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Phil Bak
@philbak1
Founder/CEO Skyline Standard
Detroit & NYC
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    Phil Bak
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    Jun 16
    Wrote about a road trip with my kids, an obscure song, and the decay of America and our capital markets. This was a deeply personal post, hope it resonates with you.
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    Phil Bak
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    Sep 30, 2025
    Friend of mine wasn’t getting his raise request. I told him to show up next day w haircut, best suit, carry one of those resume folders, and to leave late morning for an hour to sit in a coffee shop, then come back quietly like nothing happened. The next week he got his raise.
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    Boring_Business
    @BoringBiz_
    Sep 30, 2025
    When your analyst leaves the office for 2 hours on a Tuesday for a “doctors appointment”
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    Phil Bak
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    May 12, 2025
    Boomers will literally wait in a hotel line to tell someone at the front desk that they are "checking out" instead of just going home.
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    Phil Bak
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    Mar 25, 2020
    Family friend, healthy male about 65 or 70, was about to go on ventilator last night for covid at NYC hospital. They gave him the new drug cocktail (hydroxychloroquine and whatever else), woke up this am breathing easily and no fever. Firsthand story.
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    Phil Bak
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    Nov 12, 2022
    The most remarkable two paragraphs ever written in human history
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    Phil Bak
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    Sep 30, 2025
    Replying to @philbak1
    There’s an element of showmanship that they don’t teach in any MBA courses. So much of business is about showmanship, moxie and swagger. Not to say you don’t need substance behind it, of course you do. But charisma, gusto and risk-taking are in far shorter supply.
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    Phil Bak
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    Sep 16, 2023
    I ask this with all sincerity: What is the game plan here?
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    Phil Bak
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    Jun 16, 2022
    "my mortgage is 2.5% fixed" is the new "have fun staying poor"
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    Phil Bak
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    Dec 22, 2020
    BTC $385 BTC $23,440
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    Phil Bak
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    Sep 6, 2025
    Replying to @jasonscheer
    The moment this young man became a lifelong republican
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    Phil Bak
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    May 12, 2025
    Replying to @sadvalueinvestr
    I don’t think it works that way anymore
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    Phil Bak
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    Jun 18, 2022
    Early this morning one sell order of 653 BTC took 5.9% off Bitcoin’s price in one trade. $MSTR owns 129,218 Bitcoins. What happens when they are forced to liquidate?
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    Phil Bak
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    Sep 30, 2025
    Replying to @FromWhiteCastle
    He didn’t have to beg or scream or anything. Didn’t have to say another word.
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    Phil Bak
    @philbak1
    May 12, 2025
    Replying to @teddyfuse
    LMAO, I think the hotel will be able to figure it out on their own
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