Max Treb

College Advisor at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point in the School of Business and Economics.

[U.S. Air Force @usairforce]

What’s better than a rare Super Delta formation featuring the Thunderbirds and the @USNavy Blue Angels over Washington, D.C.?

Watching it from four different views for #UFCWhiteHouse as part of #Freedom250. 🇺🇸

[B/R Open Ice @BR_OpenIce]

Rod sneakily built in a 35 pound cinderblock lift into the Canes offseason workouts, called it “Blue Collar Presses”, and the boys never thought anything of it…

Turns out he was having them practice lifting the Cup all season long 🤯🔥

(via @Canes)

[bubble boi @bubbleboi]

If only all my taxes could go to shit like this

[Max Treb @Max_Treb]

@zerohedge @market_sleuth You think this means I will (or will not) get my 1 share?? 🤣

[Shay Boloor @StockSavvyShay]

$SOFI just launched SoFiUSD becoming the first national bank-issued stablecoin integrated directly into a U.S. banking app.

SoFi turning its 15M-member app into a 24/7 blockchain payments layer with a roadmap toward tokenized deposits.

[Heisenberg @Mr_Derivatives]

If you bought just 1,000 shares of $NVDA on IPO day back in 1999 (IPO price was a puny $12/share), and held to today, you would have 480,000 shares after all them forward splits.

And now Nvidia will pay you $120,000 a year in dividends!!

So not only has your original $12,000 investment turn into $100M ish through capital appreciation, but now you will get $120k each year on that position in dividends too.

WILD!

That is why we love this game called The Stock Market.

❤️

EDIT I READ THAT WRONG .25c/share!

[Kip Herriage @KHerriage]

We’re living in very special times. If you’re willing to work your butt off you can make as much money as you desire, doing exactly what you want. That’s heaven for entrepreneurs.

And we’re doing it as we enter the Innovation Revolution, where more wealth will be created over the next 10 years than’s been created in all of history, with a long running era of technological advancement that is guaranteed to be mind-bending.

We also have Trump & Musk, almost certainly the 2 most consequential men of the last hundred years. And we get to see them speak, daily. What?

Anyone telling you they’re not blessed to live in this time is nothing short of a complete fool. A dud.

I plan on experiencing all of this over the rest of my life. And I’m looking forward to doing it with all you like-minded optimists. 🇺🇸

[Paul Branham @BoilerPaulie]

Allow me to translate this letter from eBay for those who don’t speak legalese:

Ryan,

We got your unsolicited offer to buy eBay for $125/share (half cash, half stock) supported by your 5% economic interest in eBay.

Our board, backed by the usual crew of bankers and lawyers who get paid either way, “thoroughly reviewed” it.

We’re rejecting it. Not because the math doesn’t work. Not because the highly confident letter from TD Securities for up to $20B on top of your $9B+ cash pile is fake. None of that.

We’re rejecting it because your entire approach to running a company is an existential threat to how we like to operate here.

Here are the reasons we feel this way, and the things we considered before paying consultants to write this:

1) We’d rather keep milking eBay as a “standalone” cash cow than let you turn it into something bigger and better.

2) Sure, you’ve got real financing lined up and you “know people” with deep pockets, but we’re going to call it “uncertain” anyway so we don’t have to engage.

3) Your plan would actually force real long-term growth and profitability changes we’d rather not be held accountable for.

4) The debt we pretended you can’t even obtain, the operational integration and focus on seller satisfaction, and most importantly, putting someone like you in charge of the combined entity all sound like a nightmare for our current leadership structure because all of us would have zero job security.

5) The valuation math only looks bad if you ignore the 46% premium you’re offering our shareholders and the upside from fixing eBay the way you fixed GameStop, which we are choosing to do and hoping nobody notices.

6) And I hope we buried the lede far enough here: Your governance and executive incentives are completely incompatible with ours. You and your board take zero cash, no salary, no bonuses, no golden parachutes. You buy shares with your own money and only get paid if shareholders win. We, on the other hand, like our nice, reliable annual payouts regardless of whether the stock is flat or the company is just coasting. We’re not about to hand over our golden goose to a guy who eats only what he kills.

Look, eBay is “strong” and “resilient” in the way every entrenched public company says it is while handing out eight-figure checks and perks to the C-suite. We’ve done the usual incremental stuff: tweaked the marketplace a bit, returned some capital, and we’d like to keep doing that without any cowboy from GameStop coming in and demanding actual skin-in-the-game accountability. Can you just leave us alone?

Our team remains focused on protecting the current regime and delivering “value”… mostly to ourselves and our consultants.

Thanks, but no thanks,

Paul S. Pressler
Chairman of the Board, eBay
(And proud beneficiary of the status quo)

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: GameStop, $GME, CEO Ryan Cohen announces he has been suspended from eBay just 2 days after proposing a $56 billion acquisition of the company.

eBay says Cohen's account has permanently suspended for "putting the eBay community at risk."

[Grant Stinchfield @stinchfield1776]

Can you believe @gamestop wants to buy @eBay to take on @amazon

He freaking called it… @KHerriage still says @gamestop is a buy!!!!

[Charles V Payne @cvpayne]

Breaking News
@ryancohen will appear on Making Money With Charles Payne today 2pm.

Please Tune In

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

My parents: How are you going to afford to buy a go-kart?

8-year-old me:

[JACKIE LE' TITS 👑🌈 @Comedyorwat]

People are so dumb

"HoW cAn GaMeStOp AfFoRD EbAy?!"

The same way your 59k a year salary affords you a 500k house

[The Players’ Tribune @PlayersTribune]

Cole Caufield’s dad? He’s the ultimate hockey dad: “We grew up in Wisconsin, and if you don’t know much about American hockey, then you probably think, ‘OK, so that’s like Minnesota and Michigan, right? Powerhouse.’

But in terms of hockey culture, at least at that time, if you were a Wisconsin kid, everybody kind of looked at you like, ‘Ehhh. I dunno.’

The competition just wasn’t the same. If you wanted to make a name for yourself, you had to go to play in tournaments in Chicago or Minnesota or Detroit. So that’s what we did. We drove. Or I should say, that’s what my parents did. I didn’t do jack s***! Hahahah. They did all the work. I sat in the back and watched movies and tried to hold my pee like a hero. As I got older — around 12 or 13 — I got a chance to go play for Team Illinois. Without blinking an eye, my dad was like, ‘Let’s do it.’

An easy weekend was a 4-hour drive. But sometimes we’d have games in Detroit, and it was 8 hours each way. We’d hit the road after school on Thursday and be gone til Sunday. My mom was a third grade teacher, so she couldn’t leave her class. It would just be me and my dad, and my dad…. Well, he’s a wildman. He coached and ran our local rink. Kind of like the ultimate Hockey Dad. I could talk for hours about him, but this is him in one image…..

You know those old-school hand gripper things that are supposed to make your forearms huge? He had one from like 1982. He would be cruising down the highway gripping the wheel with one hand and crushing sets with the gripper in the other hand. Maniac. And the funniest part was that he loved listening to 80s on 8 on Sirius. So he’s blasting Phil Collins with the windows rolled down, just crushing sets with the gripper. Then he’d hand it over to me.

‘Your turn.’

‘Come on, guy. I’m 12.’

(He flips into coach mode.)

‘Shooting is all about the forearms. That’s what people don’t understand....’

‘Dad, I can’t feel my thumbs.’

(Ultimate coach mode)

‘Alright, go ahead and take it easy. But there’s another kid out there somewhere working twice as hard as you.’

‘There’s a kid out there with … two grippers?’

(This whole conversation takes place while ‘I Can Feel It Coming In the Air Tonight’ is blasting).

Brutal. But hey, I guess it worked. I was an undersized kid, so we were always looking for any kind of edge. My dad had this saying, and it still sticks with me now….

He said, ‘Once you’re satisfied, it��s time to quit.’

He never made me do anything, but he was always there on Thursday afternoon, behind the wheel, just ready to roll. It’s crazy to me that he never complained about having to drive 60 hours a month so I could have a chance to play against better competition. If it wasn’t for my dad, I never would have made it to the NHL. At my size, coming from a football town in Wisconsin, there’s no way. To be honest, the NHL wasn’t really even my dream at first. It didn’t seem realistic. My dream was to get a free college education and play for the Badgers.” https://t.co/LrwA5E4BQ1

@colecaufield | @CanadiensMTL

[Max Treb @Max_Treb]

Almost as cool as the 94’ Ducks blading through the Mall of America.

[Rob Gucci @heatdaddy69420]

Wheeling down the streets of Buffalo drunk and full of dust. My goodness is it good for the Sabres to be back

[Gino Hard @GinoHard_]

Macklin Celebrini TIES Joe Thornton for most points in a season in Sharks HISTORY with 114...

AT JUST 19 YEARS OLD 😱😵‍💫

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Rory McIlroy is an investor in Whoop, wears one of the company's wristbands while playing, and allows the brand to share his data periodically.

Here are some of his Masters highlights:

• 24,000+ steps on Sunday
• 91,000+ steps during the tournament

Rory's heart rate spiked to 135 BPM during his tee shot on 18, dropped to 121 BPM during his approach shot, fell further to 105 BPM during his winning putt, and then jumped back up to 150 BPM during his celebration.

His resting heart rate for the week was 47-49 BPM.

Rory says he follows a strict routine during the PGA Tour season to ensure proper rest and recovery:

• No caffeine after 2 PM
• Last meal at least 2 hours before bed
• Magnesium and theanine for sleep quality
• Blue-light-blocking glasses in the evening
• Sauana or Epsom salt bath when available
• Cool room temperature for sleep

He follows the same three-hour routine before every round: arrive at the course → warm up in the gym → eat breakfast → hit balls on the range → putting green.

Rory says he believes his focus on longevity will help him play another 10+ years at a high level, and his physiological age on Whoop is now 1.5 years younger than his actual age.

Plus, it turned out to be a pretty good investment.

Rory initially invested in Whoop in 2020 when the company was valued at $1.2 billion. While we don't know exactly how much he invested, Whoop recently raised another round at a $10.1 billion valuation.

That's an 8.4x multiple in five years.

Not bad, not bad.

[UWSP Sentry School of Business & Economics @SentrySchool]

From Deep Space to Wizards Academy, a group of #UWSP Sentry School students toured the @HeyEpic Intergalactic Headquarters in Verona Friday for a Smiley Pro Event. The healthcare software company campus is home to 14,000 employees, 1,670 acres, 89 buildings and a working farm.

[Sportsnet @Sportsnet]

The angle on this Cole Caufield goal 🤯