What venture firms first paid for Slack shares (IPO price $26, now trading at $40.75) $0.04 @accel / andrew $0.10 a16z / John O'Farrell, Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 $0.66 Social Capital / Mamoon Hamid $2.55 Kleiner Perkins / John Doerr, Alex Kurland ; @gvteam/M.G. Siegler, Dave Munichiello 🇺🇸

The most important thing that happened today is often only apparent in retrospect. For example, Google was founded on Sept 4, 1998. But that event was not on the front page of national newspapers. Even the founders didn’t know how big it would be.

El Segundo Office Building Sells for $170M | Los Angeles Business Journal labusinessjournal.com//news/2019/jun…

Amazon and Microsoft both chose this mixed-use environment for their Houston offices, expecting other tech tenants to follow suit. bizjournals.com/houston/news/2…

This is it people! The reckoning has come. Oil has a supply problem, a demand problem and an OPEC problem. We've seen this movie in 2014/15/16. It doesn't end well. Companies MUST cut capex, stop growing, protect themselves. Time for industry leadership! #ValueOverVolume

Sequoia's letter to founders and CEOs today. "It will take considerable time - perhaps several quarters - before we can be confident that the virus has been contained. It will take even longer for the global economy to recover its footing." tinyurl.com/s4cfkd2

It’s Monday, March 9, 2020 Oil markets suffered today their biggest one-day plunge since the Gulf War in 1991 after Saudi Arabia launched an all-out price war after the collapse of OPEC+ talks Brent is down 27%, after falling earlier as much as 31% #OOTT bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

So much speculation about all the cash Berkshire was holding. Now it looks like a great move.

decisive leadership here - timely actions that will benefit tenants and investors. Lots of value add MF investors that stretched for deals are going to struggle to hit return targets.

timing, timing, timing.

Quick read on five key steps for hospitals to shift their operational focus during this Black Swan event.

The first at home test kit for #COVID19 available from hiçkimse. They took quick action to develop a test and are selling the kits at cost - consultation, test kit, and shipping are all included in the price.

The apartment vacancy rate in San Francisco rose to 6.2% in May, up from 3.9% only three months ago + rents down 9%. wsj.com/articles/once-… via The Wall Street Journal

"You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out." - Warren Buffet

this episode was well worth listening to. Ted Seides is a phenomenal interviewer.

Items highly subsidized by the government are highlighted.

John wall shared some deep truth in this article. I'll be rooting for him this season. He was a consummate professional in Houston, even while dealing with these dark thoughts.

Helene looks like it's going to be a bad one. Wishing the best for the people of Florida.

A good five minute watch on how the US is utilizing Australia as an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" to stage for a potential war with China over Taiwan. youtube.com/watch?v=a3HhPU…