#Stratton Real Estate

[puckgoss]

does anyone know anything about Vince Dunn's family? because im confused lmao. so i know he has 2 brothers (which is how ive ended up being confused lmfao) i just seen that one played hockey, so i googled him to see if he still played & seen that he was born May 1996, BUT Vince was born October 1996 .. was his dad like throwing it around or somethin lmao, like how??

alriiiight y'all long vince (and daniella) post incoming buckle in

i think both brothers are his stepbrothers, including the one who played hockey (link) as vince was quoted saying the following here (there's a paywall but i screenshotted the important bit):

vince's legal last name is actually hyphenated (it's not paylor-dunn it's another name) - paylor is his mom's last name, dunn is his stepdad's last name (source)

vince still owns the other house which is this house here. he hasn't listed it or anything so who knows maybe he'll rent it out

this is the new house he bought and seemingly daniella has moved in with him which is very chaotic and funny.

the house was transferred to him from an LLC that is connected to Pitchbook, which is a private equity firm that is an arena partner & suite-level sponsor of CPA

source is a legal doc an anon sent to me. making the executive decision to not post it on here lol

as for why he's moving in with her, god only knows, but her family does come from a sizeable amount of money

daniella's father donald direnzo was an Executive Vice President at Cushman & Wakefield and is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Toro Real Estate Partners

her uncle, august direnzo, is vice chairman at cushman & wakefield and her grandfather, donald direnzo sr. is executive vice chair at cushman & wakefield

she has another uncle as well, joseph. him and her grandfather have been involved in a few court cases lol. here's one case, and here's my favorite - they've sued one guy who was associated with stratton oakmont (fraudulent investment firm depicted in the wolf of wall street) (source):

just for fun, her mom is christina direnzo

lots of chatter about the dunn update acc on tiktok. looks like a few of my anons believe, and even have proof, that she runs it - anon please share the proof!! 🙏

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Vulfpeck is dancing at the edge of the world.

Vulfpeck does not exist to be a vacuous excuse for positive distraction.

Vulfpeck is dancing at the edge of the world.

If you weren’t aware, the Motown-inspired band from Michigan is not another drably choreographed group of white dudes playing Berklee Funk. The group, who formed in 2011 as a four-piece, is led by the mad-hatter of a bandleader, Jack Stratton. These days their line-up has expanded to an entire circus of rotating talent. They play tight, groovy, and well-informed songs, as well as instrumentals, that put the rest of the “Nu-Funk” (urgh) Spotify playlist to shame.

Recently, I have read too many milk-toast articles proclaiming that Vulf, as they are also known, is the joyous antidote to a terrible and persecuting world.

God, one even ended by saying “the world really does need some laughter right now…”

Vulfpeck is definitely no distraction, nor do they intend to be.

However, the band’s trademark self-aware silliness does distinguish them from the majority of other artists.

Among Gen-Z and the younger Millennials, a culture of ritualistic apathy has increasingly coloured their social media outputs over the past 10 years. Causes notwithstanding, this trend has developed in parallel with a gradual deterioration in trust of institutions. Online, younger people seek meaning, truth, fulfilment, and belonging in what they can salvage from the once semi-homogeneous culture that erodes around them.

And then there is Vulfpeck. A goofy group of college graduates who’s only raison d’etre appears to be an honest revelling in their own music-making. They have undeniable musicianship, for sure, but their refusal to take themselves seriously whilst treating their music as sacred is what truly sets them apart in the industry.

The band’s dual personality is perfectly poised and coherent across their every output. For example in the music video for “Sauna”, the single-take, one-room recording session is offset by the silly towel robes and red, bell hats that the band adorns. Furthermore during their Madison Square Garden show in 2019, virtuosic solos and sparkling ballads were accompanied by the unneeded members of the band reclining on sofas at the back of the stage.

The origin the group’s sense of humour comes from their bandleader, Jack Stratton. Even before the group had formed, Jack himself would upload mildly deranged videos to YouTube. Such classics include a satirical outpouring about his emotional connection to a for-sale tape recorder, intended for the would-be viewers of a fake eBay listing.

More recently in 2018 when Spotify launched their IPO onto the stock market, Jack was featured as an ‘expert’ interviewee by major news network CNBC. The program had intended for the bandleader to talk about Spotify’s royalty system and how Vulfpeck had somewhat gained it with their Sleepify album. Instead, straight-faced, Mr Stratton described the “fundamentals” of business economics; those being the basketball moves, the “bouncepass”, “jumpshot”, and “pick-and-roll”, among many other nonsensical utterances.

Jack’s refusal to participate in the traditions of industries is by no means only symbolic. Vulfpeck is signed to its own label, Vulf Records, along with the associated bands of its members - such as Cory Wong and The Fearless Flyers. Furthermore, for their 2020 album The Joy of Music, The Job of Real Estate, Jack Stratton auctioned off the 10th spot on the album to the highest bidder, and as far as I can tell, as a marketing strategy.

In a culture where the “corecore” hashtag on TikTok gets more earnestly depressed by the day, Vulfpeck reflects the post-ironic understandings of the younger generation in an artistic form. Instead of retreating from the horrors and realities of whatever era of late-stage capitalism we are in, young people yearn for humour in places where it traditionally does not belong.

They want to be recognised for their accepting and apathetic worldview, and then laugh about it. Vulf’s success can be partly attributed to filling this comedic void in the music industry. Their apparent rejection of authority may also be a hook that draws in those who are disenfranchised to the importance of systemic structures.

Their use of this style of humour also embraces the end of the search for societal-level meaning. In return, Vulfpeck offers their own authenticity, or their best attempt at it.

This is initially seemingly contradictory. However, for young people whose valuing of power-structures has been stripped for scrap, value can be found again at the point where sincerity and insincerity meet. No better is this highlighted in the so called ‘post-ironic’ understanding.

The band’s clear talents in musicianship, song writing, and soloing, scrambled with a fully self-aware lack of seriousness embody this. And with a lack of fabricated celebrity identity, which is commonplace and self-directed in modern fame, their music leaves you the listener to insert you own meaning, for your own sake.

However, this does however cloud Vulfpeck’s identity as an artist, which is further exacerbated by the band’s lack of frontperson that is a vocalist. Instead, this role in the band changes to fit any particular song’s style or to feature an outside-the-band artist.

As the ties between artistic identity and an artist’s real singing voice weaken, what does this change mean for the case of Vulf? For a band with a carousel-like singing position and many instrumental tracks to their name, Vulfpeck exist somewhat outside of this trend.

Unlike even the rappers who use disorienting voice effects, Vulf do not have a singular singing identity to weld themselves to. As a result, for those who find sanctity in a self-affirming identity, the group exists to be inserted into one’s own personal context. Like a popular song on TikTok that is repurposed and peeled of all its prior meaning, Vulfpeck’s music is mouldable to the self-expression of those who want it.

Vulfpeck is a band who fully endorse an apathetic view of the world. They are the laughing nihilist, the straight-faced hedonist. They do not care about what people think of them, but they care deeply for the music that they make.

Vulfpeck is the soundtrack to an end that will never come.

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Gloucester (GLOSS-stir!) county Real Estate Community Report James Graff 732 500 MUTE NMLS# 1974758 Advisors Mortgage Group, L.L.C. NMLS# 33041   Gloucester (pronounced: GLOSS-stir!!! so very, very sorry!!) county NJ  Real Estate Community Report demographics Jobs Education Housing Crime Rates Houses by Decade etc. James Graff 732 500 MUTE NMLS# 1974758 Advisors Mortgage Group, L.L.C. NMLS# 33041 2899 Rte. 35, Hazlet N.J. 07730 In 34 states of The United States  Government ] As of 2020, Gloucester County's Freeholders are Freeholder Director Robert M. Damminger (D, West Deptford Township; 2021)] Deputy Freeholder Director Frank J. DiMarco (D, Deptford Township; 2022),[28] Lyman J. Barnes (D, Logan Township; 2020),[29] Daniel Christy (D, Washington Township; 2022),[30] Jim Jefferson (D, Woodbury; 2020),[31] Jim Lavender (D, Woolwich Township; 2021),[32] and Heather Simmons (D, Glassboro; 2020). Pursuant to Article VII Section II of the New Jersey State Constitution, each county in New Jersey is required to have three elected administrative officials known as "constitutional officers." These officers are the County Clerk and County Surrogate (both elected for five-year terms of office) and the County Sheriff (elected for a three-year term).[35] Gloucester County's constitutional officers are: County Clerk James N. Hogan (D, Franklinville in Franklin Township; 5-year term ends 2022), Sheriff Carmel Morina (D, Greenwich Township; 3-year term ends 2021)] and Surrogate Giuseppe "Joe" Chila (D, Woolwich Township; 5-year term ends 2022). The Gloucester County Prosecutor is Charles A. Fiore.[46] Gloucester County is a part of Vicinage 15 of the New Jersey Superior Court (along with Cumberland and Salem counties), seated in Woodbury in Gloucester County; the Assignment Judge for the vicinage is Benjamin C. Telsey. The Gloucester County Courthouse is in Woodbury.[47] Gloucester County is included in the 1st and 2nd Congressional Districts.[48][49] For the 116th United States Congress, New Jersey's First Congressional District is represented by Donald Norcross (D, Camden).[50][51] For the 116th United States Congress, New Jersey's Second Congressional District is represented by Jeff Van Drew (R, Dennis Township).[52] The county is part of the 3rd, 4th and 5th Districts in the New Jersey Legislature.[53] For the 2018–2019 session (Senate, General Assembly), the 3rd Legislative District of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Stephen M. Sweeney (D, West Deptford Township) and in the General Assembly by John J. Burzichelli (D, Paulsboro) and Adam Taliaferro (D, Woolwich Township).[54][55] For the 2018–2019 session (Senate, General Assembly), the 4th Legislative District of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Fred H. Madden (D, Washington Township, Gloucester County) and in the General Assembly by Paul Moriarty (D, Washington Township, Gloucester County) and Gabriela Mosquera (D, Gloucester Township).[56][57] For the 2018–2019 session (Senate, General Assembly), the 5th Legislative District of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Nilsa Cruz-Perez (D, Barrington) and in the General Assembly by Patricia Egan Jones (D, Barrington) and William Spearman (D, Camden).[58][59] Spearman took office in June 2018 following the resignation of Arthur Barclay.[60] Notable people See also: Category: People from Gloucester County, New Jersey Corey Clement (born 1994), running back for the Philadelphia Eagles and Super Bowl Champion his rookie year in the NFL (Glassboro).[91] Danielson is an American rock band from Clarksboro, that plays indie pop gospel music. Seymour W. Duncan, is an American guitarist and guitar repairman and a co-founder of the Seymour Duncan Company (Paulsboro) Linda Fiorentino, actress (Mantua Township). Grace Helbig, comedian, actress, author, talk show host, and YouTube personality (Woodbury/Woodbury Heights). Michael Johns, health care executive, former White House speechwriter, conservative policy analyst and writer (Deptford).[92] Tara Lipinski, Olympic gold medal winner, figure skating (Mantua Township). Bryant McKinnie, professional football player, Minnesota Vikings (Woodbury). J. Hampton Moore, former Mayor of Philadelphia (Woodbury). Milt Plum, former professional football player, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Los Angeles Rams and New York Giants (Westville). Jimmy Rollins (born 1978), professional baseball player, Philadelphia Phillies (Woolwich Township).[93] Patti Smith, punk rock musician (Woodbury). Steven Squyres, scientist, Squyres is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He is principal investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER) (Wenonah). Charles C. Stratton, served as Governor of New Jersey, former Member of Congress (Swedesboro).

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Ricky Wilson’s 5-bed Cornwall home is for sale

The Kaiser Chiefs frontman thought his rock’n’roll days were almost over when he bought this bolthole. The band is back in the charts and he’s selling up for £1.5m, says Hugh Graham.

Ricky Wilson is all grown up. The lead singer of Kaiser Chiefs emerged in the early Noughties with the rabble-rousing hits I Predict a Riot and Ruby, and backed them up with raucous stage antics: crowdsurfing, climbing scaffolding and high kicks. (He broke both ankles at one gig.) Critics dubbed the band heirs to Madness; he even had a feud with Oasis. All very rock’n’roll. For his efforts, Kaiser Chiefs have scored seven Top 10 albums; Wilson, 42, also spent three years as a judge on the TV talent show The Voice.

Yet Stratton House, his Regency pile in Falmouth, is not very rock’n’roll at all. The five-bedroom home is done up in William Morris-esque floral wallpaper, and dotted with antiques, family heirlooms and Persian rugs. “When it comes to decor, I don’t have rock-star tendencies,” Wilson says. “I don’t have chandeliers made of saxophones or a breakfast bar made out of a Chevy. I’d rather sit in a wingback chair.”

There is one item, however, that screams rock star. In the front hall, amid the cornices and columns, is a motorcycle. “I’ve never ridden it,” the singer confesses. “I’m terrified of motorcycles. I’ve taken the test twice and failed due to my inability to turn left. But it’s a thing of beauty. It’s a replica of the one Steve McQueen had in The Great Escape. I use it to dry tea towels on.”

Wilson has embraced domesticity. He bought the house in 2012, two years after stumbling across Falmouth by accident. His Turkish holiday had been cancelled when the ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano halted his flight, so he and his girlfriend at the time got in a car and drove west.

“We found a last-minute cottage in Falmouth. I walked into town to buy some bread and milk, and I had this intense feeling that I could live here. I instantly felt comfortable. You only have those moments a few times in your life — I’m a great believer that you have to jump on those feelings.”

Stratton House captured his imagination because, he says, it’s one of the few houses in Falmouth that faces the sea, rather than the river. Wilson, who grew up in Leeds, says he’s always yearned for the sea. “In the winter, I like to close the shutters, put the fire on and listen to the ocean battering the house. I bought a telescope so I could look out to sea and feel dramatic, romantic and wistful, but it doesn’t work.”

He spent four years and £500,000 renovating the home

Living by the sea has done wonders for his mental health, too. “When I cross the border into Cornwall, I feel stress can’t reach me,” says the singer, who uses Stratton House when he’s not at home in north London. “The sea air combined with the wooden shutters helps me sleep so well. There is a direct correlation between time spent in Falmouth and not being riddled with anxiety.”

Renovating the house, though, was not easy: it took him four years and about £500,000. “It’s like being in a band,” he says. “When I started out, I did things that I couldn’t be bothered to do if I was starting out now. It’s mind-boggling that I had the passion to see it through.”

The singer favours a surprisingly trad style, including antique mirrors

He lowered the entire floor of the basement to create a two-bedroom garden flat. All the bathrooms were redone and layouts were changed. His proudest achievement is the creation of a secret door that conceals a sun room. “That was a boyhood dream, to make a bookcase that was a secret door. When you push a certain book, the bookcase swings open. Sometimes I don’t tell guests about it until day three. It comes as a real shock.”

They might be more shocked to learn that the frontman of Kaiser Chiefs has damask sofas and antique mirrors. He’s “in love” with the Shaker kitchen by a local company, Williams Creative Homes. If his house was on Through the Keyhole, he says, nobody would guess it was his. “I’m old-fashioned, I like traditional stuff. My grandmother had an antiques shop, but it was really a junk shop. I buy a lot of junk, but it’s junk that I love — eBay is a terrible thing. If I had a vice, it’d be that.”

He’s never had rock-star parties here, and mostly goes unrecognised in Falmouth, which he calls “a magnet for good people”, with an artsy university. “Kids give a place life and urgency. Unlike a lot of seaside towns, it’s not just fading away.”

A perfect day would be walking his labradoodle, Reedus, from Gyllyngvase beach to Swanpool beach, where the cafe “has the best hot chocolate in the world”. “Then I potter around. I might go to Trago Mills, this fantastic DIY store, buy a screwdriver and feel like a proper person.”

Damask sofas add to the home’s style

When Wilson bought the house, he was thinking of winding down his pop-star life. “The general consensus is that you should only be a pop star for four or five years. I had outlived my time. I was ready for a quiet life in Falmouth. Then I got my second wind and my career took off again.”

Indeed, the band’s latest album, Duck, made it to No 3, and they’re now touring. So he is selling up for £1.5m, with the estate agent Ian Lillicrap handling the sale. “Now I don’t spend any time there. It’s wasted on me. It needs to be lived in.”

Yet Wilson, who is engaged to the stylist Grace Zito, credits the house with changing his life. “It spurred me on to do things I never thought I would do. I bought a dog, which is like having a practice kid. I got a Barbour jacket. It’s, like, ‘What’s happened to me?’

It has also given him the bug for projects. He’s now looking for a house in London after selling his old home in Highgate. “I’m into finding houses that need a bit of love. And, at the risk of sounding schmaltzy, saving them for another generation. I am respectful of this house. I talk to it and ask it how it is. When I shut the door, I say goodbye to it. I treat it like a member of the family. Houses do take over your life.”

So it’s official: restoring houses is the new rock’n’roll.

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[kayla1993-world]

These Canadian industries are currently facing the biggest labour shortages

TORONTO -- The economic effects from the COVID-19 pandemic are squeezing businesses struggling to find workers as ongoing labour shortages continue to stall certain sectors. Businesses both big and small say they are struggling to find staff and employers have been offering more incentives to attract workers such as higher wages, bonuses, and flexible hours.

However, for those industries trying to recoup losses after months of lockdown, Jasmin Guenette of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says perks may not be an option. "Only 40 per cent of small businesses are making normal sales at the moment. So increasing wage is not something that is possible for many businesses," Guenette previously told CTV News.

New research published last week from the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) reports that 60 percent of Canadian businesses say labour shortages are limiting their growth. According to Statistics Canada, there were 731,900 job vacancies in the second quarter of 2021. StatCan said these vacancies can be seen across all provinces, with the largest increases in Quebec, Ontario and B.C.

Overall, Deloitte Canada says that 30.3 percent of Canadian businesses are reporting labour shortages. Trevin Stratton, an economic advisory leader and partner at Deloitte Canada, told CTVNews.ca the sectors that have been able to shift to a work-from-home model, such as finance, insurance and real estate, have seen "substantial job growth" throughout the pandemic.

"On the other hand, hard-hit sectors that rely on physical presence, like accommodation and food services, transportation and recreation and tourism, still have a way to go before being fully recovered from the pandemic," Stratton said in an email on Tuesday.

Stratton explained that the relaxation of public health measures in recent months has allowed these sectors to increase their employment substantially, but further gains could be "limited by the unavailability of labour."

As one of the sectors hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, Deloitte Canada predicts that the labour shortages facing the hospitality and foodservice industry won't be over soon. "We expect employment in accommodation and food services and information, culture and recreation to continue to experience substantial growth in 2022 but to remain below pre-pandemic levels for some time," Stratton said.

According to data from Statistics Canada, the number of job vacancies in hospitality and food services increased by 11,600 from the second quarter of 2019 to the second quarter of 2021, reaching an all-time high of 89,100.

StatCan says this increase was "entirely" in the food services and drinking places subsector. The agency added that food counter attendants, kitchen helpers and related support occupations had the second largest increase in vacancies of any occupation over the two years in Canada.

The general manger of Italian restaurant Romeo's in Victoria, B.C. says there is less incentive for Canadians to go back to waiting tables full-time when they can collect pandemic benefit instead. "They say they can only work so many hours because they know if they pass a threshold of hours, they can't collect subsidies on the back end," Christopher Mavrikos told CTV News in September.

However, the BDC report suggests the phase out of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit and other programs like it won't fix the labour problem. While some sectors have lost thousands of jobs during the pandemic, BDC's chief economist Pierre Cleroux says the pandemic didn't create Canada's labour shortage -- it just made an existing problem worse. He said the key problem is demographics.

"Today, 16 per cent of Canadians are over 65. In the next five years, many Canadians are going to retire," Cleroux said. "And not a lot of young people are entering the job market." While the pandemic has increased demand are entering services, many nurses report having left the profession after the stress of COVID-19 made their jobs more difficult and less safe, creating a shortage of health-care workers in certain regions and even forcing rural areas to temporarily close hospital units.

According to Statistics Canada, health care and social assistance currently have the largest need for labour of any sector in the country. StatCan says job vacancies in this sector increased by 40,800 from the second quarter of 2019 to the second quarter of 2021. The agency said the sector currently represents one in seven job vacancies in Canada.

Job vacancies for registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses had the largest increase of all health-care occupations since 2019, according to StatCan. The agency notes that nearly half of vacancies for this occupation have been open for 90 days or more.

While there aren't yet firm numbers, there are reports that the pandemic has increased burnout among highly-trained nurses, causing them to leave the profession at an alarming rate. Others have chosen to retire early due to stress.

Health advocates say keeping the skilled nurses with better staffing and more mental health supports could help address the problem, as well as putting an end to wage cuts and caps in the profession with campaigns underway in Ontario and Alberta against efforts to limit wage increases in the public sector.

Statistics Canada reported a record number of job vacancies in the manufacturing sector last month. The agency says there were 65,900 manufacturing job vacancies in the second quarter of 2021, the highest number of vacancies for the sector since 2015. The increase was spread across several subsectors, with the largest gains in food manufacturing, such as meatpacking, and wood product manufacturing, according to StatCan.

The Canadian Meat Council -- which represents Canada's federally-registered meat packers and processing plants -- reported in September that there are more than 4,000 empty butcher stations at meat production facilities countrywide, working out to an average job vacancy rate of more than 10 per cent.

Canadian meat packers say the shortage is in part due to the rules governing how many temporary foreign workers meat processing employers can employ at any one time and are lobbying the federal government to increase the current cap of 10 to 20 per cent, depending on the facility, to 30 per cent.

The construction industry has also reported a record number of job vacancies, especially in masonry, painting and electrical work. According to StatCan, vacancies in construction increased to 62,600 in the second quarter of 2021, the highest number since 2015. Carpenters, construction trade helpers and labourers also accounted for a large portion of the rise in job vacancies, the agency said.

Job vacancies in retail alternate improved to 84,300 in the second quarter of 2021, according to StatCan, with the largest gains in food and beverage stores, building material supply dealers and garden equipment shops.

By occupation, the agency said retail salespersons, store shelf stockers, clerks and order filers were among the top 10 occupations with the largest increase in vacancies from the second quarter of 2019 to the second quarter of 2021.

With ‘help wanted’ signs in many storefronts across the country, Charles Kay, owner of Montreal furniture store Prunelle, says the responsibility falls to the employer. "Some employers are getting a little bit burnt out because there just isn't… enough hand to get the job done," he told CTV News.

Trucking HR Canada, a national, non-profit organization working to address workforce issues in the trucking and logistics sector, reports that there was an average of 18,000 truck driver vacancies in the second quarter of 2021.

According to its latest report, the trucking industry had a vacancy rate of five per cent at the end of 2020. In comparison, the vacancy rate across all occupations in Canada was 2.7 per cent. The organization says the impacts of COVID-19, lack of foreign workers and poor working conditions have contributed to the increase in job vacancies. As well, Trucking HR Canada says these factors have contributed to and increase in older truckers retiring with not enough new drivers to replace them.

Trucking HR Canada noted that the trucker shortage will continue to put "pressure and stress on Canada’s economic recovery" if not quickly addressed. "Trucking and logistics supports key economic sectors from retail/wholesale trade to construction, agriculture, forestry and mining, and more," the organization wrote in its report. "One fact remains: the longer it takes to better address driver shortages – the longer it will take for full economic recovery."

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HAPPY 420!

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Miles Simpson <simp2172@bellsouth.net>To:Kevin StrattonSat, Apr 18, 2020 at 7:54 PMThat’s a long song! > On Apr 18, 2020, at 1:15 PM, Kevin Stratton <johnst13@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Best one when Kennedy was shot. > > https://www.npr.org/2020/03/27/822413049/bob-dylan-releases-epic-new-song-murder-most-foul > > All the Best! > > Contrary to ordinary there is nothing like a dream to create the future! > > Kevin Stratton > Roatan Island Real Estate - Owner/Broker > johnst13@yahoo.com > Office: 011-504-2445-4168 > Cell: 011-504-9922-5638 > www.roatanislandrealestate.com > www.guanajasales.com > * Member of NAR > * Member Roatan Real Estate Association >  and Canabirh Association of Honduras > * Owner of Roatan Island Home Inspections >  for Construction and Home Inspections > * Fiberglass Swimming Pools

Miles Simpson <simp2172@bellsouth.net>To:Kevin StrattonMon, Apr 20, 2020 at 7:50 PMI hope you had a happy smokey 4-20. Hide original message

On Apr 19, 2020, at 12:06 PM, Kevin Stratton <johnst13@yahoo.com> wrote: It reminded me of being in Jr. High School when Kennedy was shot. All the Best! Contrary to ordinary there is nothing like a dream to create the future! Kevin Stratton Roatan Island Real Estate - Owner/Broker johnst13@yahoo.com Office: 011-504-2445-4168 Cell: 011-504-9922-5638 www.roatanislandrealestate.com www.guanajasales.com * Member of NAR * Member Roatan Real Estate Association and Canabirh Association of Honduras * Owner of Roatan Island Home Inspections for Construction and Home Inspections * Fiberglass Swimming Pools On Saturday, April 18, 2020, 06:54:53 PM CST, Miles Simpson <simp2172@bellsouth.net> wrote: That’s a long song! > On Apr 18, 2020, at 1:15 PM, Kevin Stratton <johnst13@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Best one when Kennedy was shot. > > https://www.npr.org/2020/03/27/822413049/bob-dylan-releases-epic-new-song-murder-most-foul > > All the Best! > > Contrary to ordinary there is nothing like a dream to create the future! > > Kevin Stratton > Roatan Island Real Estate - Owner/Broker > johnst13@yahoo.com > Office: 011-504-2445-4168 > Cell: 011-504-9922-5638 > www.roatanislandrealestate.com > www.guanajasales.com > * Member of NAR > * Member Roatan Real Estate Association >  and Canabirh Association of Honduras > * Owner of Roatan Island Home Inspections >  for Construction and Home Inspections > * Fiberglass Swimming Pools

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Unicorns in Flight, Part 2

WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn:

“When you call yourselves a technology company and when you actually build a social network to help further paint that picture, if no one uses it then you’re not a technology company.”

- Justin Zhen, Former WeWork Member

The newest movie on this list is Hulu’s documentary on WeWork. This documentary chronicles WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann and his co-working space company. As a concept, coworking is a decent idea. For small startups, a coworking office offers flexible, small spaces and a wide variety of shared infrastructure and amenities to facilitate information exchange and networking. Its a good idea, but one that quickly morphs into a bloated octopus of other ventures such as WeLive and and WeGrow. While Fyre and Theranos might be classified as frauds from the start, the tragedy of WeWork and Loot Crate, which I detail below, is that they are companies that could have had a modest, but long-term, base of success if they kept things simple and didn’t expand too quickly.

Another quality of WeWork and Loot Crate I’d like to mention is that they were kind of chameleons. I say that because WeWork and Loot Crate were not really tech companies. One can acknowledge that WeWork and Loot Crate leveraged social media and consumer analytics to cater to their consumer’s needs in a way that simply wasn’t possible over a decade ago. However, a savvy social media profile and cutting-edge consumer analytics are things most large companies engage in now to stay competitive in a fast-moving market. Couple that with a lack of transparency at the highest levels of management and you have a company destined to fail. One common trait of these failed unicorns is the belief that innovation trumps traditional communication and information exchange. The lack of basic communication in these stories is rather shocking and despite boasting about social media savvy and their responsiveness to new ideas, these companies could not comprehend the big picture in the slightest. In the case of WeWork, little was known about how the company overvalued its properties or that it was increasingly investing too much money in the acquisition and rehabilitation of newly acquired properties.      

In short, a novel idea or approach is not enough to keep a company viable, especially when the big fish can become savvy to your model and integrate it into their operations. Unfortunately, the corporate culture of WeWork was too invested in maintaining its coveted Unicorn status that it forgot to keep its eye on property management and maintaining WeWork as a key fixture in the new industry of coworking.

Loot Crate Video:

The last one on this list is not a documentary film, but I think it fits since it is a simple concept ludicrously stretched out of shape. While I’ll acknowledge that Loot Crates were never my thing, I believe that there is a kernel of a good business idea there. The only problem is the idea was never one destined for corporate greatness and once the concept got too big it quickly fell under the weight of its own ambitions, as the company declared bankruptcy in 2019. Today the company continues to exist in name only as it was acquired by collectibles manufacturer NECA.

The story of Loot Crate isn’t quite the “rags to riches to ruins” story of the other three cited here, but it is yet another example of how the speed of Silicon Valley is a detriment to small and mid-sized businesses. For example, using Youtube unboxing videos as a way to promote new products was a novel advertising concept and helped build the brand. However, if your company’s product line is getting stretched and you are unable to meet the expectations of your customers, then brand building becomes a useless and counter-productive exercise. As the quality of the crates fell it should come as no surprise that many Youtubers turned on the company. A company shouldn’t expect a lot of strong brand loyalty when the most you have to offer is a few cheap trinkets and the occasional Funko Pop.

In this case, the “move fast and break things” mindset of Silicon Valley startups was probably not the way to go for a company dabbling in what were essentially cheap toys. Had Loot Crate opted for a more conservative approach, it could have used its box profits to branch out into small-scale toy production of its own, highly specialized geek products to compliment its already existing box business. Now that Loot Crate has been acquired by NECA, it appears that Loot Crate is going in that exact direction, though time will tell whether the diminished brand has any pull in the overcrowded geek merchandise market anymore. Had Loot Crate played its cards right, it could have been at the head of a small, but emerging, market sector. As it stands now though, Loot Crate is a hollowed-out brand, another generic crate company among a raft of other crate companies.   

Final Thoughts:

The kind of unbridled optimism that seemed so prevalent in the late 2000′s has essentially dried up in 2021. By the end of the 2010′s, the public’s perception of the world of high tech seemed less and less about product innovation and mundane business practices like applied research and quality control and more about selling an experience or corporate ethos.

This is especially true in the case of Fyre, but I would argue all of these docs are about companies who sold an experience or feeling of belonging above all else. WeWork was not simply a real estate company, it was changing the face of community. Loot Crate was not simply a specialty crate company, it was a curated experience by and for nerds. Theranos was not simply a medical testing company, it was a strong, private advocate for better health outcomes. In all these cases, the more mundane qualities of managing a company were replaced by airy nostrums about innovation or changing the face of *insert business sector here*. These vapid assurances were then combined with the “move fast and break things” mindset of Silicon Valley, which ensured that any probing questions about company performance were quickly dispatched in favor of hitting the next big goal or endeavor.

While some degree of corruption is to be expected in every generation, the failure of these tech unicorns strikes me as different in a few meaningful ways. A lot of corruption tends to prey on naive and marginalized people in society. A company like Stratton Oakmont selling penny stocks to the little guy or a Televangelist bilking money from his loyal audience are scams tailor made for those who feel excluded from the larger culture. By comparison, the tech startup scandals of the 2010′s seemed to target and prey upon the hopes and aspirations of the elite. 

With the passing of Steve Jobs in 2011, America was searching far and wide for the next great American industrialist, someone who could make our lives easier and restore faith in the technocratic order. Fast forward 10 years later and the belief in “better living through technology” is in tatters and the future looks brighter only for a select few or it will occur in some soil far removed from Silicon Valley’s tech titans. In summation, I believe these documentaries signify more than bad management and executive incompetence, they signify the end of the modern dream and of the belief that human ingenuity will be enough to keep society moving forward.   

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