Side Note: when Jobs approached Cook to join Apple in 1998, many thought he should have stayed at Compaq. Apple was in a bad place.
His starting salary: $400k + $500k signing bonus (CNBC).
People, the Cook tweet was a joke. Let's talk about the actual biggest $AAPL winner: in absolute dollar terms, Buffett.
Between 2016-2018, Berkshire bought ~1B shares (adjusted for 4-1 stock split) for $36B.
That's now worth $150B+:
T/F: In absolute public market dollar terms, mostly tech-phobic Buffett — led by his PMs Todd Combs and Ted Weschler — made the most profitable tech trade ever?
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) trained an AI slideshow maker called “Decker” on 900 templates and apparently gotten so popular that “some of its consultants are fretting about job security.”
Sorry, called “Deckster”. That excerpt was from this BI piece that also looked at McKinsey and Deloitte AI uses: businessinsider.com/consulting-ai-…
The Mckinsey chatbot is used by 70% of firm but same anonymous job board said it’s "functional enough" and best for "very low stakes issues." x.com/bearlyai/statu…
Here’s a r/consulting thread based on Computer World last year. Deckster was launched internally March 2024…some think it’s BS…some think it helps with cold start (B- quality): reddit.com/r/consulting/s…
never forget that episode of “Nathan For You” when he launched a fire detector product and tried to avoid import tariffs by turning it into a music device
One company that has been very good at navigating international food tariffs/regulations is Trader Joe’s. Built its dairy and wine businesses by finding workarounds.
If you are the person that did the un-aligned letters for the previous eBay logo, please contact the research app team. We are huge fans of how un-aligned the “e” is with the “y”.Bearly.AI
This article offers up reasons for popularity of simple font logos (mostly Sans Serif):
— Easier to standardize ads across mediums
— Improves readability (especially on mobile)
— The “brand” matters more than the logo velvetshark.com/why-do-brands-…