I'm excited that I can finally share that my last startup, Removaly, was acquired by @DuckDuckGo! 🎉 -- it was also their first ever acquisition 🙌 What a whirlwind of emotions. It’s been wild having something acquired that started out as a small bootstrapped side project, which then turned into a full-time job — all while my 3 kids were ages 5 and under at the time. There's sooo many feelings, learnings, and life lessons I want to share but I'm not sure the best way to communicate them. For now, I'll say that I’m thankful to God for the journey and can’t believe how much I’ve grown both personally and professionally through this process. As I’ve talked to 100 founders over the last handful of months, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s most important to bank our hope as entrepreneurs and as individuals not on an acquisition or our own definition of success, but on something bigger than ourselves. For me that’s Jesus Christ, and my relationship with Him will continue to be the thing I’m most thankful for in life. It would take 1,000 status updates to cover all the nuances of my feelings towards the acquisition and the takeaways from building Removaly (maybe I should do that??), but I wanted to take this time to thank everyone who supported me, encouraged me, and believed in me along the way! 🏆 The bootstrapped community on Twitter is strong and I couldn't have done it without you all! 💪 P.S. I still respond to basically every DM & love helping out other founders and aspiring entrepreneurs so if you ever want to chat about an idea you have, don't hesitate to DM me! 👍

The best definition of wealth: (What you have) - (What you want) By that definition most will never be wealthy.

Getting a 1099-NEC tax form from X was not something I had on my bingo card for 2025 before the year started. Nice!

Good news: You don't actually need a following to have a huge business.

This simple tip has changed the momentum of my day completely: Test your changes after taking a break, not before. Sometimes we finish a feature and decide we'll test it and then take a break... If it ends up that it's still not working, I take a break and come back a bit defeated. If I take a break BEFORE testing though I have anticipation coming back onto my computer. So whether it works or not, I have greater momentum now than I would have the other way around. Try it this week. You'll probably be happier and get more done.

Saw this recently and downloaded it to my phone. It's 100% worth the watch if you're a parent with young kids:

Why does AI feel the need to tell us the feature will take 8-10 weeks? We know you can do it in the next 3-5 minutes 😂

Me: I'm thinking of deleting my X account... X: Here's $50.59, please stay.

Seriously considering deleting my X account in 2026...

Maybe it's just the algorithm but I'm seeing a lot of posts like "I don't understand how you can't live on x,xxx/month!" Here's what those posts don't understand: Expenses get exponentially complicated when you have children. You can't always just spend $600 on groceries so the answer is not always "stop lifestyle creep". The first thing I tell people when talking about finances is "figure out what you care about". For my family it's good food, education, and spending time with others. For others it's clothes, cars, and travel. There's so many angles you can look at finances, but one that people need to think more about is what they actually care about in life and then start prioritizing around that. P.S. Having more kids doesn't mean you have to spend a bunch of money - it just means the equation is more complicated. You can definitely have a handful of kids on a budget.

Fake Google reviews are easy to get removed. Just report them with this link: support.google.com/business/…

If you're having a hard time marketing your business, just know that this guy convinced tens of thousands of people that there would be a worldwide flood in 2025.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: make sure you understand the post before calling someone out on X...

🚨 Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening, the fraud must be stopped.

Life pro tip: If anyone tells you they have the next million dollar idea they almost certainly do not have the next million dollar idea. Ideas are a dime a dozen. Everyone has them. Execution on the other hand is hard to come by. It's great to be "an idea guy" but the ones that succeed aren't the ones that think of the best ideas, they're the ones that can actually get stuff done.

"She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins." Merry Christmas!

TIL there's a guy who bought a stump grinder and made ~$200k profit this year. It's about to be 2026. You can just do things. If you haven't done what you've been wanting to do, just do it. If you end up failing just go back to what you were doing previously. (There's generally a lot less risk than people think) There's no reason not to try.

Everyone online: just buy a rental property it's easy passive income! Everyone I know that actually owns rental properties: it's a good investment but a huge headache.