Warren Buffett’s views on Jeff Bezos and how he has changed the world.Â
Why this matters: Warren Buffett for a long time has been watching Jeff Bezos and commenting on how amazing the run of Amazon has been. It would have been very interesting if Warren Buffett understood the technology industry at the beginning of the internet as it would have provided a lot of great investment opportunities.
Most of the Lofi channels on YouTube work with or talk to Lofi artists on a daily basis and they ask if they can use their music in their videos.
If the channel is large they normally ask the artist to sign an agreement which states the channel can use the audio in their videos and keep the money from the videos.
Another amazing interview by Jason on This Week in Startups.
Domm Holland runs Fast, a one-click checkout for the entire Internet.
It seems like Domm noticed that Amazon’s one click patent expired and took advantage.
Uber and Yandex will be spinning off their self-driving car subsidiary into its own entity – MLU BV.
MLU BV will have $150 million in new capital from Yandex, including $100 million in equity and $50 million as a convertible loan.
In connection with the deal, Yandex will hold 61.7% of MLU and Uber will own 33.5%. Bloomberg reported in June that Yandex had been looking to buy all of Uber’s initial 38% stake as an alternative to taking the taxi business public. Uber merged its Russian operations with Moscow-based Yandex in 2017.
Yes – Xiaomi listed on the Hong Kong stock market under the ticker (1810.HK)
Yes – Xiaomi is a profitable company at the time of writing this article. Xiaomi generated $1.1 billion in Operating profits for the year end 2019.
Xiaomi
Xiaomi currently has more than 213.2 million smart devices (excluding smartphones and laptops) connected to its platform.
Copy writing your podcast isn’t that important. It is far more important to think about Trademarks when your podcast brand becomes valuable to make sure no one can copy you and gain from your brand.
Xiaomi is a very interesting company with a very interesting business model.
The vast majority of phone manufacturers around the world create a smartphone with a cost of around $100 and then they spend a huge amount of money on marketing and branding. The company then believes that the smartphone has a much higher percieved value – so they sell it for $400 or above.
Xiaomi doesn’t do this!
Xiaomi is aiming to sell all of its products as close as possible to their costs – as they want to have as many products available in the world as possible.
Once out in the world and being use – Xiaomi then looks to drive revenues from providing software and services around these products, which has a much higher margin that the hardware itself. Thus, driving higher demand, more product adoption and thus more revenues from services.
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Companies are now able to see their page followers on their Linkedin company pages by going to their company page > Analytics and then See Followers.
This is a feature that has been requested for a very long time and it’s great to see that Linkedin have listened and finally added this feature.
Asana is one of the world’s most popular project and task management software (we use Asana in our office). A week ago Asana filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange.
Instead of an IPO – Asana has elected to file for a direct listing (which means that they aren’t selling any new shares in the listing only the existing ones).
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