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Real-world data from 1.14 million vaccinations show the Pfizer and #OxfordVaccine reduce risk of hospitalisation by up to 85% and 94% respectively four weeks after initial dose. https://bit.ly/2NmRpKI
Tesla made more money holding bitcoins one month than in 14 years of car making. Front running financial markets is a winner.
Putting this in ways academics get it: spray and pray VC strategy has a major flaw not covered in the lit TMK
Target only firms with POTENTIAL of being unicorns.
Nearly all firms are fine $million firms and cant raise money!? @startupecon #EconTwitter
https://pelaidbare.com/podcast/venture-financing-laid-bare/
Sad and LOL at the same time. BS in full force. No shame. Open bar
The Pitch:
"The benefits of PE... were on full display.... when public markets went into freefall [in 2020]"
"PE can... [deliver] market matching performance on the upside (as seen... ) and less downward volatility in a crisis"
Impressive or IRRelevant?
This podcast on middle east PE is currently my best seller and my friend @MarciaFavale has a tech firm doing cool stuff: you can listen to the podcast while seeing at the bottom automatically-generated links to the topics we touch upon as it happens.
https://pelaidbare.com/podcast/middle-east-laid-bare/
PE in Healthcare -- podcast with @HenryElphickLB
Available here and on your favoriate platform:
https://pelaidbare.com/podcast/healthcare-laid-bare/
In college I had a job translating testimonies of holocaust survivors for the Fortunoff Video Archives. 10 hours/week I’d watch people describe the absolute worst horrors they’d been through in concentration camps. (Warning next part is gruesome.) 1/N https://twitter.com/FacesOfCOVID/status/1354475852571029508
RUTH MEDIAN, 90, of California died of COVID on April 26.
She was a Holocaust survivor who used her multilingualism to become a US diplomat before retiring to Marin County.
"She was a presence," her cousin said.
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/marin-county-holocaust-survivor-us-diplomat-dies-from-covid-19/2291590/
new podcast - interview with Mike Weisback on the economist's craft -- available on all platforms:
https://pelaidbare.com/podcast/phd-laid-bare/
You've got to confess she is good, really good journalist
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/01/why-apollos-palace-coup-against-leon-black-and-further-disclosures-on-jeffrey-epstein-are-not-reassuring.html
Excelent coverage of a yet another excellent paper by @FranzFranzoni and his co-authors
https://www.ft.com/content/7e16172e-ce51-4c41-a139-3a796790bbbe