Oscar de la Renta chose not to show at New York Fashion Week and instead streamed on Amazon. Is Amazon a suitable forum for a luxury brand? CEO Alex Bolen said, "I'm not sure. But we have to experiment with new ways to get our story out." https://lnkd.in/g4rZMxyb We launched our funds when Covid started and with the halt in travel and tough fund raising environment for emerging managers, we focused on performance and experimented with new ways to reach out to allocators, namely Linkedin posts and YouTube videos which can now be binge-watched on www.quantflix.com . True, some people say that with the positive fund returns last year for both our long-only equity and multi-strategy funds, and the China fund outperforming its benchmark by its annualized double-digit aim, it was expected that we would pass the $100m mark. But when times are bad, most new investment monies went to well-known funds that are much bigger with a marketing budget that we cannot afford. So every lit
The subject of Elon Musk's email to the Twitter team is "Being There", which is an apt summary of the contents: https://lnkd.in/gPed9T_2
In brackets he also includes "great movie". Being There is a 1979 American movie about a gardener being mistaken by everyone, including the president, for being more important or saying things with a deeper meaning than he's letting on:https://lnkd.in/gknTms_4
President "Bobby" : Mr. Gardner, do you agree with Ben, or do you think that we can stimulate growth through temporary incentives?
[Long pause]
Chance the Gardener : As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.
While Elon-bashing is popular and I must admit I've done it myself and it's almost as cathartic as writing LinkedIn posts, perhaps he's actually just trying (his best) to turn around a company losing $4 million a day. He stayed at the office "late into the night" on Thursday while I was having Negroni at the Fullerton. I know that people say maybe he likes working hard, he has no life, that you don't have to stay up late to be productive. But as a fellow business owner, albeit on a much more modest scale, maybe he's just doing what he said he would do, increase revenue and slashing expenses quickly, no more no less. Sleeping in the office is not comfortable, even with premium sleeping bag (we have a specimen in one of the meeting rooms) and lavender-scented eye masks and noise cancellation earphones. And past 40, you feel like a train wreck the next day even with 5 cups of coffee.
But ok fine, maybe he was flexing his billions by turning Doja Cat into Christmas.
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