Started from rock bottom, now working to build a legacy. Motivated to grow continuously as a man of faith, as a father, and as a fellow human being.

Joined June 2011
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$SATA Updates: - First security in history to pay daily dividends - Beginning 6/16/26, pays on business days, ~250x per year - APR maintained at 13% through June '26 @Strive now holds 15,009 Bitcoin (~$1.2B) with zero debt & $ASST is the only BTCTC w/ pref only amplification.
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Strive: The Daily Dividend Company Investor Update - May 2026 $ASST $SATA
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May the Orange be with you @saylor
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Only 9 months til Christmas
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$STRC now goes to 11.50%.
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The Hollow Men American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider. By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants. These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition. In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken. Today, we have severed that link. We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses. If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived. This looting starts in the boardroom. We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year. Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor. And for what? Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love. They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders. And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk? We get the Delegation Economy. When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know. This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering. They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake. While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us. If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag. The time for polite governance is over. If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.
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Good morning. Today is going to be a great day. Let’s get after it relentlessly.
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Props to Peacock for playing “Golden” after a “look back at your pee” Liquid IV commercial
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I'm back, and more motivated than ever. Over the coming weeks, eXpect more updates from someone who's been silent for too long. Let's grow in a world that's becoming increasingly more cold and harsh.
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#AAR for Jan 24, 2023. Running with Risky. 9, yes 9 for Running with Risky. Not pictured, GrassyKnoll, missed his arrival. Welcome @Marcman413 DR from @F3GrandRapids. FNG: Matt Curran after three runs with us, we’ve given him the name, Peel Off.
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Thanks for the hospitable Beatdowns @F3Princeton
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DAY 11 of 11 🥳 All good things must come to an end… but not without one last ✨epic✨ bonus prize for Day 11 👀 How does a $5,000 Vivid Seats gift card for ONE lucky fan sound? To enter: 👉 Follow @VividSeats 👉 RT this post 👉 Tag a friend T&C's: bit.ly/3E0R86h
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Haha! Nice job @NFL If our @Lions make it next year, sure hope we get AT LEAST .5 seconds
What is going on in our country?!
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4 Oct 2018
Great verdict 😀
I drove a $57,500 Tesla Model 3 for a week to see if it's practical for everyday driving — here's the verdict read.bi/2O4VySw
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Delicious birthday breakfast at Cherie Inn today! #birthdaybreakfast
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27 Oct 2016
This is not a drill. RT for your chance to win tickets to #WorldSeries Game 5 at Wrigley Field. #FlyTheW
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Replying to @ESPNFantasy
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Had a great run in yesterday's 5/3 Riverbank Run. (Yes, I ended up passing the lady in pink) #53RBR #53riverbankrun