Toby Hardy

🎯 Fintech power brands for JV. BankStatements*COM & CA. Former U.S. Army Cobra 🐍 attack helicopter 🚁 pilot #downrangehot #intheshit #agentorange

[Toby Hardy @FIRSTDOWNcom]

🎯 “The Wall” Vietnam War Memorial Washington D.C

Such a emotional moment.. will suck the oxygen out of your lungs..

For those of us who served.. we honor all our warriors who made the ultimate sacrifice..

May they RIP.. 🙏🙏🙏

#BrothersSistersInArmsForever
#FreedomIsNotFree
#NeverForget
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[Stars and Stripes Honor Flight @SSHonorFlight]

The price of freedom. #MemorialDay2023 #NeverForget

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

Something very interesting is happening already.

Properties .com and Banker .com are two of the Beanstalk sites coming online this week that could absolutely hit the moon.

These are not quick landing pages or simple experiments. These are serious builds with original ideas behind them. The kind of sites that could actually grow into public companies.

I am not putting my finger on the scale and I am not picking favorites. But when you see what is starting to emerge it raises the bar for everyone climbing the Beanstalk.

Both of these have been in development for weeks. Both are coming online with unique concepts and serious execution.

And that is exactly the point of the Beanstalk.

To show what happens when premium digital real estate meets real vision.

And I have to say, the builders climbing this Beanstalk so far have been exceptional. The creativity, effort, and ambition I’m seeing is exactly why this experiment is going to be so much fun to watch.

Everyone is gung ho.

And honestly, it feels a little magical.

The climb has only just begun.

#BeanStalkChallenge #Domains #DomainNames #DigitalAssets

[Bill Dowhen @bill_dowhen]

@CherokeeOwl Need a second mortgage for these steaks.

[Toby Hardy @FIRSTDOWNcom]

@adonispara 🎯 OFS! Always love a fellow aviation war fighter! 💥 Kicking ass & taking names. Down range hot🔥#BrothersInArmsForever
Assault 21 - 🐍 Cobra driver 1969
Camp Eagle 🦅 • A Shau Valley to DMZ

[Djahzz @formerGrump]

@Tazerface16 @stuart_loveless Well, at least the dotcom bubble left behind a solid infrastructural backbone.

That was later utilized & essentially made end user high speed internet access possible.

Which I doubt could happen with these highly specialized bruteforce farms in case of LLM bubble bust

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

Ukraine says it will not surrender territory to Russia, refusing to bow to Putin or Trump.
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[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

JPMorgan's, $JPM, Jamie Dimon has said that the bank will have fewer jobs in five years than it does now due to AI

[Toby Hardy @FIRSTDOWNcom]

@KarhunoAI @marcrandolph Thx for the tip!
I'm a FNG to all this, so grateful for the suggestions. Maybe Marc will help? 😁🙏

We are in your corner with all the utter nonsense in Davos. 👍😎

[Shai Goldman @shaig]

"Only a $5B exit"

[Toby Hardy @FIRSTDOWNcom]

@brettcalhounn @redbudvc @EquipmentShare 🎯 Sweet!

[Nicole DeTommaso 🪄 @nic_detommaso]

11 venture capital firms HIRING right now👇

♻️ Repost to help make venture more accessible!

[Toby Hardy @FIRSTDOWNcom]

@antonosika 🎯 Sweet! 👏🔥🚀💪
Looking for a team to build BankStatements*COM + *CA + Hispanic markets. It's not sexy, but can be a huge splash..

[Toby Hardy @FIRSTDOWNcom]

@HarryStebbings 🎯 Nothing like the thrill of the hunt! Thats why we are being patient in finding an exceptional
co-founder to develop our flagship BankStatements*COM & CA + the Hispanic market solutions. Multilingual brand power is crucial for the mission ahead.

[Toby Hardy @FIRSTDOWNcom]

@natiakourdadze 🎯 Sweet! 👏💪

[Toby Hardy @FIRSTDOWNcom]

@NWischoff 🎯 Sweet! 👏🔥🚀

[Toby Hardy @FIRSTDOWNcom]

@amitisinvesting @a16z Sweet! 👏

[Toby Hardy @FIRSTDOWNcom]

@Castello_Bros 🎯 Sweet! 🔥🚀🔥

[Castello Brothers @Castello_Bros]

This is the most important move Apple has made for domain names since they sold Safari to Google.
#DomainNames #DigitalAssets #Branding
https://t.co/E0V2lcQI15

[StripMallGuy @realEstateTrent]

So many parents push their kids like crazy.

They push them to be great students, great athletes, great musicians… to get into the best schools, land the best jobs, and become “the most successful.”

Growing up in Silicon Valley, I saw this constantly.

And I’ve always wondered: what’s the actual point of all that pressure?

Let’s say everything goes exactly the way that parent dreamed:

Their kid gets straight A’s, gets into Stanford, gets hired at Goldman, makes partner, gets rich.

Then what? Is that really the end game?

Is that why you push them with three tutors, piano lessons, chess club, AP classes, all of it?

When my kid is in his 40s, I hope he’s a good citizen, doing something he likes. I hope he’s a good friend, a good husband and father. I hope he’s healthy and happy.

That’s it. That’s the end game. That’s the best-case scenario.

You can’t want more than that - and I’m not sure “more” is even good.

You don’t need 23 tutors and endless pressure to get there.

[Andrew Miller @amiller325gd]

Random Sunday Thoughts #192

1. "You don’t know what you have until it’s gone" is an often used cliche, and can relate to many aspects of life. As an investor in and advisor on many of the most valuable, exact match brand domain names on the Internet, this is a recurring theme that I discuss with management of with whom we are discussing a domain we represent. While the strategic importance of owning the exact match dotcom has been validated and proven by so many of the world's most successful companies, conversations i have with potential buyers range from 1) understanding the importance across all aspects of the business, but not yet being in a financial position to complete a deal, to 2) those that still believe they can "get away" without it.  by adapting some version of words added to the domain (as HelloPublic was before they became Public*com) or 3) by sticking to a secondary TLD. There are almost no leading brands using anything but .com. Trying to reinvent the wheel and fight the fact that .com is all the consumer sees is a dangerous game. One point that I stress to those I am advising is that they sometimes cannot see the forest through the trees until it's too late. I recently oversaw the sale of a superb exact match domain, and as a courtesy, emailed a CEO who I had been building a relationship with, whose company went by this brand, to let him know that we had sold the asset. His response was he was devastated and I am now hearing they are needing to rebrand because the company that did buy it has gotten so big, so fast, that they capture emails, traffic, and even customer service inquiries related to the company that missed out. Whether it is trust, credibility, recall or recognition when advertised, the so important email address for your company, or things that arise later, on funding or exit, you want to be the company that gets ahead of the "You don’t know what you have until it’s gone" problem.

2. While on the topic, I was excited for AI software company Anything, that was going by createanything*com, on their acquisition of its exact match domain this week. Marcus Lowe gets it, https://t.co/LoBKcrGFS8 . Anything*com was the parent name for one of the most iconic domain portfolios in the world. I have done some epic deals with Anything and my good pal larry fischer over the years, including the massive Home*com one. Congrats to all!

3. We are in 10+ serious conversations on some high profile domain transactions, one closing tomorrow, others I expect real soon and even before the holidays. As I said last week, when deals like "Anything" happen, other management teams take notice.

4. Today is the biggest game for the Patriot's since Tom Brady left town. It will be bitter cold, snowy, and exciting. On the same topic, since my kids are Tulane, I am super excited that the Green Wave are playoff bound. I am predicting an upset win over Ole Miss.

Until next Week #domains