This week’s highlights: Jim Collins, The App Store, and Electric F-150s
Issue 427
Happy Friday and Memorial Day Weekend!
I don’t know about you, but this weekend feels like Opening Day for the summer and a ‘late-COVID’ world (I’d rather not jinx it by calling it post-Covid). Fifteen on Friday will have a bye week next Friday, and be back in action the 6/11.
Original Content:
- Many Families Will Sell Their Business – That’s a Good Thing For family owned companies, a harvest event can mark the start of the family’s next chapter, not the end of the story.
Best,
David
Food for Thought
- WSJ – The Great American Cleanup: Deodorant, Teeth Whitener Fly Off the Shelves ‘Everyone wants to look their best’: As restrictions ease, stores say sales are shifting away from toilet paper and baking flour to cosmetics and swimsuits
- NashvilleScene – Sean Brock Prepares to Reopen The Continental — and He’s Fired Up About It
- Farnam Street – Jim Collins: Relationships vs. Transactions Excellent podcast interview between FS’s Shane Parish and author/strategist, Jim Colllins.
- Comedian John Crist’s take on 30a – Vacations in 30a Once – Just for fun – since all of Nashville will probably be heading to the beach in the next few weeks.
Business
- Stratechery – App Store Arguments – Closing arguments this week in the Apple App store trial.
- II – How Regulators Killed Hedge Funds Hedge funds generated much larger returns than stocks and bonds for years — but everything changed after the financial crisis.
- Fortune – This Silicon Valley VC likes to keep a low profile—no easy feat when you have one of the biggest IPO years in history
- AWCS – Did HGTV Ruin the Housing Market For Millennials?
- Forbes – How This Senator’s Son Made $100 Million In Stocks And Why He Fled To Low Tax Florida – The headline is a bit political, but interesting profile of a low-profile hedge fund manager.
Culture / Tech / Science
- IH – Ford’s F-150 Lightning Is Winning the EV Truck War for One Simple Reason Even if Tesla’s Cybertruck and Rivian’s R1T deliver, they can’t match Ford in a crucial area
- Gizmodo – Is Dyson Making a Toothbrush?
- CP – 3D Printed Buildings and Technology S-Curves
- Inverse – Land Rover Defender: It goes everywhere, even the one place you’ll never visit
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