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Lauren the Investor retweeted
AppSumo went from 140 people to about 20. 🤯
Next: taking TidyCal, our scheduling app, to 0 people.
6 pieces that feed each other to create an automatic company.
Here's the 0-Person Company loop 👇
Lauren the Investor retweeted
Creator Coffee Talk ☕️🎙️ Grasping For Content 🤔
🧊 A discussion about when grasping for other types of content becomes desperation instead of revelation. xitter.cf/i/spaces/1NGarrBRLRNJj
Lauren the Investor retweeted
Ben Affleck says actors have no job security because 130K people are in the actors union and only 30,000 work each year
"I got real cold and had a couple of movies that didn't work... all of a sudden it can be kind of over for you"
"there's no seniority, there's no tenure, there's no retirement. There's no gold watch"
"if your show doesn't work or your movie doesn't work and nobody wants to hire you, they're just gonna hire someone else"
"there's 130,000 people in SAG and there's only 30,000 people that work every year"
Lauren the Investor retweeted
.@MohnishPabrai paid $650K to have lunch with Warren Buffett after copying his strategy to make $84M.
Here's why it was worth every penny:
Pabrai's wife told Warren: "I love you, but I actually prefer Charlie Munger."
Warren got competitive: "Charlie? He's boring and pessimistic. I'm the interesting one."
Two days later, Warren emailed Charlie's assistant: "I met this couple who think YOU'RE more interesting. Let's set the record straight."
That lunch started what's now over 15 years of friendship.
But here's how Pabrai made the $84M:
He told his investors: "Your only purpose on Earth is to bring assets to my fund," and turned them into a distribution layer.
While everyone bought pets .com at billion-dollar valuations with zero revenue, Pabrai bought:
Funeral homes at 2x earnings
Steel companies at 3x earnings
When NASDAQ imploded 75%, Pabrai was the only guy making money.
He didn't just play the market. He bought his way into the inner circle of the greatest investors alive.
@ShaanVP
Lauren the Investor retweeted
Many of you say what you want is a Creator First company…
But what most of you actually are asking for is a Creator Only company that makes no profit, is your personal playground…
Never sells anything, and has no ads.
Yet somehow magically also pays you and provides a comfortable lifestyle for you to create whenever you want.
And that’s why no matter how much you complain about YouTube…
Most of you won’t leave or don’t leva voluntarily…
Lauren the Investor retweeted
When people are rooting for the AI Bubble to pop, so they can go back to making "original art" of someone else's trademarked characters for $15-$250 commissions.
Or so the price of ram for their $69-$99 video games to go down...
Keep in mind they either don't realize they are rooting for complete economic collapse and financial carnage... or they don't care so long as their hobby slop is protected...
Because what is at stake is America's dominance in AI because make no mistake, China isn't going to slow down and their national sentiment is Pro AI and they outnumber us more than 3:1...
So this is happening, its a matter of whether Americans profit or lose from it at this point.
And if the bubble pops, it will barely squeeze the elites, but it will crush the working class, middle class and poor without question, and inconvenience or stall people who worked their whole life to finally be upper class or middle class.
And it will destroy every state pension fund...
Wipe out the tax base of most states that give the most generous entitlements.
It would usher in so much economic carnage and destruction that it would make the 2008 collapse, look like summer camp by comparison.
If the AI bubble pops, expect a $10T+ wipeout in Big Tech valuations overnight—NVIDIA, Alphabet, Microsoft, and the rest crater 50-70% as revenue misses hit. Capex dries up, triggering 1-2M+ direct layoffs in tech/chips/data centers, plus 3-5M indirect in supply chains and services.
Poor: Poverty jumps 30-40%, welfare systems collapse under evictions and food shortages. Working class: Wages fall 10-20%, factories shutter, regional ghost towns form. Middle class: 401(k)s/IRAs lose $4-6T, home values drop 20-30%, college and healthcare become luxuries. Upper class: Portfolios halved, retirements pushed back 5-10 years. Elite: Diversified holdings cushion them, recovering fastest.
Inequalities surge across every line—wealth (top 1% rebound while bottom 80% stagnate), income (gaps widen 25%), racial (minorities face 1.5x job hits), generational (millennials/Gen Z lose entry points), geographic (tech hubs vs. heartland), educational (public schools gutted), and health (state funding cuts spike untreated illness). Tax shortfalls of $300B+ slash infrastructure, forcing deficits or hikes that hit everyone but the insulated. This isn't a dip—it's systemic carnage where hype's bill lands hardest on the non-elite.
Lauren the Investor retweeted
Happy #NationalNapDay! Here’s a look back at some great moments of our animals getting some shut eye in their exhibits from WCS staff photographers.
Lauren the Investor retweeted
Petulance is not power, it is a sign of helplessness.
People may temporarily be cowed by your tantrums, but in the end they lose respect for you.
They also realize they can easily undermine a person with so little self-control.
Lauren the Investor retweeted
This is where a culture of virtue signaling “I don’t do it for the money” gets us… a culture where in massive economic carnage people aren’t expected to be honest about the simple fact they are doing a job and need the paycheck…
Or they’d likely be doing something else… 🤦🏾♂️ 🤦🏾♂️
I don’t have enough words for the level of contempt I have for the level of being performative that modern culture involves.
Lauren the Investor retweeted
For your enjoyment, the Superman screenplay.
superman.com/script/superman…
Lauren the Investor retweeted
Hey Creators,
Get 10 Hours of Training from the Creator Keynote Collection ($199), $39.80 until the end of January 2026. This is your last change to get this 80% Discount!
awesomecreatoracademy.com/of…
You will also be getting my future Keynotes including my 2026 Keynotes this year.
Lauren the Investor retweeted
Two people who don't get enough credit for transforming careers of so many entrepreneurs and creators:
@tferriss and @chrisguillebeau
I've talked to hundreds of people who read 4HWW and changed what they thought was possible.
Then Chris gave everyone a community, roadmap, and encouragement through WDS and his blog. I found Chris through Tim's blog.
I still remember reading 279 Days to Overnight Success and seeing how Chris started earning a full-time living as a creator. His roadmap led me to earning $250k/yr on the same path.
Did you read their work? I'd love to hear the impact it had on you.
Lauren the Investor retweeted
Christopher Priest just put fraudulent copyright strikes on my channel because I made a positive Documentary about him.
Lauren the Investor retweeted
ADWEEK House: @CES will be coming to Las Vegas from January 6–8! Join us to dig into the next evolution of AI-enabled marketing, the shifts in agency models that will define 2026, and much more.
Register today: bit.ly/43ZpILU
Lauren the Investor retweeted
CES hits in 35 days and everyone is yelling into the void. Here is the truth. You do not need louder posts. You need clearer value. As a veteran CES’er for 35 years, let me be your guide to what matters at #CES2026. What are you hoping to learn?
🔗 scanmyphotos.com/blog/2025/0…
Lauren the Investor retweeted
Join me at #CES2026 for my talk with Amazon Prime Air, Archer Aviation, Wind River and @DaedaleanAI on “The Future is Airborne” ces.tech/schedule/the-future…
