Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
This Month Forbes Magazine portraits Orlando Bravo of PE firm Thoma Bravo in this front cover magazine article Meet Wall Street’s Best Dealmaker: New Billionaire Orlando Bravo (81, 844 views so far). ” In February, the French business school HEC Paris, in conjunction with Dow Jones, named Thoma Bravo the …
Instead of watching dumb Halloween movies (thanks, but no thanks, Joker), I watched Spartacus The Starz series (2009-2013), as I do every year. I analyzed these exceptional series last year, in case you’re just catching up to my blog. Best movie ever made. (also here) In the episode I was… …
We’re going to put on some significant Rules of The Game here and keep it under wraps from the dumb and clumsy masses (those who won’t pay won’t play, or read in this case). I will apply some pimping Rules and you’ll easily see the Game doesn’t just apply to… …
” I bury the bone so deep that the dogs have to scratch for it .” -G.I. Gurdjieff I came upon this controversial Armenian mystic whose body of work includes All and Everything. If you’ve never heard of him, this might spark your interest: Gurdjieff said that he had answered …
A shot goes out to reader Steve for compiling and sending us this information. Steve’s email appropriately says: “Max has done more to opening my eyes than any of the crummy, big name operators. In the men’s Internet space, there is only one Max Cantor.” Steve Thank you, Steve. In …
While I’m at TechCrunch Disrupt 2019 in S.F. I don’t forget my techies readers who are not attending. 60%+ of this blog’s readership are people that work in technology: engineers, product developers, editors, etc. I thought it would be useful to link to Y Combinator’s top alumni company list of …
I’ve written three posts on memory and its’ link to aging already (you can find them here,here and here). We’re not talking here about keeping a sharp memory, the memory palace techniques used by some, or staving off age-related memory loss. What we are talking about is the disaffecting effects …
This month we have The Stanford University Monthly Magazine for you to read if you didn’t read it already. Of particular interest I think is the piece Can They Ever Catch Up ? (Rebecca Beyer) about the millennials who graduated around the Recession who are still unable to buy a …
If I were to conduct a survey among my readers on which is their single most-prized, more endearing and the most satisfying thing they are after my gut tells me that freedom will be their answer. Of course, freedom comes in many ways; there is freedom of action, financial freedom, …
This is the first obituary I post on the blog. Likely the last one, too. In memory of T. Boone Pickens, wildcatter and amazing businessman, who passed away at age 91. While I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Pickens, he always struck me with his high energy. Pickens made …
