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Phil Bak
@philbak1
Founder/CEO Skyline Standard
Detroit & NYC
Joined April 2009
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    The future of asset management, creative destruction, and why it is springtime for innovators:
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    Friend of mine wasn’t getting his raise request. I told him to show up next day w haircut, best suit, carry one of those resume folders, and to leave late morning for an hour to sit in a coffee shop, then come back quietly like nothing happened. The next week he got his raise.
    When your analyst leaves the office for 2 hours on a Tuesday for a “doctors appointment”
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    Boomers will literally wait in a hotel line to tell someone at the front desk that they are "checking out" instead of just going home.
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    Family friend, healthy male about 65 or 70, was about to go on ventilator last night for covid at NYC hospital. They gave him the new drug cocktail (hydroxychloroquine and whatever else), woke up this am breathing easily and no fever. Firsthand story.
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    The most remarkable two paragraphs ever written in human history
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    Replying to @philbak1
    There’s an element of showmanship that they don’t teach in any MBA courses. So much of business is about showmanship, moxie and swagger. Not to say you don’t need substance behind it, of course you do. But charisma, gusto and risk-taking are in far shorter supply.
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    I ask this with all sincerity: What is the game plan here?
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    "my mortgage is 2.5% fixed" is the new "have fun staying poor"
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    BTC $385 BTC $23,440
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    Replying to @jasonscheer
    The moment this young man became a lifelong republican
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    Replying to @sadvalueinvestr
    I don’t think it works that way anymore
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    Early this morning one sell order of 653 BTC took 5.9% off Bitcoin’s price in one trade. $MSTR owns 129,218 Bitcoins. What happens when they are forced to liquidate?
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    Replying to @FromWhiteCastle
    He didn’t have to beg or scream or anything. Didn’t have to say another word.
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    Replying to @teddyfuse
    LMAO, I think the hotel will be able to figure it out on their own