For the last 6 years I’ve been buying well-run small businesses for 5x earnings.
In the first 30 days, I take the websites offline, move the companies to sad office parks with drop ceilings, install fax machines at the front desk, and bringing in 75 year old actors to pose as the CEO.
I then sell the companies to people with MBAs for 10x revenue so that they can feel useful “turning the company around”
This story is actually insane:
• dude drops $2000 on a DJI robot vacuum like a lunatic
• refuses to use the normal app like a peasant
• Sammy Azdoufal fires up Claude to crack the API so he can drive it with an xbox controller
• Claude delivers the goods
• pulls an auth token from their servers, connects successfully
• except the system thinks he controls 7000 vacuums
• checks again
• yep, seven thousand
• DJI built authentication with zero device ownership verification
• any valid token works for any unit on the planet
• Sammy now has eyes inside homes across 24 countries
• live vacuum camera feeds everywhere
• full floor plans from the mapping data
• some guy in germany eating cereal at 3am, unaware his roomba is snitching
• one API call away from being the most informed burglar in history
• all he wanted was to steer his vacuum with a joystick
• does the right thing and reports it
• DJI fixes it in two days
• back to normal life with his stupidly expensive floor cleaner
• IoT companies stay undefeated at shipping garbage security
This Bloomberg article is right up my alley.
Clubs & Concerts turning into a jammed in, sea of phones instead of a sea of dancing and partying has destroyed night life culture.
@garquake Usually private is quicker. It just costs more. I use to sell hip/ knee implants. Average cost was like $20-30k at private clinics at the time. Dont know if costs have increased since; most likely have. Just sell some oil shares ;)
@garquake@AndrewS87261985 My buddy’s an orthopedic surgeon in Sudbury. Usually if you go to remote places, check in emerge and try to book a meeting with a surgeon odds will increase. Or you can go the private route and pay. Welcome to understanding public healthcare is all about advocating for yourself