Moat Memo

No face, just filings. Breaking down how real businesses make money and why the good ones are hard to copy.

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@GD2Uinc "Never profitable" was said about a lot of companies. Only some of them proved it wrong. The difference is usually in the unit economics, not the headlines.

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@vyrqo_ My pick of 3 if you make videos: claude-mem, context-mode, hyperframes.

Memory, tokens, the job. That's it.

What would your 3 be?

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@getmoat The lesson for anyone, child star or not: if someone else manages your money, look at the statements yourself. Not once, regularly.

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@0numex The Talkboy cut is the smartest part of that deal. A salary ends when filming wraps, merch keeps paying every Christmas.

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@SovrenGo The money was the easy part. Being your kid's agent and his dad at the same time is where it broke.

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In 2000, Bezos went on the BBC and called Amazon "a famously unprofitable company."

The same interview, he explains where the money went: 4 million square feet of warehouses in 1999, built before customers needed them.

Everyone saw losses. He was building the thing competitors would need a decade to copy.

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@vyrqo_ What Claude can't fake is the part that makes a video yours: your own test, your own numbers, your face or your screen. That's also the slowest part to make, which is why the "$41K on autopilot" math never includes it.

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@batagonx One detail makes it more human: he said he did help her once, with a problem she had with the IRS. That was the exception. No house, no car, nothing on top. He kept the rest of the promise he made at 12.

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In 1974, Elvis wanted to record Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You." His manager's condition: half the publishing.

She said no and "cried all night."

In 1992, Whitney Houston's version spent 14 weeks at No. 1. The publisher was Dolly.

She tells Howard Stern why below.

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@batagonx One purchase actually worked. He bought a copy of Action Comics #1 in 1996 for $150,000. It got stolen from his house in 2000, turned up in a storage locker in 2011, and he sold it for $2.2 million. That same copy later went for $15 million.

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@sayonaracash Easiest check if "she" ends up in your DMs: ask for a live video call and a specific gesture. Touch your left ear, say my name. A pre-rendered clip can't do that on demand, and live face swaps still tend to glitch when a hand crosses the face.

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HE BLAMED ONE BILLIONAIRE FOR CRASHING HIS COUNTRY AND SAID IT AT THE IMF. Mahathir, Hong Kong, 1997: currency trading is "totally immoral."

Soros called him "a menace to his own country."

A year later Malaysia pegged the ringgit at 3.80. The peg held until 2005.

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@vyrqo_ Bro upgraded everything except the friendship 💀

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@Visionaryvoid the part that stuck with me is him apologizing to her father for something someone else did to both of them

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@kuma_8472 same thing happens with AI tools. the expensive stack rarely wins. the person who knows exactly what to do with a $20 plan does

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@soncarius The first owner pays for the privilege. The next one gets the value.

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Richard Speck killed eight nurses in one night in 1966. A tattoo on his arm got him caught.

In 1988 he was filmed in secret inside Stateville. Drugs, laughing, no remorse.

Illinois held hearings after the tape got out. This is it.

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@Visionaryvoid The detail that gets me is the clothes. He cut the labels off everything he wore. That's not panic, that's planning.

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@Dorianxxbt His younger brother Joseph was also convicted of murder. Same house, same father. That's the part that makes the "born a killer" answer feel too easy.

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Source: Million Dollaz Worth of Game (Barstool), April 2025

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In 2023, Jaylen Brown signed a record $304 million NBA contract.

He says most players who get paid like that still end up broke, and he blames the people managing their money.
"You get millions of dollars and now you broke."
Would you trust an agent with your money at 19?