molson 🧠⚙️
@Molson_Hart • 88,332 subscribers
Founder and CEO of Viahart, a consumer products company. Founder and former CEO of Edison, a legal tech company. Doer of many things.
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What’s happening with China’s economy? I don’t know. I don’t think anyone does. Economies are complex systems, too big and dynamically predictable to understand. But something is definitely happening. I think that China is being scared. Scared to spend money. Scared to go out and eat, drink, and be merry. Scared to make love, to live life. “Economy is bad.” “Ai will take my job.” With its manufacturing (atoms, not bits) China probably has the most AI-resistant economy in the world. And things are getting cheaper every year. Salaries are rising in most places while food is less. Imagine that. But people just aren’t spending. It feels like the country and its people has worked itself into a psychological funk that it cannot break itself out of. The solution is to just stop being scared and go out and live. Meanwhile, America needs to the opposite. It needs to stop being stupid. It needs to save, stop doing drugs, work harder etc. Like I said in the video, both countries would be better off if they imitated each other a bit. America, stop being stupid. China, stop being scared.
molson 🧠⚙️714,049 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Anyone got any parenting advice for me re my son (2 & 2 months)? He goes really hard. If he doesn’t get what he wants (in this case TV) he will scream nonstop. If you hold the line he will scream until he passes out and falls asleep then behavior repeats the next day.
molson 🧠⚙️16,821,479 görüntüleme • 3 yıl önce
The 7 major ways China has changed between 2019 and 2024
molson 🧠⚙️8,936,903 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce
More evidence that China will never be able to catch up with SpaceX
molson 🧠⚙️392,098 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
The 5 reasons why Vietnam will be rich: 1. Vietnamese are smart and the country is investing in education 2. They work hard 3. The government is competent 4. They have self respect 5. They have a communal spirit and work together PS you gotta go down rabbit holes. That’s what life is about.
molson 🧠⚙️191,854 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
The next China 🇨🇳 is: - not Mexico 🇲🇽 - not South America 🇧🇷 - not Central Asia 🇰🇿 - not Africa 🇿🇦 - not America with robots 🇺🇸 - and it is not India 🇮🇳 It is non-English speaking Southeast Asia 🇮🇩 🇻🇳 🇧🇩 🇲🇾 🇹🇭 🇰🇭 🇲🇲 🇸🇬 Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Myanmar (no Philippines, no India) with Singapore as the new region’s “Hong Kong”. That is 500 million people who will power the world’s next chapter of low cost manufacturing. In this video I break down the 9 reasons why this is the case: 1. Willing governments (now is our time) 2. Willing people (traditional tiktok and no onlyfans) 3. No competition for the same workers (English verbal India and Mexican cartels) 4. Population density (Indonesia 🤯) for supply chain clustering 5. Educated populations with the right culture and the ability to level up from worker to engineer to boss (happening in Vietnam already) 6. Ports 7. Proximity to raw materials 🇨🇳 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 8. Proximity to manufacturing knowledge 🇨🇳 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 9. A trading hub to make it call come together China is going to blow our minds over the next 10 years but a lot of industries are going to leave that country for non-English speaking SEA, and no it won’t be automated in the developed world. This is a 10-20 year trend. The future from China to Southeast Asia, is Asian.
molson 🧠⚙️1,320,106 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce
World Premiere of Amazon — Market. Power! Monopoly? This documentary will show you how Amazon uses its size and power to raise prices, for you, the consumer. The documentary follows four sellers on Amazon, two in Europe, two in the US, and their journey to survive on the platform. It begins with an explanation of Amazon's pricing policies and the complex way Amazon enforces them. Watch this foundational beginning section carefully and your mind will be blown later in the documentary when you see what goes on behind the scenes, when you click buy. This is an extremely important documentary. Amazon responds to fair criticism and it is my hope, that with your support that we can change Amazon's policies. So sellers can set their own prices. And so you can pay less when you shop online. Timestamps ---Amazon in Europe--- 1:56 How Amazon's pricing systems work 5:24 Does Amazon follow its own pricing rules? 9:26 Europe's investigations into Amazon's market power 14:00 What happens when you sell off-Amazon for less? ---Amazon in the US--- 17:28 Amazon in the USA 20:15 The Brain Flakes 20:37 Calculating the revenues of sellers on Amazon 22:56 Is Amazon a Monopoly? 24:13 How Amazon uses its marketplace to subsidize its money-losing businesses 26:01 The ads on Amazon and how they drive up prices 27:00 How sellers are forced to use Amazon's other services ---Amazon in Europe--- 28:50 Competing with Amazon to be seen in search 29:53 What data analysis says about Amazon following its own rules 32:07 European investigations into Amazon's conduct 33:57 Is it possible to sell online without Amazon? 35:20 How Europe curbed Amazon's pricing behavior ---Amazon in the US--- 37:52 Does Amazon's Basics brand copy its sellers' products? 38:41 The Everyday Sling 40:27 Does Amazon use private data to decide what products to copy? ---Amazon in Europe--- 44:46 Is Amazon a monopoly that should be broken up? 46:52 Credits 47:08 Do you have an Amazon Prime account? I'd like to thank all who made this film possible. A special thank you and respect goes out to the sellers who appeared. It takes a lot of guts and conviction to stand up to one of the world's most powerful companies. To support their businesses, please click into the replies where you will find links to their (off-Amazon!) websites, as well as links to this documentary on other video viewing platforms! Thank you and enjoy!
molson 🧠⚙️997,447 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce
SHARK TANK CAN GO FUCK ITSELF I've applied 4 times and those RETARDS never put me on the show. - Video auditions, In-person auditions, Interviews - "Send us Brain Flakes to our Burbank studio for the 4th time please!" - "Sign your life away on the 40 page contract and do the background check again, k thanks!" I don't care if they sue me for revealing my audition after getting (silently) rejected for the 4th season in a row, because I am done. Who is going to watch this shit after this season when Mark Cuban leaves? C'mon. It makes no sense that they never put us on the show. I GUARANTEED THAT THE SHARKS WOULD MAKE MONEY. I HAVE MULTIPLE VIDEOS WITH MILLIONS MORE VIEWS THAN SHARK TANK EPISODES GET OUR PRODUCTS ROCK. MY SON IS RIDICULOUSLY CUTE. JUST MAYBE I KNOW HOW TO DO ENTERTAINMENT? MAYBE? Am I blackballed because I spoke to Tucker Carlson? Or is it because I'm not an Amazon ass licker? I don't know. I don't care. I'm done. Fuck yourself Shark Tank. You guys suck at business anyways.
molson 🧠⚙️509,987 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
Want to make physical products? You must go to Shenzhen, China. This video explains why and will tell you why your life either must be: A. Opportunity THEN City or B. City THEN Opportunity If there is something that you want to do, you need to move to the right city for it (Opportunity THEN City) If you're stuck in a particular place, you must adapt what you do to where you live (City THEN Opportunity) This is very important life lesson. Pursuing an opportunity that your city is not ideal for will cause you a lot of hardship. If you're set on an opportunity, you gotta move to the place that gives you the best chance of achieving it eg moving to Los Angeles to become an actor or New York to do finance. If family or some other reason keeps you in a specific place, you must, sadly adapt your goals to where you live eg getting into agriculture if you live in Iowa or tech if you live in Silicon Valley. Be bold, move across the world to achieve or your goals. Or, don't, and be practical about your ambitions. Combine the two and you will be unhappy.
molson 🧠⚙️278,443 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
![Our box supplier went bankrupt. They delivered $2500 worth of boxes today. But they’re the wrong size so we can’t use them. We told them and they said “We’re bankrupt. I just found out. We don’t even have cardboard anymore. You can keep them. Fuck [the management].”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1785803379593093227/amplify_video_thumb/1785803116043964418/img/dyJ2PrGwALdogDV-.jpg)
Our box supplier went bankrupt. They delivered $2500 worth of boxes today. But they’re the wrong size so we can’t use them. We told them and they said “We’re bankrupt. I just found out. We don’t even have cardboard anymore. You can keep them. Fuck [the management].”
molson 🧠⚙️484,126 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce
What is the "Next China"? I gave a presentation to GSX in Singapore to answer that question. It covers the reasons on the supply side. And on the demand side. While touching upon what the Next China isn't. (India.) (Humanoid robotics.) This is a thread, so if you don't want to watch the video, just click into it and I'll tell you what the Next China is and why.
molson 🧠⚙️16,408 görüntüleme • 24 gün önce
My latest American healthcare experience 1. Get a cheap blood test in Taiwan, which says I have a cancer marker 5.0 on a 4.7 scale 2. 4 months later get same test in USA. 4.7 on a 3.8 scale. USA has different “acceptable ranges” (perhaps because it’s a for profit system or different populations). I get this test at a private lab because it’s impossible to ask a general doctor to order a specific test (they resist or force you to go to specialist first). 3. I don’t want to have cancer. I have digestive issues, which the internet tells me can also cause high CEA. I book an appointment with a general practitioner. Otherwise I cannot see a gastroenterologist. It takes 1 month to get the doctor who is least in demand. 4. She sees me, orders a poop test which comes back negative and then tells me to see a specialist who “people say they like”. 5. Takes 45 days to get an appointment with that person (if I have cancer shouldn’t I be dead by now?). The office is extremely commercial. Advertisements for pharmaceuticals play in the poorly ventilated waiting room which is packed with old white people. You get into the office where you see the doctor and a giant tablet stares you in the face showing more advertisements. 6. Doctor (who arrives ~45 minutes after when I’m meant to be at office) says, contrary to what internet says, CEA is for cancer not digestive issues and you need colonoscopy. He tries to sell me on medication for the digestive issues but has never heard of the sugar that I can’t digest, “fructan”. He repeatedly corrects me that it’s fructose. I get ~10 minutes with him. He orders a colonoscopy, a fructose intolerance test, and another test for CEA. 7. This visit was $375, not covered by insurance. I ask for colonoscopy cost from a morbidly obese woman who looks like she is about to die (how do you work at a doctors office?) who tells me that I must (like 3x) sign the colonoscopy cost estimate of $1171, which is non-negotiable. If I want to know the cost of anesthesia, medication, and facility fee, I will need to contact all 3 of these providers separately. Nothing will be covered by my insurance. 8. I get home and remember I can check some of this doctor’s relationship with pharmaceutical companies. Highest I have ever seen in a doctor I have seen. Not only does this guy have lunch with multiple pharma reps regularly, he also seems to own stock! To check your doctor go to Anyways, I doubt I have colon cancer and I very much want a second opinion before I do all this stuff, but to do that I would be surprised if I need to wait for another general practitioner appointment and then for a new gastroenterologist, which is more time and more money. The whole system is broken and I trust my own internet research than most (but not all) doctors. Not sure what I should do, meanwhile my wife is up my ass trying to get me to get a colonoscopy 😂 🤦♂️ If you want to see the medical system of Taiwan see next tweet.
molson 🧠⚙️176,943 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce
This is a video showing every mistake I made in building and designing this warehouse. Big mistakes I made that I didn't talk about in the video: 1. Hiring a civil engineer out of state (I literally facetimed him from a field...) 2. Building a detention pond that was too big (wasting good land) 3. Not having an excavator look at the site w hile it was under contract (dirt moving was $$$$$) 4. Being overconfident thinking that my manufacturing experience carried over to construction (it did and didn't) 5. I should've cold called every warehouse in Austin before building my own, oops 6. Should've gotten a sense of utility connection cost while under contract 7. I shouldn't have self-GC'd the project at the beginning lol though in retrospect that was a based move 8. I shouldn't have been intimidated by MEP (hvac, electrical, plumbing) designs. They're not hard and our designs were bad. 9. Should've trusted my designers less and my contractors more when it came to design 10. I totally underestimated how hard this would be Anyways, yeah, not easy, but it got done. Learned a lot.
molson 🧠⚙️177,194 görüntüleme • 3 yıl önce
