Category: Books
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“For two decades, no Secretary of Defense even bothered to set foot in Silicon Valley…” In 2015, Ash Carter finally changed that. This was the beginning of a wave that launched a thousand defense startups. In 2016, Raj Shah and Christopher Kirchoff took control of Defense Innovation Unit X (DIUx).…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Defense, Department of Defense, DoD, Founders, Military, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology, VC, Venture Capital, War+
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“I’ve come to get what’s mine,” Hetty Green told the bank president. Her entire $25 million fortune was on the line as the bank neared insolvency. And Hetty wasn’t about to take a loss. Hetty prevailed, as she did in so many deals. When she died in 1916, she left…
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+ Finance, History, Investing, Money, Nonfiction, Personal finance, Reading, Stock Market, Venture Capital, Wall street+
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America’s fertility rate is 1.66. I’m part of the problem — 39 with no kids thus far. With so few babies being born, America’s leadership is at risk. So, how do we get people to have some kids around here? Here are a few company ideas that might fix this…
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+ Christianity, Family, Fertility, Health, infertility, IVF, Pregnancy, Religion, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
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China may lose the majority of its population by 2100. Its population has declined for three straight years. This decline will only accelerate. Fertility is rock bottom, at 1.18 children per woman. The one child policy is a major reason, along with increasing urbanization. Right on cue, China’s economy has…
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If current trends continue, the last South Korean will die in 2750. Korea’s fertility rate is 0.72 children per woman, the lowest in the world. But nearly every developed country is below the replacement rate of 2.1. The United States is at just 1.66. And although most of us are…
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+ Brazil, Contraception, Demographics, Demography, Economy, Fertility, Health, India, infertility, IVF, Korea, Medicine, Pregnancy+
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“It was like 24,992 people making dough and 8 losing it.” On September 15 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. It was the largest bankruptcy in American history at the time. Larry McDonald had a front row seat. In the book A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, the former Lehman…
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+ Banking, Economics, Economy, Finance, Investing, Lehman, Markets, Money, Stock Market, Venture Capital, Wall street+
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On January 18th, 2007, Bear Stearns stock reached an all-time high, valuing it at over $20 billion. Just 14 months later, the company was gone. How it happened is the story of the fascinating book Street Fighters. Cracks in the Facade Bear lacked the polish of a firm like Goldman.…
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+ Banks, Finance, Investing, J.P. Morgan, JPM, Money, Personal finance, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall street+
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I finished this book in 72 hours. It was terrifying. Nuclear War: A Scenario describes how a nuclear war could kill 5 billion people. It begins out of the blue on a spring afternoon. How Nuclear War Could Happen In this scenario, North Korea launches a single ICBM at Washington,…
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On September 1st 1939, Hitler attacked Poland. At the time, the US military was only about the size of Holland’s. Some of its weapons dated back to the Civil War. In less than 6 years, America went from having almost no military to winning WWII. This is the story of…
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Antonio Garcia Martinez sold his startup for $10 million to Twitter just a year after founding. Then at Facebook, he was part of the rise of the most successful startup in the last 20 years. This week, I dug into Chaos Monkeys, his inside story of how startupland really works.…
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+ Entrepreneur, Facebook, Finance, Google, Investing, Money, Silicon Valley, Startups, VC, Venture Capital+
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Tremendous 