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Christian Slagter-Koster retweeted
This is the onboard from the Phantom Global Porsche, showing Loek Hartog rescuing Ollie Millroy. Just a warning that these images are pretty harrowing.
A statement of the Xiaomi China GT Championship reads among others that "rescue workers arrived at the scene of the accident at the earliest time".
It's clear though that Hartog was at the burning Ferrari for a full minute already, before the first marshal even shows up. The time between the impact and the marshals starting to extinguish the flames, is almost eighty seconds.
China GT do praise Hartog in their statement... But if eighty seconds is "the earliest time" for marshals to reach a burning car, that's not something to be thankful for, but it's something to be incredibly worried about. Especially, considering Millroy's Ferrari was really not that far away from a marshals' post.
๐ฅ Phantom Global | #ChinaGT
Christian Slagter-Koster retweeted
Interessante cijfers. De wat meer populistische kranten verliezen best fors (zie de Telegraaf bijvoorbeeld). De 'kwaliteitskranten' zitten in de lift.
Christian Slagter-Koster retweeted
A soldier ran up to a nun.
Out of breath, he asked,
"Please, may I hide under your skirt?
I'll explain later."
The nun agreed.
A moment later, two Military Police ran up and asked,
"Sister, have you seen a soldier?"
The nun replied,
"He went that way."
After the Military Police ran off,
the soldier crawled out from under her skirt and said,
"I can't thank you enough, sister.
You see, I don't want to go to war in Iran."
The nun said,
"I understand completely."
The soldier added,
"I hope I'm not being rude,
but you have a great pair of legs!"
The nun replied,
"If you had looked a little higher,
you would have seen a great pair of balls...
I don't want to go to Iran either!"
Christian Slagter-Koster retweeted
I wish Ubisoft would make a new Rayman
This is genuinely one of the most fun levels in gaming ๐ธ๐ถ
Christian Slagter-Koster retweeted
We stayed a little back. A little off the frontlines.
My 24-year-old lieutenant was killed.
Our female medic lost her leg.
Another buddy lost his eye.
My corporal was seriously wounded in his leg.
Our engineer lost his hearing.
My sergeant lost hearing in one ear and suffered multiple shrapnel wounds.
I myself was seriously wounded in my leg.
In the end, we lost five men during our mission that only lasted 4,5 months.
Fortunately, we stayed a little back. A little off the frontlines.
Can you imagine what would have happened if we had actually been on the frontlines.
Christian Slagter-Koster retweeted
This is the reason why Gen-X isn't worried about climate change...๐คทโโ๏ธ
Christian Slagter-Koster retweeted
Muziek verbindt! Veiligheid gaat niet alleen over regels, handhaving en grenzen stellen. Het gaat over vertrouwen, herkenning en menselijk contact. Over gezien en gehoord worden. Positieve veiligheid.
De trompettist Jeffrey Parmentier heeft er een filmpje van gemaakt.๐ถ๐
Christian Slagter-Koster retweeted
Tomorrow will be 15 years since the trademark registration for 'SEO' was terminated.
@rhea spent two years and ~$17,000 fighting Jason Gambert, who essentially wanted control over who could sell SEOโข as a service.
Legend.
Christian Slagter-Koster retweeted
SEO SaaS platform Semrush just announced their Q4, 2024 results.
I had to check: They spent ~$4.8M on acquisitions in the quarter*.
Some big news was that William Wagner will be taking over as CEO.
Here's the financial highlights:
- Revenue of $102.6M (up 23% YoY) ๐ฐ
- ARR of $411.6M (up 22% YoY) ๐
- 144 Enterprise customers generate $9M in ARR ๐ฆ
- Full year revenue of $376.8M (up 22% YoY) ๐ฐ
- Customers paying >$10K annually grew 40% YoY ๐
- Non-GAAP income from operations of $11.8M
Semrush reported having "approximately 117,000 paying customers" which is the same as last quarter, but up 8% year over year.
They ended Q4 with 1M registered free active customers which is the same as Q3 and ~100,000 fewer than they reported in Q2.
There might be a logical explanation for this e.g. limiting the data you get for free.
*They spent $25.9M (net of cash acquired) on assets & businesses in 2024, of which around $4.8M was spent in Q4.
You may know they acquired the likes of Third Door Media (which includes Search Engine Land), Exploding Topics, Ryte & Brand 24.
As I say frequently, this is my passion and not my profession, so I don't know if they show all acquisition costs upfront or typically spread them out (and what else may be counted here).
Always do your own research and read from people smarter than me :).
They expect revenue to grow by around 20% in 2025.
I hope you found this interesting. Thanks for reading ๐๐ป
Christian Slagter-Koster retweeted
NEW: I've finished four weeks of research into the latest startup revenues and trending business ideas.
I put my all into these and want to give a ton of insights (free).
No ads. No aff links. Just 38 updates from the past month.
Any shares are much appreciated.
Gaps .com ๐ค
Christian Slagter-Koster retweeted
Waarom blijven de onderwijsresultaten toch zo achter met pak 'm beet 30 jaar geleden ?
Geen waterdichte verklaring maar gewoon wat observaties uit de praktijk ;
- 50% van de leerlingen in mijn groep heeft geen stabiele thuissituatie (gescheiden ouders of vader uit beeld)
-60% gaat na school niet naar huis maar naar BSO, vriendjes of opa en oma.
- 20% heeft een taalachterstand (1e, 2e of 3e generatie migranten)
- Slechts ongeveer de helft zit op een (sport)club, de rest zit in zijn/haar vrije tijd te gamen of op de mobiel.
- Kinderen komen vaak doodmoe op school omdat ze veel te laat naar bed gaan.
- 30% van m'n tijd ben ik bezig met gedragsgerelateerde onderwerpen (klassikale en individuele gesprekken, kanjertrainingen, gouden weken, zilveren weken, sociale vaardigheden, gesprekken met IB'ers, ouders, educatieve dienst en gedragstherapeuten)
- In de klas gaat zo'n 15% van de tijd verloren doordat er weer eens wat brandjes moeten worden geblust. Bij veel kinderen ontbreken normale sociale vaardigheden als respect tonen, naar elkaar en de meester luisteren, je spullen opruimen, van elkaars spullen afblijven, op tijd komen, op tijd klaar zitten en af en toe je klep houden.
- Alle lesmethodes moeten tegenwoordig 'leuk en uitdagend' zijn. Bij bv. rekenen komt dat er simpelweg op neer dat er per lesuur veel minder sommen worden gemaakt omdat er vooral verhaaltjes worden verteld ipv 'droge kost'. Omdat dit ook in de lagere groepen zo is ontbreken bij veel kinderen automatiseringsvaardigheden zoals bv de tafels.
- Veel individueel werk gaat tegenwoordig op het Chromebook waardoor ouders ook minder zicht hebben op de vooruitgang van hun kind (minder boekjes/schriften mee naar huis)
- Ik werk niet op een achterstandsschool maar toch krijgt de helft een VMBO advies....
- Oudergesprekken met gescheiden ouders plannen. Wens me sterkte.
Trek verder zelf je conclusies maar.
Ps. het werken met de kinderen (die wel willen) blijft het mooiste wat er is en ik ga elke dag met plezier weer aan de slag. #onderwijs
Christian Slagter-Koster retweeted
Today Similarweb released a list of the 100 fastest-growing companies online for 2024.
Like last year, I've went through every single one to find the most interesting.
Not businesses I would build myself but Prose (3) and Boarderie (5) were the most memorable IMO. Super cool.
Christian Slagter-Koster retweeted
I first covered this topic seven years ago so it's nice to finally put this live.
This is just the first version with many updates on the way. Very open to any feedback on what to add or remove.
And of course, absolutely not financial advice :)
gaps.com/public/
Christian Slagter-Koster retweeted
OMG, I haven't laughed this hard in a long time ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐
Christian Slagter-Koster retweeted
This is my wife.
She got fired at 4:30am.
No reasons.
No warning.
Seeing my wife in tears while weโre on vacation is heartbreaking.
If anybody knows of any remote project manager roles in the marketing space (agency is great) please DM me.
โค๏ธ
P.s weโve tried working together before and it came between our relationship so thatโs why I havenโt brought her into my biz.
Christian Slagter-Koster retweeted
The CEO of personal finance giant NerdWallet just said "Q3 was pretty brutal as far as some of the headwinds we faced in organic search, especially in highly commercial areas".
Despite this, the company reported revenue of $191.3M, a 25% increase year over year.
Highlights from yesterday's earnings call include:
- $37.3M Adjusted EBITDA, up 19% YoY ๐ฐ
- Average of 22M monthly unique users, down 7% YoY ๐
- Credit cards revenue declined 16% YoY ๐ณ
- Emerging verticals revenue (which includes insurance) grew 129% YoY ๐
- Their Smart Money podcast is now averaging 250,000 monthly downloads ๐๏ธ
- Cumulative register user base at 23 million members ๐ฌ
Tim also noted that Q4 will likely reflect the full impact of search traffic challenges, especially on "learn" content, where a phrase like "How much should I save for retirement?" was given as an example.
I haven't really tweeted in a few months as I'm working on some big projects so it's nice to be back writing these up.
As always, this is my passion and not my profession so please do your own research if you're an investor. There's often more to the story than I can fit in a tweet.
I hope you find this interesting! ๐ค
Christian Slagter-Koster retweeted
Today, my plugin @TheSEOFramework passed the staggering milestone of 200,000 active installs!
Thank you, TSF users, customers, bloggers, family, and friends, for supporting this project and me!
Unlike WordPress, TSF is free for everyone forever, even for those I don't like.