Steve Blentlinger

Entrepreneur. Innovator. Loving Life & Work - Construction General Contractor @RedwoodBuilt & FinTech Founder @PaylineData. Father w/ beautiful wife & 2 boys

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I just published “Part I — Why you’ve got ‘Culture’ all wrong” https://t.co/ibNlAqkKYD

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@BenMillerise I liked the bridge slide you made way better than the public one your design team made you change to. Ha! Congratulations on this launch! Excited to follow and invest! @fundrise Fundrise Innovation Fund (VCX) | Investor Day 2026 https://t.co/7iWaaudTd0 via @YouTube

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

J-Cal: Elon and DOGE were 100% right about rampant government fraud

“This could be the issue that pulls Americans together, that we could have consensus on, which is we don't want to waste our tax dollars.”

“Putting aside the fact, Nick, that you're conservative, it doesn't matter. What matters is the truth.”

“And the truth here is there's massive waste, fraud and abuse.”

“And Elon saw it, Elon told us, he confirmed it and he got attacked for it.”

“Elon was 100% right.”

“Everybody who attacked him, they may not have liked his tactics, and how fast he was going, and locking doors, and turning off credit cards, his techniques they may not have liked, but we as Americans can all get behind not allowing any more fraud.”

“And we should not be increasing taxes into a system that is ripe with fraud.”

“That, I think, everybody will agree on.”

“And when all that fraud happens, it keeps us from actually sending the money to things that, as a country, might pull us together even more … maybe we could have universal healthcare like the other 80 most developed countries in the world if we rooted out this fraud?”

@jason @elonmusk @nickshirleyy

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@Mrcryptoxwhale Done

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@STLChrisH Now I know why my parents were always broke when we grew up on a farm. … and why I have so many siblings. Lots of free labor and project management. Haha

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 The house died and came back as a ghost…
The overdid the white. Could have been done tastefully but was not done well in my opinion.

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@MattJGarland @ChadGriffiths Chicago market is so different. Infill product is going to regain demand. Location location location. Some stuff way out west won’t work but anything in path of progress is going to do well. Also building 20-30 units vs 300 on a site also is key.

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@sweatystartup @grok compare youth travel ice hockey to the list of 5 above.

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@ChadGriffiths Hi from Chicago!
Large markets are so big that sub markets in each tells the story. The SW Chicago market is about 5-6% vs overall market. Bottom line. You have to know your target markets really well and not just rely on some website data in general!

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“ The world is changing very rapidly. We can either have the mindset that it's happening to us and we're a victim, scarcity mindset. Or we can see this as an opportunity for us to get ahead.” — Mark Moss https://t.co/oHQcRraxOY via @1MarkMoss

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“ take all the money that you don't need for the next 5 years and put it into Bitcoin.  What everybody should be doing is spending time researching and understanding what's actually going on, You have to build your own..” — Mark Moss https://t.co/oHQcRrb5Ew via @1MarkMoss

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@ChadGriffiths @grok There ya go! Only a bank would have a gold roof! Ha

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@ChadGriffiths @grok what was the prior use for this building?

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

This is the greatest argument I’ve heard for why electric vehicles are better than gasoline-powered cars.

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@ChadGriffiths Also. No sprinkler system??!

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@ChadGriffiths Very cool!! Where is this located? And who was the mass timber fabricator? V

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@LucienWolfe111 @MattWallace888 @grok is this true?

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@Ryan_Zarzaur Location doesn’t matter as much as the 5 people you spend the most time with.
Check out groups that have like minded individuals. Highly recommend GoBundance.

[Chad Griffiths @ChadGriffiths]

🎯 Dr. Peter Linneman putting tariffs into perspective

[amit @amitisinvesting]

WHY DONALD TRUMP WANTS THE MARKET TO CRASH

….in the short term ⬇️

This chart below sums up the reasoning behind what the current adminstration is doing and why it is having adverse effects on the market.

Kris @KrisPatel99 did a great job today explaining this more in depth on the market open & I think the thesis checks out:

1. We have $7T of debt we need to pay in the next 6 months…if we don’t pay it, we’ll have to refinance.

2. The Trump admin does NOT want to refinance at a 4%+ rate…the 10yr at one point this year was 4.8%.

3. How do you get the 10yr to come down? Markets need to show weakness in growth, DOGE has to be perceived as actually working, interest rates need to come down.

The way to do that is to create massive uncertainties — aka tariffs — which can slow down growth in the short term, get the bond market to start BUYING bonds ASAP because of how scared they are of touching stocks (causing yields to fall which is what we need to refinance the debt) and then that gives the Fed the authority to lower rates which continues to bring yields down.

So, although conventional wisdom says tariffs are inflationary and the 10yr should be spiking on more tariffs — it’s actually going down because its bringing so much uncertainly to equity markets that people are selling stocks and buying bonds!

Which is exactly what the Trump administration wants to happen in the short term in order to bring refinancing costs down.

Short term pain for long term gain?

[Steve Blentlinger @sblentlinger]

@ChrisRamsey60 This is a beautiful building. Do you have the plans available?