Tales From The Sky Lounge

What is THE SKY LOUNGE?
Tales from the Sky Lounge is a podcast where we take you on a journey through the world of business, consulting, and venture investing.

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Nobody posts these. Ask any founder what actually taught them. @HandsOnAngel1

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Football's Forgotten First Era
A box in his grandmother's Pittsburgh house held proof of a pro football era that got erased — buried by a fixed championship in 1906.

Gregg Ficery, author of Gridiron Legacy, on the pro football era that vanished before the NFL.
https://t.co/rvKq5dWbDB
#talesfromtheskylounge #footballhistory

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The No-Doc IPO
One phrase for the whole SPAC boom, borrowed straight from the mortgages that blew up in 2008.
Gregg Ficery of Integgra on why SPACs were the no-doc mortgage of going public.
 https://t.co/as91SHXoUN
 #talesfromtheskylounge #SPAC

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Dot AI Is Dot Com All Over Again
It’s 1999. You slap “.com” on anything and expect the valuation to jump. Different time, different letters, and it's happening again.
Gregg Ficery of Integgra, who priced companies through the dot-com crash, on the AI valuation frenzy.
 https://t.co/rvKq5dWbDB
 #talesfromtheskylounge #AI

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Hunting High and Low
Founders want a sky-high valuation for the raise and rock-bottom prices for their options — in the same breath.
Gregg Ficery of Integgra on the contradiction founders bring to 409A option pricing.
 https://t.co/as91SHXoUN
 #talesfromtheskylounge #409A

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Not Making Money? Not Worth Money
Seven years in, revenue in the millions — and still no number he could defend in court.
Gregg Ficery of Integgra on why a company with no profit can't justify its price.
 https://t.co/as91SHXoUN
 #talesfromtheskylounge #businessvaluation

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That 5x Isn't Your 5x!
Everyone in your sector quotes the same revenue multiple. Almost nobody checks where it came from — usually a public company 100x your size.
Gregg Ficery of Integgra ranks it last, behind EBITDA and cash flows.
 https://t.co/rvKq5dWbDB

 #talesfromtheskylounge #businessvaluation

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AI Disaster Recovery
We treat an AWS outage as a given and prepare for it — so why not the AI everything now runs on?

Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/9ff3J1hgSV

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"How to AI" for the Employer
Block your team from the AI tools they want and they won't stop using them — they'll just stop telling you. That's where governai steps in

Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/9ff3J1hgSV

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AI Speed: A Game Changer
The work that used to take a full team a month now clears the board before the week is out with Todd’s Planwright app. https://t.co/dzLPkXqrjA

Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/9ff3J1hgSV

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Missing the Real AI Boat
Turns out the CEO AI headcount-cut playbook misses what the technology is actually for.

Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/9ff3J1hgSV

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Audits Are A Perfect Meal for AI
Everyone braces for an audit like it's a trial, when it's closer to a data problem with a very obvious solution in AI.

Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/9ff3J1hgSV

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We built a ton of code in May and saw where this is headed. Coding tools outstripped our ability to specify the plan, and then really outstripped our ability to absorb and validate the output. We are dogfooding our own tools to keep up and plan and validate using MCP connections now : https://t.co/Bgj0Zc0qkJ

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@tech_girl https://t.co/12QyYRNiJJ

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@0xCodez checkout https://t.co/9aG9nPbkuE to add a control plane to your loops and document the decisions along the way

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@DataChaz @Saboo_Shubham_ @addyosmani https://t.co/6PmtTgs5RD as a control plane for agentic engineering flows