$RIVN Long
I'm putting 20% of my net worth into $RIVN for a 5 year+ hold, similar to big bets I made previously on $UI in October 2023 and $MCW in October 2025. The point of this post is not to convince anyone they should do the same, it'
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Focus
Two years ago I stopped reading the news and left the social media feeds. It's not a new idea. But I did it with a particular seriousness. I installed apps on my iPhone and MacBook to block everything with no way for me to bypass... more on that
Investing
This post is about my journey as an investor. For everyone who commented "You need to put that it's not financial advice in your posts! Investing has risks!" Here's for you - This is financial advice. Sue me. I went from no-investing, to day
Leaving a Legacy
Inheritance, Charity, & Thousand-Year Families I just finished reading this book and it answered so many questions I've had about inheritance and charity that I want to write some of it down as a reminder to my future self and blueprint for this area of my life.
Ubiquiti - Russia, Epstein, and Diddy
Before I get into it, full disclosure I'm long $UI having bought $100K at $115/share and planning to hold forever. With that out of the way, some of you might have read the Hunterbrook short seller hit piece about Ubiquiti last week "Ubiquiti: The U.S.
iPhone Claude full stack dev - no VPN, no remote desktop
Cursor finally released a proper iOS app for this, making my guide irrelevant now https://cursor.com/blog/ios-mobile-app This is not going to be a guide on how to use Cursor web agents or the Claude Code iOS app because those are too limited in functionality. The
I played 1,000 hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI
In the last two weeks I spent over a dozen hours playing poker, primarily online at pokerstarsmi.com , and live at a local casino . You can view the last 1,000 hands I played here: https://poker.rchase.com I spent at least as much time reviewing my hands with
Ramp is not a credit card
I listened to a My First Million Podcast episode today with Sam Parr interviewing Eric Glyman about his experience founding and building Ramp , one of the fastest growing startups in history. It's one of the few to ever reach a $1B valuation and $100M run rate in just
Profit First
I've paid myself over $3M in after tax profits since starting HostiFi in 2018. A year ago I implemented Profit First controls into my business. I had been hearing about the concept for some time from people I follow on X , various My First Million Podcast guests, Andrew
My $250K acquisition and the start of a Ubiquiti roll-up
This is the story about how I bought our biggest competitor Hubox and migrated all of their customers into the HostiFi platform. I'll share the lessons learned along the way... including why I finally decided to merge instead of run each separately, and how I plan to do
2021 year in review
It's been 3.5 years since I launched HostiFi now. Probably the coolest thing that happened this year is the business crossed $1M ARR in September, 10Xing from $100K ARR just 2 years ago. Revenue also exceeded $1M this year for the first time. Server count increased from
Implementing Tailscale at HostiFi
It's been a year and a half since my last blog post, $374K ARR . I've been keeping busy again! A lot has happened since then. I won't go into all the details, but I want to fix this gap in the blog post timeline
$374K ARR
It's been 4 months since I wrote a blog post . I've been keeping busy. Today I just feel like I have a lot to say so here's an update about what's on my mind and the challenges I'm working through
☁️Why we’re reinvesting in our UNMS cloud hosting product
At HostiFi , we are currently managing support and updates across 780 Ubiquiti servers for our 713 customers, who have connected tens of thousands of devices. The majority of the servers are UniFi, only 81 are UNMS, and we have a handful of UniFi Video servers managed as well. Before UCRM
💀RIP Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud 2017–2019 (Alternatives)
Yesterday I was searching for “UniFi Cloud Hosting” on Google as I do occasionally to check the organic search ranking for https://hostifi.net, and I found out that Ubiquiti had quietly shut down their own UniFi cloud hosting service. So I posted about it on Twitter to