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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In April, after the Fashion Trust U.S. awards, she estimated her debt to be about $90,000. Her creditors include factories that are starting to get mad, she said, but also people central to her team, like the designer Andrew Curwen, who is owed a few months’ worth of invoices.
Jessica Testa • Should Making It in Fashion Be This Hard?
- 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 should mention one sort of initial tactic that usually doesn't work: the Big Launch. I occasionally meet founders who seem to believe startups are projectiles rather than powered aircraft, and that they'll make it big if and only if they're launched with sufficient initial velocity. They want to launch simultaneously in 8 different publications,... See more
Paul Graham • Do things that don't scale : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator
The good news for Arnault is that he’s raised a highly accomplished group of five children—all of whom are in the business and doing well, by many accounts—from which to choose a successor. There is Delphine , his only daughter, who is 48, a member of the LVMH board and executive committee and the C.E.O. of Christian Dior Couture. Her brother,... See more
Iger’s Buyers & the Arnault Dynasty
The authors of The Federalist intended to influence the voters to ratify the Constitution. In Federalist No. 1, they explicitly set that debate in broad political terms:
It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies... See more
The Federalist Papers
She was very fond of saying, “People ask, is Glossier a tech company? Is it a beauty company? And I say, yes.” It was a little bit trendy, a little bit sexy to be a tech company in that age. And if you are a tech company, that justifies the amount of funding you're getting and can potentially raise your valuation.
Amy Odell • Inside the Rise of Emily Weiss's Glossier
In Hawaii, where insured property losses exceed $3 billion dollars, homeowners face rising insurance premiums as a result of climate disasters. Californians are familiar with this pain: State Farm and Allstate have already stopped offering homeowner policies in the state due to a combination of government-imposed rate caps, expensive reinsurance,... See more
America’s Carbon Bill Is Coming Due
[Tidewater] sold $250MM of senior unsecured bonds maturing in 2028 with a 10 3/8% coupon at a price of 99.
- they now trade at 102 to yield 9.8%, a spread of 522 basis points over Treasurys, or 124 basis points wider than the average single-B spread.
- implies they are “deep junk”... See more
In the same way that a natural gas shortage in Europe resulted in record prices for coal worldwide, enforcing scarcity of the most desirous sources of protein would result in a significant inflationary pulse across the entire protein complex