Tom Tunguz posted some interesting data last week about where seed investors are putting their money to work. This gives us a good insight into the future. Blockchain is parabolic. FinTech & AI are hoovering up cash. BIG data, in Toms words: ‘Big Data’s heyday is yesterday. The world has moved on from MapReduce jobs…
Yesterday’s algos ran well on the over 1.5 market. Didn’t have time to trade them all as was out for lunch and at the racing, regardless always good to see how they would have performed.
Technology & innovation is moving at breakneck pace. In the next 15 – 20 years the big banks we have associated with our high streets all our lives probably won’t exist anymore, FinTech & crypto are coming for them in a big way. Our children will probably look back & think our banking systems we’re…
A good read on the streaming wars going on, well Disney CEO says they are not after Netflix with Disney ++ so we might not be at war, yet. https://redef.com/original/the-streaming-wars-its-models-surprises-and-remaining-opportunities
Saw an article this morning saying that about 20% of US funeral parlours offer live streaming services. My initial reaction was probably like yours, something like ‘thats just wrong’ But after thinking about it, more so in the US than the UK, I wonder how many families can’t make a loved ones funeral due to…
Utrecht has created over 300 bee friendly bus stops. The unusually warm summer has taken it out of the poor bees wings and they can’t get to parts of the city they need. The City of Utrecht Council has come to the rescue. Now the bees can wait in comfort for the next bus, buzz…
Yesterday US markets had their biggest one day drop of 2019. Gold, the asset typically associated with being a safe haven asset rose just short of 1.5%. Some people are calling Bitcoin the new safe haven asset, yesterday among all the market turmoil managed double digit gains as you can see in the chart below.…
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all” – Peter Drucker
Find something you like and dominate it. https://www.investors.com/news/technology/softbank-vision-fund-masayoshi-son-places-big-unicorn-company-bets/
I’ve got a challenging 9 hole par 3 near me, I love getting up early and playing a quick 9 holes, mornings are the best part of the day. I played the day after Tiger won his 1st major for a while, I shot 3 over, my best round. I don’t seem to be able…
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