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Inside the Amazon – One Medical Deal
The inside baseball of healthcare deal making and how Morgan Stanley sold One Medical to Amazon.
Read MoreA Sweet Q2 for FIGS!
Hello! Three points to kick things off: 1. Boom! How about Portfolio Pick $SRAD’s earnings baby! Raise in guidance & a 10% pop! I love it. 2. Anyone else watching Hard Knocks? I am absolutely hooked & need to find a way to get Dan Campbell to follow me around all day to pump me up 3. Also, Shoutout…
Read MoreFintech is Breaking the Credit Bureaus
Editor’s note – Today’s essay was co-authored with Kevin Moss. Kevin is the former Chief Risk Officer for SoFi, a former Board Member at Varo Money and Snap Financial and the former Risk Leader for the Consumer Lending Group at Wells Fargo. I could go on and on, but suffice it to say that Kevin…
Read MoreA16z’s Latest Investment Exposes VC
“Venture capital firms continue to gamble on poor investments… while on the other hand, women and founders of color with well-thought-out, substantive business plans remain in the waiting room.” Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) during a June hearing on Combatting Tech Bro Culture Andreessen Horowitz has 42 fintech companies in its portfolio, according to the fintech section of…
Read MoreEmbrace the chaos
Content marketing is chaos––that’s just fact. You can’t workflow that away. You can’t plan it away. You certainly can’t SEO it away. You can, of course, plan 4-6 months ahead. I certainly do. Even then, content pieces will drop. Urgent requests will come through that take up all of your team’s time. Your company will…
Read MoreWhat does in-person activation look like for cannabis brands?
Wholesale flower prices are dropping – is the product category losing steam? TLDR: Wholesale flower prices are dropping in most states. There are several reasons for this, here are two: 1. Market maturation Demand outweighs the supply when states first come online. There are limited retailers, cultivators, and products. Everyone’s buzzing about the new…
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