There was a great piece yesterday in the New Yorker about the impossibility of the ‘language of finance‘. READ it! The message: The language of money is a powerful tool, and it is also a tool of power. Incomprehension is a form of consent. If we allow ourselves not to understand this language, we are …
From: August 2014
Kill All The Data Scientists! …and The Timeline is Everything.
Who isn’t a ‘data scientist’ in 2014? Here is Wikipedia’s definition…color me confused. I deem anyone a ‘data scientist’ in 2014 , as a confusionist. The timeline what really matters most. Search and UI are what matter after that. Finally, its how you read this infinite tape that separates the big winners from the losers …
Google…When expensive is Cheap and Cheap is Expensive…and How I Hunt
Google has been public for 10 years. They have NOT been a conventional company. My partner in Social Leverage 50 @ivanhoff has a great post up on Google entitled ‘When Expensive is Cheap and Cheap is Expensive‘: 10 years ago, Google was trading near $100 with a P/E of 130. Today, it is trading near …
Stocktwits Appoints Ross Levinsohn, Rob Peck to Board
Stocktwits has been growing fast this year. Our users are more engaged than ever — or “addicted,” as they often say on the stream. Behind the scenes we have been working on a great redesign (coming very soon) and some improvements to our 5-star iPhone app. Our biggest new launch will be Search. We have …
Can Bloomberg be killed?
It’s podcast time again. Yesterday, I grabbed StockTwits CEO John Melloy, formerly of CNBC and Bloomberg. I wanted his perspective on whether or not Bloomberg can be killed. It’s a topic that resurfaces every time a new technology enters the market that makes terminals seem useless — or terminally ill if you will. First it …