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An auditorium full of med students jump to their feet, erupting in cheers. They just found out they’re going to school for free. This was the scene at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York in February (you can see the video and news story here). The source…
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“You’re entering the best world that’s ever existed…” Warren Buffett Warren sits on stage, flanked by men he respects and loves working with. From that perch, he gives out priceless advice on investing and life. Today, I dug into the third hour of the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. Warren tells…
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“Warren, if people weren’t so often wrong, we wouldn’t be so rich.” Charlie Munger I’ve always wanted to watch the whole Berkshire annual meeting. This year, I’m finally doing it, and I’m sharing everything I learned with you guys! This will be a 5 part series going throughout this week.…
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At age 29, Charlie Munger’s marriage was falling apart and his son was dying of leukemia. “A friend remembers that Charlie would visit his dying son in the hospital and then walk the streets of Pasadena crying.” I cannot imagine anything worse. And yet, Munger came back from it. He…
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Coinbase is one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges. Its market cap is $64 billion. But in the summer of 2012, founder Brian Armstrong was in a dimly lit Silicon Valley office, practicing his pitch. Let’s dig in! What the Heck Is Bitcoin? Brian does a wonderful job of explaining…
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Today, GitLab is valued at over $9 billion. But in 2015, it was a tiny startup with just a couple employees. Let’s dig into their YC Demo Day pitch. GitLab is a platform for software development. It lets developers collaborate, version control their code, and more. Who Ever Saw an…
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Shares of New York Community Bank are plummeting, down 24% today so far. NYCB is in serious trouble, but it’s highly unlikely to spark another banking crisis. The stock is tanking because NYCB discovered “material weaknesses” in tracking loan risks and replaced its CEO late last night. It’s been a…
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+ Banking, Banks, Finance, Investing, Money, New York, New York City, NYC, NYCB, Startups, Stock Market, Stocks, Tech, Venture Capital+
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Coinbase is the world’s 2nd largest crypto exchange. But in 2012, the company was barely getting off the ground. Let’s dig into the deck they used to pitch investors at YC Demo Day… Explaining What Coinbase Does Right on slide #1, founder Brian Armstrong makes clear what Coinbase does: it…
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+ Bitcoin, Coinbase, Crypto, Entrepreneur, Finance, Investing, Silicon Valley, Stocks, Tech, Venture Capital, YC+
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One company, TSMC, makes almost all advanced semiconductors. The US wants in on this game — but TSMC founder Morris Chang says it won’t be easy. In a fascinating talk this past fall at MIT, Chang tells the story of why so much chip manufacturing wound up in one little…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, GPU, Mexico, Semiconductors, Stocks, Taiwan, Tech, TSMC, Venture Capital+
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Warren Buffett started out buying businesses at the lowest possible price. One day in 1965, a young man named Charlie Munger told him he was doing it all wrong. Buffett had just bought Berkshire Hathaway. At that time, Berkshire was a struggling textile mill, not the conglomerate we know today.…
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