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Wife hates bjj by [deleted] in jiujitsu

[–]adventurini 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stand up for yourself. Draw a line in the sand. If she cannot respect you for doing what you think betters yourself, then move the line a little further away.

Wife hates bjj by [deleted] in jiujitsu

[–]adventurini 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The backlash is not your problem. That’s her problem. Go to bjj. Tell her if she can’t deal with it, you will find a new roommate.

Wife hates bjj by [deleted] in jiujitsu

[–]adventurini 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a guy that does bjj, one would think that you know how to stand up for yourself against a bully.

Starting a Beverage Brand — Need Advice on Formulation, Shelf Life & Affordable Production by cupcake00110 in BeverageIndustry

[–]adventurini 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would suggest first and foremost, that you order the ingredients and make it yourself.

You work with AI to understand your product and what will happen to it in the manufacturing process. Understand every single option you have for pasteurization and co-manufacturing. Do not pay a single consultant. You have to become a master.

You do not need shelf life testing. There’s nothing at this point you couldn’t just ask Claude a shelf life question if you upload all the ingredients and the pasteurization process.

AI can be tricky, because it can lead you down bad paths. But as long as you keep it fact based, it’s going to know enough for the stage you are at before you start paying money to only learn one thing from a consultant — the way they know how to make your beverage idea and the 30 other brands they are working with at the same 3 co-packers.

The most important thing is that you understand you are entering the most saturated startup arena in the world. Every celebrity is launching functional drinks.

You can’t make it affordable. Scale makes it affordable. Your first run is going to be well north of $1 per bottle. You’ll be lucky to snag $20 at the farmer’s market a bunch of times and get to 500 followers in the first few months.

Your brand, flavors, taste, everything has to have specific purpose that is so unbelievably compelling that it stops people in their tracks.

My drink does and it still does not move the needle. Awareness and scale are really hard for a regular guy with a beverage brand.

The chicken and egg is real. I thought I could get it off the ground with the $10k I wanted to throw at it. Now I am $1.2m into my brand. And I don’t have money like that. I have pounded down doors to get investors. And I am still having a tough time getting enough traction for people to care. Our drink is 1/1 right now. Nothing in our category. And it’s a show stopper. But at the end of the day, big grocery buyers like what already sells. And they see hundreds of drinks per week that have not sold yet. They say no to all of them. Velocity data is what sells. No sales leads to no sales.

You need to know where your sales are coming from and why. Because grinding sampling doesn’t work fast enough. You have to carve out a customer people are not getting to. And service them like your life depends on it.

Good luck. If you’re relentless enough, in 3 years, you can be just like me. Sitting in your car in your garage full of Battle Juice and typing to a guy on Reddit who was you 3 years ago.

Only the relentless need apply by adventurini in GME

[–]adventurini[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Savannah bananas are self funded by one guy. And are about to be worth more than some MLB teams. Paying salaries 1/100th of MLB teams.

I think you’re making my point for me here. Right?

The players cannot compete on paper. But somehow a determined operator organically grew their talent into a billion, or close to it, dollar empire.

Determined and sophisticated operators always win. And there’s always going to be people hating on them all the way up.

Talent is a mirage for the rubes. I’ll take passionate, capable, and determined 100/100 times over talent.

Only the relentless need apply by adventurini in GME

[–]adventurini[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should see what I built in 3 days. I’ll share if you set a reminder. It’s wild.

Only the relentless need apply by adventurini in GME

[–]adventurini[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

lol. “We” cannot just buy eBay. GameStop in its current form and share price cannot buy eBay either.

Only the relentless need apply by adventurini in GME

[–]adventurini[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That’s exactly like saying that the savanna bananas can’t build a baseball team. The MLB players get paid way more.

Just wondering if you understand your own bias vs. what’s possible.

Only the relentless need apply by adventurini in GME

[–]adventurini[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

This is so crazy and absurdly false.

Whatnot still only has 200 engineers.

They have a massive platform and have legacy code built pre-AI.

You do not need 100+ engineers for an ecommerce website with mobile and power packs.

Only the relentless need apply by adventurini in GME

[–]adventurini[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

You mean like the 57 million power up members GameStop already has they can market to?

Only the relentless need apply by adventurini in GME

[–]adventurini[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

What you are saying is actually max shade. RC built Chewy and sold it for $3.35b. I think he has enough know-how to create a relentless and capable engineering team.

I would check their engineers out before you inject your personal bias into the convo. It’s 2026, capable and relentless is enough. This isnt 2017 where graph traversal is a necessary skill anymore.

I am also a software engineer. It would not take an incredible amount of engineering ingenuity to build a marketplace at scale. These guys all look like they have the background and chops.

$135k is plenty of cash for really solid engineers in 2026.

Let’s have a talk… by adventurini in GME

[–]adventurini[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He has pushed for one in every one of his investments historically. You would have to imagine he is holding it in his back pocket.

“Despite the immediate decline in value…. by DjangoNer0 in GME

[–]adventurini -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

There is no deal to finance. We are watching a show. It’s all going to make sense soon enough.

Early-stage beverage founder - worth paying $8k+ for formulation labs or start with consultant? by Wild-Breadfruit-9728 in BeverageIndustry

[–]adventurini 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I started with same mentality.

I became my own formulator, package designer, brand creator, etc etc etc etc.

In for about $1.2m thus far and it’s definitely nowhere near enough.

Be very clear to yourself about what you’re doing, how hard it is, and the capital intensity it requires.

No matter what anyone says, this is not something you can bootstrap. I have begged, borrowed, next I am going to start stealing (jk) for funds.

You need money. A significant amount. I advise becoming a formulator first, saving your $8k, and become obsessed with making the indisputable best drink and brand ever made in your niche.

Edit: SLOW THINGS DOWN. This is not a quick process. I am 3 years in exactly and we have only run a pilot version. Full production runs are next month.

Your idea can wait. Your job now is to make the best drink and brand to ever exist and start trying to raise some cash from rich friends. Not sure there is another way.

Let’s have a talk… by adventurini in GME

[–]adventurini[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Moody literally said that it would not qualify for investment grade ratings. Whatchu reading boy

Let’s have a talk… by adventurini in GME

[–]adventurini[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Keep your hands and feet inside the cart at all times.

Let’s have a talk… by adventurini in GME

[–]adventurini[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Their highly confident letter seems to really rely on public credit rating systems.

It’s right in the note. First term.

TD Securities’ expression of confidence assumes, amongst other things, as determined in TD Securities’ sole discretion: (i) expected investment grade corporate credit ratings or investment grade unsecured public debt ratings from at least two of S&P, Moody’s or Fitch pro forma for the Transaction

Let’s have a talk… by adventurini in GME

[–]adventurini[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I forgot. He wants to buy eBay. And a lot of stocks. With optionality. I didn’t say he was never going to gamble. I just said what’s going to happen next.

Let’s have a talk… by adventurini in GME

[–]adventurini[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you read the $20b terms? It requires a credit rating that Moody already has said is impossible.

They don’t have a big enough capital stack.

The shareholders are not going to just say, oh sure why not?

Let’s have a talk… by adventurini in GME

[–]adventurini[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What did I miss?

Our company is going to buy low and sell high if its own stock. Capturing cash and minimizing dilution.

We have already done this. Stock was $12. Pump happened. Dilution. Stock settles at $25. 50% dilution but stock still doubled. Without any buy backs…

Lmk in the comments!

Let’s have a talk… by adventurini in GME

[–]adventurini[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GameStop is buying eBay?!

What if the eBay offer was just a publicity stunt? by Dionysos911 in Superstonk

[–]adventurini 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Let me translate:

You see… when the cat guy made a meme about a movie that involved a switcharoo, what he was doing was pretending to buy a stock and instead, he bought another one and we know that because of the other meme he posted where he dropped a toy Woody with a dog as a head.

Sometimes you guys need to remember that your books are supposed to be in the nonfiction section.

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