The S&P 500 is an index of some of the leading companies in the United States. The S&P 500 doesn’t push extremely high in one area as its supposed to show a cross section of America. Here is the breakdown…
There are a growing number of musicians and labels all over the world that would like to get their music live for Free in Spotify! Music distribution to Spotify and other services can take some time and the vast majority…
Philip Kaplan seems to be the owner of Slaps.com, which is a new music website. Phil is a serial entreprenuer who seems to create a lot of startups and then a few years in will get a little bored and…
Warren Buffett’s views on Jeff Bezos and how he has changed the world. 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…
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…
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…
Blackstone has acquired Ancestry for $4.7 billion from a group of private equity investors (Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, Permira, Silver Lake, Spectrum Equity) Within eight years those private equity investors purchased Ancestry for $1.3 billion and have now sold for $4.7 billion. Not…
Waymo at present has a private valuation that is twice as high as Tesla. How can this be? Margins! Tesla is focused on the full production of the car where Waymo is focused purely on the underlying technology with self…
Google is one of the world’s largest technology companies and at present the majority of its work force are contractors. Its reported that there are over 90,000 direct employees at Google. Google’s Alphabet Inc. employs hordes of these red- and…
Discord voice chats have been known to have quite a lot of background noise (especially when one of your friends has a mechanical keyboard). However, for sometime Discord has been working on suppressing that background noise and they currently have…
Apple will soon be showing all users where their closest COVID-19 Test location is in Apple Maps. There will be a red medical glyph icon, and a special banner in the Apple Maps card. Apple has launched a portal for hospitals,…
Tesla is a very interesting beast! It looks and feels like a car company, but really it’s not! Here is a link to an interesting article about Tesla not being a hypergrowth company. Read the full article here.
