Another week and many more all-time highs. Ivan and I take a tour through our lists and the markets. I have a few new ideas but you will have to watch the video because it's a small price to pay.
From: July 2017
Magical Torrey Pines
I have spent a lot of my free time this July playing golf with Max and his friends. I can't believe how strong Max's game is despite hardly playing golf this year until July. During the week, Max has been waking up early to go to Torrey Pines to play the south course twice a …
BTFD (Buy the F’n Dip) and StartStackin…Financial Media is Educational, Viral and Fun
One of the biggest memes on Stocktwits this year has been BTFD which stands for ‘Buy The F’n Dip’. Stocktwits sells a bunch of different t-shirts that the community likes collecting. Garrett, who leads the Stocktwits data team put this piece together on how the term BTFD has grown on Stocktwits. It is easy to …
Rich Barton Underachiever
I listened to another great podcast from Barry Ritholtz with Rich Barton the founder of Expedia, Zillow and Glassdoor. He's also on the board of Netflix. A classic underachiever. Barton's 'power to the people' focus on bringing transparency to industries has worked pretty damn well. Click here for the link.
Three Trillion – The Technology AGMAFIA! And Why Twitter and Snapchat should Merge
If you add up the market cap of the five biggest companies in the world (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook) you get to $3 trillion. The 5 largest stocks$AAPL $800 BILLION$GOOGL $665 BILLION$MSFT $571 BILLION$AMZN $510 BILLION$FB $505 BILLIONhttps://t.co/vfhEJaQxap — StockTwits (@StockTwits) July 27, 2017 The AGMAFia is a technology mafia which controls our …
Simple Markets and My Roomba Is Making me Rich!
I drove up to LA for the day with my partner Gary to meet with some of our investors and a new TechStars class. I checked the markets all day and I don't know why really. The market just goes up. I own iRobot and though it's up 100 percent in the last year it …
Buying Time and the Road Kills
Three of my favorite daily reads/thought leaders each have fantastic pieces today. First off – the three fave daily reads of mine in no particular order: Bob Lefsetz Tadas Viskanta Ben Thompson Bob and Tadas are free and Ben is crazy inexepensive to subscribe. I have not met Bob, but I love his rants. When …
Make the US Dollar Weak Again and Plop Plop Fizz Fizz
I was in San Francisco for the day so no time for a Momentum Monday video with Ivanhoff. Not much has changed in world of Momentum this week. The US Dollar continues to evaporate in 2017…now down 9 percent. Make America great again rhetoric actually made the US dollar weak again which has actually made …
StockTwits Adds Streams and Symbology for 100+ Cryptocurrencies and Tokens
On Friday, StockTwits Added Streams and Symbology for 100+ Cryptocurrencies and Tokens. It is really cool. Justin Paterno (Stocktwits COO) reminded of the backstory of this launch. Way back in 2010 I had this idea that private companies should have tickers just like public companies. Bitcoin was probably under $1 and tokens were just a …
Facebook is no Fun
I sat in my friends Ferrari yesterday and posted the photo to Instagram saying it was a new toy of mine: New toy … made out of Ethereum A post shared by Howard Lindzon (@howardlindzon) on Jul 21, 2017 at 9:23pm PDT On Instagram people just liked the photo and moved on. I posted it …