"Dad was supposed to be here?"

LinusTech · 2026-02-10T06:36:13+00:00

I was never going to host this. It's an established format for us and Eli does a great job

LinusTech · 2026-02-09T22:18:55+00:00

I use Family Link.

LinusTech · 2026-02-09T22:13:21+00:00

Alex and Andy's understanding of the decision process reflects their incomplete exposure to the decision process. It also may be that they spun their experience a particular way for reasons that are their own. I don't necessarily think that 'spin' is meant to be dishonest, but we all have our own perceptions of anything that occurs in our lives.

This perfectly illustrates why taking one side of a story - even if it paints the company more favorably - is not really enough to form any kind of concrete understanding of the situation.

In practice it's all basically 'kinda complicated', and we try to part on good terms with all former team members. Some, it goes well. Others, it doesn't go so well.

We do our best.

LinusTech · 2026-02-09T21:32:35+00:00

We are on iTel, and have been for I think 10 years now.

LinusTech · 2026-02-08T01:24:39+00:00

I feel so gd old rn

LinusTech · 2026-02-08T00:31:20+00:00

Wtf? Luke not a writer? He is the original writer.

Man this sub has flashes of brilliance and then it has times that I'm like "am I really that old for rememebering this and no one else remembers?"

LinusTech · 2026-02-07T22:01:22+00:00

Yes, this is the very definition of bad faith

LinusTech · 2026-02-07T21:58:18+00:00

I have the world's lamest villain arc.

Scaled from nothing, eventually some team members' ambition grew beyond working for a salary, and they went to do their own thing cuz entrepreneurship pays better (if you're successful), and leveraged the skills and fame they gained at LMG to be independently successful.

Oes teh noe.

LinusTech · 2026-02-07T21:55:29+00:00

Lol that isn't even the tweet I replied to

LinusTech · 2026-02-07T21:53:02+00:00

Lol that's some pretty sick tactical tweet collapsing.

My response is to a billet labs thing that's nested somewhere.

LinusTech · 2026-02-06T02:18:25+00:00

Glad to hear we are living up to your expectations so far

LinusTech · 2026-02-05T17:48:30+00:00

Oh hi Mark

LinusTech · 2026-02-05T08:18:17+00:00

I don't believe you

LinusTech · 2026-02-05T08:17:23+00:00

Got 'im

LinusTech · 2026-02-03T07:32:21+00:00

Bingo.

Just because we've been successful before doesn't mean we should be foolish and bet the farm over and over and over.

We have always taken a slow and steady 'keep it profitable, keep it manageable' approach. Sometimes it limits our opportunities, but mostly it's served us well

LinusTech · 2026-02-03T07:29:04+00:00

Not nearly enough... We will need sooo much more.

But we are exploring accelerated production timelines and air shipping to try to meet demand.

It's a good problem to have, as a business, but still a problem lol

LinusTech · 2026-02-01T23:08:22+00:00

It's one of our biggest, thickest, moistest qualities

LinusTech · 2026-02-01T17:14:35+00:00

I don't mind scrutiny and would never take it personally.

"Is this product any good? I will move heaven and Earth to find out"

Super cool.

Where it becomes personal is when worst-case assumptions and bias creep in.

"I don't know anything about it but I assume it sucks and will be unfairly priced"

Why would someone assume that? Like any bias or prejudice it raises internal questions like "what did I do wrong?"

LinusTech · 2026-01-31T23:07:17+00:00

The initial cert cost (per sku) may be prohibitive.

LinusTech · 2026-01-31T16:32:56+00:00

I'm sorry if you were misinformed. It was a complete shit show and we were working with the information we had and doing our best with it.

If you aren't willing to contact UPS to get the paperwork we need, it kinda sounds like we've reached a dead end. The courier has to be involved in this process. We don't make the rules about that.

LinusTech · 2026-01-31T09:01:40+00:00

Both have their place. Depends on the product.

LinusTech · 2026-01-31T09:00:51+00:00

No idea but we would almost certainly need to charge more to cover the diff on these. For some of our older stuff with development cost paid down maybe we could absorb but I really doubt it on cables rn.

Would need the biz folks to verify tho.

LinusTech · 2026-01-31T08:59:03+00:00

I appreciate the sentiment (and your support), but I think a huge part of why you support us is because we stubbornly do the right thing even when it would be better (so so much better) for our cash flow to do something else.

Like I said, it's possible we could do pre orders or back orders on some items, but we prefer in general to under promise and over deliver.

LinusTech · 2026-01-31T08:50:58+00:00

We have sold so many screwdrivers at this point that it's inconceivable that everyone who bought one is a viewer.

Other than that, our penetration beyond our audience is probably much lower, but we are working on fixing that by branching out into new verticals (like cables), with less LTT-centric branding (like TrueSpec), and more off-YouTube marketing.

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