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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Proenza Schouler’s first big business win was the launch of its PS1 bag. Introduced in 2008 on the back of an investment, the schoolboy satchel — often rendered in a matte, worn-in leather — became a foundational piece in the wardrobes of thousands of women. For several years following the launch, the bag accounted for 80 percent of handbag sales,... See more
The Nine Lives of Proenza Schouler
it’s very Bank 4.0
A $16 Billion Wall Street Lawsuit for the Ages
puck.news
this seems like it could be on the level of Caesar's Palace Coup, Unscripted, or Barbarians at the Gate as far as story goes, though i'll have to learn more about it
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
I don't know if we were financially ready for our show, to be honest. I was impatient. I was ready. If you asked Vincent, our CEO, would probably say “No,” we shouldn't have done a show. I want to do all these things, but he is better with money. But that's why we work as a team. I am an emotional designer
Brenda Weischer • BRENDA’S BUSINESS with PETER DO
In the same way that a natural gas shortage in Europe resulted in record prices for coal worldwide, enforcing scarcity of the most desirous sources of protein would result in a significant inflationary pulse across the entire protein complex
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.
While digging down the Thomas Gold rabbit hole, we found our attention diverted to a puzzling series of events unfolding in the helium market that is as surprising as it is troubling. It is a story of an important and militarily sensitive commodity that almost everybody takes for granted, a decades-old piece of obscure legislation that is slowly... See more
Doomberg • The Other Strategic Reserve
Supima, the luxury brand promoting the use of American-grown Pima cotton
The very best of NYFW SS24: Proenza Schouler, Eckhaus Latta, Dion Lee
what A and i were talking about