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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Independent brands — even those with significant backing — were boxed out by luxury’s biggest players, whose heft gave them a major edge in distribution and marketing, where they enjoy greater leverage with multi-brand retailers, mall owners, real estate developers, magazines, influencers and other key players in the fashion ecosystem. In 2019,... See more
The Nine Lives of Proenza Schouler
“we can't **outspend** these people is what makes me most alarmed
how do you overcome that? what changed, if anything? what leverage can be applied on ad spend and shows?
it might just be storytelling
it's like the old granddad authors who have a pitiful enough looking face for tiktok that their books start flying off the shelves in support
Karp’s genius was to make it look and feel like an important book from an important man.
The Shape of Bridgewater
Resolve Team • What Is Invoice Factoring and Should You Use It? | Resolve
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Less familiar to Western analysts is Idemitsu Kosan, but it is a significant player in the Japanese petrochemical sector. It operates four major refineries and three integrated chemical complexes in the country and generated more than $60 billion in revenue in the past twelve months.
Less familiar to Western analysts is Idemitsu Kosan, but it is a significant player in the Japanese petrochemical sector. It operates four major refineries and three integrated chemical complexes in the country and generated more than $60 billion in revenue in the past twelve months.
Farley conceded that there are “a lot of underwater bonds in the banking system and that can pose financial stability risks because banks are leveraged institutions. If it’s levered 10 to 1 and you have a 10 percent loss, all the equity is gone.” Which, of course, is exactly what happened to Bear Stearns, which at times was levered 50 to 1, meaning... See more
The BofA $136B Dynamite Stick
They sort of combined Clinique and Supreme. The Clinique side was that it was this easy, relatively affordable, but still aspirational beauty system that could feel like it was meant for a [younger] generation. The products were effective if not insanely innovative. And the packaging and aesthetics around it felt completely of-the-moment and cool.
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Amy Odell • Inside the Rise of Emily Weiss's Glossier
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partandwhole.comFor example, Ben Silbermann noticed that a lot of the earliest Pinterest users were interested in design, so he went to a conference of design bloggers to recruit users, and that worked well.
