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2022-04-30 22:00:59 𝙼𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊

1) Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates get a lot of headlines — but who are America's silent billionaires?

2) Too much on their plate: Just Eat Takeaway are exploring a sale of Grubhub just over 12 months since they paid $7.3 billion to buy the company themselves.

3) Masks have been the source of 65% of unruly passenger incidents on airlines according to the FAA. Forbes has put together some interesting survey data about how Americans feel about the federal mask mandate.

4) Visualizing the world's shipping lanes.


5) Airlines might be coming back, but buses are struggling. Data from the FMCSA shows that the number of motorcoach carriers has fallen by 50% in the US in the last 2 years.

6) That rival you have on Words with Friends? It might a bot, as 7 out of the top 10 most-played mobile games admit to using bots to ensure players always have an opponent to compete against.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-04-29 22:00:48 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙴𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚌𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙽𝙴𝚃𝙵𝙻𝙸𝚇

In Netflix's most recent financial year the company reported a healthy operating income of more than $6bn. That gives Netflix a decent amount of margin to work with as the company begins its efforts to get growth back on the right side of zero — if it can keep its huge content costs from spiraling higher.

Netflix sharers and ad-haters beware

The company did estimate that, in addition to its ~220m paying subscribers, Netflix is being shared in around ~100m households, alluding once again to the idea that the company might look to crack down more severely on account sharing. 

The other avenue for growth is an ad-supported free (or just cheaper) tier. Historically Netflix has been strongly against the idea of advertising, but the company has had a change of heart — announcing this week plans to offer ad-supported options over the next few years. No ideas are off the table now.
𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-04-28 22:01:09 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙽𝚞𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝙾𝚏 𝙼𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝙸𝚗 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚄𝚂 𝙸𝚜 𝚄𝚙 𝙰𝚕𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝟺𝟶% 𝚂𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟿

Violence in America

Last week's violent shooting in Brooklyn as well as recent killings in New Orleans and three mass shootings over Easter weekend are the latest tragic examples of a nationwide uptick in killings in the US over the last 3 years.

Preliminary estimates for 2021 show the murder rate in the US hitting 6.9 per 100,000 people, up 38% on the numbers for 2019.

Coming up with reasons why violent crime might be rising isn't hard. Since 2019 we've had a global pandemic, lockdowns, high profile police killings, civil unrest, intense economic uncertainty, a fraught election, and now rising inflation on essential goods. Those things, and others, seem to be taking their toll.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-04-27 22:01:07 𝙽𝚎𝚝𝚏𝚕𝚒𝚡 𝙲𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝙲𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚕: 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙶𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝙸𝚜 𝙽𝚘𝚠 𝙻𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚂𝚞𝚋𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚜

For the second time this year Netflix shares are in freefall. The company's share price is currently down more than 30% this morning after reporting not-just-a-slowdown-in-growth but an actual drop in subscriber numbers, with more expected to come.

The streaming giant lost 200k subscribers in its latest quarter, and in its shareholder letter outlined that it expected to lose another 2 million in the next, as competition intensifies and its biggest markets become saturated.

This is a big deal because, despite being painfully aware of increased competition, Netflix had still expected to gain 2.5 million subscribers this quarter.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-04-26 10:01:32 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙰

1) Bankers are getting paid — the average Wall Street bonus just hit $257k, up 20% on last year.

2) The case of a missing $31.8 million Tyrannosaurus rex fossil — named Stan — has been solved.

3) The US has agreed to welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war, around 3% of the 3.6 million that have been displaced thus far.

4) Mortgage rates have risen again, touching 4.5% in the US for the first time since 2018 — here's a chart of what that means you can borrow, if you're an "average earner".

5) Cool interactive map of America's 50 most filmed streets.

6) Wordle creator Josh Wardle has opened up on how his partner ranked every five-letter word in the dictionary, roughly 13,000 words, into whether she knew them, maybe knew them, or didn't know them — to build the original Wordle word bank.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-04-25 10:01:13 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙰𝚛𝚝 𝙷𝚊𝚜 𝙾𝚞𝚝𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚎𝚍 𝙾𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙻𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝟸𝟻 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜

In the 993 days since starting this newsletter, we’ve seen thousands of charts about investing. But few struck us like this one above.

When you see numbers like this, it's easy to see why billionaires and hedge fund managers battle for paintings in auction houses across the globe.

Going once, going twice...

The heavyweights might duke it out for $100 million+ pieces, but you can harness the compounding magic of art with Masterworks for much less. This revolutionary platform lets you invest in art by legends like Picasso, Warhol, and Rothko—even if your last name isn't Bezos.

Here's their track record since 2019:
George Condo's "Staring into Space": +31.7% net IRR (2020-22)
Banksy's "Mona Lisa": +32% net IRR (2019-20)
Albert Oehlen’s “Doppelbild”: +33.8% net IRR (2020-21)

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-04-24 10:02:51 𝚄𝚋𝚎𝚛 & 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚘𝚛𝚔'𝚜 𝚈𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝙲𝚊𝚋𝚜 𝙹𝚘𝚒𝚗 𝙵𝚘𝚛𝚌𝚎𝚜…𝙰𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗

Back in 2011 Uber launched in New York City as a scrappy tech start-up that was hoping to disrupt the billion-dollar taxi industry. And disrupt it they did.

Within 6 short years, Uber drivers were doing more trips per day than the iconic New York yellow cabs. That sent the cost of a taxi medallion, the transferable permits that allow taxicabs to operate in New York, plummeting down from the $1 million+ they cost at their peak to closer to $100k today

So it's something of a surprise that Uber has just announced a deal to list the city's taxicabs directly through the Uber app, ending more than a decade of fierce competition between Uber and the taxi companies.

Once launched, the integration means 14,000 taxis will be able to take trips from Uber customers through the app.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-04-23 10:29:54 𝚂𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙸𝚗 𝚁𝚞𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚊 𝙰𝚛𝚎 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚑 𝙰𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 $𝟷.𝟾𝚋𝚗 𝙰 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚃𝚘 𝙽𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚕é 

All told Nestlé sold about $1.8bn worth of products in Russia last year. That's a huge dollar amount but in relative terms it only makes up about 2% of the company's total sales, which topped more than $94bn in 2021.

Nestlé's withdrawal is focused on non-essential products, like confectionery, coffee and pet food - which are major categories for the group globally. Products deemed "essential" will continue to sell, albeit with a promise that any profits from those sales will be donated to humanitarian relief charities

Nestlé's decision to pull out of Russia is another win for Ukrainian leaders that have been targeting specific companies and calling them out for doing business in Russia - a strategy that is working well alongside Ukraine's appeal to governments and trade organizations.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-04-22 10:02:24 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙰

1) The Institute of International Finance expects the Russian economy to contract by 15% this year, essentially wiping out all of Russia's economic progress since around 2007.

2) GameStop mania is... back? Shares in the gaming company are up 96% in the last 2 weeks, and the company has approved a stock split that should make it easier for retail traders to invest.

3) Powerful visualization of the ~4 million people that have now fled Ukraine.

4) Scientists are finally done mapping the human genome, completing the 8% of material that had been impossible to map with previous technology.

5) We don't usually love spiral charts or animated data visualizations, but this climate change one from NASA is an exception to both. Open / Comment

2022-04-22 09:00:02 People Are Needed Urgently to Work in the Crypto-Currency Field With a Salary of $2,000!

We are looking for:
- SMM specialists
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Crypto vacancies for everyone - they take candidates with and without experience!

UPD: they post vacancies from Binance, Coinbase, Huobi on the channel Open / Comment