet him $250K he couldn't get 20% over 20 years and he said I can't afford that

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

My parents got divorced when I was young.

In his 60s my dad asked me to set him up on the apps.

I told him, “It won’t work. You’re 65 and 5’5” you’ll get nowhere”.

This same man could walk into any building and make anyone love him.

You just have to pick your arena

[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

I think part of the problem with dating apps is that the things that make men attractive to women are not things that are easy to convey digitally

I’ve had way more success IRL with women who wouldn’t have looked at me for even a microsecond on the apps.

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

Host them.

Invite 5 cool guys, as many women as you want, run ads to sell tickets to the general public

[James Kennedy @JamesKennedyio]

@Post_Thirty Describe the private parties and how to get invited.

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

I had a similar thought when I read this post.

My mind immediate went:

$8,700 is ~$23 per DAY in ads to promote my own events/community.

[Xans | Hypnotist + High Performance Hypnosis @xansnds]

You can do this for a couple hundred dollars and far better results if you just follow this social recipe:

1. Create an event to invite people to
Could be a picnic where you talk about the bible or a pickle ball meetup or play basketball

It doesn’t really matter just throw some event that you would enjoy going to

2. Invite people you meet out

Now you have a reason to take down numbers and invite people somewhere. It won’t feel so awkward anymore and you actually have a reason to build your network now.

From here you just throw the event and continue to invite more people and it will continue to grow and expand.

3. Throw it on a weekly or twice a month basis

This way it’s something casual people don’t have to worry about missing and can drop in with a little pressure and leave just as easily

You want to design the event to essentially be something that people can check out and stay if they like but I have no pressure to stay if they wanna leave

That way people will come and they will naturally bring their friends including girlfriends will bring their girlfriends and then you just throw it to 100 or so people all while you are being in the leadership position so you look absolutely amazing

And the best part is because it’s doing something you like you’re having a blast anyways

I guarantee you that you would find far better girls with this method than hinge and going on dates

Ask me how I know this works?

Because I have many friends that have done it and I’m about to do it myself.

And here’s the best part you can also use it to just build a community which is my intention

Really what I’m sharing with you above is a community building skill. You choose what you wanna do with that skill. But once you start and lead a community it is hard not to have dating options with the community but more importantly also connections.

Connections are some of your most powerful assets especially when you’re young

Those will grow into your most valuable relationships

This entire process will change your life if you do it

And you’ll never have to download another date again.

God dating apps are sad. Still never used one and never will. Don’t need it. My social skills don’t need to rely on some dating platform that no one actually wants to be on Buttars more afraid of being alone than being with somebody they don’t like.

I have higher standards than that for myself.

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

In 2002 a buddy had the Super Soaker Max-D 6000

We all called it “the nipple maker”

He’d blast us right in the solar plexus and leave a welt that looked like a 3rd nipple

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I know every generation has their class struggles, but let me tell you about the summer of 1990 when Supersoakers hit the market and only a few kids could afford them and the rest of us were hunted for sport.

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

Reality is whatever you decide it is when you wake up in the morning

[Robbie Crabtree @RobbieCrab]

The way you talk about the company you're building is everything.

How much conviction do you convey? How much ambition do you inspire?

The best founders work on this relentlessly because it literally changes the fabric of reality.

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

So this court official who processes dozens of documents a day, remembers this particular document?

They also remembered that a person they saw once, half a decade ago, looks like you, but wasn’t you.

And this seems more likely than you forgetting a single doc?

[ʜᴀʟᴠᴇᴇɴ @tweetzbyidil]

The crazy part is that my signature looks exactly like mine, but I swear on everything I own that I have never seen or signed that paper in my entire life.
I tracked down the lady who stamped the document, and after some digging, she finally confessed that my husband brought a woman who looked a lot like me to her office five years ago. It hit me right then that he didn't just forge my signature; he actually hired a fake wife to help him set up a trap for a crime he hadn't even committed yet.

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

I barely know myself.

Fat chance I know anyone off the internet

[mads campbell @martyrdison]

the problem with any fame online is people think they know you

especially if you’re open, vulnerable, talk about real life

they meet you like they’ve known you for years, but they don’t know you at all

can they quote a tweet or article? sure. does that mean they know you? no

to really know someone, to be known, to be loved, none of that exists online

it makes real life interactions awkward and sometimes makes you want to disappear and stop sharing

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

Whenever my son is hurt he asks that I "use my magic"

I literally just press my hand over the boo-boo and ask him if he feels the warmth.

When he confirms he does, I say the spell is complete.

We continue our day and his pain is gone

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A pain researcher held his wife’s hand during childbirth and watched her pain drop. He spent the next five years figuring out why.

Pavel Goldstein, a researcher at University of Colorado Boulder, ran the study with 22 romantic couples. Both partners wore EEG caps (sensors that read brain waves in real time) while the woman received controlled heat pain on her arm. They tested four setups: sitting together without touching, holding hands without pain, sitting together during pain with no touch, and holding hands during pain.

The brain maps in this image tell the whole story. Each orange line is a verified connection between the two brains firing in sync. No touch, no pain: 12 connections. Holding hands, no pain: 10. Pain but no touch: just 5. Pain actually shreds the natural brain sync between partners. But holding hands during pain: 22 connections, over 4x the no-touch pain condition. The coupling explodes the moment touch and pain combine.

The sync happened on a specific brain wave frequency tied to focused attention and, specifically, to processing someone else’s pain. When both brains locked into this rhythm, two things happened at once: the woman reported less pain, and the man’s empathy accuracy (how well he could estimate her pain level) went up. Higher sync, less pain, better empathy reading. All three moved together.

The why behind it is worth following. When your partner’s brain syncs with yours during pain, it may signal that you’re understood. A 2023 Brain Sciences study found that gentle, caring touch activates a deep brain region that acts as the body’s built-in pain suppression switch, and that region connects directly to neurons that release oxytocin, the bonding hormone. Feeling understood may trigger reward circuits that actively dampen pain.

And it only works with someone you love. A 2024 study from the Chinese Academy of Sciences found the brain sync boost during touch showed up between romantic partners but not between strangers. Same physical contact, different relationship, no coupling spike.

The study is small: 22 couples, all heterosexual, only women received pain, and the team is clear this is correlation, not proven causation. But Goldstein has since confirmed the empathy-touch-pain link across heart rate, breathing, and brain waves in three separate published papers.

The whole line of research started because his wife told him to “shut up and just hold my hand” during labor. Three papers and 250+ citations later, he can show you the wiring diagram of why it worked.

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

It's so nice to be missed

[Ken Vermeille | Vermillion @KenVermeille]

@BGroat Hey you’re back!

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

I’m not this SPECIFIC magic friend.

But to many people in the world I am this friend.

A recent example is me explaining to someone that I store, or purchase no possessions.

I’m not a “minimalist”, it’s just that whenever I actually NEED anything it’s just somehow to hand

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

The primary value I've gotten out of generative AI is that everything on the internet so rock-bottom awful that I'm pretty much completely offline now.

In the past I didn't like being online, but there was good stuff to keep me hooked.

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

Also Shakespeare was not high-brow.

It was rude, and crass, and performed for peasants.

It's a similar pedigree to Two and A Half Men, or The Big Bang Theory

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

Why did we make reading Shakespeare such a big part of being “educated”? No one was supposed to read Shakespeare, you’re supposed to watch it. They’re plays. It’s like if 400 years from now we made reading the Star Wars screenplays the mark of an intelligent individual.

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

Never seen it, can’t prove it

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

you ever think about the fact that everything is always just going on?

like that one restaurant you went to 10 years ago in another country is just open right now, the hostess is seating people there as we speak.

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

I know a dude who bought several homes in Toronto from 2000-2010 on the back of being a waiter at a posh restaurant.

$1,000 tips, a few tables a night, a few nights a week… it adds up

[Jules @my_catharsis0]

@ZyMazza Sociologists have already studied this to death. Generally professors with an PhD are the lowest paid high status job.

Highest paid low status job is a waiter in an ultra fine dining restaurant (they easily take home $200k) but you are essentially a servant.

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

I had a very easy baby.

People ask me if I want another child and I say no.

I don’t want to be confronted with the fact that I may not actually be very good at this Dad thing

[Grace 🦎🩵🐣🐈‍⬛🌃 @HormoneHangover]

If your baby sleeps well it’s not hard to have a baby. But if your baby doesn’t sleep well it is very very very very very very very hard. People with sleepy babies and non sleepy babies are not understanding each others realities here

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

My most popular slide in all of my past fundraises is "Here's how you get screwed"

I outline all of the ways that an investor can lose money as a result of my dishonesty or incompetence, and the guardrails I have in place

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

It feels counter-intuitive, but:

Often the best way to build trust in you / your business is to pull back the curtain and explain to your potential customer exactly how you make money.

(The insight is that, if they're smart, they're going to be trying to figure it out anyway, and they're used to everyone else they deal with playing hide the ball.)

[Brian Groat @BGroat]

I use to carry form NDAs with me so that I could whip one out when someone was cagey about their "stealth startup".

It was also just some CRUD bullshit with no real IP

[Founder Kyle @FounderKyle]

That awkward moment when some guy asks you to sign and NDA before telling you their revolutionary startup idea...