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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The market took Whitney's skeptical argument and ran with it. On the first day of trading after her report, Citigroup's shares tanked. Four days later, Citigroup Chief Executive Officer Charles Prince resigned. In January, Citigroup slashed its dividend and set out to raise more capital.
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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
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
What Interview became, over the decades, was unmistakably Warholian: a celebrity magazine as art object, in which fame was the raw material. Famous people, by virtue of being famous—or declaring themselves so—were inherently interesting, so why not recruit them into the art of conversation?
Michael Schulman • The Legacy of Interview Magazine and a Trip to 1988
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Neither of them became part of the chic young divorcée industrial complex, but they passed the urge down and let it multiply instead. Perhaps if I ever have a daughter, she’ll come of age in the era of the chic young annulment.
[...] operators are unlikely to add much supply over the next several years. For one thing, day rates aren’t high enough to justify new orders. Tidewater reckons a rate of at least $38,000 to justify the purchase of a new OSV at an assumed 15% cost of capital. In the second quarter, Tidewater itself was earning an average of $16,042 per day.... See more
A $16 Billion Wall Street Lawsuit for the Ages
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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
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