Diego Segura
@diegosegura
designer, writer, founder. currently obsessed with monetary theory, high finance, corporate law, regretting dropping out of high school, and sudoku. author of a 2018 book, “the dropout manifesto.”
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The magazine’s patented celebrity-on-celebrity dialogues compounded the formula, like mixing colors on a palette. Instead of a journalist to interview Jack Nicholson, get Julian Schnabel. (For the results, see the April, 2003, issue.)
Michael Schulman • The Legacy of Interview Magazine and a Trip to 1988
While Lemonade’s growth has been steep, so too has its learning curve. At the end of 2017, its loss ratio—the amount it pays in claims divided by the premiums it collects—was an unsustainable 166%, compared to 65% to 70% for large insurers.
Jeff Kauflin • First, Fire All The Brokers: How Lemonade, A Millennial-Loved Fintech Unicorn, Is Disrupting The Insurance Business
Mayo said he’s been talking to the Financial Accounting Standards Board and “they aren’t going to change 40 years of rules right now. So the reality is they don’t have to sell.”
The BofA $136B Dynamite Stick
40 years sounds like a long time but it's basically the length of the now-previous bond market, which i would represent as only one cycle of bond-bullishness
I’m a very trusting person by nature, and I tend to believe people more readily than is sometimes wise. In this business, you must trust people to a degree, but it is crucial you make sure what you’re buying is not only legitimate, but that the account debtors have received the goods or services, intend to pay without any issues or offsets, and wil... See more
Jeff Callender • Tips For Starting a Small Business Factoring Company
While digging down the Thomas Gold rabbit hole, we found our attention diverted to a puzzling series of events unfolding in the helium market that is as surprising as it is troubling. It is a story of an important and militarily sensitive commodity that almost everybody takes for granted, a decades-old piece of obscure legislation that is slowly dr... See more
Doomberg • The Other Strategic Reserve
a portion of that monthly payment you’re making is actually embedded interest because the investors bought it at a discount. So there’s an effective interest component up to this. Pipe actually has thought of this and they have a really nice little report inside their marketplace that shows you the discount or component of interest. And your accoun... See more
Scott Orn • Accounting for startup financing from Pipe
- UK Limited Partnerships acted as intermediaries for over 17,000 imports into Russia between 24 February 2022 and 31 March 2023.
- None of these Partnerships have controlling partners or persons of significant control in the UK.
Ross Higgins • Frontline Facilitators: How Secretive UK Partnerships Supply Wartime Russia - bellingcat
I used to get all huffy about Ralph Lauren shows because they don’t budge one bit forward. Maybe I’ve softened, but I not only don’t care about that any more, I don’t think they should. Lauren is really like Lagerfeld of America, and his ideas hold up. The revolution will come when it’s time.
September Issues
the famous line in Hemingway ’s The Sun Also Rises , “How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly.”