Longreads + Open Thread
Russia, Japan, Documentaries, Financial Engineering, Pollen, Grocery
Russia, Japan, Documentaries, Financial Engineering, Pollen, Grocery
Plus! Equities in Málaga; Competition; Bailouts Done Right; Adam Neumann's Skin in the Game; Celebrity PE
Plus! The China AI Stack; Closing the Loop; Ads and Addiction; The Second-Order Costs of Inflation; Fraud and Transaction Costs
Plus! P2P+; Real-World Abstractions; China's Unicorn Shortage; Living in the Unevenly Distributed Future; Housing: The Long-Term View
Plus! Frontend Omnichannel, Backend Specialization; Another Business Mafia; Cloud Computing: Cheap Because it's Expensive; Apple's Leads; Black Starts; Smart Lamps
Plus! Gamestop Loss; Gramscian Bitcoin; 2 & 20 Media; Funnel Capture; Airline Loyalty Programs as a DTC Brand; Palantir, From The Inside
Plus! Slack, Salesforce, and Aggregation; Germany Pays Up to Preserve Intra-Eurozone Transfers; RIP Giscard; Stripe Treasury and Legibility; GP, Inc.; Scale.ai
Plus! Coming Attractions, Fortnite and Apple, Apple's Other App Problem, Theaters and Two-Sided Networks, AI Economics, Wealth Taxes, and much more...
Plus! Big Tech M&A, European Vacations, Reverse Hong Kong, Microsoft-on-Microsoft Disruption, and more...