- culture that celebrates risk-taking
- ingrained hatred of bureaucracy
- robust capital markets
- Starbucks nitro cold brew
- cheap and abundant oil
- “you can just do stuff”
- investment bankers that work until 2 AM
- low barriers to entry for entrepreneurship
- cheap and abundant Zyn
- manifest destiny
- private equity
- Delaware C corporations
- freedom of speech
- air conditioning
- M&A markets
- interstate highway system
- meritocracy
- low capital gains taxes + QSBS exemption
- McDonalds
- incentives for getting shit done
- university Greek life system
- the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution
- New York City
- grocery stores that literally made Soviet politicians cry
- at-will employment
- Walmart
- everyone in the world speaks our language
- Mississippi River barge traffic
- GPU clusters
- ability to get filthy rich even if born poor
- pickup trucks
- state-school engineering programs
- SBA 7a loans
- Sand Hill Road
- Michael Jordan
- 50 states competing for business
- significantly more sunlight than Europe
- the Homestead Act of 1862
- old-school DARPA
- no union reps on corporate boards
- risk of dying poor even if born rich
- we don’t take the month of August off
- the entire state of Texas
- the smartest people in the world move here
- did I mention we despise bureaucracy?
It’s been a tough few months for Sonos. A redesign of the app caused outrage. So when a friend tipped me off to the r/Sonos subreddit filled with 261K angry people, I braced for impact. I found the expected complaints—but I also noticed they really liked an employee named Keith.
Wow, @amtrak will operate special daily “Open Express” train Raleigh Union Station to Pinehurst (with a stop in Cary) June 13-16 for the US Open Golf tournament https://t.co/VoelPQK9Rb
@thedailykaily They just redid the one here in town, and it works perfectly. It really confuses me and I feel like I’m not getting the whole experience.
When getting breakfast out and you ask for jelly, why does it seem that grape is the default? Grape is a trash jelly. There are at least 43 better options. And that’s just sticking with jellys and jams. Throw in preserves, chutneys, and butters and grape is falling into the 100s.