Longreads + Open Thread
AI, Banks, Pakistan's Near-Unicorn, Market Share, Churn, PE, A&P
AI, Banks, Pakistan's Near-Unicorn, Market Share, Churn, PE, A&P
Plus! Volatility; Celebrity Endorsements; Carbon Unit Economics; Inflation Narratives; Faster!
Plus! Airlines Remain a Good Microcosm; Wordle Remains an Incredible Acquisition; Training Your Replacement; Oil Trading and Upside; Cars-as-a-Service
Plus! Who's Hit by Inflation?; Slow Return to the Office; Stock-Based Comp; Cat-and-Mouse; Scale
Plus! Hard-to-Scale Marketing; Monetary Policy in Gaming; Tweaking Moderation; Hardware/Software Convergence; Digital/Physical Convergence
Plus! A Series of Tubes; What Not to Boycott; Leasing; Apple and TSMC; When an Ad-Based Business is an Ad
Plus! Diff Jobs; Fixed Costs and Airlines; Goods Shortages and Worker Shortages; Marketing and Diversification; OverSPACed; Talent Shortages
Plus! Margin Call; The Late-Career MBA; Dark Kitchen R&D; Reopening; Panoptic Property Rights
Plus! Zoom, Drawdowns, Facebook, Reopening and Stay-Opening, Short Laws, Tech Astroturf, more...
Plus! Netflix, The Return of Facebook Free Basics, Travel, China, Japan