Category Archive for: Leadership

Backbone Angels

Love this! – Women Leaders who helped build Shopify have launched a new angel group in Canada, focused on investing in women and non-binary founders with a specific focus on Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC)-led companies. Called Backbone Angels, the group consists of 10 angel investors who have held various management-level roles at Shopify. The…

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NBCU says D’OH

Sorry for the double entendre – NBCUniversal Media, LLC missed out on billions in gains on Snap Inc. and Peloton Interactive, highlights The Information. This past week Snap crossed an important symbolic milestone: The company, buoyed by an investor presentation that painted a rosy picture of its future, surpassed $100 billion in market value. Its shares are up 320% since late…

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Years companies took to get a $100B Valuation

Years companies took to get a $100B V A L U A T I O N: Coinbase – 9 yearsStripe – 11 yearsSquare – 11 yearsPaypal – 20 yearsMastercard – 48 yearsVisa – 54 years Fintech firms are exploding in value. Over the past few days, secondary trading in Coinbase (a crypto trading platform soon to go…

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Apple = Most Admired

Apple Is the World’s Most Admired Company for the 14th Year in a Row and it’s not hard to see why. But it doesn’t take long to damage your reputation. Just ask Facebook – they aren’t even on the list! #imagine For a deeper dive on the Fortune list… https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/apple-is-worlds-most-admired-company-for-14th-year-in-a-row-facebook-isnt-even-on-list.html

Re.sil.ience

With a Peloton Interactive digital screen and ecosystem of buff trainers, I see a home product opportunity for Red Bull 😉 + Chinese New Years. re.sil.ience – PwC defines it as, an organization’s capacity to anticipate and react to change, not only to survive but also to evolve. #Resilience is especially important today because the business environment is becoming more dynamic and…

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Deep Learning x $30 Trillion

That’s a HUGE number! – ARK Investment Management LLC believes #deeplearning will create $30T of value over the next 15-20 years. Ark Invest is one of the finance industry’s most interesting money managers. Led by Cathie Wood — who predicted that Tesla would be a trillion-dollar company when it was valued at only ~$40B (it’s worth ~$796B today) — the firm…

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Jeff Bezos Steps Down

Jeff Bezos’ STEP DOWN letter to Amazon – Yesterday, after crushing their results (who does $125 billion in a quarter) the Amazon founder said he’ll be stepping down as CEO. And will add to his cart the title of executive chairman of the board later this year. For nearly 30 years, Bezos has run Amazon, scaling it…

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Amazon Pharmacy

Amazon is in the drug business – Amazon is making its biggest move yet into the pharmacy space. Amazon Pharmacy is designed to make it easy and convenient to order prescription medicines online.There’s also a savings program and free two-day shipping for #Prime Members. #ecommerce#healthtech#amazon#medicine#perscriptions#innovation#pharmacy https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/17/amazon-pharmacy-free-prescription-delivery-for-prime-members.html?__source=sharebar|linkedin&par=sharebar

Moderna x Covid

Last week Pfizer, this week American biotech giant Moderna has now announced that its own #COVID19 vaccine is effective in 94.5% of the people who received it, reports The Wall Street Journal. #innovation #healthtech https://www.fastcompany.com/90575833/modernas-covid-19-vaccine-5-things-you-need-to-know

Alibaba Singles Day

Alibaba Group sales for its post-COVID-19 Singles’ Day shopping extravaganza hit $74 billion. The world’s biggest sales event – eclipsing #BlackFriday and #CyberMonday in the United States – spanned 11 days this year, and brought sellers on Alibaba Group’s platforms 21 times as many orders by value as Amazon’s two-day global #PrimeDay last month. #ecommerce #imagine

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