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Over and over again, the financial system was, in some narrow way, discredited. Yet the big Wall Street banks at the center of it just kept on growing, along with the sums of money that they doled out to twenty-six-year-olds to perform tasks of no obvious social utility.
Michael Lewis • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Education platforms will become Big for Adtech — Ad dollars go where the eyeballs go.
Mercedes Bent • The Future is Happening Now: Accelerating into a New World of Edtech
The company is an OPM addict, borrowing debt or selling stock to raise boatloads of Other People’s Money.
Benjamin Graham • The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed (Collins Business Essentials)
Seeking wealth is not always in fashion. In a society correctly concerned about the acceleration of income inequality, wealth looks like the unfair allocation of a rigged system.
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
Today, it is hard not to notice the prevalence of equity culture. Every employee optimizes their stocks and options. People frequently move between companies to build a portfolio of equities. Employees of successful startups want to become angel investors. Second-year MBAs want to be founders or VCs. Nobody wants to miss out on the next equity succ... See more
John Luttig • Finance as culture
10k @ $10 / yr — Gig economy: e-books, drop shipping, transactional gigs
Jonathan Hillis • Six economies of online creators
Yet in the US$32 billion industry for financial data, Bloomberg is the dominant player, with a third of the market. Its position has become even more entrenched over the past ten years, as those around it have lost market share.