Brian Meyer

Founder @flohom_ofc | Floating real estate + waterfront hospitality | Moving society on the water

[Brian Meyer @_brianmeyer]

Welcome aboard - @FLOHOM_ofc

https://t.co/qCxcObN2Kn

📽️ @journeyrewards

[Brian Meyer @_brianmeyer]

FLOHOM just hit the news in NYC. 📺

Fox News came out to Liberty Landing Marina to talk FLOHOM 16 | Isaac's Way, our first floating suite in the New York metro.

Millions of people in our backyard. Most have never seen anything like this.

We're just getting started. @FLOHOM_ofc

#FLOHOM #NYC

[Aaron Burnett @aaronburnett]

Friedberg is very good with insight density. More learning per second than the vast majority of podcasts. We need more standalone pods with him. Good one to save for later.

[FLOHOM @FLOHOM_ofc]

FLOHOM has arrived on the Hudson. 🗽

Introducing FLOHOM 16 | Isaac's Way at Liberty Landing Marina in Jersey City. Our first luxury houseboat in the NYC metro, with the Manhattan skyline directly across the Hudson.

Pre-booking is live. Doors open May 7.

20% off with code FLO16LLM20 → https://t.co/d6I9gdjSNU

[Big Brain Business @BigBrainBizness]

Byron Allen, Founder of Allen Media Group, explains how treating business like a contact sport unlocks unlimited capital:

Byron once borrowed $310 million on a Friday to acquire the Weather Channel. He paid it back in five months.

When the lender hit him with a $28 million prepayment penalty for closing too quickly, he paid that too.

His philosophy on why capital is never the real obstacle:

"Business is a contact sport. You're nothing more than economic athletes. They will see your passion. They will see your stats. And they will always want you on their team because you make them money."

The framing shift here is everything.

Byron sees founders as athletes whose performance is being evaluated by people who need them to win.

"You have unlimited amounts of capital available to you if your hustle is at the highest level."

@RealByronAllen drives the point home:

"Keep your hustle at the highest level because capital is always looking for you to get the money back and a return. There's trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars of capital looking for you. Go get it."

The takeaway: Capital is hunting for operators who can put up the stats. Hustle at the highest level, and the money will find you.

[Brian Meyer @_brianmeyer]

@Jason @euphoriaHBO My Uncle Sam is the Director!

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

If you want a rare life, you have to be delusional. Doubt can enter your mind, and it can sound reasonable, but if you entertain it too much it will slowly drag you down into stagnation. I'd rather reap the lesson from massive failure than do nothing because it's not "realistic."

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

Stop taking advice from people who've never built anything. If they haven't put something on the line, their opinion on your risk isn't worth hearing.

The people who judge the attempt are never the ones making one.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Purpose is one of the most potent antidepressants

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

There are no words.

[Viv 🪩 @battleangelviv]

That's home. That's us.

On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

The aggregate of our joy and suffering,
thousands of confident religions,
ideologies and economic doctrines,
every hunter and forager,
every hero and coward,
every creator and destroyer of civilization,
every king and peasant,
every young couple in love,
every mother and father,
hopeful child,
inventor and explorer,
every teacher of morals,
every corrupt politician,
every "superstar," every "supreme leader,"
every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there –

on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Nobody tells you this: Confidence is less about knowing you’ll win and more about knowing you’ll bounce back even if you don’t. Real confidence is resilience. Adaptability. Tolerance for uncertainty. Fear loses when you know failure is never final.

[FLOHOM @FLOHOM_ofc]

https://t.co/m9cS1jiO4t

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[Will Ahmed @willahmed]

You have no experience.
You’ve never started a company.
You’ve never had a full time job.
Nike is going to kill you.
You’re a kid.
You don’t have technical skills.
You shouldn’t build hardware.
Apple is going to kill you.
You can’t build hardware.
You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively.
Athletes don’t care about recovery.
Under Armour is going to kill you.
It won’t be accurate.
You don’t listen.
You’re an ineffective leader.
You can’t recruit great talent.
You’re going to have to pay every athlete.
You can’t measure sleep non-invasively.
It’s too expensive to research.
Athletes are a small market.
The product costs too much to make.
The product costs too much to sell.
Your valuation is too high.
Consumers aren’t going to want it.
Hardware is too hard.
You should measure steps.
Fitbit is going to kill you.
You can’t build a marketing engine.
You can’t raise enough money.
You need a real CEO.
Google is going to kill you.
You can’t be a subscription.
You can’t build a brand.
You can’t do consumer in Boston.
Your valuation is too high.
You shouldn’t make accessories.
You shouldn’t make apparel.
Lululemon is going to kill you.
You can’t predict Covid.
Stay in your niche.
You are going to run out of money.
You can’t build a health platform.
Amazon is going to kill you.
You can’t measure blood pressure.
You can’t get medical approvals.
The market is too small.
You don’t understand AI.
The market is too competitive.
It won’t work internationally.
The supply chain is too complicated.
You can’t build an AI.
You can’t raise enough money.
It’s too competitive.
Healthcare isn’t going to want it.
…

Just keep going ✌️

[Brian Meyer @_brianmeyer]

Hustle meets opportunity.

That's the theme of Episode 2 of The Floating Economy with my @flohom_ofc co-founder Marcellous "Selly" Butler.

His story from public housing in Annapolis to marina owner to FLOHOM co-founder is one worth hearing.

Full episode below.

https://t.co/nlUuqEjkto

[FLOHOM @FLOHOM_ofc]

Episode 2 of The Floating Economy is live.

FLOHOM co-founder Marcellous "Selly" Butler didn't just study the marina industry.

He lived it.

🧵

[Brian Meyer @_brianmeyer]

I broke down the key ideas from my conversation with Jerry South on the first episode of @flohom_ofc The Floating Economy Podcast into a short article worth reading.

Jerry built Towne Park into a 13,000-person national platform before a PE exit. Now he's looking at the marina industry and seeing the same fragmentation and untapped potential he saw in hospitality parking 30 years ago.

The article captures why.

[FLOHOM @FLOHOM_ofc]

https://t.co/afE3G0yvYc

[Brian Meyer @_brianmeyer]

We've been quietly building something.

FLO AI is @FLOHOM_ofc voice and chat agent, trained to support our guest relations and ops team, not as a gimmick, as an actual member of the team.

The barrier to building real software is gone. My team, with zero coding experience, is now designing tools built around our exact workflows.

We're being intentional. Quality over speed. Humanizing the experience over rushing to deploy.

More to come. 🌊

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

Going to leave you with this tonight:

The best thing you can do for yourself is actively increase your surface area for luck to hit you.

Go outside, travel more, go to new cafes, museums, events, take a new route home, go for hikes, see cities, countrysides, take your notebook, speak to people, ask questions, start businesses - go on more side quests.

You can literally just do things, and the more you do, the more serendipity and synchronicity will find you.

Night gang.

[Brian Meyer @_brianmeyer]

🌊 What if marinas aren't storage but hospitality ecosystems?
🌊 What if slips aren't parking spaces but revenue platforms?
🌊 What if we're at the beginning of a new waterfront asset class?

Full episode 👇

https://t.co/zPdBoHsEKI

[Brian Meyer @_brianmeyer]

Marinas were built for vessels.
The next era will be built for people.
🧵

[Brian Meyer @_brianmeyer]

This conversation isn't about parking.

It's about what happens when a seasoned operator looks at marinas and sees the same fragmentation and untapped potential he saw in hospitality parking 30 years ago.