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Plant-based meat sales went up 23% when Kroger made one simple switch: they moved them from a vegetarian section to the meat section. Plant based is going mainstream.
The global coronavirus pandemic has heightened our awareness that time is subjective. For people who enjoy working from home, the days have whizzed by. For others desperate to travel or visit a loved one, time has slowed to a crawl tmsnrt.rs/2ZFY70r
Combined valuations of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix & Google:
2020: $5.1 trillion
2015: $1.6 trillion
2010: $265 billion
2005: $130 billion
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So here's my take:
Cancel culture is a large-scale version of this concept - an inability to hold the good and bad together.
It's an attempt to identify and obliterate the “bad" people, so that there will be no more badness. But, unfortunately, that’s not how the world works.
^ good thread
I'm in Iceland after spending the last four months inside in San Francisco.
Being here is surreal.
The virus has been beaten, everything is back to normal.
Kids playing outside, bars open, no masks, no danger.
It's like it never happened.
The five newsletter jobs-to-be-done:
1. 😆 Entertain me (e.g. @TheBrowser)
3. 🤔 Make me smarter (e.g. @web)
3. ☝️ Keep me informed (e.g. @thedispatch)
4. 🤔 Make me money (e.g. @kevinmuir)
5. ✊ Help me feel like I'm part of something bigger (e.g. @emorwee)
(so..…what’s CoFounder Weekly?)
💻 Startup & investor corner
Nothing spurs action in Silicon Valley faster than *data*
Yet we say diversity is "The right thing to do" when in fact its "The data-driven thing to do".
Today I'm sharing the data & key frameworks for Operators + VCs to increase business performance.
good morning, after chatting with @mikster we realized there’s a lack in knowledge for early-stage entrepreneurs on finding alternatives to funding that is NOT venture capital, so here’s a quick guide we wrote for @AllRaise:
Sometimes when a good friend does a podcast, I postpone listening assuming I already know what they have to say. Then I listen and realize that isn't the case. Still many new things to learn. Check out @altcap on @patrick_oshag. investorfieldguide.com/brad-gerstner-… Very good!
$AMZN invests about $37b annually in R&D. This is larger than the revenue they had 10 years ago. It is larger than the revenue of 425 of the companies in the S&P 500.
All the best to the competitors.
In the startup olympics, first place gets a monopoly, second place gets a medal, and there is no third place.
😹Funnies
7 things every kid needs to hear:
1. I love you
2. I’m proud of you
3. I’m sorry
4. I forgive you
5. I’m listening
6. Most businesses shouldn’t take venture capital
7. You’ve got what it takes
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