Sam Rattner

Sold first company for $40M at 23. Now run Vantum Capital—investing in bankruptcies, broken credit, and distressed situations.

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

I sold my online gambling company for $40M in 2021. I was 23 when I signed the deal. That’s a fun story I’ll tell soon. I made millions but got bored quick. Started another company.

A lot of my friends and business colleagues say I should be more active on X. I’ve been quietly listening behind the door for years.

Ha, why not. I’ll give it a go. More to come.

Some photos of my first office in Chicago off Wells. Loved this place.

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

That’s enough money to give every one of Illinois’ roughly 138,000 teachers, 48,000 police officers, and 16,000 firefighters a $1,000 holiday bonus check every year for the next 14 years.

The correct amount of taxpayer money to spend on illegal aliens is $0.

[Libs Of Chicago @Libs_OfChicago]

The City of Chicago has spent approximately $625 million on illegal aliens since 2022 & the State of Illinois spent $2.8 billion on illegal aliens since 2022.

I’m ok with legislatures not bending for the Bears but let’s hear a lil more about how illegal aliens have raised the tax burden on everyday Chicagoans.

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

Cartoon politics

[Mayor Brandon Johnson @ChicagosMayor]

Statement from the Office of the Mayor:

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

In an American town in 1790, if someone got stabbed in the neck, the entire town grabbed torches, rang the church bell, locked the gates, and spent three days hunting for whoever did it.

Today, we hold a press conference explaining that neck stabbings are a complex issue and assuring everyone that, after posting exactly $0 in bail, the assailant may be free to pursue a second neck stabbing.

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

Every city deserves good neighbors.

[Chicago Sun-Times @Suntimes]

Abdulhafedh Abdulhafedh, the alleged leader of a bank robbery crew who was killed in a shootout with the FBI on the West Side last week, was tracked down in a weekslong manhunt powered by surveillance cameras, tracking devices and cellphone monitoring. https://t.co/6yzrE1Ciwe

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

@TheSeanBecker @ChicagosMayor We need Caesar to take back Rome.

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

A functioning city does not normalize people being stabbed in the neck on public transit.

@ChicagosMayor wants us to treat it like the weather.

Cloudy. 72 degrees. 30% chance of a neck stabbing on the CTA.

[Jen @IlliniJen]

Another man stabbed in the neck on the CTA Blue Line in the Loop last night.

Brandon Johnson’s safety plan launched March 10, promising 75% more policing and real crime drops.

Since then, at least four stabbings and sharp-object attacks have hit CTA trains and platforms. Aggravated assaults and batteries are up 33% year-over-year.

Three months in, the only thing rising under his safety plan is the number of stabbings.

🎥 @ABC7Chicago

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

@BrianCostin Illinois received 10 consecutive credit upgrades because of the 57 consecutive tax hikes in 5 years totaling $77 billion dollars.

We got completely fleeced.

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

This is incredible. Ten consecutive credit upgrades. Illinois has gone from having the worst balance sheet in America to having… the worst balance sheet in America.

Naturally, we’re taking a victory lap.

Congratulations, everyone. We changed the wallpaper in a burning house.

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

Illinois now finds itself in its strongest financial position in decades:

10 consecutive credit rating upgrades
$8 billion overdue bill backlog paid
$12 billion of short-term debt eliminated
$2.4 billion shored up Rainy Day Fund
17-year high pension-funded ratio

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

Haitian identity is as culturally relevant to the city of Chicago as Japanese identity is to Afghanistan.

[Mayor Brandon Johnson @ChicagosMayor]

I am proud to be the first Mayor of Chicago to celebrate with our vibrant Haitian community at City Hall. Happy Haitian Heritage Month, @Chicago!

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

People are getting their heads blown off in River North. There is literal brain matter splattered all over Hubbard and LaSalle.

Grandmothers are getting their fingers bitten off by Venezuelan migrants in Gold Coast.

Mentally deranged drug addicts are stabbing people in the neck on the Red Line in Lincoln Park.

We live in a war zone. We are dying. We are being killed in prime time Chicago neighborhoods.

You’re tweeting about Iran from Italy.

Fix the city you’re responsible for. Stop lecturing us from the other side of the world about the other side of the world.

Strong men build. Weak men blame. You cannot blame your way to a great city. You must build one.

[Mayor Brandon Johnson @ChicagosMayor]

Chicagoans have had enough of Trump’s blasphemous war in Iran.

Someone should explain to the president that his belligerence is only making it harder for working families to make ends meet.

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

@EconTalker This is very true. I have family in the suburbs. 29 years old. Married. Live in a 2,500 sq ft house for $330,000.

I never hear them complaining about the cost of living.

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

Might buy the credit off a Chinese lender in litigation that awards me 150-250 acres in the Catskills — half has septic, rest is zoned residential. 2.5 hours from NYC.

Would build luxury homes on 3 acre lots, not tiny-home junk. Pics of inspiration below.

DM’s open for GC’s 🏗️

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

@drewfallon12 Further…no family is almost like being overcapitalized — all the time in the world to make it work.

The biggest dogs I know have a wife, five kids, and three homes.

And they don’t have them because they’re a dog.

They’re a dog because they have them.

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

@drewfallon12 I used to think this - that it’s only about hours in a day.

Completely changed my mind.

I’d take my chances against someone with nothing over someone providing for three kids and a spouse — any day.

No family create false runway. You can’t be inefficient with mouths to feed.

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

Santa Claus is back in the north pole.

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

@awilkinson @natfriedman So good.

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

@TristanSnell A tariff is like a $20 cover at a bar

It’s not a tax you pay to the government

The drinks inside cost the same

It’s a fee imposed to regulate who gets in and how they behave

A tariff is not a tax

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

HOA defined in one photo

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

America screamed, and it was deafening.

– Presidency
– Popular vote
– Senate majority
– House majority
– State governor majority
– State legislature majority

America, after all it’s endured, is exactly where it’s meant to be.

Because destiny arrives right on time.

[Sam Rattner @SamRattner]

@drewfallon12 Someone selling their network is like the finance YouTubers that sell their trading strategies