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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
McKinsey’s own robust earnings make it possible for the firm to run a private hedge fund for senior partners, with large parts of its roughly $31.5 billion in assets under management concealed behind a tangle of shell companies on an island tax haven in the English Channel.
Walt Bogdanich • When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
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Christopher Kai • Big Game Hunting
Starbucks books as pure profit from cards deemed lost or permanently inactive. For
Hermann Simon • Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything
the optimal startup team in 2025 is 5 people.
1 engineer. 1 designer. 1 product lead. 1 growth lead. 1 ops person
that's it.
the engineer starts the day in Cursor. they paste in a product idea, and Cursor instantly generates the scaffolding. they edit inline with... See more
GREG ISENBERGx.comIn 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 v... See more
Confessions of a Former SVB Executive
to whom that new wealth will go. At the same time, success or failure
John Elkington • Green Swans: The Coming Boom In Regenerative Capitalism
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 billi... See more