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 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
Lemonade had set a world record by paying one New Yorker’s claim for his stolen Canada Goose parka in three seconds—the time it took Lemonade’s claims bot to run 18 antifraud algorithms and send bank instructions to deposit $729 in the man’s account.
Jeff Kauflin • First, Fire All The Brokers: How Lemonade, A Millennial-Loved Fintech Unicorn, Is Disrupting The Insurance Business
According to a 2020 study published by Nikkei that analyzed the solid-state battery patent landscape, “Toyota is the leader with 1,331 known patents while Panasonic Holdings is a distant second with 445 patents. Idemitsu Kosan holds 272 patents, meaning Japanese companies held the top three spots.”
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
We write to speculate on the potential for a comeback. Grant’s, don’t mistake us, is bearish on bonds for the long run. If past is prologue, and if there’s anything at all to the fine art of pattern recognition, a new cycle of irregularly rising rates could be upon us, and it might persist for decades, like the 3.5
decade bear bond... See more
caution.
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.
On a chilly morning in downtown Los Angeles, a week after my visit, I put on one of the hoodies Playboy gave me. As I was standing in line for a coffee, a young skateboarder complimented it. After thanking him, I couldn’t help but ask, “What does the Playboy bunny stand for, in your opinion?”
He paused for a while.
“Uhh,
I dunno.
Boobs?”
He paused for a while.
“Uhh,
I dunno.
Boobs?”
Cassidy George • The Play-Doh Bunny: A History of Playboy
we overthink our brand strategy to be remembered as one (or two!) things.
Like everything Warhol touched, it could turn mass culture into counterculture, and vice versa, just by squinting.
Michael Schulman • The Legacy of Interview Magazine and a Trip to 1988
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.