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Just hours after OCFA walked back their own “multiple cracks” statement, we now learn that the GKN Aerospace facility was previously fined $909,935.95 for environmental violations. NBC4 just reported it. This company has a documented history of violations at this exact location, yet we’re supposed to blindly trust every... conflicting update they and OCFA give us? First they say cracks (plural). Then they say “just one crack.” Now we find out GKN Aerospace was fined nearly a million dollars before for environmental issues. This whole thing smells fishy🐠 We are going to venture down the Rabbit Hole! 🐇 🕳️ Turn on notifications! #GardenGrove #GKN #ChemicalTank #OCFA #Transparency #EnvironmentalViolationsshow more

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🏭 The Garden Grove Crisis: Overview The GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove, California, has been a toxic catastrophe in slow motion. This plant has been processing aerospace components with known hazardous materials — hexavalent chromium, cadmium, and other heavy metals — for decades. The core allegation is that systematic neglect of environmental safety protocols has exposed workers and the surrounding community to dangerous levels of carcinogenic compounds. Hexavalent chromium (the Erin Brockovich chemical) is no joke. It’s a known carcinogen that damages DNA, causes lung cancer, and leaches into groundwater with devastating persistence. The facility’s crisis came to a head with reports of: - Improper waste disposal practices spanning years - Workers reporting chronic health issues consistent with heavy metal exposure - Regulatory inspections found significant violations - Community groundwater contamination concerns - Gavin Newsom’s government turned a blind eye. Was it an appeasement to Xi Jinping and China? 🇬🇧 The Melrose Industries Connection This is where it starts to get ugly from a national security and accountability standpoint. Melrose Industries — a British private equity-style turnaround firm — acquired GKN in a bitterly contested $10 billion hostile takeover in 2018. This was the original GKN, a company founded in 1759 that literally supplied cannons to the British military during the Napoleonic Wars and built Spitfires in WWII. A cornerstone of British industrial heritage, gutted by financial engineers. Melrose’s business model is well-documented and brutally simple: 1. Acquire undervalued industrial companies (often with hostile bids) 2. Slash costs aggressively — R&D, maintenance, environmental compliance, workforce 3. Extract maximum cash flow 4. Sell the stripped-down entity for a profit within 3-5 years They did this with previous acquisitions like Elster Group and Nortek. GKN was just their biggest target. The Garden Grove situation is a textbook case of what happens when a short-term-profit-maximizing financial owner takes over a complex industrial operation with serious legacy environmental liabilities. Environmental compliance, worker safety, and long-term remediation planning are cost centers — exactly the line items that get hollowed out under the Melrose model. 🇨🇳 The China Angle This is where the national security dimension gets genuinely alarming. GKN Aerospace is not some peripheral parts supplier. They manufacture critical components for: - F-35 Lightning II (Lockheed Martin) - F/A-18 Super Hornet (Boeing) - CH-53K King Stallion (Sikorsky) - Multiple commercial aircraft platforms (Airbus A350, Boeing 787) - Engine components for Rolls-Royce, GE, and Pratt & Whitney Now consider the ownership and supply chain structure: Melrose Industries itself is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange, but the deeper concern is about where GKN Aerospace's supply chains, joint ventures, and customer relationships extend. GKN Aerospace has: - A significant joint venture in China — GKN Aerospace has partnered with Chinese state-owned and state-linked aerospace entities for years, including work on the COMAC C919 (China's homegrown narrow-body competitor to the 737/A320) - Technology transfer agreements that involve sharing manufacturing processes, material science, and quality control methodologies with Chinese partners - Supply chain integration where Chinese-sourced materials and components flow into GKN's global operations — including potentially into US military supply chains The F-35 connection makes this especially sensitive. GKN produces the F-35’s canopy, among other components. The idea that a British holding company — itself under pressure to maximize returns — might be cutting corners on environmental compliance at a facility that feeds into the most advanced fighter program on the planet, while simultaneously maintaining deep joint venture relationships with Chinese aerospace entities, is the kind of multi-layered security concern that doesn’t get nearly enough attention. How the f*ck is this allowed? 🔥 The Larger Pattern This isn’t just about one facility. The GKN/Melrose situation exemplifies a broader rot in Western defense industrial policy: - Hostile foreign ownership of critical defense suppliers with minimal CFIUS-style scrutiny (because the UK is an "ally") - Financial engineering that prioritizes short-term extraction over long-term capability and safety - Environmental externalization, where cleanup costs get dumped on taxpayers while profits go to London and the Caymans - Technology leakage risks through joint ventures with adversary nations that get treated as routine “commercial” arrangements The Garden Grove toxic crisis is the physical manifestation of this financialization. When you strip out maintenance budgets, defer environmental remediation, and cut compliance staffing to hit quarterly EBITDA targets, you get hexavalent chromium in the groundwater and sick workers. The fact that this is happening at a facility tied to the F-35 supply chain while the parent company’s broader network extends deep into China’s aerospace sector should be setting off every alarm bell in Washington! Instead, Melrose just announced they’re planning to spin off or sell GKN Aerospace in 2025-2026 — the classic “strip, flip, and walk away” endgame, leaving the environmental liabilities for someone else to clean up. It’s a case study in why treating defense industrial base assets as financial instruments rather than strategic capabilities is a slow-motion national security disaster. Now, Newsom and the California Uniparty legislature’s cozy relationship with the CCP should make more sense. 🌐 The China Dimension — Why This Goes Beyond Environmental Crime The joint venture structure is the sleeper issue here: - GKN Aerospace + SAMC (COMAC subsidiary) — Joint venture to manufacture composite horizontal tail planes for the C919, China's direct competitor to the 737 and A320 - GKN Aerospace + AVIC + COMAC — 2020 aerostructures joint venture - 12 manufacturing locations across China, 5,000 employees — Deep integration into China's aerospace ecosystem The concern isn’t just that a British holding company owns a defense supplier. It’s that the same corporate entity simultaneously: - Produces F-35 canopies for the US military - Partners with Chinese state-owned aerospace companies on advanced composite manufacturing - Is apparently cutting corners on maintenance to the point of near-catastrophic failure The intelligence community should be asking: was the deferred maintenance just standard Melrose cost-stripping, or was there any external factor at play? A facility producing military aircraft components that suffers a catastrophic failure — whether accidental or otherwise — is a national security event. Donald J. Trump President Donald J. Trump Vice President JD Vance JD Vance Treasury Department Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Pete Hegseth Department of War 🇺🇸 Office of the ASW for Industrial Base Policy EPA Pacific Southwest Region U.S. EPA OSHA_DOL FBI Armed Services GOP House Armed Services Democrats Oversight Committee Oversight Dems U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission U.S. Department of Justice Acting AG Todd Blanche CIA Director John Ratcliffe CIA

🏭 The Garden Grove Crisis: Overview The GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove, California, has been a toxic catastrophe in slow motion. This plant has been processing aerospace components with known hazardous materials — hexavalent chromium, cadmium, and other heavy metals — for decades. The core allegation is that systematic neglect of environmental safety protocols has exposed workers and the surrounding community to dangerous levels of carcinogenic compounds. Hexavalent chromium (the Erin Brockovich chemical) is no joke. It’s a known carcinogen that damages DNA, causes lung cancer, and leaches into groundwater with devastating persistence. The facility’s crisis came to a head with reports of: - Improper waste disposal practices spanning years - Workers reporting chronic health issues consistent with heavy metal exposure - Regulatory inspections found significant violations - Community groundwater contamination concerns - Gavin Newsom’s government turned a blind eye. Was it an appeasement to Xi Jinping and China? 🇬🇧 The Melrose Industries Connection This is where it starts to get ugly from a national security and accountability standpoint. Melrose Industries — a British private equity-style turnaround firm — acquired GKN in a bitterly contested $10 billion hostile takeover in 2018. This was the original GKN, a company founded in 1759 that literally supplied cannons to the British military during the Napoleonic Wars and built Spitfires in WWII. A cornerstone of British industrial heritage, gutted by financial engineers. Melrose’s business model is well-documented and brutally simple: 1. Acquire undervalued industrial companies (often with hostile bids) 2. Slash costs aggressively — R&D, maintenance, environmental compliance, workforce 3. Extract maximum cash flow 4. Sell the stripped-down entity for a profit within 3-5 years They did this with previous acquisitions like Elster Group and Nortek. GKN was just their biggest target. The Garden Grove situation is a textbook case of what happens when a short-term-profit-maximizing financial owner takes over a complex industrial operation with serious legacy environmental liabilities. Environmental compliance, worker safety, and long-term remediation planning are cost centers — exactly the line items that get hollowed out under the Melrose model. 🇨🇳 The China Angle This is where the national security dimension gets genuinely alarming. GKN Aerospace is not some peripheral parts supplier. They manufacture critical components for: - F-35 Lightning II (Lockheed Martin) - F/A-18 Super Hornet (Boeing) - CH-53K King Stallion (Sikorsky) - Multiple commercial aircraft platforms (Airbus A350, Boeing 787) - Engine components for Rolls-Royce, GE, and Pratt & Whitney Now consider the ownership and supply chain structure: Melrose Industries itself is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange, but the deeper concern is about where GKN Aerospace's supply chains, joint ventures, and customer relationships extend. GKN Aerospace has: - A significant joint venture in China — GKN Aerospace has partnered with Chinese state-owned and state-linked aerospace entities for years, including work on the COMAC C919 (China's homegrown narrow-body competitor to the 737/A320) - Technology transfer agreements that involve sharing manufacturing processes, material science, and quality control methodologies with Chinese partners - Supply chain integration where Chinese-sourced materials and components flow into GKN's global operations — including potentially into US military supply chains The F-35 connection makes this especially sensitive. GKN produces the F-35’s canopy, among other components. The idea that a British holding company — itself under pressure to maximize returns — might be cutting corners on environmental compliance at a facility that feeds into the most advanced fighter program on the planet, while simultaneously maintaining deep joint venture relationships with Chinese aerospace entities, is the kind of multi-layered security concern that doesn’t get nearly enough attention. How the f*ck is this allowed? 🔥 The Larger Pattern This isn’t just about one facility. The GKN/Melrose situation exemplifies a broader rot in Western defense industrial policy: - Hostile foreign ownership of critical defense suppliers with minimal CFIUS-style scrutiny (because the UK is an "ally") - Financial engineering that prioritizes short-term extraction over long-term capability and safety - Environmental externalization, where cleanup costs get dumped on taxpayers while profits go to London and the Caymans - Technology leakage risks through joint ventures with adversary nations that get treated as routine “commercial” arrangements The Garden Grove toxic crisis is the physical manifestation of this financialization. When you strip out maintenance budgets, defer environmental remediation, and cut compliance staffing to hit quarterly EBITDA targets, you get hexavalent chromium in the groundwater and sick workers. The fact that this is happening at a facility tied to the F-35 supply chain while the parent company’s broader network extends deep into China’s aerospace sector should be setting off every alarm bell in Washington! Instead, Melrose just announced they’re planning to spin off or sell GKN Aerospace in 2025-2026 — the classic “strip, flip, and walk away” endgame, leaving the environmental liabilities for someone else to clean up. It’s a case study in why treating defense industrial base assets as financial instruments rather than strategic capabilities is a slow-motion national security disaster. Now, Newsom and the California Uniparty legislature’s cozy relationship with the CCP should make more sense. 🌐 The China Dimension — Why This Goes Beyond Environmental Crime The joint venture structure is the sleeper issue here: - GKN Aerospace + SAMC (COMAC subsidiary) — Joint venture to manufacture composite horizontal tail planes for the C919, China's direct competitor to the 737 and A320 - GKN Aerospace + AVIC + COMAC — 2020 aerostructures joint venture - 12 manufacturing locations across China, 5,000 employees — Deep integration into China's aerospace ecosystem The concern isn’t just that a British holding company owns a defense supplier. It’s that the same corporate entity simultaneously: - Produces F-35 canopies for the US military - Partners with Chinese state-owned aerospace companies on advanced composite manufacturing - Is apparently cutting corners on maintenance to the point of near-catastrophic failure The intelligence community should be asking: was the deferred maintenance just standard Melrose cost-stripping, or was there any external factor at play? A facility producing military aircraft components that suffers a catastrophic failure — whether accidental or otherwise — is a national security event. Donald J. Trump President Donald J. Trump Vice President JD Vance JD Vance Treasury Department Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Pete Hegseth Department of War 🇺🇸 Office of the ASW for Industrial Base Policy EPA Pacific Southwest Region U.S. EPA OSHA_DOL FBI Armed Services GOP House Armed Services Democrats Oversight Committee Oversight Dems U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission U.S. Department of Justice Acting AG Todd Blanche CIA Director John Ratcliffe CIA

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American investigates a company called Aeluma that claims to be a "transformative semiconductor company specializing in high-performance technology” for ‘Defense and Aerospace’ This California company already has government contract and is getting taxpayer money One problem, they claim their office is 9,000 square feet but this investigator finds the price has been subleased out to other companies In fact, they operate out of just this small area with nothing notable being able to be seen inside “The employees have told me this is the headquarters of a 350 million market cap company. That is what it looks like…..” “Like, brother, what are we talking about here?” Something very fishy is going on here….

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Wall Street Apes

148,570 views • 5 months ago

🧸 when we first debuted, the company really wanted to push a "prince" image for us. because of that, they wouldn't let me do things like aegyo when we went on variety shows. 🧸 even though i just wanted to give hearts or do a little aegyo for our fans, they intentionally made us avoid those things. 🧸 i couldn't even make heart gestures. the company banned it, so one time i went on a show and i did some aegyo right before the show ended without them knowing 🧸 but i got caught doing that. the company found out and i actually got in trouble for it 🧸 if i tried too hard to be funny or cute, they would just edit all of it out of the broadcast. i really hated to see us getting a reputation as "boring" group right from the start 🧸 because of that, there was this live streaming platform we used at the time. we all just said “hey, this is live, so the company can't stop us" 🧸 and we decided to just do whatever we wanted, and from that point on, it wasn't really that the company changed their minds, it was more like they just gave up on us.

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710,565 views • 3 months ago

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Curtis Houck

65,309 views • 10 months ago

The same grifter family that went after conservative reporter Savanah Hernandez is now trying to flip it and say they were the victims. They resisted arrest, and at one point the daughter actually ran from police. William Kelly, who is currently on probation for storming a church, was right there with them. They have had a GoFundMe up and Venmo links going around for months, and the whole family has been asking for money. Now this “unjust arrest” claim is just the latest thing they are using to bring more in. This is a compilation of their own posts, the arrest, their reaction, the claims, all of it. Might be worth a look before their next court hearing. 🤔

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Jammles

23,585 views • 4 months ago

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12,289 views • 2 years ago

This was one of the most disgusting and evil things that I’ve ever seen. Just before we learned Charlie had passed, we tried to lead a prayer on the House floor - praying for his recovery after he was tragically shot. The Democrats started booing and yelling at us. It was absolutely disgusting. Their rhetoric caused this, and their actions today show they have no remorse!!!

This was one of the most disgusting and evil things that I’ve ever seen. Just before we learned Charlie had passed, we tried to lead a prayer on the House floor - praying for his recovery after he was tragically shot. The Democrats started booing and yelling at us. It was absolutely disgusting. Their rhetoric caused this, and their actions today show they have no remorse!!!

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5,798,808 views • 11 months ago

Did Ann Miura-Ko really make a 10,000x return on Lyft? Ann Miura-Ko says every venture capitalist is looking for a company that can return the entire fund. For Floodgate, Lyft was one of those companies. They invested when Lyft was valued at just $5 million, sold some shares along the way, and sold more at the IPO. Ann explains why Lyft became a multiple fund returner: “You’re always looking for a multiple fund returner and that was definitely a multiple fund returner.” “We got in at a $5 million dollar valuation.” “We sold a little bit along the way actually at a price that was even higher than it is today.” “We were able to get a good chunk out and then at the IPO as well.” “I can’t give you the exact returns but it was a multiple fund returner just on its own.” Ann Miura-Ko: Why Great Businesses Still Fail via Trailblazers Podcast

Did Ann Miura-Ko really make a 10,000x return on Lyft? Ann Miura-Ko says every venture capitalist is looking for a company that can return the entire fund. For Floodgate, Lyft was one of those companies. They invested when Lyft was valued at just $5 million, sold some shares along the way, and sold more at the IPO. Ann explains why Lyft became a multiple fund returner: “You’re always looking for a multiple fund returner and that was definitely a multiple fund returner.” “We got in at a $5 million dollar valuation.” “We sold a little bit along the way actually at a price that was even higher than it is today.” “We were able to get a good chunk out and then at the IPO as well.” “I can’t give you the exact returns but it was a multiple fund returner just on its own.” Ann Miura-Ko: Why Great Businesses Still Fail via Trailblazers Podcast

Erica Wenger

12,315 views • 24 days ago

Mo Dahkil on the Zach Lowe show is tired of the Heat front office 😬 “We kill the Bulls for being on the treadmill of mediocrity, how long are we going to allow Miami to get away with this as well? — I’m tired of this thing like ‘we’re whale hunters!’ Then they never do…. Don’t come out and say we’re whale hunters because it just doesn’t happen anymore. Not even smart moves around the edges, maybe make a few moves to get assets back. Then be ready when the Giannis trade comes. They don’t even prepare for that. They just assume everybody is going to want Tyler Herro. I’m out, I’m tired of it” (Via Zach Lowe show)

Mo Dahkil on the Zach Lowe show is tired of the Heat front office 😬 “We kill the Bulls for being on the treadmill of mediocrity, how long are we going to allow Miami to get away with this as well? — I’m tired of this thing like ‘we’re whale hunters!’ Then they never do…. Don’t come out and say we’re whale hunters because it just doesn’t happen anymore. Not even smart moves around the edges, maybe make a few moves to get assets back. Then be ready when the Giannis trade comes. They don’t even prepare for that. They just assume everybody is going to want Tyler Herro. I’m out, I’m tired of it” (Via Zach Lowe show)

Heat Central

124,018 views • 6 months ago

Now that the Liberals have a majority in committee they just shut down any debate on PrescribeIT. We will never know what happened to $300 million dollars that was blown on this project. Steve MacKinnon’s answer to why the debate was shut down and why no auditor will be looking into it is reprehensible. You know you can trust a Government who doesn’t want people to find out what happened to $300 million dollars. The corruption continues.

Now that the Liberals have a majority in committee they just shut down any debate on PrescribeIT. We will never know what happened to $300 million dollars that was blown on this project. Steve MacKinnon’s answer to why the debate was shut down and why no auditor will be looking into it is reprehensible. You know you can trust a Government who doesn’t want people to find out what happened to $300 million dollars. The corruption continues.

Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱

33,037 views • 3 months ago

Paul Pierce says the Draft Lottery is rigged: “I think they be like, “Here, man. We going to give this motherfu*ker here. We gonna give them this.” Come on, like Dallas out of all people got the number one pick. They just lost Luka. Hell no….. I’m telling you, this what goes on in the back room. They congregate. These is billion-dollar people. They get in a room, then you got the commissioner in there. And to all the weak teams, we’re giving the number one pick to the highest bidder. Who wants it? Two billon, talking three. This is what’s going on in the back room for the number one pick. So, if they willing to sacrifice that money and these low market teams who got the big couple dollars for that number one pick, if they think it’s going to change their franchise, they paying for it. I’m telling you, this what’s going on in the back room.” (Via No Fouls Given)

Paul Pierce says the Draft Lottery is rigged: “I think they be like, “Here, man. We going to give this motherfu*ker here. We gonna give them this.” Come on, like Dallas out of all people got the number one pick. They just lost Luka. Hell no….. I’m telling you, this what goes on in the back room. They congregate. These is billion-dollar people. They get in a room, then you got the commissioner in there. And to all the weak teams, we’re giving the number one pick to the highest bidder. Who wants it? Two billon, talking three. This is what’s going on in the back room for the number one pick. So, if they willing to sacrifice that money and these low market teams who got the big couple dollars for that number one pick, if they think it’s going to change their franchise, they paying for it. I’m telling you, this what’s going on in the back room.” (Via No Fouls Given)

NBA Courtside

105,256 views • 4 months ago

Dana White says they bought the UFC's rights back for $3,000,000 while the sellers cracked up laughing thinking they won but it became a billion-dollar mistake "When we bought this company for $2 million, we literally bought an old wooden octagon, the three letters 'UFC' and 12 to 15 fighter contracts" "The old owner had sold everything, all the ancillary stuff away to Lionsgate. Lionsgate owned everything: the merchandise, the video games, the DVDs, all that stuff" "So we flew out to Lionsgate and they sold us the rights back. I want to say it was like $3,000,000, paid over the next several years. So when we left, they were probably cracking up laughing, wow, this is gonna look great on our books over the next three years" "Now those rights are worth hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. So when you talk about not believing, they owned the rights to this thing, and they never thought it was going to work"

Dana White says they bought the UFC's rights back for $3,000,000 while the sellers cracked up laughing thinking they won but it became a billion-dollar mistake "When we bought this company for $2 million, we literally bought an old wooden octagon, the three letters 'UFC' and 12 to 15 fighter contracts" "The old owner had sold everything, all the ancillary stuff away to Lionsgate. Lionsgate owned everything: the merchandise, the video games, the DVDs, all that stuff" "So we flew out to Lionsgate and they sold us the rights back. I want to say it was like $3,000,000, paid over the next several years. So when we left, they were probably cracking up laughing, wow, this is gonna look great on our books over the next three years" "Now those rights are worth hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. So when you talk about not believing, they owned the rights to this thing, and they never thought it was going to work"

katsu

481,625 views • 2 months ago

Jason Citron on the growth hack that got Discord its first few thousand users “We started working on [Discord] in January 2015, and within I’d say two months, some of our friends were very excited about it but we didn’t really have any users. It was pretty clear they wanted to use it, it just wasn’t exactly correct. We rebuilt the voice chat engine three times, for example. But I’d say within 3-4 months, we had 20 DAU that weren’t us.” However, as Jason explains, growth stalled after those first 20 users: “We were like, ‘How do we get the word out?’ Because everyone was actually very skeptical about a group chat app for gaming. People would say, ‘This is the dumbest idea ever, no one is going to use this.’ And even people who played games, many of them thought, ‘Why would I want this? I already have whatever app I’m using.’ And so we were having a hard time getting other people to try it.” Jason recalls a period of 3-4 weeks sitting around thinking, “We like this, but maybe no one else does.” Then they figured out their growth unlock: “The unlock for us was inviting people to give feedback on the app, as opposed to saying, ‘Try this thing out we’re selling to you.’ What we actually did was we went to the Final Fantasy 14 subreddit, and we got one of our friends to make a post on the subreddit basically saying, ‘Hey, I’m trying out this new voice over IP app. What do y’all think about it?’” Jason continues: “People found it on Reddit, clicked on that link, went into the server, and then they were talking to us and trying it out. And they went back to the subreddit and were like, ‘Hey, this is pretty cool. I met the devs. They seem pretty cool.’ We got 50 users that day from that post and then that 50 turned into 100 the next day and it sort of started to snowball. And then we did this playbook for six months and that was basically the beginning of how it started growing.” Video source: The Twenty Minute VC Harry Stebbings (2024)

Jason Citron on the growth hack that got Discord its first few thousand users “We started working on [Discord] in January 2015, and within I’d say two months, some of our friends were very excited about it but we didn’t really have any users. It was pretty clear they wanted to use it, it just wasn’t exactly correct. We rebuilt the voice chat engine three times, for example. But I’d say within 3-4 months, we had 20 DAU that weren’t us.” However, as Jason explains, growth stalled after those first 20 users: “We were like, ‘How do we get the word out?’ Because everyone was actually very skeptical about a group chat app for gaming. People would say, ‘This is the dumbest idea ever, no one is going to use this.’ And even people who played games, many of them thought, ‘Why would I want this? I already have whatever app I’m using.’ And so we were having a hard time getting other people to try it.” Jason recalls a period of 3-4 weeks sitting around thinking, “We like this, but maybe no one else does.” Then they figured out their growth unlock: “The unlock for us was inviting people to give feedback on the app, as opposed to saying, ‘Try this thing out we’re selling to you.’ What we actually did was we went to the Final Fantasy 14 subreddit, and we got one of our friends to make a post on the subreddit basically saying, ‘Hey, I’m trying out this new voice over IP app. What do y’all think about it?’” Jason continues: “People found it on Reddit, clicked on that link, went into the server, and then they were talking to us and trying it out. And they went back to the subreddit and were like, ‘Hey, this is pretty cool. I met the devs. They seem pretty cool.’ We got 50 users that day from that post and then that 50 turned into 100 the next day and it sort of started to snowball. And then we did this playbook for six months and that was basically the beginning of how it started growing.” Video source: The Twenty Minute VC Harry Stebbings (2024)

Startup Archive

20,407 views • 8 months ago

What a spot for a trail camera! We put this camera out on a small footpath this winter for the first time just out of curiosity. We do a lot of trial and error to find good spots that wolves like to use often. The little trail is pretty close to the intersection of 3 different pack territories and we figured it might be a good place…and it was. We captured more footage of wolves and other animals on this camera that are not in this video. This video is just the highlights. Most of the other videos are at night. Notably, for every camera like this that gets great footage, we probably have 4 or 5 that are duds…and since they are duds, we don’t share that footage online!

What a spot for a trail camera! We put this camera out on a small footpath this winter for the first time just out of curiosity. We do a lot of trial and error to find good spots that wolves like to use often. The little trail is pretty close to the intersection of 3 different pack territories and we figured it might be a good place…and it was. We captured more footage of wolves and other animals on this camera that are not in this video. This video is just the highlights. Most of the other videos are at night. Notably, for every camera like this that gets great footage, we probably have 4 or 5 that are duds…and since they are duds, we don’t share that footage online!

Voyageurs Wolf Project

21,477 views • 3 months ago

Eagles DE Brandon Graham on what he remembers about the 2022 and 2023 games against the 49ers: “I just remember us knocking them out in 2022 and they were just complaining the whole offseason, 'man, if we ain’t lose Brock Purdy'. But then they came back in. They came in blacked out too. I ain’t even know until we got out. I said man they came in like it was gonna be a funeral, and it was that day. I give them a shoutout on that. We didn’t have our best in 2023. That was a tough one because they got their get-back on us, but they coming to the Linc again this week.” via: Brandon Graham Unblocked

Eagles DE Brandon Graham on what he remembers about the 2022 and 2023 games against the 49ers: “I just remember us knocking them out in 2022 and they were just complaining the whole offseason, 'man, if we ain’t lose Brock Purdy'. But then they came back in. They came in blacked out too. I ain’t even know until we got out. I said man they came in like it was gonna be a funeral, and it was that day. I give them a shoutout on that. We didn’t have our best in 2023. That was a tough one because they got their get-back on us, but they coming to the Linc again this week.” via: Brandon Graham Unblocked

Coach Yac 🗣

458,436 views • 7 months ago

Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph revealed they once offered to sell Netflix to Blockbuster for just $50 million after the company was on track to lose $50 million in a single year. Blockbuster’s board laughed them out of the room. “We tried going to Blockbuster. We tried reaching out to them for months” “We were doing $5 Million a year, they were doing $6 Billion a year. We had 150 employees, they had 60,000 and we see like an ant to an elephant” “It took months and finally we got the call and we were at a corporate retreat and all I had with me was shorts, T-shirt and thong sandals and that’s when Blockbuster called” “They go ‘we’d like to see you tomorrow in Dallas’ and I remember turning to Reed and going ‘there’s no way’” “And so we did the prudent thing you do when you’re $50 Million in a hole and we took a corporate jet and we fly to Dallas and go up to the 28th floor of this massive sky scrapper into this conference room” “In come the Blockbuster guys and we make our pitch ‘you run the stores, we run the online business. We will build a blended model’ and it was going good” “And they asked the big question.. How much and we had rehearsed on the plane” “We were $50 Million in the hole so we go $50 Million and then there’s this silence in the room and we’re looking at them Blockbuster executives trying to piece together their emotions” “And it dawned on us they were trying to suppress laughter”

Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph revealed they once offered to sell Netflix to Blockbuster for just $50 million after the company was on track to lose $50 million in a single year. Blockbuster’s board laughed them out of the room. “We tried going to Blockbuster. We tried reaching out to them for months” “We were doing $5 Million a year, they were doing $6 Billion a year. We had 150 employees, they had 60,000 and we see like an ant to an elephant” “It took months and finally we got the call and we were at a corporate retreat and all I had with me was shorts, T-shirt and thong sandals and that’s when Blockbuster called” “They go ‘we’d like to see you tomorrow in Dallas’ and I remember turning to Reed and going ‘there’s no way’” “And so we did the prudent thing you do when you’re $50 Million in a hole and we took a corporate jet and we fly to Dallas and go up to the 28th floor of this massive sky scrapper into this conference room” “In come the Blockbuster guys and we make our pitch ‘you run the stores, we run the online business. We will build a blended model’ and it was going good” “And they asked the big question.. How much and we had rehearsed on the plane” “We were $50 Million in the hole so we go $50 Million and then there’s this silence in the room and we’re looking at them Blockbuster executives trying to piece together their emotions” “And it dawned on us they were trying to suppress laughter”

Percy

1,092,505 views • 1 month ago

🚨 BREAKING: Hilton was just caught in an EGREGIOUS LIE, they DID NOT cut ties with the Minneapolis hotel who discriminated against ICE agents NICK SORTOR: "I came back here, walked in, tried to buy a room, they asked me what my Hilton Honors number was!" YOU LIED, Hilton! "So they HAVEN'T been cut off from the system. You can't book it online, but at the same time, they still have access to Hilton's computer system." "We CANNOT take this stuff at face-value, where these big corporations say 'we're gonna do this' and we say 'we won!' We have to hold their feet to the fire!" "This is TWICE NOW they tried to say they reprimanded the foreigners who own the hotel." Nick Sortor They are COOKED.

🚨 BREAKING: Hilton was just caught in an EGREGIOUS LIE, they DID NOT cut ties with the Minneapolis hotel who discriminated against ICE agents NICK SORTOR: "I came back here, walked in, tried to buy a room, they asked me what my Hilton Honors number was!" YOU LIED, Hilton! "So they HAVEN'T been cut off from the system. You can't book it online, but at the same time, they still have access to Hilton's computer system." "We CANNOT take this stuff at face-value, where these big corporations say 'we're gonna do this' and we say 'we won!' We have to hold their feet to the fire!" "This is TWICE NOW they tried to say they reprimanded the foreigners who own the hotel." Nick Sortor They are COOKED.

Eric Daugherty

617,318 views • 7 months ago

I’ve been sent this message along with footage from last nights protest. The Metropolitan Police were disgraceful last night, treating us like we live under a ‘dictatorship’ arresting people for NO reason, there was none of this at Leeds, BLM or Palestine marches. They don’t even now hide the two-tier policing. ‘The police tried to surround us when we was just looking at the demonstration and then we started going back when we saw what they was doing. The policeman rugby tackled the innocent, poor man into that tree before the video.’

I’ve been sent this message along with footage from last nights protest. The Metropolitan Police were disgraceful last night, treating us like we live under a ‘dictatorship’ arresting people for NO reason, there was none of this at Leeds, BLM or Palestine marches. They don’t even now hide the two-tier policing. ‘The police tried to surround us when we was just looking at the demonstration and then we started going back when we saw what they was doing. The policeman rugby tackled the innocent, poor man into that tree before the video.’

Queen Natalie 👑

773,979 views • 2 years ago