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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Crystal Springs made no difference. “I hated it there too,” said Sam. “The whole way through. I didn’t like classes. I didn’t like my schoolmates. I was bored.” The student body was a who’s who of Silicon Valley children. (Steve Jobs’s son, Reed, was in Sam’s class.) By most standards it was a nerdy school. A jock was a person who ran track. To Sam
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“We’re getting out of the junk business, like employee pricing sales that boost market share but destroy residual values. It’s better to sell fewer cars at higher margins than more cars at lower margins. Selling five million vehicles at zero profit isn’t as good a proposition as selling four million vehicles at a profit.”
Hermann Simon • Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Joe Pompeo • “There Has to Be a Line”: Substack’s Founders Dive Headfirst Into the Culture Wars
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In all of his talks, Tierney questions this conventional wisdom, arguing that there is bad overhead (say, paying for swank office space) and good overhead (such as investing in technology to track results). Tierney counsels philanthropists not to place restrictions on how their donation can be spent (Sheryl Sandberg, for one, heeded this sage advic
... See moreStewart Friedman • Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life
Where will you be allowed to make a profit in your industry? Where is the profit zone today? Where will it be tomorrow?