Robinhood

Robinhood pioneered fee free trading, in true robinhood style. Since Robinhood, all the big brokerages have followed, TD, Schwab etc. I always wondered how Robinhood were able to offer free trading to the masses, especially as their valuation sky rockets. I thought the business plan must be to up sell services and some data. If…

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VoiceTwit

Twitter has had trouble monetizing itself compared to the other social media platforms. Lots of tinkering and progress, albeit slow progress. Where will VoiceTwit fit? “Twitter is rolling out the ability to record audio snippets and attach them to your tweets. The new feature is available first on iOS and launching today for “a limited…

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Keepin honest

Your smartphone helps keep you honest. Apparently. “Shiri Melumad, an assistant professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, set out to determine why we express ourselves in a more intimate, personal style on our smartphones than on our personal computers—and how marketers can harness this behavior.” https://angel.co/today/stories/why-people-are-more-honest-when-writing-on-their-smartphones-24072

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Powerpoint meetings

An inefficient medium for meetings. Alot will agree but alot still choose to use Powerpoint for their meetings. “Written materials transform board meetings. With most of us working remotely, many startups have thrown out Google slides and replaced them with Google sheets. It’s a fundamental change, and one I hope persists after work returns to…

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Digital Assets

GROWING NUMBER OF INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS BELIEVE THAT DIGITALASSETS SHOULD BE A PART OF THEIR INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS, ACCORDING TONEW RESEARCH FROM FIDELITY DIGITAL ASSETS. More U.S. investors are finding appeal in digital assets vs. a year ago. Investors in Europe are more likely to own digital assets and have a more progressive view of the asset…

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Bloody Thursday

Everyone was expecting it. Everyone was waiting for it. No one knew when. Alot. Alot of money has been missed on the way up. After such a big one day fall we would expect a bounce today. Whether that lasts. Time will tell.

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Lifes a beach

Your office with a new view every day. Anywhere you want. Any view you choose. Sounds good? People being forced to work from home due to COVID, are realising it doesnt matter where they work. As long as the work gets done who cares? Extreme remote workers are buying RV’s and working out of them,…

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