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[Claudia @claudsonx]

@soluna_stensale @chalaska @httpslinus love the name nullzwei!!

[Claudia @claudsonx]

@KoopHQ @cpgjosh Exactly.

[Claudia @claudsonx]

@usebland @k2sbhai I want to try it!

[August Noble @AugustNoble]

My dad owns a bunch of KFCs (ex-General Mills exec).

Walked him through Grok Bot today.

A few things we're setting up for him:

- Daily P&L benchmarking across stores
- Scanning Yelp reviews and flagging problem stores
- Labor analysis and smarter scheduling
- Answering store calls (human backup)

His estimate... 3-5% more EBITDA.

On fried chicken.

Boring businesses are about to print.

[Claudia @claudsonx]

@avinkline @binghott No glitches?

[Claudia @claudsonx]

As a lover of languages, I’d add Arabic, given the vast territory it spans and the many countries it covers. If practicality and a clear business case weren’t factors and I could choose freely, it would be Farsi. I think it’s the most beautiful and melodic language I’ve ever heard, and it opens your mind to a different way of thinking. I already speak German, English, and Spanish, plus conversational (or disastrous) Mandarin depending on which conversational pocket I’m exposed to.

[Claudia @claudsonx]

@CindyXBi Love this. So wholesome. The real return was never just financial, it’s still being in each other’s lives when the transaction is long over. 💛

[Claudia @claudsonx]

my favorite oil business story

[Mary @Mary_0nx]

Anna Nicole Smith married a man worth 1.6 billion dollars. She was 26. He was 89. He died 14 months later, and she spent the rest of her life chasing a fortune a court would never let her touch.

The man in the photo is J. Howard Marshall, an oil tycoon who met her at a strip club and proposed more than once before she said yes. When he died, his will left the 1.6 billion to his son, and nothing to his wife.

So she went to war for it. The fight lasted almost 20 years and reached the Supreme Court of the United States twice. She won headlines, she won rulings, and in the end she collected nothing.

She did not live to see it finish. In 2006 her 20 year old son died in her hospital room, 3 days after she gave birth to her daughter. 5 months later Anna Nicole was dead too, at 39, in a Florida hotel.

Keep this part. You cannot marry a fortune. You can only marry a person, and the money stays with whatever the paperwork says, not with whoever loved, or claimed to love, the one who earned it. A will is colder than any prenup, and it always gets the last word.

The clip is under a minute. Watch her, then decide. A gold digger who finally got what was coming, or a widow a billionaire family would never let win?

[Claudia @claudsonx]

@permexpat Enjoy! Bon appetit

[Claudia @claudsonx]

@elonmusk @bot agreed

[Claudia @claudsonx]

@Kekius_Sage 54 is young!

[Claudia @claudsonx]

@permexpat Well, then it's time to get creative and make this fun!

[Claudia @claudsonx]

Finch reporting to Stifler's mom.

Have I taken my grokbot too far?

Share yours next.

[Claudia @claudsonx]

@conortrains check your dms

[Claudia @claudsonx]

@ecom_cork That’s the energy!!

[Claudia @claudsonx]

@tyronerobb @einarvollset Your Skype is still working? I thought it was discontinued from good some time around September last year or so. That’s when I had to migrate my mum over to Zoom and it was quite the undertaking.

[Claudia @claudsonx]

@quietTQO @thejustinwelsh That’s a good one. 100% agreed.

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@permexpat @LauraLoomer Jesus Christ 😂😂😂

[Claudia @claudsonx]

Facing this exact challenge right now. Margins are healthy and demand is there, but really scaling requires more working capital than RBF lenders like Shopify or Wayflyer will provide. Then the question becomes: where do bootstrapped consumer brands actually go to raise that next layer of working capital? Family offices? Angels? Something else?

[Claudia @claudsonx]

@vahidf24 @tinyseedfund @robwalling @joinef @Alicebentinck Share along please. Thanks Vee.