A Painful Parable about Insurance and Incentives
Plus! Curbside Transition, China Consumption, YouTube Shopping, Triller, Revenge Shopping, Cars as a Store of Value
Plus! Curbside Transition, China Consumption, YouTube Shopping, Triller, Revenge Shopping, Cars as a Store of Value
Plus! Yelp’s Crypto-Coinbase Moment; Life at a Hypergrowth Startup; Microsoft’s App Principles; Square and Bitcoin; More...
Plus! OPEC’s Game Theory; Reddit Returns to Tradition; LendingClub Gets Exclusive; Games Eat the Real World; “Full-Stack SPAC”; More...
Plus! Tesla Goes Post-PR, H-1B Arbitrage, Trade Wars: US vs China or US vs Imports, More...
Plus! TAM Boom; SMB M&A; Brick & Mortar Renaissance; Crude Tools; Copytrading
Plus! China’s Too-Big-To-Fail Developer; Taiwan’s Challenging Economic Neutrality; Recycling vs Monopoly; The Unhedgeable Bound; Measuring the Housing Boom; Liquidation
Plus! Office Politics, Redux; Vaccine as Perk; Who Owns User Data?; Tech Sees Like a State, Test-and-Trace Edition;The Negotiate-With-Hackers Hack; More...
Plus! China and Investment-to-Consumption; Netflix’s Economics at a $1,600 GDP Per Capita; The Product/Ad Bundle; Russia Taxes Tycoons; More...
Plus! Big Tech Sees Like a State; China: Following the Money; Vaccines and the Multi-Armed Bandit; Coinbase and Consistency; {-Shaped Recovery
Plus! Cyber-Risk Insurance and Mutating Incentives; SPACs-Squared; Ideological Competition; Poland’s Green New Deal; Who Buys Gold?; More...
Plus! Supply Chains, SMIC, Second Wave, Vacation Home Homes, Mission Focus, More...
Plus! Google: Benefits and Retention; Tail Risk on Trial; Policy Homogeneity; Procurement; Density Redistribution; Crisis Hormesis; The Other Derivatives Narrative