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The firm was making bigger bets than it would ever be good for and nobody in the executive office seemed to understand or care. To criticize the firm’s direction was to be branded a traitor and tossed out the door.
Andrew Ross Sorkin • Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialSystem--and Themselves
Carta’s Conundrum
The current events aren't exactly a masterclass in PR ninja moves. But public statements aside... this conflict of interest was inevitable, and has been brewing for years. If you dig deeper, there’s almost no other way for their strategy to have played out, given the corner they are painted into and... See more
hari raghavanx.comI'm convinced Rippling is a psyop.
VCs hyping Parker Conrad, giving him $2B, calling it revolutionary
Meanwhile, every screen takes 10 sec to load, clunky UI, missed payrolls, hiring errors. Nobody I know likes it.
The product makes me want to lie down in the... See more
Roshan Patelx.comAvoid taking advice from someone who gives advice for a living, unless there is a penalty for their advice.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
En 2 mois, la retraite de ce mec a perdu 25%. Je veux que sur les plateaux, on matraque tous les abrutis de la droite qui défendent la retraite par capitalisation pour leur demander s'ils pensent toujours que c'est une si bonne idée ?
François Malaussenax.com
Weekend Musing: The CEO Who Cried Awesome
"They are the CEOs who always say everything is going perfectly according to plan, even when it's clearly not"
An excerpt from Josh Schimmer at Cantor https://t.co/ArCyfGhedF
Deel is arguably the worst O1 processing company of *all time*
If you’re a founder, stay away. Paid for all the expedited bs, and have heard 0 updates since May
It was for a simple renewal too.
Incompetence has permeated tech startups
simp 4 satoshix.comIn the most direct human terms, LTCM’s problem was group-think. Under John Meriwether, there was an organizational culture in which questions of risk were pressed only so far. This appears to have led to systematically rosy projections. Too little of the fund’s brainpower went to skeptical probing of what could have gone wrong.
William Poundstone • Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
“reading the room” will always be the death of worthwhile analysis. if you lack capacity to say things mocked by the public, you lack capacity to add value when the public is wrong
not every contrarian is useful, but you should notice when contrarians are right
TracingWoodgrainsx.com