Tom Flack

Words, maps and mishaps. Former journalist, startup CMO, managing ed @HuffPostUK & @YahooUK. Also like 🏰,⚾,🥐 & the occasional 🚀

[Tom Flack @thomasflack]

@wearespurstv @SpursArmyTweets That assumes he can't reinvest the capital.

Would you invest in AI stocks or Tottenham Hotspur football club?

Zoom out.

[Tom Flack @thomasflack]

@heangelman @RoyLMattox This doesn't account for the rate of earnings growth.

"Valuations" might be similar to 2000, but fundamentals are absolutely not.

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

I hate to admit this but Trump was right.

He said that if I vote for Kamala Harris gas prices, groceries prices and my utility bills will go through the roof.

I voted for Harris and my gas, groceries and utility bills have gone through the roof.

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗻'𝘀 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻

🥇 Harry Kane | Bayern Munich

"You would be fully justified in giving Harry Kane all the awards you’ve got based purely on numbers: 58 goals in 50 games this season, bettering his two previous campaigns in Munich, in both of which he got over 40.

"Even for those of us slightly desensitised by the goals tallies of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo at their peaks, it’s still astonishing." - @NickMiller79

#FCBayern | #Bundesliga | #TAFCAwards26

[Seb Stafford-Bloor @SebSB]

That’s bizarre. The action started before the ball was in play, but it clearly hadn’t ended.

[Tom Flack @thomasflack]

@ThfcAk @Lilywhite_Rose Arguably? Go on.

[Robbie @Robbie_Reasons]

When you vote Labour or Green.

[Tom Flack @thomasflack]

@xAlexTHFC A stinker? How?

[Tom Flack @thomasflack]

@footballconfid1 @Carra23 We weren't even the best team in London in 2019. We lost 13 games in the league and sold our most talented player in January.

[The Composite Guy @CompositeGuy_]

In his debate with Gary Priestley, Gary Stevenson claims he makes so much money on the markets, his kids will be multimillionaires, while also claiming that everyone else cannot afford to feed their kids or keep the heating on.

Strange then, that after a hiatus last year, his return video announced the launch of his Patreon, directly asking his audience, whom he describes as struggling, to fund his work.

He explained that, despite his massive personal wealth, he needs their support to create more 'ambitious' and 'creative' content beyond simple talking-head videos. Yet since launching the Patreon, he has released 22 videos in the exact same format, with fewer guests than in earlier periods.

He has 2,121 paid subscribers on Patreon, meaning that at a minimum he makes £153k a year from his viewers. He likely makes a similar amount from ad revenue alone, let alone the millions he claims to make on the markets.

His entire platform is built on the idea that the rich extract wealth from everyone else. The brazen hypocrisy of him doing this to his own viewers, in the most direct way possible, is incredible.

[Ren @ren_stocks]

To think people are expecting the bubble to pop like it did in the dot com era

Today’s Mag 4 P/E ratios:

$META – 16x
$GOOGL – 17x
$AMZN – 24x
$MSFT – 25x

Dot-com bubble peak P/E ratios:
Microsoft – 73x. Cisco – 200x+. Yahoo – 800x.

The Nasdaq as a whole traded at a P/E of 200 at the peak of the dot-com bubble.

Today’s “bubble” is trading at 16-25x earnings on companies generating hundreds of billions in real free cash flow.

Today we have the most profitable companies on earth,
$MSFT $GOOGL $META $AMZN reported beats on earnings, and you think we are in a bubble.

[Jack Pitt-Brooke @JackPittBrooke]

Seen millions of Kane assists over the years and that might be the best ever?

[Tony Lapidus @TonyLapidus]

When Russell Brand quoted the bible for Piers Morgan

@piersmorgan
@rustyrockets

[Tom Flack @thomasflack]

@NathanAClark It would look even worse if LWB and Byfield's injuries were reflected here. The latter being unavailable for growing too fast 🫠

And I thought a footballer's foot that doesn't heal would take the cake.

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

@ZackPolanski - this is magnificent. Three things I can’t deny:

1. It is a video.
2. You are wearing a jacket.
3. Then you aren’t.
4. Then you are again.

Unfortunately that’s where the accuracy ends.

A few corrections for you:

Peter Thiel is not our CEO. Alex Karp is — and has been for 20+ years. (A lifelong Democrat, for anyone keeping score.)

We are not a “spyware company.” Spyware is malware. Malware is illegal. Calling a software company spyware is, technically, defamatory (don’t worry, we are not suing).

We don’t build surveillance technology. We build software that helps organisations make sense of data they already hold. Not the same thing.

There was no “private tour” of our HQ. There was a public photocall to which the media came. Hence, why there are so many pictures of the event.

Our MOD contract is not “the biggest defence contract in UK history.” Ajax armoured vehicles = £5.5bn. Dreadnought submarines = £31bn. We’re grateful for the work, but let’s keep a sense of scale.

We have no more access to NHS data than Microsoft has to the contents of your Word documents. I think you know this by now.

We don’t have access to patient medical records. Same story.

I agree that “nothing matters more than our health.” Which makes it worth reminding you of what Palantir’s software is actually doing in the NHS right now:

->110,000 additional operations
->15% fewer delayed hospital discharges
->7% more patients finding out within 28 days whether they have cancer

Respect again for what you did with that jacket.

[Tom Flack @thomasflack]

@iamwater01 @PolitlcsUK It's not that simple. There are rules. As Lee Anderson of course knows. And now you do too.
https://t.co/NRvQ545uBI.

[Tom Flack @thomasflack]

@LegacySiu Bristol City.
Birmingham City.