Watch this youtube.com/watch?v=9rHkXf…

Deleting Snapchat and Instagram to detox then going on Twitter is like stopping smoking and drinking then snorting Cocaine

We’re delighted to add Mark Carney to Stripe’s board: stripe.com/newsroom/news/…. Mark has served as Governor of both the Bank of England *and* Bank of Canada. He’s also the current UN Special Envoy for Climate Action. We’re looking forward to building the Stripe of 2030 with him.

I have no idea whether or not looming TV channels from Rupert Murdoch & Andrew Neil intend to ape Fox News. But it will be interesting to see how they react to the sudden availability of the highest profile Trump-loving, Meghan-hating, ‘anti-woke’ warrior in the land.

A Korean top prop trader Bill Hwang was liquidated of his entire 15B position on over 80B gross notional exposure yesterday ... might be among the biggest liquidation in recent years for a Aisa prop shop Many of his position are Chinese big tech stock like TME, BIDU, VIPS etc

1/ Make It Rain: Coinbase Earnings Will Blow You Away Coinbase is releasing their Q1 earnings tomorrow, before IPOing on the 14th. Will they blow Q1 expectations out of the water? Why should the broader crypto community care?

0/ The Coinbase 🛡️ team announced 1Q21 data including revenue of ~$1.8B, adj EBITDA of $1.1B, NI of $730-$800M, trading volume of $335B & assets on the platform of $223B (11.3% of cryptoasset market) with 56M users Run-rate of $7.2B in revenue / $4.4B in EBITDA / $3.0B of NI.

There are ~50 U.S. companies publicly traded today that provided a 15 yr IRR > 20% vs. the S&P's 8% IRR. A couple interesting things to note:

Monkey plays Pong with his mind

Soon our monkey will be on twitch & discord haha

I’ve asked my 3rd year illustration students at just be. to come up with a post-pandemic New Yorker magazine cover. Here is what they sent in:

I've spoken to 2,000+ people about remote work in the last 12 months A few predictions of what is likely to emerge before 2030 [ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍

Tom Cruise has attended the Wimbledon singles final (both men's & women's), the Euro 2020 Final with David Beckham, and the British Grand Prix...all within the last week. What a life.

I finally upgraded to 8 monitors this week. Now I lose money trading 8 times faster.

Got my 3rd microchip injected into me today🤨 Joking aside..science is the best. Thank you scientists, thank you doctors and health care workers for the incredible work you are doing ❤️

أبو عمّار London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine agreed all around in #canada we have a serious problem with our #psychoboyfriend Justin Trudeau .... who came out as truly fascist - and hateful.... ...it's everywhere darinsdesk.wordpress.com/2022/01/07/tru…

CHART OF THE DAY: Oil traders continue to pile up their bets on $100-plus Brent crude, with the **open interest** for Dec 2022 call options at $100, $110, $125 and $150 a barrel increasing further and further | #OOTT I wrote about the trend a few days ago: bloomberg.com/opinion/author…

I’m not sure I’ll ever recover from this. Private Eye has absolutely ended me.

I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter. So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little knowledge/insight into how actual takeover battles work or play out) (long 🧵)

BREAKING: Elon Musk has filed a total of six Form 4s with the SEC tonight showing that he sold 7,924,107 $TSLA shares worth about $6.9 Billion. Weighted average price was $869.09. The sales took place on August 5th, 8th and 9th.