Marc Dedrick

President & Owner of JB Tile & Stone | Formerly @TeamsharesInc, @Square, @RainforestQA, MSD Capital, @Nomura and @BYU

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@walt_russell02 What's the best one you've found so far?

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@bprintco Tile and stone work for high end residential kitchen and bath remodels in bay area. Mostly sell to custom homebuilders, but some work is direct to homeowners.

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@BuySellSMB Varies very widely, but average project is probably $50k revenue and 2 months duration

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@jamesonhaslam At what size did you make your first dedicated sales hire?

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@SMB_Attorney Loi

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@Jaredkotter Wow, very impressive close rate. Great thread, thanks for sharing!

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@jamesonhaslam The Intentional Owner and Acquiring Minds are my top two. Honorable mentions for Inspired or Acquired (because Clint is the best) and Owned and Operated (for Home Services).

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@homeservicebase There's a lot of industry specific tools that you're missing here. Acculynx for roofing, BuilderTrend or JobTread for any specialty contractors like kitchen / bath remodeling, DASH for water restoration, Aspire for landscaping, Skimmer for pool cleaning, etc.

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@BBGreatMoments Ichiro

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@homeservicebase Hi Dmytro, can I take a look?

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@SMB_Attorney @smblawgroup Thank you!

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LOSING THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN

Let’s be real: US political leaders since the Gulf War are perhaps the worst leaders in the history of the world.

In 1991, they inherited a hyperpower that wins everywhere without fighting. But by 2021 they produced a declining power that fights everywhere without winning. It’s thirty years of unmitigated domestic and international failure, from San Francisco to Syria, from financial crisis to coronavirus.

With every inherited advantage, US leaders nevertheless produced historical collapses in life expectancy[1] and manufacturing capacity[2], in patriotic loyalty and involvement in community[3]. They also delivered concomitant rises in drug overdoses[4], out-of-wedlock births[5], and homeless encampments[6].

And no, they have no historical, philosophical, or literary depth. The historical analogies begin and end with 1939. The philosophy is little more than constant accusations of racism. And the reading level of US presidential speeches has measurably[7] dropped like a rock, to idiocratically elementary levels.

The only thing the establishment *has* delivered on is their own bottom line. Think about Pelosi’s stocks[8], BLM’s mansions[9], Obama’s book deals, and 10% for the big guy. The corruption is now flagrant and public. As others have observed, we’re in the looting-the-treasury phase of imperial collapse, as the national debt soars past $33T with literally no limit in sight.

STUPID, OR EVIL?
And that's what leads to the "conspiracy theories." Are US leaders stupid, or evil? Did they unintentionally ruin what was once the greatest country on earth, or was it intentional and done for their own gain?

The conspiracy theories are a way for mere proles to make sense of the senseless. They aren't all wrong, mind you — WMD was fake, the AAA mortgage-backed securities were fake, Russiagate was fake, and so on. Evil was involved in intentionally faking these stories.

But ultimately, thinking of US leadership as evil gives them too much credit. It's just hard to remain global #1. The nature of entropy means there are countless ways for the world order to shatter, and only a few ways to keep it intact. Maybe George Washington could find one of those ways, but we have Joe Biden. And that's why DC is losing the Mandate of Heaven[10].

[1]: https://t.co/USoeXzI5AR
[2]: https://t.co/jjn8Gwz6zi
[3]: https://t.co/Ts1Ya44imK
[4]: https://t.co/YNX8NUXUOx
[5]: https://t.co/yGYVcEAR8w
[6]: https://t.co/mBiCgL2kVz
[7]: https://t.co/U9AXZzTfGD
[8]: https://t.co/ztInETxmw0
[9]: https://t.co/BDpameYVpn
[10]: https://t.co/00q7bHP8z7

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@ShaanVP - 5'10"
- average (played high school ball but haven't played much since)
- live in East Bay

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@FetaFund @codywagee If you get what wrong?

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@rhpMike @thogge https://t.co/h9IXxguFvh

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Imagine this graph, but in fast forward.

That’s what happens when people exit a failing fiat currency and enter gold. In this case, they’ll exit the dollar and enter digital gold.

The bet isn’t a way to make money. It’s a way to alert innocent dollar holders: get to Bitcoin.

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@rhpMike @thogge You're assuming his purpose for making the bet is to make $$. I did too at first so didn't understand the bet at all. Then realized that his goal here is not to make $$, it's to raise the red flag so as many people as possible can exit in time before it's too late.

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@ShaanVP 🏴‍☠️

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@getbounds @devonzuegel @LasCatalinas As opposed to other developments which aren't built as investments?