Eric Gravengaard

Dad, @AthenaBitcoin Founder, CFO @edge_marketsio, studied where all the fun went to die (MIT, UofC)

[Thomas Braziel @Bkclaims]

Think you got screwed by the recent Polymarket resolution?

117 Partners is interested in purchasing claims from affected users.

I'm Thomas Braziel. I've spent nearly 20 years investing in distressed assets and have been active in crypto distress since Mt. Gox.

If you have a substantial claim and would rather receive cash today than spend years pursuing a recovery, reach out.

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DMs open.

[Sag Harbor Capital @sagharborcap]

This is literally the most UChicago thing I have ever seen

[Eric Gravengaard @EGravengaard]

I had this thought last winter, maybe I should revive the idea: https://t.co/VZZZPVniwJ

[joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸) @JoshuaSteinman]

Has someone built a Reindustrialize job board yet?

Could probably vibe code, scraping the top 200 manufacturing startup websites every week to look for open positions.

[Eric Gravengaard @EGravengaard]

Heaven can’t be real because we’d be hearing Steve Jobs losing it.

[Eric Gravengaard @EGravengaard]

@AndrewSteinwold At this point, my goal in life is to secure spots for my grandchildren on the equivalent of the Mayflower to Moon or Mars.

[Eric Gravengaard @EGravengaard]

@Restructuring__ This is Kevin Spacey's character in Margin Call. He's trapped.

[Eric Gravengaard @EGravengaard]

For years, Safeway has used your money to buy food and stock it at their stores for you to buy in your neighborhood. We should ban them from doing it - but allow you to use your money and time to drive out to a farm and buy your own produce.

[Josh Hawley @HawleyMO]

For years, Wall Street has used your 401k money to buy single family homes. We should ban them from doing it - but allow you to use your 401k to help you buy a home, without penalties or caps or taxes.

[Eric Gravengaard @EGravengaard]

This is good for the world, even if we don't love that this is the way the world works.

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

I'll tell you this as someone who has been to Venezuela and not some UK lefty looking for political capital.

I see the usual band of socialists like you, jumping on this because (1) they are lefty socialists and (2) they hate Trump. I’m don't know the legality of any this, and I’m sure oil will play a role, but most people have no idea of the reality inside Venezuela.

I’ve been to Caracas and the Colombian border near Cucuta and it was like nowhere I had ever been.

Caracas was unique, a middle-class bubble where if you have access to dollars, you can scrape together an okay-ish life. If you don’t, you’re living on close to nothing.

At the border, there were huge numbers of Venezuelans sleeping rough, desperate for work and access to basic goods. I met a young man and his pregnant wife living on the street. Every day he was looking for any work at all, just to send money home to his parents looking after his kids. We gave him $60 and he cried his eyes out because this meant they could eat for a month.

Inside Venezuela, there were long queues for food and we visited charities struggling to feed people who were hungry.

Millions have fled the country, those that remained and supported Maduro were mobilised for pro-government protests in exchange for regular boxes of basic food, a system that keeps people dependent and compliant (no different from what the socialists do with welfare here).

Political repression is real. Protests have been violently suppressed with soldiers opening fire. Journalists and activists have been harassed, jailed and murdered. Elections have stolen and political opposition forced into exile.

I have friends who were intimidated into leaving the country, had businesses stolen and watched their life savings evaporate through hyperinflation.

Venezuela was once one of the richest countries in South America. Chavez began the destruction and Maduro finished the job.

What happens next matters, of course. But if this process leads to a transition toward a genuinely democratically elected government, then while leftist politicians slam Trump, I guarantee the overwhelming majority of Venezuelans, both inside the country and across the diaspora, will be celebrating.

Sure sure, agendas agendas.

[Eric Gravengaard @EGravengaard]

@BullyEsq Acoustic Panels. they make your home office sound like a recording studio during meetings.

[Eric Gravengaard @EGravengaard]

My two favourite politicians. Coming from different angles, but they both end up proving the same point.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

You can LITERALLY incarcerate your way out of violence. That’s precisely why incarceration exists in the first place.

[Eric Gravengaard @EGravengaard]

@William_Blake @Jason_A_Scharf Was your brother also an extra? Tell him I said hi.

[Eric Gravengaard @EGravengaard]

@DrPhiltill Its politics. Ask yourself why Jeff Bezos doesn't own a nuclear powered yacht. I'll wait...

[Eric Gravengaard @EGravengaard]

@Ken67547214 @Xaraphim To fly at an airshow, I would replace the engines with simpler ones. It doesn't need to go Mach 3 or exceed 300 knots.

[Eric Gravengaard @EGravengaard]

@TD87011 @MFG_SMB What's a good site to find auctions of these types of businesses/business assets?

[Eric Gravengaard @EGravengaard]

@Object_Zero_ Its not just in reindustrialization. This is why toilet paper goes out of stock when comedians joke that there is a shortage.

[Eric Gravengaard @EGravengaard]

@mattdykema $2M EBITDA or $2M revenue? Big difference.

I know two groups that have bought similar firms and are struggling to hit PE growth targets.

[Eric Gravengaard @EGravengaard]

@MFG_SMB @zanehengsperger @Tyler_Plummer @aphysicist Job board for manufacturing/defense tech
https://t.co/ZCClSa9z2h

[Eric Gravengaard @EGravengaard]

@Object_Zero_ What?

https://t.co/xsUdqlKTSl

[Eric Gravengaard @EGravengaard]

@KayraYasa @aaronneman Its pretty much BYO at this point, but yes.