Welcome back to 5 Tweet Tuesday.

I spend all week scrolling Twitter, so you don't have to... and here are my favorite 5 tweets of the week 💎

#1💎

Rob Biederman @BiedermanRob VC is the first industry I’ve found where just being a normal person is somewhat of a competitive advantage October 3rd 2022 126 Retweets 2,883 Likes

I totally disagree. The best VCs are weirdos who invest in weirdos.

The best founders are weird. (eg. Zuck, Elon, Vitalik, Larry, etc..)

Do you think they get along with a 6’4” handsome guy who wears hair gel? Or a fellow weirdo?

Weirdos ftw

#2💎

HAHAH.I love leaked insider emails/text messages. It’s like the tech version of Desperate Housewives.

Twitter CEO: long message, lots of words

Elon: “what did you accomplish this week?”

Lmaooooo

#3💎

Keith Wasserman @Keith_Wasserman Most real estate investment companies I know are just trying to kill it on any given single deal and take an exorbitant amount of risk. I’m trying to build a legacy business hitting singles and doubles for decades and if the market gives us home runs so be it. October 2nd 2022 9 Retweets 396 Likes

Great mindset, and reminds me of a funny story:

After I sold my first company, I had a pocket full of cash and wanted to invest some in real estate.

I met a guy who’s real estate fund was guaranteeing 8%+ returns, and he boasted how they usually beat that return.

I was excited.
I showed my rich friend the pitchdeck - hoping he’d be excited I brought him such a great opportunity.

Rich Friend: Hm. No thanks

Me: why? Returns are great?

Rich Friend: Yea, too great. Probably taking too much risk. I want my real estate to be boring, predictable, 5-6% returns.
​Me: haha you prefer lower returns?

Rich Friend: He’s doing multi-family, not inventing flying cars. So if he thinks he can beat the normal returns, he’s taking extra risk. And he’s not saying that, so that means he’s either dumb or doesn’t care. Either way, no good.

Lesson learned!

#3.5💎 Sponsor S/O: ERC Assist​

Andy Mackensen @andymackensen Spoke to a business owner friend of mine who just received a check for $3.7M without doing any work. How? The Employee Retention Credit – a little-known payroll tax credit provided by the U.S. Treasury. Here are the top 5 things you need to know to claim it: August 18th 2022 40 Retweets 73 Likes

1. It's a govt grant for business owners
2. with 5-500 employees
3. You can get up to $26k per employee you retained during Covid
4. even if you already received PPP funds
5. even with no revenue decline

​Answer just three questions to see how much the U.S. Treasury owes your business.

#4💎

Sam Parr @thesamparr Most people in media use the word "community" wrong. Community: A place where similar interest people create, discuss, and consume content. Many to many. An audience: You make content and people read/comment back. One to many. You likely have an audience, not a community. September 28th 2022 29 Retweets 299 Likes

Agreed.

Here’s the simple test if you have an “audience” or a “community”...Which way are the chairs facing?

At a concert, all the chairs face the stage. That’s an audience.

But at a community center (eg. alc anonymous) the chairs face each other. That’s a community.

Community is just a buzzword people hide behind to pretend like they’re doing something warm and fuzzy rather than trying to make a bunch of money or get famous.

#5💎

gainzy @gainzy222 the cool thing about owning a house with a huge back yard is like it’s ur domain u rule over it u make the laws over this parcel of earth it’s a monarchy and ur king very cool 👍 September 30th 2022 21 Retweets 920 Likes

😂

-shaan

Ps. who’s watching the new House of Dragon series on HBO?? It’s amazing