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Yglesias’s newsletter, “Slow Boring,” has a readership that includes more than six thousand paid subscribers, and he is making twenty-seven thousand dollars a month

“I have to tell you, I was the only person there whose name I didn’t know,” Heilpern says.

At times, three to four new essays by Publius appeared in the papers in a single week. Garry Wills observes that this fast pace of production "overwhelmed" any possible response: "Who, given ample time could have answered such a battery of arguments? And no time was given."[

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.)

Lemonade had set a world record by paying one New Yorker’s claim for his stolen Canada Goose parka in three seconds—the time it took Lemonade’s claims bot to run 18 antifraud algorithms and send bank instructions to deposit $729 in the man’s account.

The company takes 25% of insurance premium revenue for administrative costs and potential profits. The other 75% is used to fund customer claims, buy reinsurance (laying off some risk) and pay certain taxes and fees, with anything left going to charities that customers choose. The social-compact pitch: Lemonade can’t profit from denying legit... See more

A recent study by McKinsey found that the average life-span of companies listed in Standard & Poor’s 500 was 61 years in 1958. Today, it is less than 18 years. McKinsey believes that, in 2027, 75% of the companies currently quoted on the S&P 500 will have disappeared.

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