Longreads + Open Thread
Russia, Japan, Documentaries, Financial Engineering, Pollen, Grocery
Russia, Japan, Documentaries, Financial Engineering, Pollen, Grocery
Plus! Consolidation; Shareholder Activism; Cash Burn; PE and Software Compete to Eat the World; Reinsurer of Last Resort; Diff Jobs
Plus! Peak TV; Hyperscaling; What Recession?; Strategic M&A; Opening Up
Plus! Non Mean-Reverting Trends; Japan's Shareholders Activism; Autarky; Cars Turn Into Software, Software Turns Into Payments; Cloud Flywheels
Plus! Russia's Economy; Counter-ESG Marketing; China's Degrees of Freedom; Reshoring; App Convergence
Plus! Still Growing; Drones;' Cheap Japan; Japan's Governance Problems in Microcosm; War and MMT Update
Plus! Discount Rates; Commerce; Commerce, Con't.; Splinternet Update; Mercantilist PE
Plus! Who's Hit by Inflation?; Slow Return to the Office; Stock-Based Comp; Cat-and-Mouse; Scale
Plus! Not Enough Housing; Durable Network Effects; VPN Integration; Reserve Currency Problems; Movies
Plus! Demographic Arbitrage; The Funds Trying to Break the Bank of Bitcoin; Two Sides to the Market; The Monetization/Moderation Tradeoff; Japan and SaaS; Investment, Buybacks, and Refoundings
Plus! No Neutral Parties; Manual Moderation; Better Ad Buying; Exporting Inflation to Japan
Plus! Decentralization; The S in ESG; The Residual Claimant; Japan's Delayed Recovery; Getting Away from Gas