Wesley Samples

🕯️ Tinkerer with startups, aspiring polymath, designer. Ops @ordoschools. Prev @soraschools @contrary @georgiatech

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@anecdotal Oh wow got Opus 4.6!

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TIL that Bloomberg Terminals have a Classifieds sections where folks in finance can sell luxury watches, bags, and even Ferraris

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[Hunter Rosenblume @hrosenblume]

I am unbelievably excited to announce $50M+ in new contracts awarded to @OrdoSchools. While everyone else is showing off fundraises, we’re sharing our team’s massive growth in 2025, with MUCH MORE TO COME!

Ordo is serving millions of fresh meals to students in 100+ schools across 18 states. We’re trusted by the best public, charter, private, and pre-schools nationwide.

Our mission is simple. Fresh, whole scratch-made foods, locally sourced whenever possible. It’s good for kids, and it’s good for business. Less middle-men, more value on the plate.

My favorite part is that Ordo is accessible by any community. We’re proudly serving the same fresh, whole menu to the 0.01% on both sides of the economic spectrum, for the same price (or less) than the frozen and processed stuff.

We care a lot about this at home. Always have. More than most. My mother worked in the public schools on child nutrition education for over 40 years.

My closest friends know that I’ve spent over a decade since dropping out of school (shoutout @thielfellowship) trying to build something people want. I can now say with confidence I still haven’t done this, but in my journey I may have discovered the real point: build something people need forever, and do it forever.

Since starting the company I’ve had the pleasure of minting several millionaires. Some through stock, but also our chefs who are serving long-term government contracts through Ordo. This has been the most surprising and delightful thing.

Today we’re a team of ~10 people.

If you are looking to build something meaningful, please DM me. We’re hiring engineers and sales leaders, but I will consider special talent / roles, and yes we sponsor visas when possible.

I look forward to hearing from you.

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@hrosenblume Updating my character seasonally by the theme of what’s going on lol

[Hunter Rosenblume @hrosenblume]

This is our first multi-$M contract direct with a government agency.

@OrdoSchools is going to be so much bigger than I ever imagined.

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@hrosenblume @anguyen233

[Hunter Rosenblume @hrosenblume]

This week just keeps giving!

I'm excited to announce that @OrdoSchools has been selected to serve in Minnesota, our 21st state, pending @MnDeptEd approval.

I'm a HUGE Fargo fan, so this really cool.

[Kendall Pennington @Kenny___Rose]

happy mothers day to all the ipads

[Arjun Narayan @narayanarjun]

just as the holy roman empire was neither holy, nor roman, nor an empire, ARR today is neither annual, nor recurring, and perhaps not even revenue

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LFG!!! 🚀

[Hunter Rosenblume @hrosenblume]

I’m beyond excited to announce that @ordoschools has been awarded a contract with Hillsborough City School District in the Bay Area! 🎉🎉

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

in some very real sense new york feels like the slop originator for the rest of the country. brooklyn concepts are so close to the divine slop source that they will infect the rest of the country in no time.

you will see japanese listening bars in tulsa, trendy saunas in texas

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Perplexing

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Perplexity launches $50M seed and pre-seed VC fund https://t.co/Hyx99jKfeE

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Ad Lunam

[NASA @NASA]

@Int_Machines Lighting the way to the Moon: As @Int_Machines’ lander lifts off aboard a @SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, it takes with it NASA science and tech. Its mission? To help us better understand the lunar environment in preparation for future human explorers.

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@NWischoff Look at IWC. Rolex often has waitlists and IWC is more discreet

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@1thousandfaces_ You’ve received this before

[Geoff Graham @ggraham]

From construction to education, once you see true aim of institutionalization, you can’t unsee it.

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It feels like ETFs are a better short term play in case you need liquidity within the next decade. If you can hold out longer, holding real BTC may be the better idea.

What am I missing here? How are y'all thinking about HODLing for generations?

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Joining the zeitgeist for the moment -- what's the longer term play here if you're determined to accumulate and never sell (HODL) Bitcoin?

1) You have ETFs like IBIT that charge a small mgmt fee

2) You can self-custody BTC

MY QUESTION: so how do you use it but never sell it?

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Brokerages like Schwab lend against your IBIT holdings, effectively letting you HODL at a certain pledged asset rate %, as long as you can meet margin requirements.

And when good BTC lending exists, liquidating IBIT to convert to real BTC will be a major tax issue.

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@unusual_whales might actually be a good thing, you don't want everything correlated as an investor

+ if you want a bitcoin trade, just buy BTC or one of the ETFs