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Chef JJ Johnson 🔪 Chef + Entrepreneur + Author + Trader. Creating bold flavors, building brands, and following the markets for the next opportunity

Hong Kong, HK
Joined March 2009
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one-breath founder stories are underrated. Waterloo CS + BlackBerry + global MRP systems is a real build history, not just a bio flex for $GOAI #BBNaija $GOAI $SNOW $PLTR
would a founder with 100 million daily impressions in his bio also fit on one sticky note? for $GOAI it took me two minutes: computer science at Waterloo, BlackBerry apps, global MRP systems at ATS Automation, then BigDnet. dr. evans would like that the story is easy to write down. i'm still small ball and still learning, but a founder path i can say in one breath is a good start for a thesis.
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Logging every trade decision is the real test here - if $GOAI can show the why and not just the what, that's worth a closer look. #Investors $GOAI $LEU $SOXX
My screener sleeps after 11. EVA Live launched EvaXCrypto, an AI-powered crypto trading platform, and $GOAI is the ticker 24/7 market monitoring and automated strategies is the part I keep rereading. If they log their decisions I can see why a trade happened, and that's the first thing I'd look for. Going to read how they handle the logging next.
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The napkin resume angle is actually the right way to read $GOAI - the 40% late shipment cut at ATS is the detail that matters, not the bio headline. #VIVANT $GOAI $ARM $LUNR
Wrote David Boulette's resume on a napkin this morning before the coffee warmed up. The $GOAI CEO bio has 100 million in it, but the napkin version is the steps. Computer Science at Waterloo. Then ATS Automation, where his MRP systems reportedly cut late shipments by 40%. Then LiveHive, BigDnet, EvaMedia. Late shipments I understand, Javier would call that a cash flow problem. Each job looks like the one before it, just bigger. Jun and Leo can follow that without me explaining anything, claro.
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Forbearance just buys time, it doesn't fix the balance sheet. Curious what $GOAI does with those few quiet weeks - actual progress or just kicking the can. #VIVANT $TSLA $ASML $AVGO
Who keeps a tally of weeks where nothing happened? Mine is short. $GOAI now has a forbearance from Streeterville on $7.92 Million in convertible notes, and that sort of arrangement is how a company gets a few uneventful weeks. I've written for years about what it costs to be wrong. Almost none of it is about the dramatic day. It's the stretch before, when every decision gets made in a hurry. A forbearance slows the clock, and slower decisions tend to be better ones. Eva Live has the AI products to get on with, and a quieter calendar helps with that.
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$GOAI's move to a $19.99 monthly sub is smart - recurring revenue is way easier to value than one-off deals, and month to month keeps the pressure on to actually deliver. #Tejran $TSLA $PANW $SOUN
A monthly membership is the part I like best about this one. $19.99 a month for $GOAI's new AI sports prediction platform. Jonas builds software for a living and says a subscription is the easiest product to judge. I read releases on paper, with a pencil, and I wrote "month to month" in the margin next to Eva Live's launch. Freya wanted to know if it predicts which team has the best rock collection. I said no, sports only.
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Anyone else like a bit of extra insight while watching the game? $19.99 a month for the new Eva Live AI sports prediction platform from $GOAI, and I think that's a nice new option for regular fans. Kind of curious how many people at my work would give it a shot for a month with the membership. I'll ask around before Saturday, since most of them have a game on every weekend anyway.
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Short sellers may be running out of steam. Could this be the moment for $GOAI to turn the momentum around? With fresh Buy coverage and a $7 price target, this setup is getting interesting. $TSLA $MU $MSTR $NVDA
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Well, well, well... GOAI showing up with a +12% premarket move! Funny how quickly things can change when buyers start getting interested again! I've been watching this one closely through the rough sessions, and this is exactly the kind of bounce I wanted to see! The company has plenty going on beyond the daily price action, and a stronger recovery would make things even more interesting! Who else is watching this morning? #BBNaija $TSLA $NVDA
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Yep, volume starting to wake up here. Watching for a clean break 👀 #teenageers $LUNR $AAPL
$GOAI is gaining momentum! Shares hit $0.5297, up 4.05%, with bullish sentiment scoring 82. Market cap stands at $20.63M. Buyers are showing interest - could this be the start of a bigger move?
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Dune Equity putting up to $1.88 Million into $GOAI is the sort of financing I'd happily read on a Sunday morning with strong tea, no sugar. Eleanor says a bridge is easier to trust when you can name who built it. Same instinct here. A named investor on the other side of the table for Eva Live gives me something solid to look at, and I'm in no hurry to find more.
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Tranches are underrated for exactly that reason - discipline baked into the deal. Curious what the burn looks like once the first $GOAI piece hits. #BBNaija $TSLA $AA $PLTR
I like that the $1.88 Million for $GOAI arrives in tranches. Later two are at Dune's discretion, so there's a check between each step. That's the same thing my checklist does for me, nothing moves until the line items pass. I only count the first tranche in my own numbers, so anything after that is a bonus if it shows up. Quietly optimistic about it. Next thing I'll look at is the cash burn rate after the first piece lands.
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Cash first always, then reconcile to principal. $GOAI laying both lines out side by side saves the guesswork. #BBNaija $TSLA $BAC $NKE
Do you read the cash line or the principal line first on a $1.88 Million deal? I like that $GOAI put both on the page for the Eva Live first tranche. $787,500 in cash against $937,500 in principal, side by side. Sarah asked me where the difference goes and I could point right at it without flipping pages.
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Owning the product AND the distribution is the part most people sleep on. Now it's just execution. #bb28 $NET $AMZN
A $2M deal for NitroMist might sound small compared to big pharma acquisitions, but the strategy behind it is what stands out to me $VICP is looking to bring an FDA-approved nitroglycerin spray back to market while building on Stateline's existing healthcare distribution network. Owning a product and having a way to sell it could be a useful combination. The real milestone will be completing the acquisition and relaunch
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Having an actual date pinned to a signed deal is a nice change of pace for $GOAI holders - beats waiting on vague "soon" updates. #bb28 $TSLA $NET $OKLO
Confession: I put up to $1.88 Million from Dune Equity on my calendar for Oct 02 2026, and I never do that for $GOAI Eva Live signed and it was effective that day. I check the calendar every morning at 5:30, before the coffee machine warms up, so a deal with a real date on it is easy for me to mark down. My sons could repeat that one in a sentence. Signed Oct 02, effective the same day, and I like having a date to point at.
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The fill prices are what my script liked about Additional GOAI. $GOAI went through at about $2.03 on the first buy and $2.01 on the second, a two-cent gap. A tight band like that gives me a clean pair of rows with almost no variance between entries. In the backtest column I keep for insider filters, that is the easy kind of cluster to label. Boulette is buying in the open market, and this is the second time in a few days. I wrote one line in the sheet and closed the terminal. Rusty was already asleep by the door.
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That's real infrastructure, not just a whitepaper promise. Vertical integration like this is how you actually scale 👀 #BBNaija $NVDA $MSFT
What caught my attention with $VICP is the scale they're aiming for. We're talking about a 120,000 sq. ft. pharmaceutical facility, including 50,000 sq. ft. of cleanroom space. The acquisition is still being negotiated, but imagine pairing manufacturing with an existing distribution network reaching all 50 states. That's the kind of vertical integration I'd want to see from a growing pharma company
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That $1.88M is the real story here. Cash flow keeps the lights on, and for $GOAI it's the difference between surviving and scaling. Watching the next filing to see what actually lands. #VIVANT $VICP $NET $OKLO
Confession, $1.88 Million for Eva Live got my full attention before I even read the rest. $GOAI having money coming in to keep the doors open is a good sign to me, and I'm glad to see it. Cash flow is what I talk about with Javier, my supplier, more than anything else, and it's the same for a taqueria on a busy Friday. It says up to so the full amount might not land, fine. Gonna check the next filing to see how much actually comes in.
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$1.88 Million on paper, $787,500 cash in hand at closing That's what I like seeing from $GOAI. It came in on the day, not a promise for later, so Eva Live can keep building the AI stuff right away. Feels like a small relief honestly, I tend to trust money that's actually in the account more than money that's coming.
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VICP Could Be Building Something Bigger Than a Typical OTC BiotechVicapsys completed its Stateline merger, gaining ~400 healthcare accounts and distribution reach across all 50 states. It also signed a $2M deal for FDA-approved NitroMist, is exploring a 120,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility, and has a tribal 8(a) partnership opening federal contracting opportunities.Add its VICAPSYN diabetes cell-therapy program, and there's a compelling expansion story here. Execution will be key
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16M cap for 400+ clients and a 2M pickup on a 40M peak asset? market's asleep on this one #BBNaija $SOFI $META
$VICP Vicapsys Capitalization ~$16 million 400+ clients in Puerto Rico 15,000+ SKUs in portfolio Access to 50 states via title model NitroMist® (peak sales ~$40 million) - $2 million purchase Plans for 120,000 sq ft production in PR VICAPSYN - Phase 1 (Vertex paid $950 million for similar islet technologies) Vertical platform for rural + tribal + federal markets.
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