Diego Segura

BW: We’ll say “in his private life he is taken. In business, he’s on the dating apps.”

PD: Open marriage.

We were inspired by the Picasso quote that only art critics talk about the Big Ideas, real artists help each other find cheap turpentine.

Last year I burnt myself out on introspection and developed a personal philosophy to “take action towards things I think I want until I can come up with a good reason to stop.”

In effect, SVB didn’t have the technological infrastructure to handle the influx of deposits that came into it during the pandemic, nor the investment skill to manage all that new money. It took what appeared to be a safe route of investing in long-dated Treasuries but failed to recognize that in a rising interest rate environment they would lose... See more

Charles Schwab, the financial-services company, began as “Investment Indicator,” a newsletter first published in 1963.

It just makes me think, [the V.C.s] are bad at their job. It’s part of why Barbie is considered such an extreme thing, or a Taylor Swift concert. Men, and I mean largely white, cis men, think male culture is just culture. God forbid that they have to think about something that is not squarely targeted at them. That they can’t possibly try a... See more

the climate doesn’t care about our history or our politics.