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Oct 5 2019

🚤"I am the captain now"👩‍✈️

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I'm pleased to take the reins on this newsletter, and I hope to hit the same high notes that Arjun did!

After we announced Investopad's new direction, we have had a bunch of new roles open up – take a look in the section below.

We finally have some money in the bank from these partners and it's an exciting time to join us!!

P.S. Today's subject line is from the 2013 blockbuster, Captain Phillips.

P.P.S. If you miss Arjun already, you can sign up for his new newsletter here.
ज्ञान
“I’m the only person who beat them at their own game,” he says. “I left a black mark on that company. I trolled them. I humiliated them. And now, they avoid me like the plague.”
How lessons from the travel industry’s response to online travel agencies may enable restaurants to survive (and hopefully thrive) in a delivery-heavy future.
🦹‍♂
An in-depth study of the massive disruption facing restaurants today.
The controversy over SolarCity, which has dovetailed with questions about Musk’s mountain of debt and profit shortfalls, offers a window into the mindset of America’s most outlandish CEO.
Let me propose one potential future to you—a future where most everything is done through the gig economy. Here is roughly how that might take place.👩‍

Interesting because Uber just launched an app that does something like this.
Before Donald Trump became president, he had a long history of tearing out pages from magazines (or printing out offending articles), scrawling some nonsense in Sharpie, and mailing it to the party he believed had wronged him.

This particular president has been using his Zodiac Killer–inspired method of communicating to conduct matters of U.S. diplomacy.
Masayoshi Son faces a relentless pace of exits and IPOs to achieve his 300-year vision.

However, for all of Son's talk of century-long horizons and the evolution of intelligence, the Vision Fund's future hinges on time scales measured in weeks and months.

Or as the Notorious B.I.G. once said, "Mo money, mo problems"
Make your career great again
🥳We're hiring! JD's and goodness behind the links.

Slide into my DMs if you could be interested.
Other tidbits
Quotable
"You would think that I could handle fame, but I can't take this."

– Arjun Malhotra (when their Good Capital press started pouring in)

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