From: September 2017

Facebook, Russia and Trump

This ‘New Rules’ piece on Trump by Bill Maher is great. Watch it: The American public is following Trump’s tweets and not the money, but Mueller is following the money and the tweets. This Scott Galloway interview on Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Netflix is also very good. His thoughts on Facebook and Russia are right …

Social Leverage…

It has been a great few months for many of our portfolio companies at Social Leverage. Bitium was acquired by Google. mParticle raised $35 million. Here is CEO Mike Katz explaining the arrival of CRM 2.0. Robinhood raised $110 million to continue growing their mobile brokerage business. Beyond Pricing made an acquisition and continues to …

Make Me Laugh

Most of the time I am hunting for LOL’s. But, I also like to laugh. YouTube is my rabbit hole when I am looking for a laugh. I stumbled upon this Larry David tribute speech to Steve Martin yesterday which was fantastic. Youtube served me up this next one with Larry David paying tribute to …

Winning When You Lose

Losing money is brutal. I have invested through some major cycles over the last 30 years, so for you adderall chewing, avocado eating millennials believing ‘TTID’ (This Time It’s Different) please cherish these good times. When the losses finally happen, you will truly find the people you want to do business with again. Today Fred …

Would You Respond?

I received a handwritten pitch letter from a federal inmate recently. I was written up a while back in Entrepreneur magazine and I guess the issue finally made it’s way to the prisoners. This pitch was light on substance, so I worry if I respond, the next letter will have an NDA request from his …