Posts by Trung Phan
McDonald’s $42B real estate empire, explained
In the fallout from Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, McDonald’s officially exited the Russian market in May. Per CNN, the burger chain sold 850 restaurants — which employs 62k people — to the local franchisee, a Siberian oil tycoon (McDonald’s says it’ll take a $1.4B charge against its earnings for the deal). The English translation of…
Read MoreThe most insane TikTok account
Meet Trevor Rainbolt He’s a 24-year old who lives in Los Angeles. In high school, he was introduced to a game called GeoGuessr. The objective of the game is to identify the location of a Google Street View image. Players are judged on a few dimensions: Speed of an answer Proximity to the image The…
Read MoreHow Marvel lost Spider-Man
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Read MoreWhy Steph Curry left Nike for Under Armour
Here’s footage of Steph Curry sometime between 1999 and 2002. His dad — Dell Curry — is playing for the Toronto Raptors and the younger Curry tags along to the stadium. Steph is 11-14 years old in the clip and already showing signs of what will become the greatest jump shot in NBA history. Today, Curry…
Read MoreDid Costco lose $27 billion from a tweet…
Since 1984, the Costco hot dog and pop combo has cost $1.50. Based on inflation over the past 38 years, the price of that combo should be $4.03 (on top of the fact that the hot dog’s weight is up to a quarter pound). The first Costco hot dog vendor was literally a hot dog…
Read MoreI’m making a TV show
There is a phrase in Hollywood called “development hell”. It refers to a project that takes an unreasonably long time to get made, if it ever gets made at all (software engineers and game developers know this phrase well). Over the past decade, I’ve been in a creative development hell of sorts. While living in…
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