Jayhawkjeff
@jayhawkjeff.bsky.social
"Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable." - Leonard Cohen
Jayhawks/Broncos/Jazz/Royals
I do VC @rsv.bsky.social, teach @ UVF Crossroads, and complain here!
Jayhawks/Broncos/Jazz/Royals
I do VC @rsv.bsky.social, teach @ UVF Crossroads, and complain here!
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Jayhawkjeff
@jayhawkjeff.bsky.social
· Nov 5
I fully intend to convince someone to give me a crack at turning Pizza Hut around. I'm a 4X CEO, 3X Founder (including a VC Firm), and dedicated Pizza Hut Fan. I KNOW I can do this!
My five point Pizza Hut Turnaround Plan. Please forward this to a PE Firm manager. Re-Skeet to spread the word. 1/7
My five point Pizza Hut Turnaround Plan. Please forward this to a PE Firm manager. Re-Skeet to spread the word. 1/7
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Who are the brands on here doing the best customer service/organic promotion? Any favorites?
December 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Who are the brands on here doing the best customer service/organic promotion? Any favorites?
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Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
Who are the brands on here doing the best customer service/organic promotion? Any favorites?
December 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Who are the brands on here doing the best customer service/organic promotion? Any favorites?
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Final:
Jazz 130
Grizzlies 126
Jazz 130
Grizzlies 126
December 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Final:
Jazz 130
Grizzlies 126
Jazz 130
Grizzlies 126
Knows better than to work for a PE firm in this particular instance.
NEWS: Kyle Whittingham, the all-time winningest head coach in the history of Utah’s football program, will step down from leading the Utes.
He’ll wrap up his career with the Las Vegas Bowl on Dec. 31.
He’ll wrap up his career with the Las Vegas Bowl on Dec. 31.
December 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Knows better than to work for a PE firm in this particular instance.
A bit of end of year data from Crunchbase. This is the number of venture "seed" financings over $100M. LOL 😀 This likely won't end well for a number of investors.
December 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A bit of end of year data from Crunchbase. This is the number of venture "seed" financings over $100M. LOL 😀 This likely won't end well for a number of investors.
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Remember, under the Trump administration, you can celebrate the birth of Jesus; it’s legal now. But also Mary and Joseph would have gone bankrupt delivering our Lord and Savior. Just before they got kidnapped by ICE agents. www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...
Dingus of the week: The Republicans’ plan for health care | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz
Get more from Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz on Patreon
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December 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Remember, under the Trump administration, you can celebrate the birth of Jesus; it’s legal now. But also Mary and Joseph would have gone bankrupt delivering our Lord and Savior. Just before they got kidnapped by ICE agents. www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...
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once this nation learns the hard way that destroying public health isn’t an option for modern life, PH workers need to unite to demand fair pay. our field already had terrible pay before the years of inflation, during which pay has not gone up, exactly
December 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
once this nation learns the hard way that destroying public health isn’t an option for modern life, PH workers need to unite to demand fair pay. our field already had terrible pay before the years of inflation, during which pay has not gone up, exactly
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In the 9 pm CST hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, tenor saxophonist Wardell Gray, recorded in 1953. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
In the 9 pm CST hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, tenor saxophonist Wardell Gray, recorded in 1953. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
This is not a seed round. Arguably there's not even much intent to build a company. This is an outsized technology gamble. I swear to Sweet Baby Christmas Jesus there are people out there building real companies and using plausible amounts of money to do so.
Unconventional AI confirms its massive $475M seed round | TechCrunch
Led by Naveen Rao, the former head of AI at Databricks, the new hardware startup is valued at $4.5 billion.
techcrunch.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is not a seed round. Arguably there's not even much intent to build a company. This is an outsized technology gamble. I swear to Sweet Baby Christmas Jesus there are people out there building real companies and using plausible amounts of money to do so.
This is incredibly heartening news.
Another eye-opening @pewresearch.org finding from the past year: Young men in the United States are souring on legal sports betting (even as they remain among the groups most likely to do it).
Look at this change in only three years. ⬇️
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Look at this change in only three years. ⬇️
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
December 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is incredibly heartening news.
Are we doing Medicare For All To Own The Libs today? Gotta be honest, didn't have that on the bingo card.
December 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Are we doing Medicare For All To Own The Libs today? Gotta be honest, didn't have that on the bingo card.
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Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
Together with health insurance and an easily navigable regulatory regime, this is one of those things that REALLY gooses entrepreneurial activity.
A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
Chattanooga’s Municipal Fiber Network Has Delivered $5.3 Billion in Community Benefits, New Study Finds | Welcome to Community Networks
Since 2011, a new study finds that Chattanooga's city-owned fiber network has generated $5.3 billion in net community benefits for Hamilton County. Conducted by researchers at the University of Tennes...
communitynets.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Together with health insurance and an easily navigable regulatory regime, this is one of those things that REALLY gooses entrepreneurial activity.
For those of you interested in my VC musings... "Through Q3, a top 15 VC firm has participated in 3.5% of all pre-seed, seed and early-stage rounds... The total value of these rounds now accounts for a record 21% of all capital deployed at these stages" vs 14.4% prior
pitchbook.com/news/reports...
pitchbook.com/news/reports...
Q3 2025 Emerging Tech Indicator - PitchBook
The Q3 2025 Emerging Tech Indicator provides an overview of tech startups receiving early-stage investment from the world’s most successful venture firms.
pitchbook.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
For those of you interested in my VC musings... "Through Q3, a top 15 VC firm has participated in 3.5% of all pre-seed, seed and early-stage rounds... The total value of these rounds now accounts for a record 21% of all capital deployed at these stages" vs 14.4% prior
pitchbook.com/news/reports...
pitchbook.com/news/reports...
2-0. A little less confident in this next one, but we will do it live!
Jazz v OKC!
Jazz v OKC!
December 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
2-0. A little less confident in this next one, but we will do it live!
Jazz v OKC!
Jazz v OKC!
They’re going to agree to play BYU, sell it on SEGPlus and split the money for themselves. And that’ll be the end of it all.
10-2 Notre Dame announces it will not accept a bowl bid after missing the playoff.
December 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
They’re going to agree to play BYU, sell it on SEGPlus and split the money for themselves. And that’ll be the end of it all.
I don’t really have a dog in this hunt, but why don’t ALL Josh Allen memes include a ‘78 Camaro in Bills Blue? (T-Tops optional but preferred)?
December 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I don’t really have a dog in this hunt, but why don’t ALL Josh Allen memes include a ‘78 Camaro in Bills Blue? (T-Tops optional but preferred)?
1-0
Jayhawks, then Donkeys, then Jazz! Huge sports day for us
December 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
1-0
Jayhawks, then Donkeys, then Jazz! Huge sports day for us
December 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Jayhawks, then Donkeys, then Jazz! Huge sports day for us
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Flash Gordon
What’s your favourite movie that YOU KNOW is fantastic, and you couldn’t care less if movie snobs would say it “isn’t real cinema?”
December 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Flash Gordon
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This is neither here nor there, but because this came up in a random conversation yesterday, and sometimes I think everyone could use a distraction of something fun and entertaining mixed in with your doomscrolling, here is the best card trick ever performed on TV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Kc...
Dani DaOrtiz at Fool US 2022 (the act that Penn and Teller didn’t even try to figure out.)
YouTube video by dani daortiz
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This is neither here nor there, but because this came up in a random conversation yesterday, and sometimes I think everyone could use a distraction of something fun and entertaining mixed in with your doomscrolling, here is the best card trick ever performed on TV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Kc...
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A research team at the University of Utah uncovered a rare piece of computing history.
University of Utah team discovers rare computer relic
A research team at the University of Utah uncovered a rare piece of computing history.
www.ksl.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A research team at the University of Utah uncovered a rare piece of computing history.
This is correct. It’s also one of the easiest ways to build trust in an age of declining trust.
I've been saying this for a year now: the Democrats have missed a gigantic political opportunity--and, at this point, have failed in an ethical obligation--to create a shadow-government health department that dispenses medically accurate information, guidance, and advice.
WATCH: A CDC panel voted to end the recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, despite a 99% drop in cases since in the 30 years since it was implemented. Chris Hayes and Brandy Zadrozny react. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6REM...
December 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is correct. It’s also one of the easiest ways to build trust in an age of declining trust.
This is worth watching closely. Perhaps a tipping point.
This would be a mammoth investment into pro sports by a private equity titan. Arctos owns shares of franchises across different leagues. In the NBA, it owns stakes in the Warriors, Jazz, 76ers, and Kings.
FT Exclusive: US private capital group KKR is in talks to acquire Arctos Partners, one of the pioneers of the private equity industry's push into professional sports. on.ft.com/3XzZegz
December 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This is worth watching closely. Perhaps a tipping point.