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Who's reshaping industries?
Explore which strategies are propelling today’s business titans through easy-to-understand visuals. Stay ahead with engaging content that demystifies complex financial data.
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And this is why Cloudflare has been banned from being used at our company. Our experience wasn’t an isolated incident. Told you.
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Technologies often reach a remarkable level of perfection just before they become obsolete.
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3 to 6 months of hard work will change your life.
Stick to the damn plan.
Everything will turn out fine.
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Barry Bonds is completely in awe that Buck Showalter decided to walk him intentionally with the bases loaded.
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One of the coolest low carbon tech companies, and they're based in SF!
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Beats vs other deals:
Slack: $27.7 billion (Salesforce)
LinkedIn: $26.2 billion (Microsoft)
Whole Foods: $13.7 billion (Amazon)
Skype: $8.5 billion (Microsoft)
Marvel: $4 billion (Disney)
Apple: $3 billion (Beats)
YouTube: $1.65 billion (Google)
Instagram: $1 billion (Facebook)
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This should be a mandatory class in school - if you travel a lot, this is gold xitter.cf/engineering_i0/status/…
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Susquehanna Investment Group (SIG) — the options trading giant based just outside Philly — owns a ~15% stake in ByteDance.
At BD’s most recent publicly available valuation of ~$300B, that stake is worth $45B.
This is all off a $5M investment. 9000x return. Best investment ever?
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One thing clicked when talking to a YC founder this morning. When raising money in many ways the investor is your customer. You shouldn’t do what they say but you should understand their problem and present your company as the solution to their problem.
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Y Combinator understands that not all problems can be solved by the market, so if you are the founder of a non-profit you can also apply to YC.
We went with @OurWorldInData in 2019 and it was super helpful – the partners are great and I very much recommend trying your luck.
The application deadline for the Winter 2023 YC batch is this Monday. You have all weekend to work on your application!
ycombinator.com/apply.html
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Between 2019 and 2021, company boards made significant tactical changes to their operating models.
📊 Learn more in today's #ChartOfTheDay ⬇️
mck.co/3qte2Ns
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Here it is! 🔥
After 100’s of hours of research and writing, excited to release the 2021 ***MAD*** landscape (Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence and Data) - with my colleague @john_d_wu
A crazy, intense, and fun year in the ecosystem
👇👇👇
mattturck.com/data2021/
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Four trends in venture right now:
1. Rising price of seed as multi-stage funds all move earlier.
2. All LPs getting first markdowns from GPs.
3. LPs remain heavily overweight venture with inflated private books.
4. Emerging markets struggle as VCs retrench to core markets.
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If intangibles were factored in, the difference would be even greater since they often aren't measured by TFP based productivity statistics. brookings.edu/wp-content/upl…
Manipulating bits is far easier than manipulating atoms.
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To change your behavior, change your environment.
The better designed your environment is, the less you need conscious effort.
Your environment should be a tailwind, not a headwind.
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We judge ourselves by our good intentions. We are judged by our last worst act.
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Yahoo raised its $2M seed at a ~$8-10M valn in Apr '95
In 5 months, it got a term sheet from a swashbuckling investor at $40M valn
4 months later, the same investor offered an unheard $100M, shocking the Valley
$100M would 2.5x in Yahoo's IPO in 96, the investor was Masa Son
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Great post from @GuptaRK22 about a challenging period in Instacart's history.
rkg.blog/demanding.php
