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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Years ago, I was a modeling agent, and I thought, my gosh, brands would actually get a lot further if they used a celebrity versus a model because of the amount of impressions that a celebrity would garner . I left the agency, opened up my own company, and here I am 30 years later.

The Tao of Shemarya

fashion and media

this is a very brilliant, situation-specific “business transformation” / idea that lead to a very successful move for him there are a million of these waiting to be discovered or already have been discovered by people with ideas but lacking the capital, time, or empowerment to go pursue them within organizations i.e., the modeling agency he worked for itself

To understand Khaite, you’ve got to view it like a merchant. (I liked the pin-tucked gazar dresses; they reminded me of this Marc Jacobs look from his Spring 1998 collection.) Holstein is very much in touch with what women with money want to wear. When I saw Yael Aflalo , founder of Reformation—another Stripes investment, which turned out very well... See more

September Issues

fashion

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

media

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.

SVB went from $70 billion of deposits to $200 billion of deposits, thanks in large part to the pandemic. “If somebody had an I.P.O. one day, they had $100 million in checking, the next day they had $3 billion in checking,” the executive continued. “Or if somebody made a deal one day they’d have $500 million in checking and then they’d have $1... See more

Confessions of a Former SVB Executive

In many of the most prominent cases of grain being exported from sanctioned Crimea, media reports detailed how a fleet of handymax ships such as the Mikhail Nenashev, Matros Shevchenko (IMO: 9574195), Matros Koshka (IMO: 9550137) and Matros Pozynich (IMO: 9573816) were pictured in Sevastopol with their AIS disabled.

They would then head out into the... See more

Bellingcat Investigation Team • Russia’s Ghost Ships and the Evolution of a Grain Smuggling Operation - bellingcat

foreign affairs

fascinating

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

Assume, again, a one percentage- point drop in the bonds’ respective yields. In that case, the U.S. Treasury 1.875s of 2051 would rally by 24%, to 74.30 from 60.15, and the on-the-run 30-year Treasury, the 4.125s of 2053, by 19%, to 116.69 from 97.91.

High Finance

Aesthetically, it was clean and crisp, but also felt fun. It ran in parallel to the rise of Instagram, and it photographed really well. And then they had the backing of Into the Gloss, which they crowdsourced ideas from. And built-in fans, since there was a culty excitement about the site and the people who worked there.

After the Gloss: What’s Next for Emily Weiss