Brian Zaratzian

Global traveler. NYC based, Long Island born. Armenian / Ecuadorian descent. Family office / PE secondary investor and entrepreneur.

[Potato Kmish @potatokmish]

4th and a half yard down 7 and DeMeco Ryans attempts a 58 yd FG. Just hand in your head coaching card you complete buffoon.

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

When Will Ferrell and Jeff Goldblum went live with SNL's "Space: The Infinite Frontier with Harry Caray" sketch, the first part was scripted and on cue cards for both actors, but halfway through, Ferrell started improv'ing insane questions and you can see Goldblum holding on for dear life answering them 😂 I forget how good this era of SNL really was

[Brian Zaratzian @BrianZaratzian]

@BowTiedMarmott @WSPArchive Compounding is amazing but the math above is very aggressive. If we take the mid-point of the starting range ($625K), it requires an 11% and 13.1% compounded annual return over 20 years to reach $5 MM and $7.5 MM, respectively.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Words Tim Wakefield wrote in his phone before he passed away a few years ago.

Posted shortly by his wife. Powerful words we should all live by.

[WANA Visuals @wana_visualss]

💒 🇮🇷 The dazzling interior of the Armenian Cathedral in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Vank Cathedral, one of the largest and most beautiful churches in Isfahan's Jolfa district, was founded under the rule of Shah Abbas I and built in 1606 by Armenians relocated to the city.

Its interior is richly decorated with gilded paintings, Persian-style floral motifs, and biblical frescoes. The central dome illustrates the creation and man's expulsion from Eden. The walls have two bands of murals: one depicting Jesus' life and the other showing the suffering of Armenian martyrs.

The Cathedral's design combines Armenian, Persian, and Italian influences.

Video by Mohammedreza Morsaly

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

This is rock star Jon Bon Jovi — this is not a fake. His personal net worth is $410 million, and he washes trays and dishes at his own restaurant chain, Soul Kitchen in Newark, New Jersey, which he created for the homeless, where they can eat for free forever.
These are the real influencers.
A true idol. 🎸

[Brian Zaratzian @BrianZaratzian]

@ZeeContrarian1 Congratulations on a great call and thanks for sharing.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

The history books quietly bypassed is that Barack Obama, during the most pressure-saturated nights of his presidency, would retreat alone to the Treaty Room on the second floor of the White House residence — not to strategize, not to take calls, but to handwrite personal letters to ten ordinary American citizens every single night, a practice he maintained with almost monastic devotion across all eight years, selecting the letters himself from the 40,000 that arrived daily at the White House, and his longtime correspondence director Fiona Reese confirmed that Obama would often weep privately while reading certain letters, folding them carefully before writing responses so personally detailed and emotionally present that recipients frequently described the experience of receiving them as the most significant moment of their lives, with one Ohio steelworker writing back to say that Obama's letter had physically stopped him from making a decision that would have permanently altered his family's future. What makes this practice almost unbearably moving is the detail that surfaced later — Obama never used a computer for these letters, always a black felt-tip pen, always legal yellow paper first as a draft, always rewritten onto White House stationery by hand a second time, because he believed, as he told historian Doris Kearns Goodwin in a rare private conversation later recounted in her 2018 work, that the physical act of pressing pen to paper forced a quality of attention that typing simply could not replicate, a philosophy rooted in his years as a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 2004 where he developed the conviction that democracy only functions when its leaders remain genuinely, uncomfortably close to the specific gravity of individual human suffering rather than processing it from behind the insulating distance of institutions and screens."

[Quadcarl @Quadcarl]

This is the worst thing I’ve read yet in the Epstein files. How can Pam Bondi live with herself covering up for these people?

There needs to be some arrests AND EXECUTIONS!

I’m going to go scream now.

https://t.co/U4DKGVRKZT

[Omar Jimenez @OmarJimenez]

The government claimed she rammed Border Patrol agents with her vehicle before an agent shot her five times. But new bodycam video shows the agent turned his steering wheel toward Marimar Martinez and that he was congratulated for "excellent service" after shooting her.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

In this video montage, JD Vance says:

1. He “never liked” Trump.
2. Trump never “tells the truth”.
3. Trump is a “total fraud”.
4. Trump doesn’t “care about folks” .
5. He “can’t stomach” Trump.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

In @nytopinion

One year ago, President Trump took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he used the presidency to enrich himself, the @nytimes editorial board writes. This is how Trump has pocketed at least $1.4 billion. https://t.co/U35Bm4UaDy

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

It is said that the bison is the only animal to turn and face a storm. To get through the blizzard faster. To not hide. To face difficult times head on. To meet the moment.

For the moment is all we have.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

Dostoevsky

[Christopher Bloomstran @ChrisBloomstran]

Warren Buffett retires today, most likely in his mind at the closing bell, just minutes from now.

Congratulations to the greatest investor the world will ever know. The returns speak for themselves - Berkshire earned 6,118,651% or 19.9% annually over his 60 years running the company. The S&P 500 returned 46,491%, or 10.4%. Berkshire’s shares could decline by 99.2% and still have outperformed the market. The record is even greater when including the partnerships he ran through 1969.

However, it is not the returns but the way Warren did it that matters most; with integrity and morality - and with humility and humor. He didn’t have to teach, but he did. On behalf of so many of us, thank you, sir.

[Swingtrader @Swingtrader]

Brilliant article by @profplum99 - I don’t think this could have been articulated anyway possibly better.

https://t.co/UpG6MwvmiM

[Eddy Quan @waronweakness]

Maximise your physical health

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Guy is speaking my love language

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"You’re going to die one day, and none of this is going to matter. So enjoy yourself. Do something positive. Project some love. Make someone happy. Laugh a little bit. Appreciate the moment. And do your work."
@naval

[Zartonk Media @ZartonkMedia]

What exactly happened 110 years ago today on April 24th 1915? Zartonk explains.

#ArmenianGenocide #1915NeverAgain