The Coupang breach was a reputational earthquake, not a business one. Product Commerce still runs at ~8% EBITDA margin on $30B of revenue. Trust rebuilds in quarters. Fulfillment networks don't get rebuilt at all. $CPNG, #investing, #Korea https://t.co/0jfgLeg5zs
Down 44% from its highs. Net cash on the balance sheet. A logistics moat Chinese platforms can't rebuild in a decade. $CPNG at $21 looks less like a broken story and more like a discounted one. #ecommerce, $CPNG, #Korea https://t.co/0jfgLeg5zs
Platform businesses are the ones most likely to become 10x stocks. That’s why it may be time to take a closer look at $COIN.
In 2020, transaction revenue made up 96% of total revenue. By 2025, that figure had dropped to 57%. Coinbase is no longer just making money from users buying and selling crypto. It is gradually evolving into a more complete crypto financial platform.
#Crypto #Bitcoin #Investing
Accelerate beyond pilots Accenture and PwC show GenAI pilots achieve 60% faster requirements derivation and 25–40% lower documentation effort, yet scaling stalls from siloed operations and weak governance—standardized, change‑managed frameworks are essential for measurable ROI.
Am I right on this. Trends aren’t just “mass irrationality”—they’re coherent feedback loops across policy, liquidity, and expectations.
Why trends last longer than “rational” people expect
Example: 2020–2021 U.S. tech stocks and housing surged together; 2022 they fell together.
In concrete terms, several forces aligned:
•Rate cuts / easy policy → lower cost of capital (energy becomes “cheaper” to deploy)
•Work-from-home / digitization → higher demand for software and networks (compute becomes more valuable)
•Money flows in → narratives strengthen → more people focus attention on the same assets (attention concentrates)
•Prices rise → confidence rises → more capital chases the trade (coherence reinforces itself)
When these variables point in the same direction, the trend becomes self-reinforcing and persists longer than skeptics expect. When inflation spikes and policy tightens, the alignment flips, coherence breaks, and the unwind can be fast.
New study claims AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it: The Harvard Business Review just published an 8-month case study of a workplace using enterprise AI tools, finding that the employees had to work faster, tackle a broader scope of tasks, and clock in more hours without being asked. The study also showed workers feeding tasks to AI during meetings, breaks, and lunch, while absorbing responsibilities that would've previously justified additional hiring.
If another Great Depression hits and money loses credibility, the market falls into chaos—so what’s actually valuable?
The answer is: the things people are forced to use no matter how bad the environment gets.
Let’s do a simple thought experiment. Imagine it’s 1929. You have a chest of gold, while your neighbor owns either a factory that can produce cheap bread or a water utility with a clean water source. Who will live better? Without question, your neighbor—because people can skip buying gold jewelry, but they still have to eat and drink.
That’s what I mean by franchises and economic moats. In a depression, the “hardest currency” isn’t metal—it’s productive assets with pricing power, especially great businesses that provide essentials. Even if inflation surges and unemployment spikes, as long as a company makes something people truly need, it can raise prices to pass on costs.
It’s a living system that creates value. Gold, by contrast, is just a lifeless stockpile.
Mediocre people cling to their existing assets during a depression. They focus on preserving principal. The wise look for incremental value. They search for businesses that can survive cycles—businesses that are resilient, even antifragile.
Don’t hoard dead objects that can’t produce value. If you really want to hedge against a Great Depression, look for “toll booths” that can still generate cash flow in an economic winter—businesses that still have customers lining up to pay. That is the most valuable shield you can hold.
I spent a few hours digging into OpenClaw interviews. Here are 7 things it does well—and 7 risks to plan for if you’re building agents. https://t.co/7quvrrUBtH
As Silicon Valley giants head into earnings season, one clear signal is that AI investment will ramp up in the new year. Just the combined related spending of four companies—Google’s parent Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft—could reach as high as $650 billion, exceeding Israel’s annual GDP.
Not to mention that players like Oracle, Tesla, xAI, OpenAI, and Anthropic are also pushing hard. Add it all up, and in 2026 these companies’ AI-related investment could total around $750 billion.
And that’s without even counting OpenAI’s “$1.4 trillion over eight years” infrastructure commitment. If you roughly factor that in using a simple average, the figure is heading toward the trillion-dollar mark.