Which also explains the reaction.

The (sadly, repeatedly dammed) Catawba, and the French Broad. I grew up in the Piedmont, but had family in the mountains.

Same sort of dumbass cop who puts a Punisher sticker on their car. Experts at missing the point.

30-50 million barrels, not billion. But great piece, thank you.

The fact that it has a title on the badge is a red flag as well.

I have my issues with Newton, but I think he's done good work here. There were a lot of things about the post that made my BS meter twitch, and I'm glad someone bothered to do some checking (AI reliance aside).

Absolutely. Outreach was a competitor at the time, but there are a lot of folks in the space, and they primarily care about recurring rev, not reputation.

This stuff has been around for over a decade. I'm sure the current providers are using some form of ML to produce leads, but this is all generic automated sales lead generation. Not industry-specific by any means. For reference, I worked at a now defunct service provider for this stuff.

They have systems that generate leads which pull stuff from data brokers based on a set of criteria. If a human even bothered to look at the list before it was pushed out, I'd be stunned.

Huang could cash out tomorrow and never, ever have to worry about his finances. The man is demented.

I'm pretty sure I didn't need the level of anxiety this video gave me!