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Howard Lindzon shared thisFresh on my newsletter We were promised Web 3.0 and all we got was Deglobalization, Degeneracy and Slop..The World Is About To Get Weird https://lnkd.in/g-xnK5hqWe were promised Web 3.0 and all we got was Deglobalization, Degeneracy and Slop..The World Is About To Get WeirdWe were promised Web 3.0 and all we got was Deglobalization, Degeneracy and Slop..The World Is About To Get Weird
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Howard Lindzon shared thisone of the best wealth secrets people dont take advantage of...Howard Lindzon shared thisMost advisors have never heard of a box spread. Even fewer know you can borrow money through one. Here's how it actually works. Say I need $95,000 today. I use a box spread to make a promise to the market: I'll pay back $100,000 in a year. The other side of that trade — usually a hedge fund — sees a guaranteed return backed by the OCC, the clearinghouse that sits behind every options trade. The return is locked in, so they're willing to give me the cheapest rate they can. So they give me $95,000 now. I pay back $100,000 later. That $5,000 difference is my cost of financing. That's what we built at SyntheticFi — the infrastructure that makes this trade accessible to financial advisors and their clients. No bank. No underwriting. No questions about what you're using the money for. What used to require a $10 million minimum and a call to a trading desk, we've made available starting at $10,000. The mechanics are the same ones hedge funds have used for decades. We just made it accessible to more people. If you're an RIA and want to learn more about how we can help your clients, check SyntheticFi out. 🔗 Link in comments #WealthManagement #FinancialAdvisors #BoxSpreads #PortfolioLending #SyntheticFi #RIA #AlternativeLending #OptionsTrading #FinancialPlanning #Fintech Rates may vary. Box spread strategies involve risk. Rate comparisons are based on specific assumptions and results are not guaranteed. Not suitable for all investors.
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Howard Lindzon reposted thisHoward Lindzon reposted thisYou can now launch, host, and monetize your podcast entirely on beehiiv. Publish an episode, share it with your subscribers, and track performance and growth—all in one place. No more juggling tools. No more paying three platforms to do one job. And no more giving up your revenue, because we don’t take a cent. Welcome to the podcast era.
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Howard Lindzon shared thisFresh on my newsletter... Momentum Monday - The Selloff and Degeneracy Accelerate...Here Comes The Fear https://lnkd.in/gNYhAisAMomentum Monday - The Selloff and Degeneracy Accelerate...Here Comes The FearMomentum Monday - The Selloff and Degeneracy Accelerate...Here Comes The Fear
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Howard Lindzon posted thisFresh on my newsletter... AI Ate The Internet, Facebook is Guilty and Somehow Apple Wins Again...Distribution Is King And catching up on the birst and death of software ht @loganbartlett @punchuplive @MParekh https://lnkd.in/gHQ_evTt
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Howard Lindzon reposted thisHoward Lindzon reposted thisHoward Lindzon has called $YOU (CLEAR Secure) the “Degen Stock of the Week” — and the thesis is simple: When TSA lines stretch for hours, convenience becomes a necessity, not a luxury. CLEAR is capitalizing on that shift, turning frustration with public infrastructure into a premium consumer experience. The Stocktwits community is buzzing. Some see $YOU as a stock that could keep growing because once people experience skipping long TSA lines, they won’t want to go back. Others think it’s just a licensing business that can only go so far. Which side do you fall on, big growth or limited upside?
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Howard Lindzon shared thismy weekly podcast ..Howard Lindzon shared thisIs the market actually rigged, or is that just a trap for young traders? In the latest episode of The Howard Lindzon Show, Howard and Michele Steele dive into the volatility of Truth Social and why "TSA dysfunction" is the best free marketing for the newest Degen Stock of the Week, CLEAR. They also discuss the upcoming Cash Tag Awards at the NYSE and why Robinhood’s pivot into betting might be a major branding risk for long-term investors. Full conversation: https://lnkd.in/daKpJR_z
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Howard Lindzon reposted thisHoward Lindzon reposted thisFast Company just named Ribbon one of the most innovative companies in the world. Here's what that actually looked like behind the scenes: two years of people telling us this would never work. Candidates will hate talking to an AI. Recruiters will never trust it. Enterprises will never buy it. We heard some version of that in almost every meeting for the first year. Then one recruiter tried it. She interviewed 300 candidates overnight. She told someone, that person told their VP, and it spread from there. Now we've done over a million AI interviews. Harvard Business Review analyzed 70,000 of them and published a full report. Fortune 100 companies run tens of thousands a month on our platform. Nobody who said this would never work was wrong to be skeptical. AI interviewing sounds weird. It sounded weird to me when we started. We just built it anyway.
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Howard Lindzon reposted thisHoward Lindzon reposted thisOur startup SyntheticFi didn't start as a whiteboard eureka moment. It was developed from an idea when I tried to help a billionaire family buy a ranch in Texas. In 2021, I was 23 and working at a single‑family office in Dallas. The family wanted to buy a ranch and asked me to find the best possible borrowing rate. We had a prime brokerage relationship with a major Wall Street firm, but the relationship was strained. The family didn't trust the rate they were quoting us to borrow. So I started researching alternatives. I called former colleagues from my time at The D. E. Shaw Group. I asked around at hedge funds and I scoured Reddit. One idea that kept coming up was box spreads. There was a subreddit called r/PMTraders (it stands for portfolio margin traders) that kept mentioning box spreads as a cheap borrowing method. A box spread is an options strategy that replicates a loan. You combine two spreads on the same underlying index. The result is a fixed repayment obligation at a rate tied to the risk-free rate, not a bank's spread. Hedge funds had been doing it for years. Most individual investors had no idea it existed. I made some calls to Cboe Global Markets. I found an NBER working paper that confirmed the math and realized we could borrow 50 to 75 basis points cheaper than the investment bank was quoting us. We bet the ranch on it, so to speak. After the transaction, I tried to do one for myself but was told the minimum borrowing amount was $10 million. I didn't have $10 million. That was the problem that my co-founder Tony Yang and I wanted to solve. We launched SyntheticFi to give RIAs and their clients access to the same strategy. We went through the 2023 Y Combinator program and launched officially a year later. It’s now possible to borrow as little as $10,000 against your investments in a brokerage account at a firm like Charles Schwab as collateral and still save big on rates. Everyone’s a billionaire now.
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Howard Lindzon liked thisHoward Lindzon liked thisYou can now launch, host, and monetize your podcast entirely on beehiiv. Publish an episode, share it with your subscribers, and track performance and growth—all in one place. No more juggling tools. No more paying three platforms to do one job. And no more giving up your revenue, because we don’t take a cent. Welcome to the podcast era.
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Howard Lindzon liked thisHoward Lindzon liked thisGlobal IPO the Great Rewiring of Capital Markets book goes live today! I want to thank everyone who pre-ordered. Feedback has been fantastic. The theme of new wave of IPOs, driven by technology, demographics and geo-politics is resonating with founders and investors. I want to thank the many experts whose discussions, feedback and, in some cases, research helped sharpen the story. Especially: Jay Ritter, Patrick Kelly, Ian Newton, Jason Gold, Patrycja Kula-Verster, Howard Lindzon, Alexandre Lazarow, Dani Lipkin, Richard Metcalfe, Rona Nairn, Key Compton, David Gammon, Chris Mayo, CFA, David Trainer, Thomas Lawrence, Stuart Nutting, Scott Coyle, Max Cunningham, Philipp Pieper, James Posnett, Martin Graham, Kevin Maney, Mark Williams, Simon French, Evan Sohn, John Daly, Jon Prideaux, Adam Kostyal. Beiting Cheng, Mannie Gill, Ariel W., Stephen Davis, Tony Friend and David Weild IV https://lnkd.in/e46rPhEE
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Howard Lindzon liked thisHoward Lindzon liked thisWe just released the final wave of the 2026 Cashtag Awards presented by Polymarket and it’s time to submit your votes. We’re highlighting the companies who truly put the investors first and celebrating the story stock that captured everyone’s attention. We want your help crowning the winner. Our nominees: AST SpaceMobile, American Eagle Outfitters Inc., Micron Technology, Opendoor, Palantir Technologies, Strategy, and Ondas Inc. Who gets your vote for leading the way? cashtag.stocktwits.com/
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Howard Lindzon liked thisHoward Lindzon liked thisHowdy folks - Spent the last few weeks vibe-coding a private network for owner-flown pilots. My hunch: folks in the Aerial Economy already cross paths - same airports, same corridors - and never meet each other. Terminal solves this. If you fly yourself, message me. Let's connect! https://lnkd.in/g6MJppuk
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Howard Lindzon liked thisHoward Lindzon liked thisDay 2 was a big one for us at Future Proof Citywide in Miami 🌴 Excited to be here with the team — Zachary Conway, Kelsey McKenna, Kelly Forst, Timothy McClatchy Yesterday Zach joined Dave Nadig and Brian Portnoy, CFA at the ETF.com Beach House to talk about the evolving investment landscape and what's next for advisors and investors. We wrapped the day at our Seeds happy hour, complete with a magic show. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say hello - always great to meet others building in this space. If you're around tomorrow, come say hi at booth 600 in the Al Playground!
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With over 20 years of experience in co-founding and growing startups, I have a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities in the sector, and how to leverage seed capital, strategic partnerships, and my relationships to create value and impact.<br><br>As the Director of SoCal Startup Day, my mission is to support and empower the startup ecosystem in Southern California and beyond, by connecting founders, investors, mentors, and experts, and providing them with the resources, insights, and guidance they need to succeed. I also manage the ARC Angel Fund, a New York-based fund that invests in early-stage companies across various industries and regions. Through these roles, I have been able to contribute to the development of hundreds of startups, and to be recognized as one of the Top 40 Under 40.
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