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“Cynicism is the coward’s way out.” Jason Calacanis Last week, I thought, “Wouldn’t it be awesome to be on This Week in Startups some day? Maybe many years from now.” A couple days later, it happened! Jamming with JCal Host and angel investor Jason Calacanis was doing a Q&A session with some rabid fans. I […]
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Salvatore Gravano, a made member of the Gambino crime family, walked into a room with a heart shaped bed. The sheets were red velvet. Mirrors lined the ceiling. This was no romantic getaway. Gravano had just murdered the most powerful mob boss in the country. Now he was on the run. In an engrossing episode […]
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Gambino family boss Paul Castellano had a problem: he couldn’t get hot water in his shower. The mansion he had built on Staten Island’s Todt Hill was so large that water cooled in the pipes before it could reach the bathroom. The contractor he got to help him was a rising star in the Gambino […]
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In southern China near the border with Laos, there is a mine. To this day, it is heavily guarded by the Chinese government. Any journalist who tries to visit is detained. Inside the mine: the possible origin of the COVID pandemic. Scientists identified the animal that first transmitted the original SARS virus (SARS-CoV-1) within 6 […]
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At its widest point, Russia spans nearly 5,000 miles from the Vistula Spit in the west to the Kuril Islands in the east. In 1994, its military numbered 1.4 million. It had a massive air force and heavily armed infantry, along with the latest technologies like guided missiles. Chechnya is a small, impoverished region about […]
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Army / Chechnya / Combat / History / Insurgency / Leadership / Military / Military history / Russia / USSR / War / Warfare¶¶¶¶¶
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In the last year, a torrent of money has flooded into Exchange Traded Funds (ETF’s) that track the stock market: Over the last 12 months, about $650 billion has flowed into stock and bond ETF’s, a flow that’s unusually large versus history and may help explain why markets have been so strong. Despite the attention […]
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ETF / Index Funds / Investing / Money / Morgan Stanley / Personal finance / Stock Market / Stocks / Trading / Vanguard¶¶¶¶¶
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“I owe everything to America.” That’s Thomas ‘Drago’ Dzieran, who left Communist Poland in the 1980’s for freedom in America and became a Navy SEAL. His path to the teams is singular. Drago began to oppose Communism at an early age. He refused to learn Russian in school and was promptly hauled to the principal’s […]
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Communism / Drago / Freedom / Jocko / Jocko Podcast / Jocko Willink / Leadership / Military / Navy / Navy SEALs / Podcast / Poland / SEAL / SEALs / Service¶¶¶¶¶
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“You can break down Robinhood into a series of small steps, the first one being start Robinhood, and every subsequent one being some variant of don’t stop and keep going, right, and you end up where we are today. “ In his mid-20’s, Vladimir Tenev lived in New York City. His apartment was tiny and […]
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Angel Investing / Angel Investor / Entrepreneur / Entrepreneurship / Guy Raz / How I Built This / Interviews / NPR / Podcast / Robinhood / Startup / Startups / VC / Venture Capital¶¶¶¶¶
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What motivates subordinates? A fat paycheck, stock options, maybe a free trip to Hawaii? Perhaps. But on Monday’s Debrief podcast, Navy SEAL Commander and author Jocko Willink named another, more powerful inducement: “Ownership is the most powerful compensation you can give a human being.” People want control over their lives, including at work. So, rather […]
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Bosses / Employees / Executives / Extreme Ownership / Jocko / Jocko Podcast / Jocko Willink / Leadership / Navy / Navy SEALs / Organizations / SEAL / SEALs / Strategy¶¶¶¶¶
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“Everybody thought I was crazy.” That’s Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase. When he started the company in 2012, it was a small and quirky startup. Bitcoin had only been in use for three years and remained relatively obscure. But now, it’s safe to say not many people think Armstrong is crazy. His company just went […]
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