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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I recently stumbled upon this documentary about the “New Millionaires in Germany,” which included one of the Elevator Boys from TikTok. He said that he makes around 100k a month now but acknowledged that he was able to reach this point because his dad works in investment banking.
Claire Koron Elat • The New American Dream Is Sponsored by Meta: ANA VIKTORIA DZINIC
Quality : Among subscribers, the perceived “quality” for Max is at 55 percent, the same as in January—even as all the other streamers dropped, and well above the 43 percent of Discovery+. So Max is benefitting from the HBO association, despite dropping the HBO brand from the name.
Max Lost the HBO Name But Kept the Brand Halo
someone, everyone, should check back on this to see whether or not this stands in a year or two. the logo for Max doesn't even look premium.
“In the decade before 2022,” the Oaktree authors lead off, “many sponsor- backed companies financed leveraged buyouts by borrowing heavily in the broadly syndicated loan and private cred- it markets—and the majority of this debt had floating rates.” Naturally, the 500 basis-point jump in reference rates spells higher borrowing costs for the... See more
Glossier took pride in creating their own tech for things like point-of-sale and checkout, and perhaps the big irony is that recently, they moved over to Shopify.
After the Gloss: What’s Next for Emily Weiss
When every other designer is scrambling to keep up with the ever-shifting progressive liberal decency mandates, Velez’s refusal to shut her mouth is inspiring. Very few avant-garde American designers feel as authentically American as Velez.
Adam Lehrer • Who’s Afraid of Elena Velez?
Conscious Decoupling
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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
For Coach, the biggest brand in the Tapestry portfolio, the show—a display of oversized leather blazers and pointy-toe jelly flats embossed all over with Cs, with J.Lo in the front row—is a customer acquisition cost.
Could they do it another way? Perhaps. But it’s part of the formula devised by creative director Stuart Vevers , who moved to the... See more
Could they do it another way? Perhaps. But it’s part of the formula devised by creative director Stuart Vevers , who moved to the... See more
September Issues
3G had taken Burger King private in a 2010 leveraged buyout for $4.1 billion, using $1.6 billion of its own equity. At the time, Burger King had one brand—Burger King—and 12,000 restaurants in 70 countries and some $15 billion in revenue. In short order, 3G transformed Burger King into Restaurant Brands International, comprising 30,000 restaurants... See more