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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …