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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Now, six months later, she's probably the most feared analyst on Wall Street. The rise in her status is truly sensational, and due, largely, to a single prediction. On Oct. 31, 2007, she was right, and the world was wrong.
How on earth does that happen? I can think of several possibilities.
1) Meredith Whitney is the only analyst on Wall Street... See more
How on earth does that happen? I can think of several possibilities.
1) Meredith Whitney is the only analyst on Wall Street... See more
Top Financial News
Both ships have a carrying capacity of 28,000 deadweight tons (DWT) so if they were operating at full capacity, and if they offloaded their full cargo, then 56,000 tons of grain from occupied Ukraine has been transferred to Iran in the last eight weeks alone.
Bellingcat Investigation Team • Russia’s Ghost Ships and the Evolution of a Grain Smuggling Operation - bellingcat
One person recently likened LVMH to me as a private equity firm with 40 percent carry rather than 20 percent carry. Not a bad deal.
September Issues
fashion and High Finance
“As media and tech analyst Benedict Evans writes, the industry moves through cycles. ‘People will bundle different Substacks into single subscriptions (and then print them out and mail them once a month - ho! ho!), and unbundle verticals from the NY Times or Instagram.’ It’s all magazines? Always has been. ”
None of them. No Birkins, no SoHo loft, no drivers. I still meal prep every week. I still bring my own lunch. I take the train. Sometimes when I'm really stressed, I indulge myself and take a cab with UNI.
Brenda Weischer • BRENDA’S BUSINESS with PETER DO
You were never going to see her making any kind of public misstep or posting something reckless on social media, which is part of why she’s a bit of a cipher. It was hard to know who she really was or what she really thought. She worked really hard—that was always her personal brand from the moment she appeared on The Hills and that’s what,... See more
After the Gloss: What’s Next for Emily Weiss
Emily Weiss of Glossier
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.
At YC we use the term "Collison installation" for the technique they invented. More diffident founders ask "Will you try our beta?" and if the answer is yes, they say "Great, we'll send you a link." But the Collison brothers weren't going to wait. When anyone agreed to try Stripe they'd say "Right then, give me your laptop" and set them up on the... See more