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[lil Bill @WillDepth]

#5olid

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

you need a certain level of ruthlessness to succeed in life.

[BEEZY OSHA @BeezyOsha]

The quality of your work is not determined by how many likes it generates as a creative. Just put out your work and care less about the numbers. Putting out the work is already the reward, any other thing that comes is just extra

[Z @BrianZisook]

We have access to nearly every commercially released song in history, on-demand, 24/7.

My recommendation: Press play on at least one artist you’ve never heard before, every day.

[Z @BrianZisook]

Whenever I travel, I pick 1-2 albums in advance and play them on repeat the whole trip. So when I hear them later, they take me back. Highly recommend.

[DJ Vlad @djvlad]

I see all these posts about people selling their company for millions and then becoming depressed. If it’s so bad being rich, why do you NEVER see someone give away all their money and go back to struggling financially? Don’t let these bullshit stories fool you into thinking that you shouldn’t strive to be financially well off.

[lil Bill @WillDepth]

@_EryBeary Happy birthday cuz 🥳

[black @6LACK]

to every artist/person out there, your life & career will hardly ever just be vertical, and the purpose of art goes beyond charts, sales, analytics, algorithms. this shit has its natural & unnatural ups & downs, but the best thing you can do is create things that are honest, so that you never look back & have regrets. everyday you’re breathing you get an opportunity to reintroduce yourself & put something meaningful out into the world. do the work. have fun doing it. everything else is a bonus.

[cape 🪽 @capexbt]

BlackRock is trying to buy 13% of the entire SpaceX IPO in one order.

- They want $5 to $10 billion of the $75 billion raise
- BlackRock manages $11.5 trillion in total assets
- They’re deploying from their conviction funds, not index funds
- The IPO is already 10x oversubscribed before BlackRock even entered
- Retail gets 30%. BlackRock alone wants 13%
- Institutions are fighting over the rest like sharks
- Ticker: SPCX. Nasdaq. June 12

The largest asset manager on the planet just gave you alpha and you are not paying attention.

[The Roc Boy @BookOfHova]

i tried to put ‘em up on the art flip
i get in one got out in a hard six/
this shit easier than selling hard white
we was standing in the hallway all night/
this shit just sittin in the hall under soft light
the auction find out its mine niggas gon bite/
the hustle never changed-

[David Senra @davidsenra]

When Adam’s stock price dropped by 92% he borrowed money to buy back $6 billion in stock. That bet made the company more than $60 billion:

“If no one's going to buy our shares why don't we just start buying our own shares?

The company at the bottom
was worth $3.8 billion.

And we were generating over a billion dollars of EBITDA.

Well in theory we could buy back 20%
of the shares of the company just in the next year if we really believed in the path we were on.

So we kicked that off.

But we did it a little bit differently than what most companies do.

Most companies go out and say I'm going to buy shares from the public markets and just take shares back.

But you don't know who's on the other side of that trade.

On the other hand we knew that we had a cap table where about 50% of the
shares were going to sell at some point over the coming years.

We had private equity investors
that owned roughly 50% of the shares of the company alongside some
other founders that were no
longer there.

So instead of going to the public we went to the shareholders that we knew
were going to sell and got them to agree to sell back to us over time.

And so for the following 18 months we ended up deploying around $6 billion of buybacks using our own capital and we leveraged some to buy back shares in the company.

And over time that ended up creating somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 to $60 billion of actual proceeds from the buyback.

It was one of the most successful buybacks in the history of companies.”

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

Mark Cuban sold Broadcast dot com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999.

He spotted the internet wealth transfer before most people had email. This time he quietly called the next one.

“33 million companies in this country. No AI budgets. No AI experts.”

Read that twice.

He’s not talking about startups. He’s talking about the dentist with three locations. The freight broker in Memphis. The family manufacturer running on spreadsheets from 2011.

They’ve heard of ChatGPT. That’s where it ends.

For twenty years, software worked like a landlord. One product, millions of tenants, everyone pays rent and nobody gets to move the walls.

AI flips the lease. The product can finally shape itself around the business instead of the other way around.

Which opens a door nobody is talking about.

Someone has to walk into these 33 million companies and do the work. Sit across from a 62-year-old owner, understand how his invoices move, hand him back a system that saves him 15 hours a week.

That person is not going to come from OpenAI.

Every smart 22-year-old right now is sprinting toward the same five labs. Cuban is pointing at the empty chairs in every other room.

Here’s the arbitrage: you don’t need to train a model. You need to know one industry cold and speak fluent AI.

The last time this setup existed was 1999. Every small business needed a website and almost nobody local knew how to build one. The operators who figured out dentists, restaurants, and contractors built agencies that printed money for a decade.

This time the ceiling is ten times higher.

33 million companies. A handful of people who can help them. The math does the rest.

Cuban saw the gap first. Whoever moves next owns the decade.

[Luis @jordanyroc]

Kendrick Lamar has never publicly credited Jay-Z’s “4:44” as a source of inspiration when creating “Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.” But when “4:44” dropped he tweeted about it and he also participated in the footnotes episode of 4:44’s title track. So, I don’t believe that it’s far fetched for Kendrick to have drawn inspiration from Jay’s album.

There are many similarities between the two albums. Both albums are conceptually built around Jay and Kendrick going to therapy and dealing with their personal issues publicly. And though they are sonically completely different, they address a lot of the same topics…

Therapy, the male ego, accountability, family, relationships, infidelity, fatherhood, legacy, daddy issues, family members sexuality, religion/spirituality, breaking generational family curses, Black culture, America, social issues, wealth, financial responsibility, emotional maturity, influence, etc.

Two nearly identical albums from two guys in completely different stages in their lives. They unmask in front of their audience and bare their souls on wax with true introspection. Raw and intentional artistic expression. Nothing is surface level.

[RUSS @russdiemon]

been throwing free listening bar parties for the deluxe album. no phones. just life as it’s currently happening in front of you.

AI and the internet aren’t going anywhere but neither is the feeling of being in a room with strangers who all just heard the same thing at the same time.

[The Net Daily @TheNetDaily]

2 Chainz is a national treasure we gotta protect him at all costs 🙏🏾