Daniel McCarty 🏴‍☠️

Founder @ JunkStart 🏴‍☠️ 🚀 • Franchisor • Creatively maladjusted • Territories open nationwide

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@TimLovettTurf My man trying to go viral two days in a row! 😂

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You can see Bob Iger in the background looking at the JunkStart logo.

We sat behind Iger and Josh Kushner. Just a couple media, tech, and junk removal moguls 😂

Felt right at home 🚀🏴‍☠️🔜

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Let’s goooooooooo Spurs

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Let’s goooooooooo Spurs

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Oh man. Incentives are such a tricky slope. So easy to game the system. Business is very nuanced, it’s hard to create the perfect incentive game.

We try to have our folks focused on long term value creation. That’s what we harp on. And try to reward for value creation. Base pay is just prepayment of the value creation they need to create.

But it’s hard and I wish more employers sat down and thought through all the perverse incentives their pay structures have created in their business!

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@STLChrisH Nice! You already have your Dall and Stone planned?

We loved the Brooks Range. Found some awesome rams. Would love to do Chugach or NWT soon.

Sheep Fever is one of a kind!

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Every founder eventually feels like they’re in an abusive relationship with their business.

You give it everything. It gives you absolutely nothing back in return.

Don’t worry though, once you finally reach that point, you’re still probably years away from feeling any different.

Maybe one day it’ll finally love you back.

Or maybe you’ll go bankrupt and roundtrip your life back to zero.

The joys of founderhood.

But we wouldn’t have it any other way

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Heard enough HALO talk on CNBC I couldn't resist 😅

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@homeservicebase Good idea. I just went to the $200/mo plan because Design takes up so much credits. I’ll try a different interface

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Am I crazy, or is Claude Opus 4.7 about 10x stupider the last 3-5 days than it was the previous week or two?

I’ve noticed a drastic difference.

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@homeservicebase Dang. Maybe I’m just losing it. I was beyond blown away up until like last Thursday, and now it’s acting like a 2024 GPT model for me. No idea what’s going on. Feels like they halved the compute on me!

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One summer, many years ago, a banker was vacationing in a small village on the coast. He saw a fisherman in a small boat by the pier with a handful of fish that he had just caught. The businessman asked him how long it took him to catch the fish, and the man said he was out on the water for only a couple of hours.

“So why didn’t you stay out there longer to catch more fish?” asked the businessman.

The fisherman said he catches just enough to feed his family every day, and then comes back.

“But it’s only 2 p.m.!” said the banker, “What do you do with the rest of your time?”

The fisherman smiled and said, “Well, I sleep late every day, then fish a little, go home, play with my children, take a nap in the afternoon, then stroll into the village each evening with my wife, relax, play the guitar with our friends, laugh and sing late into the night. I have a full and wonderful life.”

The banker scoffed at the young man, “Well, I’m a businessman from New York! Let me tell you what you should do instead of wasting your life like this! You should catch more fish to sell to others, and then buy a bigger boat with the money you make so you can catch even more fish!”

“And then what?” asked the fisherman.

The banker’s eyes got all big as he enthusiastically explained, “You can then buy a whole fleet of fishing boats, run a business, and make a ton of money!”

“And then what?” asked the fisherman again, and the banker threw his hands in the air and said, “You’d be worth a million! You can then leave this small town, move to the city, and manage your enterprise from there!”

“How long would all this take?” asked the fisherman. “Fifteen to twenty years!” replied the banker.

“And then what?”

The banker laughed and said, “That’s the best part. You can then sell your business, move to a small village, sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take naps in the afternoon, go for an evening stroll with your wife after dinner, relax, sing, and play the guitar with your friends. You would have a full and wonderful life!”

The fisherman smiled at the banker, quietly gathered his catch, and walked away.

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@Nads_Shariff 💪🏻

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@kickstartmyfran Haha, I dare you to watch this and not at least be intrigued!
https://t.co/L1TW4CGsVc

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Saw a competitive bird watching documentary last weekend and now I’m just BEASTING on my eBird.

Anyone else into this craziness 😂

Need some Listers in my feed

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HERE. WE. GO.

Beyond thrilled to welcome on the Hogan family to the JunkStart team!

Thank you to everyone who has made this next step in the journey possible.

We have been beyond blessed to work with so many great folks in the franchise world.

1 down. 99 to go.

We still have prime markets completely wide open. With the recruitment traction we are getting from franchise prospects, I don’t think these territories will last long.

DFW, Houston, Austin, Atlanta, Charlotte, Orlando. Plus many more.

Next stop, the moon. 🚀

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@ViewTurbo 😂

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Has anyone else ever had their Google Ads account hacked?

Had someone gain access to our account (which had 2FA), add themselves as admin, kick all of us out, jack our spend limits way up, and presumably try to run crypto scams or something (using I guess the goodwill we had with Google ads).

I thought it would be fairly common, but everyone I’ve talked to has sort of given me a funny look and said they’ve never heard of that before.

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1. Men act purposively to attain ends
2. Their wants are endless
3. Their means are limited
4. Their values are personal (subjective)
5. Their ideas, values and goals are always changing
6. They may make mistakes
7. At any instant in time, they are aiming at what they consider most important
8. They try to use the easiest way to get what they want

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https://t.co/CPy3V9APuv

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An hour very well spent. I recommend to all.