Ben Bortner

Business owner and investor. Passionate about fly fishing.

[Ben Bortner @BenBortner]

@zackkanter Come to key west bro, would be good to see you

[Ben Bortner @BenBortner]

@mjmauboussin Depends on where the DA comes from and whether it is 'real' (i.e. an ongoing CAPEX requirement) or not...

[Ben Bortner @BenBortner]

@ianbremmer @gzeromedia Wow, atheists are real second class citizens

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Whether it's sports or business, the most successful people have the same qualities:

1. They are obsessed
2. They demand excellence
3. The details always matter
4. They are ultra-competitive
5. They have a vision & goals
6. They never stop learning
7. They never quit

[Z @ZeeContrarian1]

Summary of the GameStop ( $GME) trade so far:
2 billionaires got 1 billion $ of free PR
20 Reddit users became millionaires
2,000,000 people that joined late lost half of their life savings

[Ben Bortner @BenBortner]

@NoonSixCap I lost mind 4-5 years ago and quit public markets 3 years ago. Welcome.

[Ben Bortner @BenBortner]

@NickatFP The suit jacket really hides the man beneath...

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Emergency Press Conference - When Did Flattening The Curve Turn Into Finding The Cure

[Ben Bortner @BenBortner]

@benhacker Hasn't this been the case for like 4+ years? Lol

[Ben Bortner @BenBortner]

@ReformedBroker @ReformedBroker ironically I was served Geico ads while reading you blog post.

[Ben Bortner @BenBortner]

@benhacker I drove for Uber a little last year. They make you prove insurance and registration and then remind you when they're expiring and make you prove it again. Maybe he stopped paying mid way through...

[Ben Bortner @BenBortner]

@RampCapitalLLC Connect 4

[Ben Bortner @BenBortner]

Same

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

I’m going to play a game where I sit on my couch and say I’m going to do sit ups in 20 minutes and then when 20 minutes is up I’ll push it back 20 more minutes and do that over and over again until it’s time to go to bed and then run it back tomorrow.

[Ben Bortner @BenBortner]

@ianbremmer Will be even more staggering next week when millions of small businesses realize they aren't going to get a PPP loan. #350Bgoesquick

[Ben Bortner @BenBortner]

@ToddSullivan Not aware of many businesses that can survive a 90% revenue decline (going to 100% decline) for long...

[Ben Bortner @BenBortner]

@ToddSullivan It's tough to make the math work when you're losing $60m per day... I don't know Delta well enough to know what their liquidity position is like, but when you're burning $2B per month time is not your friend. Selling for anything is better than a goose egg. Buffet knows that...

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

Health expenditure as a % of GDP

US 17%
France 11%
Germany 11%
UK 10%
Spain 8.9%
Italy 8.8%
S Korea 8%
Turkey 4%

Though spending doesn’t equal quality…

[Guy Spier 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🇨🇭🇬🇧🇮🇷🇦🇪 @GSpier]

Simulating an epidemic https://t.co/se3DLTdBQV via @YouTube

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

The US had 89 reported cases of coronavirus at the beginning of the month.

Now, it has more than 82,100.