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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the merger of these two companies speaks to the predicament of American fashion, which is not focused on managing brands so much as it is about managing businesses
Coach & Kors’ Marriage of Convenience
Tapestry and Capri
For 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.
Paul Graham • Do things that don't scale : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator
the image maker of the future will probably be the person who has the most highly sought-after taste and always gets it right.
Claire Koron Elat • The New American Dream Is Sponsored by Meta: ANA VIKTORIA DZINIC
To be clear, Buffett is the largest economic shareholder in Paramount but Shari still controls nearly 80 percent of the voting stock
Are You There, Aryeh? It’s Me, Shari…
Shari only owns 10% of the company, and that 10% first-class stock has 80% of the voting shares, which is wild. Back in the L*s M**nves days, they tried a “nuclear option” with Marty Lipton to provide a dividend to the second-class shares that didn't give money but instead granted votes, which would have the Redstone shares powerless. It never went through.
BW: We’ll say “in his private life he is taken. In business, he’s on the dating apps.”
PD: Open marriage.
PD: Open marriage.
Brenda Weischer • BRENDA’S BUSINESS with PETER DO
Do we need more show reviews or do we need to know how much the show cost?
Brenda Weischer • BRENDA’S BUSINESS with PETER DO
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
Because the essays were initially published in New York, most of them begin with the same salutation: "To the People of the State of New York".
The Federalist Papers
Almost immediately, I raised $1.1M from an all-star cast of angel investors and venture capital firms, including Max Levchin, Chris Sacca, Ron Conway, Naval Ravikant, Collaborative Fund, Accel Partners, and First Round Capital. A few months later, in May 2012, we raised $7M more. Mike Abbott from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), a top-tier... See more