“People, People, People. They are what matters. You can start something incredible with the wrong people and fail or start an average idea with the right people and win.” | learn more
“Think for a minute about your friendships. Some friends you would text with any silly thought; others you only call a couple of times a year. Some are people you look up to; others you like, but do not especially […]
This statistic was a strong opener to the article. “We’re filling our lives with so much junk that the U.S. now has more self-storage facilities than McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger Kings, Starbucks and Walmarts combined. That’s around 50,000 storage complexes.” | learn more
Jason Cohen doesn’t think exponential growth is a thing. He offers an alternative model that better fits a variety of growth data from hypergrowth products and companies. Lots of great charts to make a strong semantic point. | learn more
“Hyman Minsky was a 20th-century economist whose ‘financial instability hypothesis’ is probably the best-known explanation for the boom and bust cycles that characterize public financial markets. … We’re currently in the midst of an unprecedented boom in private market activity. […]
“Advanced techniques are applied to study patterns of growth, failure, value evolution, and performance.” This form of analysis has proven valuable across multiple classes of investments. The pace of VC deals nowadays might provide enough data to apply the approach […]
“With most of the public insuretechs now down somewhere in the neighborhood of 90%, it’s pretty clear that the hype cycle is over and there’s no need to pile on anymore.” | learn more
It’s too easy to read into this as an abdication of duty by prosecutors. Maybe they should get more benefit of the doubt? Maybe not. “Prosecutors wouldn’t charge him with shooting 2 women, so CPD overrode their decision. Prosecutors drop […]
A deep look at how shipbuilding improved over time. This is a set of two articles written to draw analogies between shipbuilding and building construction. | learn more
“The Flying Fox is 136 metres long and every millimetre is custom made.” | learn more