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[Ryan Cohen @ryancohen]

The Hollow Men

American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.

By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.

These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.

In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.

Today, we have severed that link.

We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.

If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.

This looting starts in the boardroom.

We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.

Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.

And for what?

Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.

They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.

And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?

We get the Delegation Economy.

When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.

This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.

They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.

While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.

If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.

The time for polite governance is over.

If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

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The Big Short Squeeze and details of my history with the stock leading up to it
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[Sean Wilson @Seannywilson]

I started sending cold emails in 2019.

Some things I've done since then:

- Helped scale a company to 9 figures
- Booked over 1000 calls for my clients
- Scaled my agency to 80k/mo in under 4 months
- Booked calls with Tesla, Google, the NFL, the UFC, & more

And after years of refining my system, I've packaged everything into a 37-page document.

Inside, I go over:

(1) How to set up email infrastructure that actually works (50+ subdomains, 100 mailboxes, 98% primary inbox rate)

(2) Advanced list building tactics that find prospects other tools miss

(3) The waterfall enrichment process that typically increases TAM by 40%

(4) How to track buying intent signals like funding rounds, hiring posts, and job changes

(5) A proven framework for writing cold emails that book meetings (with real good vs bad examples)

This covers infrastructure, targeting, data, timing, and copy.

Everything you need to run outbound and start booking calls in the next 1-2 months.

If you want it:

Comment "EMAIL"

And I'll DM it to you ASAP.

PS

RT this and I'll prioritize your DM

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I’ve got something every tech seller wishes they had:

A MASSIVE LEAD LIST OF SAAS DECISION MAKERS IN SAN FRANCISCO fully reviewed, cleaned, and curated.

This includes founders, CEOs, product leaders, growth heads, and engineering directors from SF’s fastest-growing SaaS companies.

If you sell software, automation, consulting, dev tools, marketing, AI systems, or services… this list is basically a shortcut to the Bay Area’s highest-value buyers.

Want access?

Comment “700” + Like + Repost and I’ll DM it over.

(must follow for DM)

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[Damian Player @damianplayer]

selling AI agents WITHOUT building them yourself means:

• no full-time staff
• you close deals, experts build
• $5K-$15K+per deal (minimum)
• clients see ROI fast

If your goal is scaling past $50K/month, this model beats building everything yourself.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

RT + comment “AGENT” and I’ll shoot over the method (must follow to get DM)

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I used to spent 6 hours manually creating a social media carousel.

Research: 2 hours
Writing: 1 hours
Design: 3 hour

Result: One carousel

Then I found an automation that does it in 8 minutes.
Here's what it does:

Input: "Claude 4 launch" + "Marketing leaders"
Output: A 10-slide carousel with:
- Research from 10+ credible sources (using Tavily AI)
- Narrative that flows like a story, not bullet points (using GPT-4)
- Professional design you'd pay $200 for (using @GammaApp )
- Auto-saved to Google Sheets for review

The workflow handles:
- Web research (finds the best sources, not random blogs)
- Content writing (sounds like you, not ChatGPT)
- Visual design (scroll-stopping, mobile-optimized)
- Organization (everything logged for your team to review)

It's the same stack I use for carousels that regularly hit 30K-100K+ impressions.

And I'm giving away this WORKFLOW to the first 500 people absolutely FREE.

To receive this....
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(I'll DM you the JSON file for n8n WORKFLOW, VIDEO tutorial and documentation )

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