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just trying to make sense of the present through the past.

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@LightspeedIndia @socapinc Deepdive

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Student athletes on the other hand were barred from monetising their own brands. The top athletes received private sponsorship but most were just handed college scholarships.

Read more: A $19bn industry is about to pay its workforce for the first time
https://t.co/CHCqVQ0gc2

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Shocking stats on American college sports 🧵

Colleges, coaches, and administrators made all the bag while athletes were some scholarship money.

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Texas A&M is paying its head coach $7m a year while the median premier league manager makes ~$6m

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Meituan, a food (and other products) delivery platform, alone employs nearly 7.5m delivery workers who get paid $11bn each year.

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China now has 84 million people working in delivery services or ride hailing. Gig economy is reshaping the future of work.

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That’s ~11% of their total workforce of 734m people.

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By now we’ve all been jaded by the instances of deceptive and fraudulent sales practices to outright bullying of parents to purchase their courses. Some #edtech companies have taken a page from the drug cartels playbook to flood the market with their products.

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@Codie_Sanchez Coaching centres- evergreen businesses. Lowest CAC, highest LTV

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It took $1.5bn to go from tuition centres to edtech and back to tuition centres. We’ve come a full circle.

Edtech giant BYJU's to invest $200M on hybrid tuition model expansion
https://t.co/qyNyVSEfnH

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@Codie_Sanchez Sage words from Buffett- “invest in businesses that can be run by a fool, because eventually one will.”

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@bhorowitz serving some truth bombs on leadership.

Moving an enterprise from core-business (cloud) to software to save the company from going under without letting shareholders or employees influence business decisions.

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@MadhavS_91 Rigged

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That innocuous promo of ‘Visit Rwanda’ on an #Arsenal shirt actually has a very different connotation on Downing Street. Britain will be sending any and all refugees on that “visit” pretty soon.

#Rwanda #policy

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CUET is simply taking the notion of “one nation, one xyz” too far. Students learn very differently even in neighbouring districts in India. Besides, this singular focus on one data point bears no resemblance to what is actually needed in today’s world.
@Meetasengupta @OBanerji

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Something for the west to remember before pointing fingers at developing countries importing fossil fuels.

@TheEconomist

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2022: menstruation is too taboo a subject to be discussed in a fkn parliament

#policy #gender

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“In each instance, elites believed the invitation to power would contain the outsider”

Source: How Democracies Die

#BookTwitter #History #Politics