Curt Doolittle

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  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    When I negotiate in a hostile environment I take the position of holding the moral high ground and ‘stay on message’ creating evidence of a narrative of holding the moral high ground. Most of the time we are punished or sued for honest errors, and get away with our most dishonest and immoral plans. The secret of legal success is holding the moral high ground and betting that the jury will side with you for doing so. I usually go all in and risk the jury. When my peers (board) disagree with me, they lose. Always. I never do a deal where I think I might get sued where I can’t construct a narrative of holding the moral high ground. And the secret is … largely, because you always try to actually do so. its simply the optimum business strategy. There will always be people who think your errors are plans, and don’t see the immoral plans you either did or didn’t take. But build a reputation for never surrendering, favoring litigation, and holding the high ground and it works.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    When I want to buy an overpriced company I open locations or offices or sales teams at its fringes. Most companies cannot tolerate a 20% decline in sales. If you can cause a 20% decline in sales you can cause an 80% decline in purchase price. Mostly because talented people will flee to you. This is why you want free capital, and not to create too much debt or take too much profit. Most companies extract rents and profits and debt to the point where you can’t use capital to extract high ratio wins through acquisitions of people, operations, and customers at windfall discounts. The number of long established companies I have bought this way would astound you.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    When I want to “kill”a company (cause it to collapse) I try to recruit people with grudge, or at least make relationships with people in the company who have a grudge. Every company does something or other totally innocently that is illegal. Then I construct a narrative of intent, and spread it. Then I get insiders to conduct a lawsuit. I have done this a half dozen times. Why? People are selfish and proud and easily provoked to revenge, even at high cost.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    When I want to buy an overpriced company I open locations or offices or sales teams at its fringes. Most companies cannot tolerate a 20% decline in sales. If you can cause a 20% decline in sales you can cause an 80% decline in purchase price. Mostly because talented people will flee to you. This is why you want free capital, and not to create too much debt or take too much profit. Most companies extract rents and profits and debt to the point where you can’t use capital to extract high ratio wins through acquisitions of people, operations, and customers at windfall discounts. The number of long established companies I have bought this way would astound you.

  • Lesson of Rome

    ( I can’t afford to “woo” women without getting myself in trouble one way or another. So I am just complimentary with all of them – as my mother taught me to be. And following her advice, “Find something nice to say” is pretty much good advice all the way around. It’s just absolutely necessary for women and merely helpful for men. 😉 )

  • hard labor, child mortality, early death, disease, suffering, superstition ignor

    … hard labor, child mortality, early death, disease, suffering, superstition ignorance, tyranny and the vicissitudes of nature. Yes, thank you Western Civilization for dragging humanity kicking and screaming into modernity against their will, and hating you every day for it.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 22:38:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1061025344369684480

    Reply addressees: @HumanProgress

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1061022623168167936

    IN REPLY TO:

    @HumanProgress

    In 1820, 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%. https://t.co/mN2Z7uE0oa

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1061022623168167936

  • I am not trying to be scary but to speak in actionable terms. it is a mistake to

    I am not trying to be scary but to speak in actionable terms. it is a mistake to think that this coming revolution will be fought as the civil rights movements and the french-revolution through the 20th century movements have been fought.

    Those were fights of classes using gunpowder against people. The current era is all against all, eroding the economy and infrastructure, and letting the ‘population load’ of modernity crash into chaos.

    I mean, look at history, but, the reason the chinese ended up with 100x the fatalities in war was population load.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 15:08:00 UTC

  • Well her era of undermining the constitution as a statement of natural law, and

    Well her era of undermining the constitution as a statement of natural law, and circumventing it through the court, is almost over. And we will finally restore that constitution once again…. thankfully

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 14:30:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1060902356123049984

    Reply addressees: @MurphyCartoons

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1060901619536183301

    IN REPLY TO:

    @MurphyCartoons

    If you can’t be Batman, be Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We are the People. https://t.co/23GpCfjJoB

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1060901619536183301

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    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 14:19:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 14:18:00 UTC