Indicators that your brick-and-mortar business is working: -Trial: you get a lot of people coming for the first time. This signals you have a good location, marketing, etc. Without trial, you can’t build a brand. -Conversion: first-timers return. This is very important because

The hardest thing to copy is culture; therefore, it should be a key focus as you build your company, but it needs to be authentic.

“Over 40 million customers this past quarter have had their orders delivered for free with same-day delivery, an increase of more than 25% year-over-year.” The power of $AMZN

Craftsmanship: where hands, mind and heart are in accord.

About 60% of the global agricultural seed market is controlled by just four chemical companies.

What’s hard for big companies is easy for small companies. This is because of a few reasons: -the bigger the company, the further away the work gets from ownership, making it harder to uphold high-quality standards, which ownership typically cares most about. -the more layers

This chart shows the variability in performance across and within industries. Whats striking is that while there is some variability across industries, variability is significant within the same industry. Goes to show the power of execution and specific differentiators.

The Israeli army committed 4 new massacres in Gaza and killed more than 30 Palestinian civilians. The Israeli army also bombarded all the three hospitals in the north of Gaza which is under complete siege since 30 days without food, water supplies or medicines. All ambulances in

The value is never a premium on the past, it’s always a discount to the future. Peter Thiel

Very cool from Quartr

Loneliness epidemic

If you’re struggling to raise capital for your startup, you should step back and think about the importance of relationships. Relationships are the web of life, and the key is to build relationships with people all the time. The earlier you start, the better before you need

Reading history is a good reminder that you have the potential to shape the future.

Not surprising. Refocusing ar/vr efforts to glasses is sensible vs headsets.

The introduction of tools and technology dramatically improved efficiency but damaged some beauty in the process. The taste of modern architecture can't match it.

Interviewer: You were early on spotting the weight-lost drugs. How? Druckenmiller: (laughing) That was easy. If you go to DisneyWorld and the and see/understand the American psyche, tell them they can lose weight without doing any work…. I knew it would work. Then when I

You often hear the question of whether employees can scale with an organization (e.g., someone may excel at <$10M but struggle at $100M+). How can you tell? - Not thinking strategically; overall tactic focused and not able to see the forest from the trees. -Always behind and

One example of good thinking stems from the ability to regularly reason based on the strongest argument against your position.

Just delegate it to ai. There will be a lot more of this coming to the industry.

No tariffs are inflationary because the threat of tariffs pushes others to diversify their manufacturing, which is usually more expensive than manufacturing in China. Diversification of manufacturing is a good thing, but China is so good at it. Hope to see China and the U.S.