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Canon Canon! 28all. Eya. *KT, CR* The Warm-Up: “The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people.” ~Shaan Puri The Core: “Every saint has a past; every sinner has a future.” ~Oscar Wilde “Most people never take initiative because no one told them to.” ~Banksy “Give me a place to stand and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.” ~Archimedes “For most people, lack of emotional control is a bigger obstacle than lack of intelligence.” ~Orange Book “Winning without luck requires doing ordinary things for an extraordinary amount of time.” ~Shane Parrish “The ultimate test for a writer isn’t how much they’ve written, but how much they’ve deleted.” ~David Perell “Without patience as your sword and shield, your timing will fail, and you will inevitably find yourself a loser.” ~Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power “The simplest way to clarify your thinking is to write a full page about whatever you are dealing with and then delete everything except 1-2 sentences that explain it best.” ~James Clear “The gift and curse of capitalism is that you only need to solve one extremely specific problem to get mega-rich. The simplicity makes it a gift. Focus, persevere, stay on course. But the cure shows up in the drudgery of focus. The mind wants to wander, but chains lead to riches.” ~David Perell “The CEO of the boutique M&A shop at which I started my career couldn’t have built an LBO model, run comps, or made a PowerPoint deck to save his life. So, why was he the CEO? Because at that biz & every other small biz, power flows to the those who make the cash register ring.” ~Moses Kagan “Golf+ has blossomed into a VR success and an entry point for the PGA Tour to create new fans. The game launched in late 2021, and its studio agreed to a five-year deal with the tour in December 2022 (it also has licensing deals with the PGA of America for some courses, as well as Topgolf). Golf+ also won Best in Extended Reality at the Sports Business Awards: Tech ceremony during SBJ Tech Week earlier this year…Wright had plenty of stats to illustrate that success, too, most notably the 1 million-plus people who have downloaded and played the game -- of which 30% to 35% are new to the golf community. Its player base is worldwide, with more than 200 countries represented, and produces 3 million virtual golf shots a day. Wright said users skew much younger than the traditional PGA Tour fan base.” ~Ethan Joyce, Golf+ showing it’s not just an impressive VR game – it’s also a fan-acquisition tool for PGA Tour Last Set: “My pen strong like an one-inch punch / I eat all they cornbread, they don’t want they lunch / I was in a dark place, it was me and my pen / None of my friends, none of my kin / None of my weapons, one of my limbs / One of my arms, I made a beat with my elbow first / Then my fist started knockin’ like the bell don’t work / In my palm was the pen from that one fable / The old legendary story of the lunch table / Then I kicked a technique that was so fatal / It went fall down Babylon, Jericho, Dagon…” ~Chance the Rapper, Buried Alive Food For Thought: “What I look for is a big market because by definition, your outcome is directly correlated to the size of the market you’re going after. Two, I look for is what is the defendable technology advantage that the company has? And what proof points are there to prove that it really has a durable advantage. Three, I look for investments is a CEO who’s smart, but also coachable…And the coachable part is important to me because I don’t believe that there’s a compression algorithm for experience. Some people just learn faster than others. And I don’t expect a CEO to do everything that I’m telling [them] to do because that’s why they’re in charge. But to me, I worry a lot if someone doesn’t feel like they have all the answers…I think vulnerability is a strength, not a weakness. And so Jyoti at AppDynamics and Olivier at Datadog are two incredibly sharp people, and they both built fabulous multi-billion-dollar businesses, but they’re also -- while we would have fierce conversations, they will listen. Sometimes we’d agree, sometimes, we wouldn’t agree, but it was a very healthy conversation, and they were both very, very motivated to build great businesses.” ~Dev Ittycheria – The Database Evolution, Invest Like The Best w/ Patrick O’Shaughnessy
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