You think there's going to be a new song or a really good performance, but there never is or it sounds awful.  The lion kingdom gets let down the same today as 30 years ago upon hearing the Debbie Gibson phone fanclub.  Musician gootube channels are pretty disappointing & their lives come across as extremely boring.  They're not like Casey Neistat who can turn the banal into non stop action.  Even the great pianists don't sound great in their own gootube videos.

Day job is seeking a buyout in 2023.  That will be the end of the lion kingdom's employment, unless it ends sooner.  It'll probably be in the $20-$25 million range.  That's a standard number for every startup of this size.  The number of employees tends to equate to the size of the buyout more than the gross profits.

The lion kingdom's stonk options will probably be worth $4000.  The management pool will get most of the buyout & the CEO will probably get $12 million.  The investors will get $10 million.  The 2 key executives will get $1 million.  The last million will go to the employee pool.  The top guys might get $100,000 as incentives to stay on.  Kind of cringy for someone you work with every day to make 4000x more than you.  

They're trying to grow headcount because after the acquisition, they're going to be asked to get rid of half.  Better to build up & end up equal than chop down to less than you started with.

Lion thoughts are on the next gig just 4-10 months from now.  It'll probably require a draconian commute.  The standing desk empire & piano practicing will go away again.

Kind of funny how all the lion kingdom's buyouts happen during downturns, at rock bottom prices.  The A startups get bought out during the booms.  The B startups get bought out because they need money.

The fed expanded its balance sheet last week & now we're seeing the rise in stonks.  The correlation means the fall isn't over until they announce an end to quantitative tightening.

The lion kingdom still has a long way to go to get to 50% stonks.  Part of the problem is of course its stonk positions shrinking in value.  If you've spent a lifetime thinking stonks are overpriced & now that they're 20% below the peak you're still not buying, when are they ever going to be worth buying?

Lions have been trying to envision what a retirement would be like & predict the cost.  It's probably going to be much like childhood summers, almost entirely spent in a man cave except for the once daily workout.  Maybe there's a once weekly long run.  That childhood summer routine has been trending towards a good predictor of retirement.  Lions don't go anywhere.  We spend our lives just trying to get back to what we did in childhood summers because given unlimited time in those days, we were really trying to find the most productive thing we could do.  The search isn't any different in retirement, but we already have the answer from childhood.

Maybe lions will devote a small segment to playing commodore 64 games, to manetain a connection to the past.  There are very wealthy retirees in San Francisco.  They live in their 1960's apartments, still with 1960's furniture, Fontana condos, Clay Jones apartments, Crest royal apartments.  The central area lions used to run around wasn't where the workers lived.  The workers all lived in the mission district, richmond district, outer sunset.