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RT @randallmbriggs: This makes me wonder about companies like Figure that scale so quickly. I honestly can't say whether it's good or bad or perhaps just necessary to move quickly. But I'm constantly thinking about this tendency to scale super quickly and whether it really pays off in the long run.
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RT @randallmbriggs: This makes me wonder about companies like Figure that scale so quickly. I honestly can't say whether it's good or bad or perhaps just necessary to move quickly. But I'm constantly thinking about this tendency to scale super quickly and whether it really pays off in the long run.
Patrick Collison on the importance of waiting a really long time to hire people
Everybody tells you “work really hard to hire the best people.” But as Patrick explains, that’s not helpful because everyone knows they should do that. As he puts it:
“The question is to what length should you go and what does that actually mean in practice? And in practice, it means being okay waiting a really long time to hire people.”
It took Stripe six months to hire their first two people, and six more months to hire another 3-4 people. He can think of five people at Stripe who took 3+ years to hire.
“If you think about the smartest people you know, if you want to get them to work on your thing, chances are they already have pretty good paths ahead of them… You have to be way more persistent and be okay with it taking way longer than any sane or reasonable person would think it should take.”
There’s an important compounding effect here — hiring just one great person will make it marginally easier to get the next great person. Patrick argues you should also view every person you hire as bringing along another 50 people just like them if your company is successful:
“Even if they don’t literally hire 50 people, they will be so influential in determining the selection of those 50 people.”
Video source: @GreylockVC (2015) tweet
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The InsideArbitrage Friday Wrap is out!
"43 Sudden Departures"
👉Full Article link in the final tweet.
🧵1/11 https://t.co/XIrGhTdrQ4
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The InsideArbitrage Friday Wrap is out!
"43 Sudden Departures"
👉Full Article link in the final tweet.
🧵1/11 https://t.co/XIrGhTdrQ4
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BREAKING: Palantir, $PLTR, just disclosed $1.4M of new lobbying. https://t.co/n9eimDaAW7
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BREAKING: Palantir, $PLTR, just disclosed $1.4M of new lobbying. https://t.co/n9eimDaAW7
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Black Bear value partners on BLDR $BLDR US
Thesis: BLDR is a building materials manufacturer shifting towards value-added products, benefiting from a structural housing shortage in the USA and generating significant free cash flow while repurchasing over 40% of its stock.
(Extract from their Q4 letter)
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Black Bear value partners on BLDR $BLDR US
Thesis: BLDR is a building materials manufacturer shifting towards value-added products, benefiting from a structural housing shortage in the USA and generating significant free cash flow while repurchasing over 40% of its stock.
(Extract from their Q4 letter)
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Dimitry Nakhla | Babylon Capital®
The MOST important trait to have as an investor:
Temperament.
Specifically: emotional stability, patience, discipline, objectivity & the ability to think independently 🧘🏽♂️
Without it, the stock market & its daily volatility will CONTROL you, rather than the other way around 🏪
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The MOST important trait to have as an investor:
Temperament.
Specifically: emotional stability, patience, discipline, objectivity & the ability to think independently 🧘🏽♂️
Without it, the stock market & its daily volatility will CONTROL you, rather than the other way around 🏪
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Eagle 1 Merger Sub, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Stryker Corporation $SYK, commenced the tender offer to acquire Inari Medical $NARI, for $80.00 per share. The offer will expire on February 18, 2025.
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Eagle 1 Merger Sub, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Stryker Corporation $SYK, commenced the tender offer to acquire Inari Medical $NARI, for $80.00 per share. The offer will expire on February 18, 2025.
Stryker $SYK Acquires Inari Medical $NARI in an All-Cash Deal Worth $4.9 Billion :
🩺Under the terms of the agreement, Stryker will commence a tender offer for all outstanding shares of Inari’s common stock for $80 per share in cash, representing a premium of 60.74% from the stock’s last close.
🩺The deal is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of 2025. tweet
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FTC Approves Final Order in Chevron $CVX -Hess $HES Deal.
🛢️Under the final consent order, Chevron is prohibited from nominating Hess CEO John Hess to the Chevron Board.
🛢️Chevron is prohibited from allowing John Hess to serve in an advisory or consulting capacity to Chevron or the Chevron Board.
🛢️Chevron is allowed to consult with John Hess only for the discussions with (a) Guyanese government officials about Hess’s oil-related and health ministry-related activities in Guyana, and (b) the Salk Institute’s Harnessing Plants Initiative.
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FTC Approves Final Order in Chevron $CVX -Hess $HES Deal.
🛢️Under the final consent order, Chevron is prohibited from nominating Hess CEO John Hess to the Chevron Board.
🛢️Chevron is prohibited from allowing John Hess to serve in an advisory or consulting capacity to Chevron or the Chevron Board.
🛢️Chevron is allowed to consult with John Hess only for the discussions with (a) Guyanese government officials about Hess’s oil-related and health ministry-related activities in Guyana, and (b) the Salk Institute’s Harnessing Plants Initiative.
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RT @Reuters: Rio Tinto to form new lithium unit after Arcadium buy, memo says https://t.co/BvwiNYVuT3 https://t.co/BJCTukubSP
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RT @Reuters: Rio Tinto to form new lithium unit after Arcadium buy, memo says https://t.co/BvwiNYVuT3 https://t.co/BJCTukubSP
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Protean Funds on Intea $ITEA SS
Thesis: Intea is a unique real estate investment opportunity, offering high-quality, stable properties with lower risk and significant growth potential, particularly in the correction of the Swedish penal system.
(Extract from their Q4 letter) https://t.co/unnwwJeLeg
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Protean Funds on Intea $ITEA SS
Thesis: Intea is a unique real estate investment opportunity, offering high-quality, stable properties with lower risk and significant growth potential, particularly in the correction of the Swedish penal system.
(Extract from their Q4 letter) https://t.co/unnwwJeLeg
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Night Watch on Marex $MRX LN
Thesis: Marex is a counter-cyclical investment benefiting from volatility, with a strong growth track record and attractive valuation despite recent gains.
(Extract from their Q4 letter) https://t.co/w4e1XoJWXP
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Night Watch on Marex $MRX LN
Thesis: Marex is a counter-cyclical investment benefiting from volatility, with a strong growth track record and attractive valuation despite recent gains.
(Extract from their Q4 letter) https://t.co/w4e1XoJWXP
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Peter Thiel on Elon Musk’s success: “Maybe the rest of us are too risk averse”
“When Elon was building both Tesla and SpaceX in the 2000s, people thought he was just really, really crazy — even those of us who’d worked with him at PayPal. There was this PayPal book that David Sacks and I thought of writing, and the Elon chapter was I think entitled something like ‘The Man Who Knew Nothing About Risk’ or something like this. There are all these crazy Elon stories I could tell.”
Thiel continues:
“If one of the two companies had succeeded, you would say, well, maybe he got really lucky. But when two out of two companies that people thought were completely harebrained in the 2000s, when they both succeed, you have to reassess it. Maybe the rest of us are somehow too risk averse or there’s something about risk he knows that we don’t.”
Video source: @AspenInstitute (2024)
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Peter Thiel on Elon Musk’s success: “Maybe the rest of us are too risk averse”
“When Elon was building both Tesla and SpaceX in the 2000s, people thought he was just really, really crazy — even those of us who’d worked with him at PayPal. There was this PayPal book that David Sacks and I thought of writing, and the Elon chapter was I think entitled something like ‘The Man Who Knew Nothing About Risk’ or something like this. There are all these crazy Elon stories I could tell.”
Thiel continues:
“If one of the two companies had succeeded, you would say, well, maybe he got really lucky. But when two out of two companies that people thought were completely harebrained in the 2000s, when they both succeed, you have to reassess it. Maybe the rest of us are somehow too risk averse or there’s something about risk he knows that we don’t.”
Video source: @AspenInstitute (2024)
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