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Ben Bortner

@BenBortner

Business owner and investor. Passionate about fly fishing.

 Key West, FL
linkedin.com/in/benbortner
Joined May 2009
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Whether it's sports or business, the most successful people have the same qualities: 1. They are obsessed 2. They demand excellence 3. The details always matter 4. They are ultra-competitive 5. They have a vision & goals 6. They never stop learning 7. They never quit
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@ZeeContrarian12 Feb 2021
Summary of the GameStop ( $GME) trade so far: 2 billionaires got 1 billion $ of free PR 20 Reddit users became millionaires 2,000,000 people that joined late lost half of their life savings
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Emergency Press Conference - When Did Flattening The Curve Turn Into Finding The Cure
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Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) profile pictureDave Portnoy
@stoolpresidente4 Apr 2020
I’m going to play a game where I sit on my couch and say I’m going to do sit ups in 20 minutes and then when 20 minutes is up I’ll push it back 20 more minutes and do that over and over again until it’s time to go to bed and then run it back tomorrow.
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@ianbremmer1 Apr 2020
Health expenditure as a % of GDP US 17% France 11% Germany 11% UK 10% Spain 8.9% Italy 8.8% S Korea 8% Turkey 4% Though spending doesn’t equal quality…
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Simulating an epidemic youtu.be/gxAaO2rsdIs via @YouTube
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@ianbremmer27 Mar 2020
The US had 89 reported cases of coronavirus at the beginning of the month. Now, it has more than 82,100.
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A chart of unemployment claims. Today's figure is a 30X standard deviation from norm
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Who's ready for this?
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@ianbremmer22 Mar 2020
How did China contain coronavirus? Watch this video from Nanjing, a major Chinese city. It’s detailed...and it’s humbling. Very far from where we are in US or Europe. m.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsdJG…
【感染者为0的城市--南京】日本导演镜头下最真实的南京防疫现场

【感染者为0的城市--南京】日本导演镜头下最真实的南京防疫现场

【免费开放转载权】请联系我们[email protected]继3月初播放的「新感染者数为0的城市——南京」火爆中日之...

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@gifdsports10 Oct 2019
Journalist gets quickly shut down when she asked James Harden, Russell Westbrook if they would refrain from speaking out on politics/social justice after China debacle...
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Cash each company has: Apple $210.6 billion Microsoft $133.8 billion Google $121.1 billion Samsung $80.8 billion Facebook $48.6 billion IBM $46.3 billion Amazon $41.5 billion Oracle $37.8 billion Cisco $33.4 billion Total: $753.9 billion
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Who's Taylor Swift? @Tool #tool #FearInoculum TOOL On Pace To Have #1 Album In The U.S. And TAYLOR SWIFT Fans Are Pissed metalinjection.net/its-just-… via @metalinjection
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Wow, this new #tool album is insane... 13 years was worth it! #FearInoculum
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Try explaining negative rates to a 10 year old... lol
Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) profile pictureLisa Abramowicz
@lisaabramowicz129 Aug 2019
My 10-year-old son tonight: “I want to put my money in a bank, so they can lend it out and then pay me extra. Right? Isn’t that how it works?” Me: “Well, that’s complicated right now...”
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Protestors in Hong Kong are cutting down facial recognition towers.
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$WE vs. its direct comp $IWG all you need to know... (link renaissancecapital.com/IPO-C…)
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I promise not to do this to Greenland!
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Mad respect for Cathay Pacific CEO Rupert Hogg.
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