Longreads + Open Thread
Bhutan, Espionage, Regulatory Capture, Art, Documents, Coordination, Missing Billionaires
Bhutan, Espionage, Regulatory Capture, Art, Documents, Coordination, Missing Billionaires
Plus! Adani; OpenAI; Retail Investors; Data Businesses and Penn & Teller Marketing; Prime Brokers
Plus! Recurring Revenue; Disclosure and Alpha; Merger Waves; "Buy Again"; Uber and Logistics
Plus! Living and Dying by Game Theory; Password Economics; Tax Refunds and Platform Economics; Jocks and Range Restriction; The Vanishing Crypto Bailout Fund
Plus! FTX Addenda; Slack and M&A Integration; The Global Meme Stock Rally; Shrinkage; The Coasian Border in Ridesharing; Diff Jobs
Lewis, Replication, Taxonomies, Graphs, College, TMT, SBF, Words
Plus! Advice; Vertical Acquisitions; The ETF Curse; Aging Industries, Aging Founders; Bundles and Blank Pages
Plus! Audience of One; Bonds; "Nessie"; Switching by Increments; Emoji Reactions
Plus! A US Debt Crisis is the Best Variety of Bad News; App Convergence; Economic Convergence; Celebrity Endorsements; Elsewhere in Social
Plus! New FTX; Apple Search; The IPO Window; Markets in Everyone; The Dollar; Diff Jobs
ATMs, Crypto, Crypto (Again), Databases, Economists, Me, Shareholder Letters, Tyco
Plus! Defining AI Property Rights; Going Horizontal; Mandatory Pivots; The Retroactive SPAC Crackdown; Strategic Acquisitions