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Wall Street Apes

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🦔Amazon's Prime delivery drones, now deployed across multiple US cities at $4.99 per delivery, drop packages from 10 feet in the air onto whatever surface is below. A teacher who ordered a bottle of syrup to test fragile deliveries watched the drone deposit it directly onto concrete, smashing it. Videos from Nashville show the same delivery method. Amazon's drones maintain a fixed 10-foot hover height before releasing packages, which then free-fall to the ground. The drone's propellers also disturb the surrounding area on descent. My Take Amazon has invested billions in drone delivery infrastructure and the pitch has always been speed and convenience as genuine improvements over traditional delivery. Dropping packages from 10 feet onto concrete is not a delivery innovation. It's a trebuchet with a Prime logo. The fragile item problem alone eliminates a significant portion of what people actually order, including wine, glassware, electronics, and anything in a glass jar, which covers a substantial chunk of Amazon's catalog. The deeper question is whether this technology is being deployed because it's ready or because Amazon needs to demonstrate progress on the billions already committed to it. Every video like this one becomes a public test of a product that isn't finished, in neighborhoods where the company needs goodwill to maintain operating permissions. The $4.99 fee also doesn't cover the actual cost of drone delivery at current scale, which means Amazon is subsidizing a service that breaks your syrup. I'd want to see the unit economics on this before calling it a viable business. Hedgie🤗

Hedgie

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BEYOND NITRO Excerpt Keith Mitchell on Bash at the Beach '96 On the night of Hulk Hogan’s seminal heel turn, Keith Mitchell - the legendary producer whose tenure in the business, rather famously, goes back to the era of World Class Championship Wrestling - enjoyed being one of the few WCW employees to know what was coming. “From a production point of view,” he remembers, “we held a pretty tight lid on the information. There weren’t a whole lot of people ‘in the loop’ on the turn, and I don’t believe I knew until ‘day of' on that one. “Me and a couple of other people may have had an indication about the potential, but as far as a, ‘Yeah, this is what’s going on...,’ I recall that being ‘day of’. “...but it was very exciting. My family and I were staying right across the street from the building, so everybody in that section of the hotel and beach were [buzzing about it]. It was a big deal. For me, it rated right up there with Kerry winning the belt from Flair at Texas Stadium. “It was a monumental moment in wrestling history, and you could feel that when it happened – both among the people on headsets, and of course, the people in the audience.” Get the book for more: Audiobook link: Amazon USA: Amazon UK: Amazon Canada: Amazon Australia: Signed copies available at #WCW #WhoKilledWCW #nWo #wrestlingbooks

BEYOND NITRO Excerpt Keith Mitchell on Bash at the Beach '96 On the night of Hulk Hogan’s seminal heel turn, Keith Mitchell - the legendary producer whose tenure in the business, rather famously, goes back to the era of World Class Championship Wrestling - enjoyed being one of the few WCW employees to know what was coming. “From a production point of view,” he remembers, “we held a pretty tight lid on the information. There weren’t a whole lot of people ‘in the loop’ on the turn, and I don’t believe I knew until ‘day of' on that one. “Me and a couple of other people may have had an indication about the potential, but as far as a, ‘Yeah, this is what’s going on...,’ I recall that being ‘day of’. “...but it was very exciting. My family and I were staying right across the street from the building, so everybody in that section of the hotel and beach were [buzzing about it]. It was a big deal. For me, it rated right up there with Kerry winning the belt from Flair at Texas Stadium. “It was a monumental moment in wrestling history, and you could feel that when it happened – both among the people on headsets, and of course, the people in the audience.” Get the book for more: Audiobook link: Amazon USA: Amazon UK: Amazon Canada: Amazon Australia: Signed copies available at #WCW #WhoKilledWCW #nWo #wrestlingbooks

WCWNitroBook

13,590 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten

🚨 AMERICANS ARE REALIZING AMAZON PRIME "TWO-DAY" SHIPPING IS OVER Videos are stacking up of customers calling out Amazon for the same thing: Prime promises speed, but deliveries now arrive days or weeks late, same-day windows get missed, and “arriving today” quietly turns into tomorrow… or next week. This woman put it bluntly: “Why are we paying $130 a year for 2-day shipping and getting it 5 to 7 days later?” People say this wasn’t just a holiday issue, it was happening months before Christmas, and it’s still happening now. Two-day shipping feels like a label that stuck around long after the service disappeared. Is Prime still worth paying for in 2026?

🚨 AMERICANS ARE REALIZING AMAZON PRIME "TWO-DAY" SHIPPING IS OVER Videos are stacking up of customers calling out Amazon for the same thing: Prime promises speed, but deliveries now arrive days or weeks late, same-day windows get missed, and “arriving today” quietly turns into tomorrow… or next week. This woman put it bluntly: “Why are we paying $130 a year for 2-day shipping and getting it 5 to 7 days later?” People say this wasn’t just a holiday issue, it was happening months before Christmas, and it’s still happening now. Two-day shipping feels like a label that stuck around long after the service disappeared. Is Prime still worth paying for in 2026?

HustleBitch

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I was sitting front row at Sun Valley in 1999 when Jeff Bezos made his presentation. 👇🏼 Wall Street said Amazon was a ridiculously overpriced bookstore. Bezos explained he was selling books to reverse engineer warehouse locations — same size, same weight, easy to ship. A trojan horse for everything else. I wrote copious notes. I have to buy this. The next speaker was Warren Buffett. He said — wonderful young man, Jeff Bezos. But can you believe Amazon is worth more than Sears Roebuck with almost no bricks and mortar? I'm a Buffett disciple. I ripped up my notes and threw them in the garbage. Sears Roebuck is out of business. $10,000 into Amazon that day? $16.5 million this morning. Through eight periods where it dropped 50%. One period where it dropped 90%. You just had to hold it. Here's why I'm telling you this: I think we are in 1996 for AI. Volatility. Uncertainty. Naysayers everywhere. I'm buying anyway.

I was sitting front row at Sun Valley in 1999 when Jeff Bezos made his presentation. 👇🏼 Wall Street said Amazon was a ridiculously overpriced bookstore. Bezos explained he was selling books to reverse engineer warehouse locations — same size, same weight, easy to ship. A trojan horse for everything else. I wrote copious notes. I have to buy this. The next speaker was Warren Buffett. He said — wonderful young man, Jeff Bezos. But can you believe Amazon is worth more than Sears Roebuck with almost no bricks and mortar? I'm a Buffett disciple. I ripped up my notes and threw them in the garbage. Sears Roebuck is out of business. $10,000 into Amazon that day? $16.5 million this morning. Through eight periods where it dropped 50%. One period where it dropped 90%. You just had to hold it. Here's why I'm telling you this: I think we are in 1996 for AI. Volatility. Uncertainty. Naysayers everywhere. I'm buying anyway.

Anthony Scaramucci

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This guy bought a $300 inflatable movie screen on Amazon as a Christmas gift for his family and turned it into a $100,000 a year business at 80% profit margins. He just booked a $10,000 week. His startup cost was literally that Amazon gift. This is backyard movie theater rentals. But here's where it gets really freaking cool. Derek realized movies can't start until 9:30 PM in Texas summers because it doesn't get dark until then. That doesn't work for seven year olds. So he built the world's first indoor air conditioned inflatable movie theater. Full carpeting. LED lights. Four window AC units he bought off Facebook Marketplace for $150 each. He charges $1700 for it. His outdoor packages start at $375 and scale up from there to $1500. Then he added LED dance floors because kids kept dancing after the movies ended. Those rent for $3,000 and he'll have it paid off in eight rentals. In this episode Derek: - Breaks down how he went from unprepared at his first HOA event to a $10K booking week - Shares how he sources equipment from Alibaba and Facebook Marketplace - Tells me why his best clients are people sitting on a few acres who don't blink at price - Gives me the exact package structure he uses, from $375 starter to $1,700 indoor This one is awesome. Check it out.

This guy bought a $300 inflatable movie screen on Amazon as a Christmas gift for his family and turned it into a $100,000 a year business at 80% profit margins. He just booked a $10,000 week. His startup cost was literally that Amazon gift. This is backyard movie theater rentals. But here's where it gets really freaking cool. Derek realized movies can't start until 9:30 PM in Texas summers because it doesn't get dark until then. That doesn't work for seven year olds. So he built the world's first indoor air conditioned inflatable movie theater. Full carpeting. LED lights. Four window AC units he bought off Facebook Marketplace for $150 each. He charges $1700 for it. His outdoor packages start at $375 and scale up from there to $1500. Then he added LED dance floors because kids kept dancing after the movies ended. Those rent for $3,000 and he'll have it paid off in eight rentals. In this episode Derek: - Breaks down how he went from unprepared at his first HOA event to a $10K booking week - Shares how he sources equipment from Alibaba and Facebook Marketplace - Tells me why his best clients are people sitting on a few acres who don't blink at price - Gives me the exact package structure he uses, from $375 starter to $1,700 indoor This one is awesome. Check it out.

Chris Koerner

635,860 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten