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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Capri C.E.O. John Idol , who has achieved some of the most impressive financial exits in fashion history. After a few formative years as group president of Ralph Lauren, Idol took over as C.E.O. of Donna Karan, which he helped sell to LVMH for $243 million in 2001. A year later, along with investors Lawrence Stroll and Silas Chou , who already... See more
Coach & Kors’ Marriage of Convenience
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... See more
Jeff Callender • Tips For Starting a Small Business Factoring Company
[...] operators are unlikely to add much supply over the next several years. For one thing, day rates aren’t high enough to justify new orders. Tidewater reckons a rate of at least $38,000 to justify the purchase of a new OSV at an assumed 15% cost of capital. In the second quarter, Tidewater itself was earning an average of $16,042 per day.... See more
While the average for an Affirm loan is 18%, approximately 43% of loans are issued at 0% APR.
Nikita Sheth • How Affirm Makes Money: Their Business Model & How it Works
For a magazine and brand, you want to create as many connection points as possible in the service of hype and media recognition. As a consumer, you primarily just want one person or a specific audience to appreciate you, let’s say your crush or friends. It’s much more targeted. Of course, some magazines and brands act like consumers in an effort to... See more
Claire Koron Elat • The New American Dream Is Sponsored by Meta: ANA VIKTORIA DZINIC
What really works in American fashion is consistency. I’m usually pretty bored by Ulla Johnson ’s shows, but on Sunday morning I couldn’t help feeling dazzled by her three-dimensional florals and dizzying zig-zag knits. (Made me think she’d be a great designer for Missoni, but that brand needs help, and she’s too smart to take on some impossible... See more
September Issues
this needs to go in the article about the missing story behind the Saint Laurent name that Chanel — of the same time period, it can be argued, (YSL and Lagerfeld being direct contemporaries) — has done well with
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
Tim and Nina Zagat, who began printing “The Zagat Survey,” a collection of crowdsourced restaurant reviews, in 1979