35 Burst results for "Altos"
Finance Magnates
Finalto Strengthens its Sales Team with Former iS Prime Senior Marco Maggioni
"1 p.m. Sunday March 5th, 2023. Finn alto strengthens its sales team with former is prime senior Marco magione LTP GT final to an institutional trading and liquidity services company, announced that Marco magione joined its team maggioni joins a sales director with a focus on liquidity and execution services for the institutional market LTP GT LTP GT according to a statement issued by dot finance magnates, dot com thought leadership fennell town bale's new data center and service improvements target coop Blanco rel cot follow quat date article linked to a true equation tagged. Maggioni has been serving the effects industry for nearly 15 years, and has picked up a good deal of expertise along the way, developing business and delivering sales growth for some of the most established FX brokers in Europe, opening branch offices and regional desk, managing the entire sales cycle from the origination of opportunities through to the execution of the sales strategy and closing deals LTP GT LTP GT having most recently spent 5 years at dot finance magnates, dot com executive SS prime cofounders depart business 8 years after quack target coit blanc what real quick follow quad data article linked with true coitus primal tag. As sales director and head of new business, Marco has been designing and executing plans for new business acquisition, leading a dedicated origination team of institutional sales, and overseeing some crucial aspects of the sales operations. Am excited to be joining the industry leaders. I am looking forward to being part of fennel pos continued growth, working with like minded, talented people who match my ambition. I genuinely believe I will be able to fulfill my potential at finito, and I know I can offer them tangible business results. Head of sales, said quote Marco joining fin alto shows we are attracting the right caliber of person to help drive our business forward. Marco has the knowledge and drive to add real value to our sales team we all look forward to a successful career for Marco at finito, dot quilt with final tough ref coffs, dot finance magnates, come for exclusive a final to group its new group CEO of shopman and green bond apart quote target qua blank what rel cot follow quat date article linked to a true Quartet's changed tagged senior management a few months ago. On November, Ron Hoffman, the group chief executive officer CEO, and leer in greenbone, the group chief operating officer, COO, have departed from the financial solutions providers after over 7 years fin alto has tapped Matthew maloney, who has been the CEO of fennel financial services and fin alto trading, since February 2021, to take over from Hoffman as the new group CEO, dot LTP GT this article was written by finance magnates staff at WWW dot finance magnates dot com.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Natalie Winters Shares Her Thoughts on the Detestable Anthony Fauci
"Of the research you've done, I mean, are we really saying is Fauci is NIH, a CDC is the U.S. government really saying, oh, oh, but the scientists and communist China are so much more advanced than, oh, I don't know Palo Alto. What is the logic? Have you worked that out? Well, this is what I think about in my free time. And the best answer that I've been able to come to, I think if you base it off the evidence. So for example, Anthony Fauci, someone who you and I surely detest, he in the early days of the COVID pandemic, the NIAID funded a study, it wasn't like a scientific research study. It was just a longer form research paper and among the researchers on it, where people from the Wuhan institute of virology. So ostensibly, Chinese Communist Party linked to scientific researchers. And a few Americans from some different institutions. And the thesis of the paper was based and this was right when we were deliberating whether or not to shut off travel from China. And the thesis of the paper was that international collaboration is imperative. It's important between China and the United States. So that's sort of the narrative that I think these people see the realm of scientific collaboration through. It sort of aligns with I would argue their globalist worldview in the sense that they don't look at China and see the Chinese Communist Party. They look at China and see a country that has a lot of money has considerably more lax scientific regulation than you have here in the United States, particularly when it comes to gain of function research. And the timeline that we're talking about, but the fundamental issue, Anthony Fauci, joked the Atlantic ideas fest a few years ago that he was trying to hire researchers from China, and that is such a bizarrely naive comment to make,
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Victor Davis Hanson Shares His Thoughts on the Twitter Files
"Significant do you see the revelations? We don't have a smoking gun of The White House telling Twitter to do something, but the evidence about the FBI, DHS, collusion with Palo Alto. Is this a big deal politically and historically? Yeah, it is. And we wouldn't know any of it if it wasn't for Elon Musk who probably take a big hit for this, at least financially, because he bought a company that was a money losing company and was overpriced, but he did it. Apparently because he wanted to expose what was happening in American social media in Silicon Valley. And remember that 1975 church committee, that was the heartthrob of the left. And they said that the FBI and the CIA had systematically robbed us of constitutional rights. But one of the things that people forget was church uncovered that at that time, the CIA was working with news organizations to promulgate direct warp the news and suppress news that didn't like. And people right now who are still active like Carl Bernstein were writing these Rolling Stone articles about we've got to support church. We've got to have free expression. You can not have the government contracting out to private news organizations to evade or get by the First Amendment in their efforts to censor people. That's exactly what's happened with Twitter.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Dinesh Examines the Turmoil in Brazil
"Remarkable events in Brazil started just a couple of days ago in what might seem like a startling parallel to January 6th, January 6th of 2021. You had thousands, maybe tens of thousands of Brazilians, storming the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the seat of the presidency, which is the plan alto palace. And all of this occurred in a remarkable way seems to have taken the authorities by surprise, now over the subsequent 48 hours, the protesters, the objectors have been evacuated, apparently there have been about a thousand arrests, and it seems that Brazil's political situation is in flux. Now, there have been lots of people in America who are looking at the Brazilian situation purely through the lens of American politics. Now, we have a tendency to do this and it is, it is a tendency that should at least be somewhat resisted, or we should be cautious about. Why? Because things that are going on inside the United States often have a vocabulary and an understanding that doesn't really apply at least not applying quite the same way. Even when we use terms like Islamic fundamentalism. It's a little misleading because fundamentalism is a movement inside of Protestant Christianity. A kind of return to fundamentals in the wake of the 19th century movements of biblical criticism and the challenging of the literal truths of the Bible, what's going on in Islam is quite different from that. Or even I remember doing the 1980s when there was a debate going on in South Africa over apartheid. I would see analyses of those that interpret them exclusively through the lens of the civil rights movement. And that's partially right. I mean, obviously there was a form of apartheid itself as a form of segregation, but not in the same way as in the American south. And not with the same underlying premises or institutions.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Breitbart's Tech Correspondent Allum Bokhari Talks Twitter Files
"Senior. Tech correspondent for that conservative juggernaut that is breitbart dot com. Alan bakari. Welcome back. It's been too long. Happy new year. Happy new year. Good to be back on. All right, so let's start at the beginning, which is a good place to start. And I created a bit of a stir, the daily mail even put me in the headline along with Elon Musk and Hunter Biden after the first couple of Twitter drops when I said big whoop. I am underwhelmed. The idea that the DNC was colluding with their bodies in Palo Alto, not used to anyone who's been breathing and got a pulse for the last few years. Since then, we've had what Eric, what Twitter drop are we up to now is it 11, 12, 38, what is it? Yesterday, we're drops number 11 and 12. All right, so at 11 and 12, together in one day, just recently. Let's have the strategic overview. You've been writing about big tech for years right now. How significant are these revelations? Not the first ones, but the subsequent ones. What is it? Have you let's put it this way? Have you learned something that surprised you alum? I would say nothing hugely surprising. It's really just giving us more details about what we already knew, which is that the deep state was colluding closely with Silicon Valley using it to censor political dissidents here in America, using a sense of conservatives in America justified in the name of this all encompassing Russian disinformation panic that lasted for one pretty much from the day Trump took office throughout his entire first term. And yeah, we're just getting more information about that. I think the biggest takeaway from the latest with the files is that Twitter knew the Russian disinformation panic was a bunch of steam, a bunch of hot air. There was nothing really substantive to it. There was no huge Russian influence operation on Twitter, but they eventually got received so much pressure from the media from academics and from the deep state that they eventually went along with the panic.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Lee Smith's Reaction to the Latest Twitter Files
"Welcome back to America first. Seb, thank you so much for inviting me on today. It's great to be with you. At Christmas time. Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Nice. Yes, indeed. Christmas kind of snuck up on us and we need to remind ourselves that we are in the Utah season to best to you and yours. We have so much to cover the deep state, Bill Barr, latest revelations, the January 6th committees attempts to indict my former boss president Trump. But let's start with mister Musk, who ran that poll at the weekend, asking people whether he should step down as CEO. We had your colleague, your friend, cash Patel, with us this week, and he said, where's the real evidence? We knew the DNC collaborated with Palo Alto. We knew the FBI was meeting regularly. We want the smoking gun. We do give us your professional take as the person who's been following this issue closer than anyone else for years, your reaction to what was it yesterday on Monday we had Twitter files drop number 7, give us your reaction. Well, I mean, I imagine there's a lot of documents there, so they've got a lot of stuff to go through. That's the first part. And look, I mean, it's a little less, there's not exactly the smoking gun yet that we're hoping for. But again, there are a lot of documents one. The second thing, too, that we need to understand. A lot of the work that the bureaucracies did, the spy bureaucracies, FBI as well as DHS, maybe others. They worked through cutouts, right? They worked through, they worked through civil society partnerships. Like I know, for instance, what DHS did. You know, the sub agency at DHS, the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency sisa. They worked through an organization called the election integrity partnership, which consisted of Stanford Internet, observatory, University of Washington unit, as well as an Atlantic council digital forensic research lab, something like that, and a private company called graphica. And what these partnership did was they were basically a cutout that DHS used to censor information on Facebook and on Twitter as well. So
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
The Threat of Marxism With Paul Kengor
"Of communism Paul has transmogrified it has changed the marxists aren't over there in the second world. They're here, they're the BLM organizers that quote trained ideologues. They're the people in Palo Alto at Twitter colluding with the FBI to gin up these fake accusations of collusion. So have you spent any time thinking on what lessons of the Cold War we can use and which don't really translate because now the Marxist threat is Americans on American soil. Yeah, it's really true. In fact, Mark Levin calls it American Marxism. I did a review of Mark Levin's book for American spectator about a year ago. And I pointed out in that review sim that indeed, what we're dealing with today is a uniquely American form of Marxism, right? I mean, the original Marxism from the 1840s. It's funny that you're asking this because I got a text message today from another talk show host who's reading the communist manifesto. He said, I'm confused. How does market marks get from the board from serfdom to the bourgeoisie, right? And I said, and I said, and I said, well, I said, first of all, don't take him too seriously. And then remember, too, that book, man, was written for the 1840s,
Unchained
SBF Released on 250M Bond Secured by Parents
"12 p.m. Friday December 23rd, 2022. SPF released on two 50 M Bond secured by parents. Former FTX CEO Sam bankman fried was released on 250 million bail, secured by his parents house in Palo Alto. According to a report from coin desk, bankman fried appeared before U.S. magistrate. The post SPF released on two 50 M Bond secured by parents appeared first on unchanged podcast.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Sebastian and Razorfist Unpack Elon's Twitter Files
"Things first here, we're focusing on Twitter because Elon Musk's board it and because he's a letting these two left wing journalists dump what I think is a fraction of the actual evidence of how corrupt the relationship between the state, the DNC and Palo Alto was. But it's just a drop in the bucket because Facebook is far more influential in terms of influencing other demographics. Then we've got Instagram, then we've got TikTok. So I'm sure you've been following an incredibly closely. Your reaction to the last, what is it, three and a half weeks of what Elon's been doing? What's your take initially? I've seen criticism for this sort of drip fed nature of it, but I actually think he's kind of working it like a pommel horse. I think it's interesting. It's actually kind of been building to a crescendo. The last couple of drops were much more damaging than the first couple. And this particular one was just, I mean, look. For you and I, this is kind of just confirming what we already knew, had heard little bits about, had seen evidence of, but it is, I think people in our own quarters kind of because we've known about it for so long and saw no action on it and saw no consequences of it. There is kind of a reflex I notice on our own side among whatever you want to call them, the black pills fear to immediately leap to the assumption that absolutely nothing is going to happen. And it's like, you don't understand. There is a formality ultimately. The regular rank and file of American citizens have to know about this and need the confirmation of it. That's a good point. That's a good point. However, cynical, you or I might be, those who aren't vested in the political discourse 25 hours a day, they need to see the receipts as well. That's what you're saying. Absolutely. And I think honestly, that's what's occurring here. We
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Sen. Marsha Blackburn Weighs in on the Latest Twitter Revelations
"I must ask you the revelations coming from Twitter the 7th drop was yesterday of collusion between the FBI and Palo Alto $3 million sent to Twitter to pay for them to help the FBI sensor conservatives will there be any ramifications for the information revealed in the next Congress in the next Senate. We would hope that there will be. I mean, what we have to realize is that these are individuals that took it upon themselves to collude and to coordinate and collaborate with campaign committees, the DNC, the FBI DoJ different federal agencies and private businesses. And you know, if it was happening with Twitter, if DoJ was having weekly meetings with Twitter, they were having weekly meetings with other entities. And when you look at the way that Google would preference and prioritize information, when you look at how YouTube would position a different videos, when you look at Instagram, when you look at all of these platforms, Facebook. And what we know about Twitter now, you see, you begin to see a picture of what they were doing to carry out their wishes. And to disadvantage, not only president Trump, but other Republican candidates. And to Joe Biden and other democratic candidates. Yeah,
Andreessen Horowitz
Data Asset Relativity and the Case of Bay Area Housing Updated 2022
"11 p.m. Friday, December 16th, 2022. Data asset relativity and the case of Bay Area housing updated 2022. As we first shared in 2019 everything is relative, especially home prices in the Bay Area. These prices have continued to rise on an absolute basis over the last 12 years the typical home in Palo Alto, for example. The post data asset relativity and the case of Bay Area housing updated 2022 appeared first on andreessen Horowitz.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Will Anything Change With a GOP Majority Congress?
"Back. It's Friday. It's asked doctor G anything. It's a Second Amendment Friday special in studio guests. Joe digenova and Victoria than sing. So let's take what we're witnessing with the revelations from Palo Alto from us to the next level. We have a new Congress sworn in in just a couple of weeks time. Is anything going to change? And there are actually other yet. They haven't decided that who the speaker is going to be. And for the four or 5 people who are and I really like most of them, who are fighting McCarthy, now I'm not a fan of McCarthy, but who are you going to replace him with? Where are you going to get your 218 votes that you need? I think it's pretty clear that it's going to be Kevin. Does that mean it's going to be the same old same old that subpoena here, a subpoena there, milk toast investigations? There was never a subpoena here in a subpoena there. That was the whole problem. There was 14 is under Paul Ryan. And his successors. I talked to Mark Meadows. Johnson said, don't you guys know how to go ahead and hang on? Lindsey Graham promised us one for 6 years. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, the Senate is a very different rule rules. Usually the minority gets to also decide, but the Democrats are going to change it. So will there be any ramifications for what we're seeing? I think that both comer and Jim Jordan are very serious people, and they do not want to embarrass themselves. They've talked about this for years. They have to produce, and they know it. And I expect, I don't like this talk about we're inviting people into testify. I don't know why they're not subpoenaing people right away. This is nonsense. They're wasting time.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
What's Elon Musk Waiting For? Kash Patel and Sebastian Discuss
"Cash. I got into a little bit of hot water. I wish you had been standing next to me when I did it. Because I said on a tweet that was picked up by the daily mail of all places that the first Twitter file drop was that I said, big whop, you know, way size, the DNC is colluding with Palo Alto and Twitter 98% of Twitter votes for the DNC. This isn't news. This isn't some big day new mall. We knew this. Now, since then, we've had some more things, the internal screenshots of The Blacklist on search engines, Charlie Kirk. I mean, some interesting things. None of them, the real payday. And when you came on my show a couple of days ago, I don't know, you were on fire. And you pointed to this key issue. This is what we've seen already. It's nice, but it's peanuts, isn't it? Yeah, it's great window dressing. Like, we knew you were censoring Donald Trump. Everyone knew that. Wow, jackpot, pay dirt. You know, it's almost that Elon Musk if he doesn't do it. He still has a chance to is running his own sort of disinformation operation. He's getting out just enough out there to sort of somehow game business credibility or whatever he's trying to do. But it's not actual free speech that he's achieving right now. Because that can only come when you release the information that shows the government conspired with Twitter. We know it happened. We know the proof is there. We know, are you telling me the FBI doesn't have any contractual relationships with Twitter and Facebook? No way. So
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Lawyer James Lawrence Fights the Big Tech Goliaths
"With former Trump administration employee James Lawrence, who is now representing conservatives who are fighting the goliaths of big tech and Palo Alto. You were in the middle of the story with regards to Alex berenson, the case you once again, you won against Twitter, where you said the First Amendment strategy didn't work. You didn't have, you know, smoking gun on that. But then you went for this breach of contract. I am fascinated because as far as I'm concerned, it's tilting at windmills. Don Quixote is a mission to go up against these guys. So what did you have to prove, how did you succeed in this case? Proverb 6 two talks about the wicked being caught up in their own words. Not to call Twitter the wicked necessarily. Why not on this show you are permitted to do so, so what are the wicked words that you caught them up in? So here is what happened. They promulgated a specific policy. Their COVID-19 misinformation policy where the company went out of its way to define specifically what is COVID-19 misinformation and what is not. And what we did in Alex's case was that we lined up what Twitter said is COVID misinformation in this information with what Alex said. And simply explain to the court why Alex never violated the policy. And because we did that, it was enough in the courts view to allow the breach of contract theory to move forward and for the case to go and to discovery. So the case really does stand for the broader proposition. That if a tech platform is going to go out of its way to create a speech code, like it did in the case of the COVID misinformation policy. That if they don't follow that speech code and if you say something that doesn't actually violate it and they ban you anyway and they punish you anyway that it gives rise to a breach of contract
ESPN Daily
"altos" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Nate Johnson, the associate head coach, said Kobe as being the best of the best in the NBA and Kobe saw to be in the best of the best in junior college baseball. So in May of 2018 now, John altobelli has this surprise for his baseball team, Chris? What exactly happened? Well, the video is amazing. You know, the players are kind of sitting in the dugout and, you know, they're kind of wondering what's going to go on. And all of a sudden, here comes Kobe Bryant. We got a special appearance. Kobe Bryant is right in front of them and he's going to like pep them up a little bit. He comes out and goes, hey guys, how you doing? All of a sudden Kobe Bryant is talking to this team and telling them to do well. One of the players asks, so what is the mamba mentality exactly? And well, we can't say what Kobe's response was. Maybe we'll just say screw him. That's about as good as we can do. Screw him. A calling card for the Bomba mentality and for their march to success. Well, that march for success. I mean, I want to be clear about this too because a year after Kobe visits with the team in May 2018 as we just said, John altobelli and his pirates, they're going for another state title here. Again, in the very competitive state of California, what happened on that big day? This is just a thrilling
ESPN Daily
"altos" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"House that alto built. Chris Connolly is a correspondent for ESPN and ABC News. And yet for the first time, in almost three decades, this team is taking the field for its opening day without the man who defined the program. John altobelli. When I say this is the house that auto built, he didn't do it lightly. This was his dream job, and he loved every second of this job. His leadership. His love of competition. He kind of embodied the mamba mentality. I've described him as a Kobe Bryant in junior college baseball because he knew how to win. And so while
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Devin Nunes Is Now the CEO of the Trump Media and Technology Group
"The left, the oligarchs of Palo Alto of tech valley said. Well, if you don't like Twitter, if you don't like Facebook, go and build something else. Well, guess what? President Trump, my former boss, your current boss said, okay, it is truth social my account is blowing up. I've got two, 3000 new followers every day at said go cron truth social super excited. If you look at engagement numbers, it's completely incomparable to Twitter. Let's talk about this sector that you're in charge of now for the Trump media and technology group. And the deal, it looks like somebody's going to try and clean up Twitter if he can, but now that we found out this deal from Elon Musk is stalled because of the question of fake accounts and bought accounts and that incredible news that seems to have sunk without a trace Devon last week, an independent corporation found that out of the 22 million followers on Biden's Twitter account half of them 11 million were bots. How is that possible? Well, look, it's kind of what I've been saying. And you know, I kind of walked into this, you know, I wrote about I wrote about this in my book countdown to socialism that I think we've talked about many times on your show. You were back in. I wrote the book and it was finished in July of 2020. And I was talking then in that book, essentially how you've got the fake news and then it funnels down into these social media tech tyrants and it's poisoning the American public. And that we were essentially, we had no ability to communicate. And at that point, I was one of the first members of Congress I was the first to go to go to rumble, which is a YouTube alternative. I also went to parler at the time before Bezos and the tech tyrants shut them down. So I watched what happened with just my engagement early on where I just, you know, boom, boom, boom, boom boom, just kept climbing and followers. So when president Trump, he didn't need a new company. I didn't need a new job. I was perfectly happy. Being in the Congress representing my constituents in California, but because of my knowledge of this and my concern for the American people, you know, I really had no option when Donald Trump asked me to do this job
Mark Levin
Josh Mandel: J. D. Vance Is Not Even a Registered Republican
"Josh mandel did you ever think you'd be in the position Where you'd be running so hard against a guy like JD Vance who barely stepped his foot into Ohio and has absolutely I can't find a record of anything conservative and this guy's background Period Well one of those reasons mark is that he's not even a registered Republican I mean is that right Even today the night before the election he's not a registered Republican This guy's a fraud I think he's a Silicon Valley sleeper sell sort of like let's understand he's not registered or Republican You sure of that I am a 100% sure But he's seeking the Republican nomination That is correct Listen when this guy loses tomorrow he's going to be back in Silicon Valley so quick your head will spin This guy's not no hype when He is most comfortable walking the streets of Palo Alto in San Francisco and again I think he's a big tech sleeper sell And here in Ohio he's talking about being America first He's talking about being conservative But I guarantee you when he wins the nomination he's going to leave behind the conservative movement leave behind the America first You mean if he wins it If he wins it I mean he'll be palling around so quickly with Mitt Romney and the others in Washington And listen we're going to beat this guy tomorrow We're going to win the nomination of our mark and I'm going to be nominee here in Ohio And we're going to go beat Tim Ryan in November and go stand up for the constitution and our liberty in Washington
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
The Story of Paul 'Lefty' Della Universita With His Nephew Jerry Vairo
"Paulie lefty Della university town. He was a protege of Lucky Luciano. And he left, he left an indelible mark on the mafia and American history. This is a guy who personally had his hand in events like the World War II allied invasion of Sicily, the birth of the Las Vegas casinos, the Cuban heroin connection, Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance and the Lufthansa, which was made popular in the film Goodfellas. But I'm telling you, you never heard of him. Well, I'm here to tell you he's real. I don't bullshit you. And on the phone with me straight from Florida is his great nephew, Jerry varro, Jerry. Well, what's up, AJ? How you doing, pal? I'm good. How about yourself? All right, I just. I just basically intro great uncle lefty and let the folks know a little about who he was, what he had his hands in, but there's a million things we could start with. We could start with his upbringing, et cetera, et cetera, his knowing is knowing numbers so well and his left hand that he knocked out a guy, didn't he kill a guy with a punch or some shit like that. And I know there's a big legend around his nickname, but I want to start in 1945. I think Pauley left these about 27 years old at the time and he had masterminded the biggest narcotics highest in American history by hearing about a large shipment of morphine from the New York docks. Got him about a half a $1 million and made him a major player in the mafia, right? That's basically the beginning of him becoming a big player, yeah? Well, at least the beginning when he was mentioned and The New York Times in that True Detective magazine, he did some stuff before that. But that's oh yeah. Yeah. That was when he was noticed by other guys. Like, who's this guy that gets away with doing that? Right. Now the thing that's really, I think when he really came to prominence and again, correct me from, I'm going on memory here, 'cause we sat down, you and I, many times, and I read the book, and I've done the radio shows with you, et cetera. But when this Sicilian stepped in and showed, they kind of showed lefty who really ran America's crime syndicate. And that basically was the Cosa Nostra back in Sicily. So Pauly gets promoted to a position that's basically the Sicilian ambassador to the American mob, right? Correct. He was made from what Tony Napoli told me. He was made at a young age by Lucky Luciano set that whole thing up because guys would be in deported left and right for drugs. They were into drugs big time. And Pauly was American born. So we couldn't be deported. And he was a 100% Sicilian, and he was loyal, and he was under the wing of Luciano and Jimmy alto. So he was a perfect candidate to be that
ESPN Daily
"altos" Discussed on ESPN Daily
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The Larry Elder Show
AOC Staffer Writes, Deletes Racist Tweet About Israel
"Now, AOC, who has contracted coronavirus tested positive, having been triple vexed, spent her holidays in Florida. She was photographed not wearing a mask now you never know where somebody contracted the coronavirus. But triple X steel contracted it. And she's got a staffer, named Hussein, alto meanie, legislative assistant in AOC's office. And in a post since deleted, here's what mister alto meaney said and I'm quoting. Israel is a racist European ethno state built on stolen land from its indigenous population
The Morning Toast
"altos" Discussed on The Morning Toast
"'cause he takes the best content on his sarim. Simon chris and corey were there to swear that chris inquiry are getting married. They better honestly on my way over here. I was getting myself so worked up because like the first thing that happened when i open my phone. This morning was a carousel photos of corey gamble. Smoking a cigar four different photos of the same thing. And i was just like just this man like him and chris literally relationship goals. They seem so happy so like healthy not toxic like i just fucking stand. I don't them to get married. You know what like everything's perfect. Don't ruin it. I love this man. And i love these together. I love them so much i agree. I don't need them to get married. It didn't really cross my mind before because also like none of the girls really or married are married or getting married. He's like half yes she's only while she's the only one so i don't need them to but i agree like just chris and corey appreciation. Moment there everything krizan. Corey is one of my favorite follows on instagram. same and like i just. I can't really put into words. How i feel about corey gammel. I think he's so gorgeous his face anyone will. I love him second of all. I think he's such a you. It takes a very strong man to be to stand behind a powerful woman and he is just. They're supporting support support. What can i do who can help. Who can i taking the car. He is just not then. He is just a dream man. I'm sorry i love him. And i think that honestly like it's the healthiest relationship i've seen in pop culture. I'm serious no. I completely agree. And when they announced it we were all like who what what if you had told me. What has it been now. Like six years right I dunno whatever if you told me. Then that like. Chris and corey would be not only like the power is to power couples but like the most healthy kardashian relationship. I would have laughed in your face. Yeah and here. I am standing corrective standing corrected. I agree so it's a pleasure to see them living life. It's a pledge. I'm living life. What's the coordinate. What did she say this lipoic life. It's a sound. yeah and also. There's a toxin that i've been loving and i just found out what it's from. You're gonna love it to me. I let me see. If i can find out so would kill me. Please kill me. i'm asking yet. I'm begging not asking locked in a cage with all the wreck sets cracks. Oh cameras inanity. Obviously just out what that sound was from an everytime in the city. I'd like cage other rats..
Acquired
"altos" Discussed on Acquired
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"altos" Discussed on Acquired
"It in order to turn down a easy standard default path to those fees. Yeah so so going back to your original question. Ben i two so make money have a moat number three now. This is where it starts to get into very idiosyncratic portfolio construction. Because the first two you want every special top one percent of a business right but the third one is more. Narrowing your circle of competence. And more nearing what you choose to do with your life as an investor just to something that personally fits you. And that's the third is really about the relationship. The relationship is all about people and again we like to go big on companies where we feel like we have a great relationship and if we don't have a relationship with the company in a very deep way then we're like any other investor like an outsider. Looking at now. I did say that some of these public investors are very impressive in that they are not like outsiders that i've ever known they really deep into those companies but again we like to have a special relationship. If we don't then we get very nervous holding onto a massive concentrated position in a company were just like any other investor and outsider. Looking in we have no proprietary Knowledge at some point you know. Of course we had some proprietary knowledge in helping build some of these companies but that knowledge decays over time and then become like any other investor in so maybe we should just start to distribute our shares or seller shares. Or whatever we should get out at some point and we all part ways as friends you know. The the founder of the company found their new best friend because now it's fidelity or t. Rowe price or somebody else. We're no longer getting the updates. And again it's tricky like we're we're kind of new into whole public investing realm. The relationship is very important to me. Personally and i think it does give us some advantages of insight and an after a while. It just becomes a personal decision. I think of some of these businesses as really like a family business. You know if you had a family business and it takes care of your family and generations. Potentially some of these manley businesses go on for literally generations. If your family business.
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"altos" Discussed on Acquired
"Other people don't know about and this is the thing that always puzzles me when people say oh we're killing it. We're doing so well in pounding the chess. So you know something. That's not the way i've seen it. I think i think people who kind of uncovered some really interesting secrets. They want to keep it a secret. They're not blessing to the rest of the world. The thing that they've figured out there keeping nice hush and they're kind of working at it and working at it and working at it but it's really the moat in comes in again many many different ways. But if we feel like we've figured something out that is detectable that is not replicable. Maybe in some ways the best moat is maybe not a secret. You could tell your competitor. Exactly what you're doing you guys talk about. Contra positioning things like that right. That's a classic example. You could tell the competitor. Exactly what you're doing and they're still not Replicate right because they can't or they don't want to. That's just not that's even better. I remember one of our companies meeting amazon and they got very curious and they want to come in and and and you with most companies you have to be super super careful because they're gonna come in and maybe act like they're going to buy you and then they come back and say we'd change our mind and then they release their own product. This this used to happen with microsoft amazon has done this now number of times. I think some other larger companies may do it in that who knows who may not be with really bad intent. Maybe they already project underway anyway and they were curious about it and they really want it. I thought you'd be a part of it but the decided now you don't have anything special just decided to go there and their own path but with with big players. Sometimes you have to be careful about what you disclose but there are other companies. I will tell you that have met those kinds of companies like big scary amazon or whatever it was said. Oh yeah had no problems. You could tell them exactly what we're doing. You could tell him everything about what we're doing. We would have no worries whatsoever so it depends on the secret. Depends on what you're doing some things you could tell people like we tell people exactly what we do in terms of the crossover investing and the spd's are a the you know the structure of those. I've been very open with it. And if people wanna do it. I think i think that's a good thing because i think it supports more entrepreneurs. We don't worry about them competing against us because how many people are going to manage whatever the multiple billions of dollars under management with zero management fees. We have a lot of our. All of our species are zero management fees. Like if you wanna charge zero.
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"altos" Discussed on Acquired
"And i remember literally sitting across the conference room table with one. Or the bankers. They're giving a really hard time about one of our companies see now and we stopped making payments and wanted to renegotiate a few things that you got to give us a little more time in. Of course you know. The bankers hold all the cards. They could like you know sees seized control and i literally i think pulled out the keys. Like like a mythical keys out of my pocket. It's like here. it is take keys like lottery. Just take over work with us. Just take the keys. Nobody's actually pulled out kenya. Nor do i want to operate this. Exactly exactly what i think. I really don't want skis from like. What can you do with this. Well you know if you want us to involved. I think we might be able to do. X y z know. But they have to work with us and so we knew that you know companies of course a lot of companies are going through trouble but a lot of dead guys who don't necessarily want to take over the keys. Take the keys. There are some guys who do by the way i mean we. We had the unfortunate experience dealing with some folks who are in the loan to own guys. Yup right off the keys. That's the strategy right. They take the debt position but but they're really control guys. There are more like private equity guys but they happen to be on the debt side and so they they're looking for the first opportunity to take over and so it's a different kind of debt provider that you have to be careful because they will take snatched those keys. They will privacy's out of your little clenched fingers. So you have to know who you're dealing with but part most guys you can work with and they're good folks and they you know it as long as you pay them back their fine eventually will pay pay. Pay them back we. We've i think we've defaulted on very very shoe loans in our entire history. I'm trying to think like when's the last time we ever defaulted. I really to be honest. Can't tell you when we default that there's going to be some debt guy who's listening to this podcast or you stuck me with this thing and i have no idea when it was. Maybe it was twenty. Some years ago knows but we try not to be on our all our commitments. I want to ask that question a little bit of a different way. I think i asked you on a relative basis. We talked a lot about like. When could there be attractive. Investing or windows like buying opportunities. But what about like on an absolute basis. I mean what makes a company one of these incredibly rare one percent or less than are truly special businesses so voted an interesting blockposts last year. Kind of answering this question. 'cause people ask me this kind of thing a lot like what gives you conviction in business at the end of the day to do these kind of crazy things where you're buying more incentive cashing out a little bit you're buying more shares when you're up so like what gives you that crazy conviction and so i wrote that blog post called. How do you now and there are just some really basic rules of thumb. First rule is like this is a kindergarten right. This is a business. One i will is. Will this business make money right..
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"He's just always looking into those companies so same company he's still invested in but now that factory manager is become some big wig. Executive in switzerland says the phil fisher scuttle by the scuttlebutt. Just taken to an extreme. So just get to know bunch of companies that again. Stick to the stuff that you know like why speculate on stuff you have no business. Speculating like get to know. Bunch of businesses and you know just realize take part in the fact that only a very small number of companies are truly special. So you don't have to get to know everybody right you eat. Maybe you do have to kiss him. Rocks find the few princess right so you get to know bunch of businesses good and bad so that you could recognize the great one when staring at you in the face and again if it's not so obviously great then that's kind of easy if it's not obviously great to you then great. What easy thing just pass. What is your flow chart. Look like in your brain on deciding if a business is truly special like what is the mental walk is it. I slice by sector and then look at a few key. Metrics is it more people oriented. How do you even begin if i were to tell you. Hey company a is really interesting. You should check it out. How do you validate. If i'm right or not yeah. It's a good question so sometimes it's really really based on the house. Special company is but it's also based on how the market view the company. Because if i think that the market's misunderstanding the company then there's an opportunity for alpha right and so give me talk about people that has to be a critical equation. You've got to look at the financials. You got to look at the balance sheet if it has too much dat. If some unforeseen event could kind of put the company over the edge i tend to be shy of it. But i'm not totally afraid of that if i think they have you know because sometimes you have the best opportunities in public markets with companies. That have a pretty good amount of that because they could go to a bankruptcy right. But you have to use your judgement and say okay. They have a good amount of debt. Everybody thinks it's going to be okay. But i think this company is not going to go bankrupt for the following reasons and if you have a thesis that everybody thinks it's to go bankrupt and you don't you don't think it will then that's a pretty you have an opportunity to make an interesting back right. That has asymmetric outside the classic example. This i think of all always think of now is Buffets coca-cola investment where the market then there the new coq disaster and the market thought of cocoa. Go bankrupt is killed. The golden goose. And i don't know if this is how buffet looked at it. But you could go back and look at that time and it'd be like okay. Let's say coca cola. Classic it before it was classic. It's done they still have diack. Which is the biggest soda in the world. So there's a huge margin of safety there. That people were not appreciating absolutely. You know one of my favorite examples was during the two thousand eight crisis. There's a little company called select comfort Now it's called the sleep sleep number..
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"Gp's we've been toiling away for a long time. We didn't have a whole lot of fun. Returners at that point and so we cashed out half of our carry and rolled over the other half right so it was a good thing for everybody so we did that and then fast forward later there was another round after when we did the two and a half billion it one hundred twenty five million dollars. Sp after we did that. We didn't think we would ever do another espe- on top of that but yet again at four billion when that deal happen we did another one hundred twenty five so that's how it starts to get big right one thousand five hundred twenty five. Now you've got to fifty. Plus we had another round after that pre ipo rod. That forty five dollars a share. Now when you think about all of these rounds so it's kinda crazy to think even at the forty five dollars a share which people thought was crazy right that was thirty billion dollar market cap and all the rumors about robots were in public was at eight billion and i have no idea where they pull that out but i think they just the reporter saying if the last round was four billion than the ipo. Be at two times that and so it must be at eight billion so everybody said it's going to go public at eight billion. Maybe ten and this is famously. The ipo that got pulled because people were like oh actually or the company presumably thought. Wow looking around at where. Tech companies are being valued going out. Today you know this wouldn't make sense like we actually should raise more on the private market and then decide if we want to go out next year. Yeah that's that's right. Yeah these those pops were just kind of insane and we kinda felt helpless to control it because if you do a traditional ipo you have such a limited supply. And you just can't and a lot of people wanted access to this deal. They didn't get a chance to invest and so they're going to buy but as soon as they did the price would spike up and then we knew that it would come back down and we just didn't want people to get burned just didn't seem right also also for the sellers right. All these employees and early shareholders. They wanted some liquidity. And why should they sell at this artificial lee low price just because that's kind of what the bankers want. It doesn't make sense. We wanted to try to explore and find the right price. And without the right price was gonna be much higher than the ipo price and we did find some investors right to validate that. Hey look it should be at least forty five dollars. A share which is thirty billion market cap way higher than that ten fifteen billion. Maybe people thought it should be priced at and we bought more at that point and so that's again a key lesson to in terms of what how we think about the business and holding onto our winners longer. So i think that kind of tells the whole robots so. I skipped a whole bunch of other things that happened in in between because this whole roll blocks journey would not have happened at all in terms of making these big investments without this other little company called brother's in korea and that was one of our early winners and and be always said that we didn't think was going to be our biggest winner but we always always said for number of years that this is our most important company and if we screw that up we screw up all of us right and the reason is we use that company to test out so many different theories about the business and about what we wanted to do what kind of wanted to be. And what. What was the main reason that we registered to be an ra to do the first sp. So what is this. Little food tech company in.
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"altos" Discussed on Acquired
"Right. That's the fund returner. So he had a thesis which is really interesting and for me. I did not have a thesis around it and if somebody had told me was like well you know you should fund this company. That's like a lego. Three d virtual online playground. How would it told you. That's kind of dumb idea right. I would say it's like why would i five bat. I don't get that. So this is kind of an interesting dynamic because in a partnership you have different partners with different passions different and you have this intermixing of different right and so we debated we talk about it. But i might think something's that really dumb idea. Somebody else might have a thesis now. You have this entrepreneur. Who walks in the door. And why did i get converted from well. This is dumb aside the ever heard to. This is really interesting. Well when you show up at my door and then you have this. Little graph that shows seven percent compounded growth on a weekly basis for fifty two weeks in row of engagement hours. Well that's kind of interesting. If you grab that out in excel that is a classic exponential curve. That just grew thirty three in a year okay. Something's going on and they're not bring much money. They're just early. In the monetization phase the copied exactly copied club penguin. They had this club penguin right. Well we had a club to we call that builder's club that that's what it was same exact pricing as penguin ninety nine a month and when we first started talking to them it was tiny and then by the time. Close a deal. I think maybe they were doing fifty thousand dollars a month so five hundred thousand dollars. Annualized run rate. This is Roadblocks roll blocks. So that was kind of like okay. Something's going on you have exponential growth in engagement. You got early monetization. And then the thing. That was really interesting to other things. That kinda seal the deal for us one is. You did a youtube search for role blocks..
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"Email partnership at mateescu dot org and just tell them that you heard about them on acquired all right now as you know. This is not investment advice. We may hold interests in some of the companies that we discussed on the show and this is for informational and entertainment purposes. Only we also have one more exciting announcement today as the world opens up. We are marking the occasion by having an acquired party as we wrap season eight yes that is an in person event. It is going to be here in seattle at gasworks park on thursday june. Twenty four th at five pm. It'll have picnic vibe so bring anything you want to eat or drink. Rumors are circulating. That david rosenthal is even going to fly up for it. We cannot wait to see you there now. Onto our conversation with from altos ventures ho. We are so excited to have you here. This is an episode. We've been wanting to do for a long time and Speaking personally the last. Vc's we had here on the main show or alfred. Glenn doug leoni from sequoia. And of course i have so much respect for them but even though altos isn't as well known i have learned just as much from following you over the years and i am so excited to share that now with everyone so i thought maybe a good way to start is also says made so many incredible investments. But i thought we could start off with probably your best known one which is roadblocks. And i think it'll tell your whole story in a really nice way including the most amazing part which is how altos ended up investing multiple hundreds of millions of dollars into one company x. Out of what was originally. Just an eighty-five million dollar fund was eighty six point five million dollar fund and you became the largest shareholder at the time of ipo. Is that right. that's right. Well we were. Also the largest shareholder from the beginning but we increase our ownership percentage over time we increase it and then we went down and they went back up. So i'll tell you the whole story so we met dave zouqi late. Two thousand seven in the fall of two thousand seven and the deal was referred to us by marc weinstock. Who's actually works for blocks..
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"This ranges from early stage investors to stock pickers in the public markets. The operationally focused specialists in areas like real estate and private equity. Can we like to be the first partner to support our investment managers. We also like situations where we can be the inflection capital two great investors for example. Maybe you've been investing for a long time but are just getting ready to go out on your own or maybe you're investing on a deal by deal basis but are ready for a committed capital pool being involved early at inflection. Points shoots our long-term approach because it increases the odds of partnerships that are measured in decades. Not years i love that. i'm curious. How your team structure enables mateescu success. You have unconventional flat organizational structure with a lot of autonomy and a bias toward every single person being generalist which i think is pretty unique. Can you tell us about that. Sure.
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"I feel like i know you guys. Because i listen to you guys on your podcast and it's really fascinating because i think the three part series on berkshire is kind of like is your signature piece. Because i think you guys said jeez. You never thought you could go beyond two hours. And i know you guys have to cut a whole bunch of stuff out just to fit it into six hours right. But there's nobody who goes into the depth you guys and so it's great to talk to you guys here. Welcome to this special episode of acquired the podcast about great technology companies and the stories and play books behind them. I'm ben gilbert and i am the co founder and managing director of seattle based pioneer square labs and our venture fund ps l. ventures and. I'm david rosenthal. And i am an.
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"altos" Discussed on Mocha Minutes
"I was. Then it gives me jump over to escape and you think of young on little see get well. Of course i mean i'm looking at. I'm looking at somebody in that group and was like that's rex. Y'all had a lot of secrets. I'm sorry yes are being scientific. You would say that when you tiny. That's where i'm sorry. It's all of your love me through it. Everybody please have good week as erica deniro says. Please protect your energy. And if you have to mute words baby mutant please please put yourself into a pretzel so that you can stay up to date. No it's okay if you shuts things off mute shit and new people and if your family is being or any of your. Facebook friends are acting like complete jackasses. Please block or unfollowed unfriendly. that's it that's all you ain't got explain. I don't care what your said. Why are you why. Why are you following my brother. Because he's a bitch. And i'm not doing this but you don't say a teen antica she'll slap your teeth out but you can just say. I'm sorry i had to you know self care face okay. Don't say i'm a slut. I wanna buy these grandmother slapping. Y'all be i say what you said. And she hit me. Well i'm gonna tell you the jump off quickly know where you're gonna jump see nope give me half and if it's your family it's okay to sometimes unplugged. Just say the prayer. May the lord watch between me and the while we're absent one from another he'll company on both. It is okay to for a minute please. Some really wild ish. But y'all this has been a momentous podcast. i will see you next week..
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"altos" Discussed on Mocha Minutes
"Turn obviously have to take the safety off. Yeah shoot that gun corrupt. She said and that's what our daughter said. She said the safety all that she broke it down. I was like oh okay. There's a lot that you have to prep to fire a taser but also fire. A gun is well. That's why it's not in the same fucking place and you know what's going to get me because here comes the misogyny and here's the nuance that bitch is going to jail. Because she's a woman she is going to jail. I can almost guarantee you. They are going to make an example out of her. That like 'cause notice you see all these male cops coming out of fucking work to say passable. There's no possible way is like all know. Traffic stops except for homegrown Shot botham gene. She was an example to a new example hair. And all that show. It was like let me tell you something debits going to jail. That's the molly guy. Who killed that white woman when time white man and i was so molly woman. Y'all wouldn't be seeing. Oh that's nick. His ass went right to jail. She's going to be made an example of ood. Because it's like oh my god she's take top full of cops talking about how this is no way possible that there's no way there's no way she could have did girl. It's a whole lot of cops coming out about that. None of them are getting fired or removed from duty. But the folks that we're talking about derek. I'm sorry during for. George floyd murder fire again fired and reprimanded for this in like see. Here's the massaging long with almost like they've put a call out. Hey y'all make the video like y'all learn their sounds familiar lamb after these. Y'all don't go after his male cops and i'm not saying you should not go after. Please do go after every fucking competent. Embarrassing is why you're not saying. Hey y'all a fucking embarrassing us Year so homegirl. Want to act is not going to be sending that she deserves to. She literally should get without the possibility of parole. But i am not yeah. She's she's getting time because you can't do this now known as the city of killing. George floyd oh baby that's landau cassville. Kill kill on. Facebook live the officer said about having a weapon. He said unlicensed carry hands were visible and the author cut thank. Don't reach for it. i'm not don't reach for. I'm not don't reach for pow pow pow pow and they got off. They got off. They him with his baby in the bag and his girlfriend and it's his girlfriend with laugh. And so it was corrie knows and you do too danny from danny star danielle now. He said that night because of the killings and everything was black men. Her heart was heavy though. She said she literally was like. I cannot take anymore. Her laptop was on her bedside. She said she opened the princess from minneapolis. Right prints from any okay. So i knew danny before he was so she dan is. I wonder what they had like cyber so the baseball team here. They had a prince night and they had this really cool purple rain. Umbrellas unwanted umbrellas obey. Maybe they gave him out of baseball games. Do some investigation. And maybe i want salimo easy for you. But i'm happy i was like i was like kelsey. You got one. My friend lives in minnesota. I was like she's like yeah. This is a big gave him out at the games. I'm like what.
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"altos" Discussed on Mocha Minutes
"I'm good with that. So key is i is. We're gonna talk about adam toledo sidebar. There is video of what happened to this young man already on the on the internet in on the timelines i follow a diverse group of people. However i've never seen that video. And i'm kind of glad up the people that i follow. Don't tweet that shit. I am imploring. Y'all if we know there's video the basically shows that the cop We are good with just knowing. Thank you need to put this on the time. Please stop doing this to us. Please stop 'cause even like if like no. Why are you showing video. If you're sean like photos of the killers like who don't these massacres for me. I'm like fine. You're showing me what they're doing. I need to know this. Nobody does and i was like. I still remember where i was when i heard vertical trayvon martin. I remember i wasn't sitting. I was sitting on my my living room table. I have a like a really big wide coffee table. That absolutely i sat there and cried and i was like this is so not right. This is not fair and it's like that little boy did not deserve. We were at church. Jamal shirt and i remember coming out of the bathroom way and he immediately wanted to go into prayer. People were like it was like it was like i felt other verdicts before but i think as black people started this different. I'm numb. yeah and this really felt like devastating. I was like he's a little boy. Well he looks like a grown man but he's not he was fourteen. I just knew he was going to jail with all the evidence and hearing you know i can ground. I'm like stint truck. You can stand your ground in. Hell leave us alone goto to eternal hell on the express the cella as a seller. 'cause you you get no local train to hell you can take express okay. So we're gonna talk about adam toledo thirty year little going So this young man. They released the bodycam footage on last thursday which was listed as the eighteenth has sunday teams was what april fifteenth worth. This happened on march twenty ninth when he was shot. This is to thirty something in the morning. So this is.