Tag: Finance
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“We love recessions. Best time to invest in our experience.” That’s Don Valentine, founder of Sequoia Capital and perhaps the greatest VC of all time. Today, I dug into a fascinating talk he gave in 2010 at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe!…
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Masayoshi Son’s Softbank Group may launch a third, massive venture fund. From a report that broke this morning in The Wall Street Journal: Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! The first two Vision funds, massive at $99 billion and $56 billion respectively, have not performed well. The first is up…
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Note: This is not financial advice. Robinhood Markets is launching a new index fund to track meme stocks. From a report that broke this morning in The Wall Street Journal: Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! The new index will increase demand for meme stocks, especially those weighted heavily like…
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Like everyone else, I get invited to a ton of Zoom calls these days. Even if the information sounds useful, I often don’t have time to attend! But what if I could read a brief, accurate summary of every call in minutes? Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! That’s what…
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Who will be the last fast food worker in California? Yesterday, California passed a new law dramatically raising fast food wages. It sounds like a victory for the working class. But it’s likely to put them out of a job. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! From Bloomberg: California Governor…
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Hedge fund manager Neil Phillips has been arrested in Spain this week. He is charged with masterminding a market manipulation scheme that reached from the UK to Asia. His strategy shows how hedge funds manipulate markets from currencies to stocks. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! From a new report…
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Every day, founders pitch me on their startups. This morning, I thought “Why not turn the tables for a change?” So I pitched 3 VC’s on a startup idea. But they weren’t your usual investors — all 3 were robots. 🤖 Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! These robot VC’s…
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Note: This is not financial advice. Fails to deliver in shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings hit massive levels this month. Failed trades peaked at over 700,000 shares, according to a report out this morning from the SEC. They remained in six figure territory for all but two days in the…
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Morgan Stanley, already under federal investigation in the US, is now facing another probe. This time, it’s in Korea. From a report that broke last night on Bloomberg: Morgan Stanley’s stock short selling practices are being inspected by South Korea as part of a broader effort by the nation’s financial…
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Mark Twain is one of the greatest American authors. But not many people know he was also a venture capitalist. A phenomenally bad one. Twain lost the equivalent of nearly $10 million* in a single investment: the Paige Compositor. Invented by James Paige, it was one of the first typesetting…
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Tremendous 