Adam Rossi
@rossiadam • 34,612 subscribers
Inc 500 entrepreneur, engineer, business owner, and investor. Husband & dad with 3 great kids. Interests: business, finance, travel, family, nature, health.
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In this scene in the Godfather II, Frankie Pentangeli is about to testify against the Corleones in a Senate hearing. He is buoyant, basking in the attention, until he sees his brother from Sicily walk in. His brother gives him a disapproving look. In that moment he realizes that to testify against the Corleone would mean going against his own family as well, which is a bridge too far. He realizes that his deal with the government is done, and that he is most certainly a dead man. He accepts it with grace and does what he needs to do. At the end of the scene, Tom leans over to the brother and says “La famiglia è tutto,” or “The family is everything.” The family unit is the strongest force in nature. It’s something I don’t want my kids to ever forget.
Adam Rossi1,268,821 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
I love everything about this scene in Tombstone. But the exchange in Latin is wonderful: Doc: “In vino veritas” (In wine there is truth) Ringo: “Age quod agis" (Do what you do, or, Keep your mind on the job) Doc: “Credat Judaeus Apella, non ego" (Apella the Jew may believe it, not I - an allusion from Horace meaning "tell it to someone else") Ringo: “Iuventus stultorum magister" (Youth is the teacher of fools) Doc: “In pace requiescat" (May he rest in peace)
Adam Rossi551,649 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
There is a spring on my property with a high volume of cold water that comes out of a cave. Someone a long time ago built a little basin around it with steps going down. Supposedly used this pool for baptisms. I have sent a camera on a stick (this video) and tried to dive it.
Adam Rossi1,020,457 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
I lost $4m on a very (very) stupid acquisition and my wife’s immediate reaction was to feel sympathy. Not even a millisecond of anger. She said “I am so sorry that happened to you. I know how hard you worked on it.” Lads, find a good woman and everything is good.
Adam Rossi159,981 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Virginia Tech's Diggeridoos Tunnel Digging Team are world champions! They won first place at the Not-a-Boring Competition, run by Elon Musk's The Boring Company. Over 8 days, their tunnel boring machine dug further than any other into wet Texas clay, in a downpour, against 7 university teams from 3 countries. This win has been years in the making. They took the fastest launch design award in 2021 and climbed from there: top 5, then 2nd, then the Innovation Award and 2nd again last year. Each time refining and improving on a shoestring against better-funded international teams. This year, in the worst conditions the competition’s ever seen, they brought the title home to Blacksburg. I'll keep saying it: I don't care what grade you made in Differential Equations. I care about what you did on a team like this. These students poured hundreds of hours into this because they wanted to help crack one of modern engineering’s hardest problems. The bigger picture is why this competition matters so much. Elon Musk started The Boring Company after one too many “soul-destroying” LA traffic jams. He argues cities have maxed out their surface space and the only direction left is down. His vision is for vast underground networks that move people and freight around at superfast speeds, and reclaim the surface space back from cars and trucks. But current tunnelling machines are notoriously slow and expensive, often moving slower than a garden snail once you factor in setup, maintenance, and muck removal (the competition is branded as "Beating the Snail”). The student challenge exists to crowdsource the breakthroughs that will finally make tunneling 10x faster and cheaper, finding the next-generation of engineers who’ll crack it. The Diggeridoos are those engineers. My company TotalShield sponsors this amazing team. If you run a technical company and haven't looked at the competition teams at your local university, you're missing one of the best hiring pipelines in the country. Career fairs don't show you who performs under pressure, but this sure does. Congratulations, Diggeridoos. Go Virginia Tech Hokies!
Adam Rossi164,949 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
I went to Virginia Tech because it was a land-grant university that offered a strong, affordable technical education. After growing up working on farms and construction sites, it felt like it was made for people like me. So did the lunch pail. Bud Foster coached the Virginia Tech defense for 33 years. His players competed for the right to carry a beat-up coal miner's lunch pail each week. It symbolizes blue-collar work ethic built into an object and became one of the most recognized traditions in college football. In 2009, still coaching, he built the Lunch Pail Defense Foundation around the same idea, putting money behind kids in Southwest Virginia from families where college isn't the assumed path. Since then the foundation has distributed more than a million dollars. Bud hasn't taken a cent, and the board are all volunteers. Every dollar goes out the door into direct support for Southwest Virginia families. Scholarships for Virginia Tech students, community college tuition for high school grads, healthcare for uninsured families, and direct support for families dealing with childhood cancer. If you care about Southwest Virginia, please help me get the word out about the Lunchpail Defense Foundation. Watch the video I recorded with Coach Foster below. Share it if it lands. Please sign up to the mailing list at This is what the lunch pail means off the field.
Adam Rossi41,123 Aufrufe • vor 17 Tagen
Our house is covered with family photos and good propaganda. Hallways. Kitchens. Bathrooms. You can’t miss it. My kids quote this stuff all the time. They stop and laugh about the photos frequently. Every guest stops and looks. You don’t get that with a phone full of digital.
Adam Rossi265,369 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
The thing about my nunchucking is these are real chucks. Heavy red oak. Beefy chain. These will break a skull (including my own if I screw up). A lot of what you see people doing out there is with super lightweight hollow chucks and speed chains. All spaghetti no meatballs.
Adam Rossi194,926 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
The early United States controlled a critical resource: Black Locust Dense, rot-resistant, it made stronger connections in the planks of ships than iron nails. Thomas Jefferson planted it. Groves were guarded. Military controlled export. The rare earth metal back in the day.
Adam Rossi417,498 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
Fathers to a son: please read this. We dropped my oldest off at college this week. He is 18. Totally ready to leave the house. Desperate for independence. This is the way it should be. But it has torn me up. Statistically we have spent 90% of all the time we ever will together. I am sad because I know I made a lot of mistakes during this time. Mainly, I was too hard on him because he was the oldest, and he was a boy. I was the oldest, and a son in my family. I repeated some mistakes that were made with me. Even though I was convinced I would do a better job. I spanked him. I used unkind and hurtful words when I thought he fell short. Things that I have learned cause more harm than good. Things I wish I could take back. Basically I was just too damn hard on him. I have learned and (I hope) improved as a father. Which benefits his little sister and brother. I wrote him a long letter before he left. I told him how proud I am of him, tried to give him some words of wisdom, but also apologized for not always being a great dad. I told him I wanted to be the greatest dad in the world, but I didn’t always know how. I explained how I was brought up, and my father was brought up, and that I had brought some stuff along as a dad that I hope he is smart enough to leave behind when he is a dad. I know my grandfather had it ROUGH. My dad had it a bit less ROUGH. I had it by comparison better, and my son did too. However I could have and should have done a better job in my link of this chain of fatherhood. I am confident my son will do better when it is his turn. To the dads out there, especially with your oldest son…try not to be so hard on him. He doesn’t need to feel the weight of all of your expectations of a family lineage, he doesn’t need to be made into a clone of you, he doesn’t have to be made ready to be your “successor”. Watch how you discipline him…think very carefully about what you are trying to do and what the expected results will be. He just needs to be a good man and to be happy. And you need to keep a good relationship with him.
Adam Rossi592,469 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
Some men collect classic cars or rare wine, I collect freshwater springs. Found another one!
Adam Rossi85,011 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
I have experience in manufacturing in the United States and China. I am heavily invested in manufacturing in the USA. I am also a fair trade proponent and think reciprocal tariffs are a great concept. But I think the current tariff approach is sub-optimal, and it will not result in significant re-shoring of manufacturing to the United States. In this video I explain why and how I think we should be approaching tariff negotiations.
Adam Rossi281,899 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
I love big rocks. Usually I dig them up and place them (Virginia is blessed with rocks). I buy them too. They are surprisingly hard to source. Feel like I should start a big ass rock company in Northern Virginia to cater to other enlightened people like myself.
Adam Rossi57,718 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
