Tag: business
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Stan Chudnovsky doesn’t remember when CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other top Facebook executives began talking about treating the company’s portfolio of services more like, well, a portfolio. With some of… more ›
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I am haunted by my past mistakes. My managerial ones. Especially as I just finished reading “No Rules Rules” written by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and INSEAD professor Erin Meyer.… more ›
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In 2014, the world was shocked to learn that the carefully coiffed scenes inside Ikea catalogs were actually not real photographs of real objects. At the time, approximately 75% of… more ›
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In 1975, a young engineer named Eric Favre took a trip to Rome that would change the history of coffee. Nestlé’s sleek, chic capsule system changed the way we drink… more ›
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“I was getting laughed out of town when I said I was going to invest in a plant-based burger in 2011,” Mr Kaul said. “I think people really thought I… more ›
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As the COVID-19 pandemic has taken hold of the world, the question of whether venture capital, and early stage investing more broadly, is backing and scaling the innovations our world… more ›
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Chris Dixon, arguably the most prominent venture capitalist focusing on blockchain, is friggin’ tall. https://medium.com/s/the-crypto-collection/why-a-leading-venture-capitalist-is-betting-on-a-decentralized-internet-46ccbd9780c3 more ›
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Nubank is big — really big. With a valuation of $10 billion and more than 26 million users spread across Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, the Brazilian startup is the largest… more ›
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The fortunes of the super-rich have reached staggering levels, and for decades, inequality’s been rising. To get a sense of the scale of the problem, here are three sources. https://thecorrespondent.com/712/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-self-made-billionaire/901152214776-cf03048a more ›