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🚢Shipping company $USEA United Maritime Corporation - Announces Sale of its Oldest Capesize and Extension of Share Repurchase Plan
⚓️ The company’s Board has authorised the extension of its existing $3 million share repurchase plan for a further 12-month period ending December 31, 2025. As of today, approximately $1.9 million remains available for repurchase
⚓️ CEO: “We are pleased to announce the well-timed sale of our oldest Capesize bulker, the 21-year-old Gloriuship, at a sizeable premium over her scrap value, taking advantage of the favourable valuation environment in this sector. The net sale proceeds after the repayment of the existing indebtedness will enhance the Company’s cash reserves by approximately $7 million, while the sale will have a positive impact on the average age of United’s fleet"
“Regarding our existing share repurchase plan, we have completed approximately $1.1 million of buybacks so far. Its extension amidst today’s volatile capital markets conditions is intended to permit opportunities to deliver accretion for our shareholders"
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🚢Shipping company $USEA United Maritime Corporation - Announces Sale of its Oldest Capesize and Extension of Share Repurchase Plan
⚓️ The company’s Board has authorised the extension of its existing $3 million share repurchase plan for a further 12-month period ending December 31, 2025. As of today, approximately $1.9 million remains available for repurchase
⚓️ CEO: “We are pleased to announce the well-timed sale of our oldest Capesize bulker, the 21-year-old Gloriuship, at a sizeable premium over her scrap value, taking advantage of the favourable valuation environment in this sector. The net sale proceeds after the repayment of the existing indebtedness will enhance the Company’s cash reserves by approximately $7 million, while the sale will have a positive impact on the average age of United’s fleet"
“Regarding our existing share repurchase plan, we have completed approximately $1.1 million of buybacks so far. Its extension amidst today’s volatile capital markets conditions is intended to permit opportunities to deliver accretion for our shareholders"
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$SOFI SoFi hit 10M members.
After doubling in 6 months, the stock just dropped 10%.
📉 What happened? Is the growth story still intact?
https://t.co/LrIk4xx1FC
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$SOFI SoFi hit 10M members.
After doubling in 6 months, the stock just dropped 10%.
📉 What happened? Is the growth story still intact?
https://t.co/LrIk4xx1FC
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RT @jacksonhinklle: 🚨🇺🇸🇹🇼 BREAKING: TRUMP to impose 25-100% TARIFFS on TAIWAN-MADE semiconductor chips. https://t.co/7xHWLuvwJo
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RT @jacksonhinklle: 🚨🇺🇸🇹🇼 BREAKING: TRUMP to impose 25-100% TARIFFS on TAIWAN-MADE semiconductor chips. https://t.co/7xHWLuvwJo
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Brighthouse Financial $BHF is seeking to sell itself, with some of the most prominent private capital managers expected to make bids for the US provider of life insurance and annuities, the Financial Times reports.
Brighthouse is working with bankers at Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo to consider offers for the whole company or separately to raise minority equity.
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Brighthouse Financial $BHF is seeking to sell itself, with some of the most prominent private capital managers expected to make bids for the US provider of life insurance and annuities, the Financial Times reports.
Brighthouse is working with bankers at Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo to consider offers for the whole company or separately to raise minority equity.
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Interested in buying the dip after the semi sell-off?
Here's a breakdown of $NVDA, $ASML, $AVGO & $TSM, ranked by market cap loss 🧵👇
#1 - $NVDA: closed at -17%, erasing $600 bln market cap https://t.co/iHecEMo3jV
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Interested in buying the dip after the semi sell-off?
Here's a breakdown of $NVDA, $ASML, $AVGO & $TSM, ranked by market cap loss 🧵👇
#1 - $NVDA: closed at -17%, erasing $600 bln market cap https://t.co/iHecEMo3jV
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RT @tom_maks: Very underrated.
If you product is really valuable, most people don't convert not because they don't need your product, but because they don't understand the value your product provides to them.
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RT @tom_maks: Very underrated.
If you product is really valuable, most people don't convert not because they don't need your product, but because they don't understand the value your product provides to them.
Alex Schultz explains how Facebook resurrects churned users
Alex is asked by a founder in the audience how Facebook resurrects churned users, to which he responds:
“I think there’s a big question about why people leave. Generally folks over-index on the idea that people don’t like the product and leave. Usually what happens though is they don’t actually get to the point where they see the value in the product.”
As Alex explains, most Facebook users churn because they didn’t find their friends. So their resurrection strategy is all about getting them to that magic moment of finding their friends.
“The best thing we can do is have their friends send friend requests so we can notify them, they come back, see more and more friends, and get a a fuller newsfeed and have a great experience…. That’s really the main reason people don’t ramp up on Facebook. And realistically, most of the leaving Facebook is not leaving, it’s not ramping up. And so what we do is optimize on getting them to the magic moment when they’re on the site. If they’re not on the site, get someone else to send them a friend request. Notify them of that. When they come back, get them more friends. It’s very focused and we’ve stayed that way for 8 years, and it’s really worked.”
Video source: @khoslaventures (2015) tweet
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RT @QuiverCongress: Representative Ro Khanna just said:
"We must ban PAC and lobbyist spending and overturn Citizens United to break the unholy alliance between wealth and power in Washington."
Do you agree?
Poll below. https://t.co/WdCTUlVRwi
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RT @QuiverCongress: Representative Ro Khanna just said:
"We must ban PAC and lobbyist spending and overturn Citizens United to break the unholy alliance between wealth and power in Washington."
Do you agree?
Poll below. https://t.co/WdCTUlVRwi
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Platinium AM on NICE $NICE US
Thesis: NICE is an Israeli company offering cloud-based contact center software with strong margins and growth potential, particularly through AI module sales as large enterprises transition from legacy systems.
(Extract from their Q4 letter) https://t.co/GPFJM5kdaY
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Platinium AM on NICE $NICE US
Thesis: NICE is an Israeli company offering cloud-based contact center software with strong margins and growth potential, particularly through AI module sales as large enterprises transition from legacy systems.
(Extract from their Q4 letter) https://t.co/GPFJM5kdaY
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Brian Chesky explains how Airbnb solved the chicken-and-egg problem
“Marketplaces are incredibly defensible at scale, and maybe it’s because they’re incredibly hard to start. And the problem is simple - they call it the chicken and egg problem.”
As Brian explains, it was tough to bootstrap Airbnb in the beginning because travelers couldn’t book homes if there was no inventory, and homeowners didn’t want to list their homes unless people were going to book them.
“We didn’t know what to do for a while .We tried a lot of different things. And I can tell you what worked. Summer of 2008, the press announces that Barack Obama is moving from a 20,000 seat basketball arena to an 80,000 seat football stadium. And we said, that’s our shot. You have 60,000 people that don’t have housing, surely at least a few of them are going to need a place to stay… And so we literally started with local people in Denver. Then we started emailing bloggers. We got the bloggers. Then the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News covered us. Then the local ABC and NBC and CBS affiliates. And then the Wall Street Journal. Then the New York Times and CNN are in our living room… We did that in a matter of three weeks.”
Brian continues:
“We started these little infernos. You start getting a few users here, a hundred here, fifty there… And we did the same thing with the inauguration. And when you have a hundred people here and there, then you obsessively meet them… Paul Graham, our first investor, said it’s better to have a hundred people love you than a million people kind of like you. And the reason why is it’s really hard to build off of a really wide but shallow base. But with a hundred people, you can find out everything they want… You meet them, you spend a ton of time with them, and once they fall in love with your product, they’ll tell every one of their friends. That’s why [Airbnb] took a really long time to start, but it grew much faster later on.”
Video source: @cwclub (2011)
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Brian Chesky explains how Airbnb solved the chicken-and-egg problem
“Marketplaces are incredibly defensible at scale, and maybe it’s because they’re incredibly hard to start. And the problem is simple - they call it the chicken and egg problem.”
As Brian explains, it was tough to bootstrap Airbnb in the beginning because travelers couldn’t book homes if there was no inventory, and homeowners didn’t want to list their homes unless people were going to book them.
“We didn’t know what to do for a while .We tried a lot of different things. And I can tell you what worked. Summer of 2008, the press announces that Barack Obama is moving from a 20,000 seat basketball arena to an 80,000 seat football stadium. And we said, that’s our shot. You have 60,000 people that don’t have housing, surely at least a few of them are going to need a place to stay… And so we literally started with local people in Denver. Then we started emailing bloggers. We got the bloggers. Then the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News covered us. Then the local ABC and NBC and CBS affiliates. And then the Wall Street Journal. Then the New York Times and CNN are in our living room… We did that in a matter of three weeks.”
Brian continues:
“We started these little infernos. You start getting a few users here, a hundred here, fifty there… And we did the same thing with the inauguration. And when you have a hundred people here and there, then you obsessively meet them… Paul Graham, our first investor, said it’s better to have a hundred people love you than a million people kind of like you. And the reason why is it’s really hard to build off of a really wide but shallow base. But with a hundred people, you can find out everything they want… You meet them, you spend a ton of time with them, and once they fall in love with your product, they’ll tell every one of their friends. That’s why [Airbnb] took a really long time to start, but it grew much faster later on.”
Video source: @cwclub (2011)
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Senator Wicker: Are we in peacetime now?
Palantir CTO: In my opinion, no. But I think we gotta get the whole country to realize that. https://t.co/XQd7NRyJwU
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Senator Wicker: Are we in peacetime now?
Palantir CTO: In my opinion, no. But I think we gotta get the whole country to realize that. https://t.co/XQd7NRyJwU
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