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2022-03-08 10:00:01 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙰

1) Americans are moving house less than ever before.

2) The SEC is looking into whether recent Tesla stock sales worth $108m by Elon Musk and his brother may have violated insider trading rules.

3) A Ukrainian NGO, Come Back Alive, had set up a Patreon page to collect money to directly support the country’s military in response to Russian aggression. The page was shutdown by Patreon for violating its terms of service.

4) TikTok has published a series of reports for marketers on the trends that are shaping the platform.

5) Shares in Block, formerly known as Square, are up ~23% this morning after reporting a rosier outlook at its latest set of results. The news helps to unwind some of the ~45% loss in value the shares had seen in the year-to-date.

7) A map of Ukraine's degrading internet infrastructure.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-03-07 10:00:01 𝚄𝚔𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚌 𝙾𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝙳𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝙰𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙲𝚛𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚊

One interesting chart we've seen, was of Ukrainian public opinion towards Russia. As shown above, before Russia's annexation of Crimea — the peninsula in the south — Ukrainian public opinion towards Russia was overwhelmingly positive.

Respondents to surveys from the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology showed that more than 80% of Ukrainians polled had mostly positive views towards Russia. After the annexation that figure dropped dramatically, and hadn't recovered even prior to Russia's latest invasion.

Not every region of Ukraine feels the same. Residents of western Ukraine are a lot less likely to have a positive view of Russia (21% of respondents) than their counterparts in the east — where 53% had a positive view.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-03-02 10:00:01 𝙶𝚘𝚘𝚐𝚕𝚎 𝙹𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝙺𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙸𝚗 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙸𝚝 𝙳𝚘𝚎𝚜

Google's parent company Alphabet was the latest member of big tech to give an update on its business recently, and the numbers were good... crazy good.

Alphabet reported quarterly revenue of about $75bn, which is up about 32% on this time last year, with just about every single segment firing on all cylinders.

YouTube ad revenue was up a healthy 25%, but it was nothing on Alphabet's main property, Google Search, which clocked in a record $43bn of quarterly revenue, growing 36% on last year. Even better than that was Google's Cloud biz, which competes with Microsoft's Azure and Amazon's AWS, it notched revenue that was up 45% on last year.

Investors gave Google a big thumbs up, with shares rising 7% this morning. The company also announced a 20-to-1 stock split, presumably to make shares more affordable for retail investors.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-03-01 10:00:01 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚏𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚃𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚜 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝚁𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜, 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝙾𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚃𝚘 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝙾𝚏 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚎𝚜𝚝

Recently Rafael Nadal completed an epic comeback in the final of the Australian Open, winning 5.5-hour match and joining home favorite Ashleigh Barty as a 2022 singles champion. For their efforts, each pocketed about $2.06m USD, for a little over 2 weeks of work (and a lifetime of dedication to tennis).

Those payouts, which grab the headlines, mask the reality of playing professional tennis for those not fortunate enough to be the best of the best.

The 500th highest-earning male tennis player has brought in $1.6m in their career. But if you consider the constant travel, coaching and other costs over a 10-15 year career, it likely translates into a modest earning, without other income. In the female game that 500th player only won $876k.

But if you're the 1500th best ever male player - you get $207k in lifetime. Female? Just $96k.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-28 10:00:01 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙽𝚈𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝙰𝚌𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚜 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚕𝚎 𝙰𝚜 𝙸𝚝 𝙳𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙰𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝙵𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝙽𝚎𝚠𝚜

The New York Times has acquired Wordle — the viral word game — for an "undisclosed price in the low seven figures", which makes Josh Wardle, the game's creator, a millionaire. The NYTimes also reported that it hit 10 million total subscribers.

For the NYTimes, buying Wordle makes a lot of sense. For the past few years, the newspaper has been trying to diversify its revenues away from just its "core news" product. Games (mostly word-based), a dedicated cooking section and audio stories have formed the bulk of its "stuff-that-isn't-news" segment, which has grown into a $22m-a-quarter business, more than 7x where it was just a few years ago. If that business was a scrappy start-up, it would almost certainly be a unicorn in today's market.

Wordle will initially remain free to new and existing players... the key word is "initially".

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-27 10:00:00 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙰

1) Great visualization of how much money Americans make.

2) A frog has regrown an amputated leg over 18-months after being treated with a cocktail of drugs, marking a potentially significant advance for regenerative medicine.

3) US GDP grew at a 6.9% annualized pace in the fourth quarter, ahead of expectations for 5.5%.

4) An interactive deep-dive of dataviz from The Economist, exploring the decline of English dominance in global music, examining 13,000 hits in more than 70 languages.

5) Which are the most corrupt countries on Earth? The latest league table is out.

6) A 19-year-old built a Twitter bot that tracked when Elon Musk's private jet was taking off and landing. Musk wasn't a fan, reportedly offering $5,000 to delete the account.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-26 10:00:01 𝙰𝚙𝚙𝚕𝚎'𝚜 𝚂𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚂𝚒𝚍𝚎-𝙷𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝙸𝚜 𝙽𝚘𝚠 𝙰𝚗 $𝟾𝟶𝚋𝚗+ 𝙰𝚗𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚕 𝙱𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜

When one of the most successful investors of all time says that a company is "probably the best business I know in the world", it probably means something. And Warren Buffett has been right about Apple.

Recently the tech giant produced another staggering set of results, reporting more than $123bn of revenue for a single quarter. That works out to about $1.36bn per day, $57 million an hour or about $945,000 of sales every single minute.

About 15% of that revenue came from Apple's Services division — the App Store, Apple Pay, Apple Music, Apple TV, the iCloud and more. That business has grown steadily, halting briefly during the pandemic last year, before its upward march towards ~$20bn of quarterly revenue. For some context on just how big that is, it's more than 2x what Netflix makes per quarter ($8bn), and about 15x what Twitter makes ($1.3bn).

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-25 10:00:01 𝙶𝚕𝚘𝚋𝚊𝚕 𝙳𝚎𝚏𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎 𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚅𝚒𝚜𝚞𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚎𝚍

Massing Russian troops on the borders of Ukraine have elevated tensions between eastern and western powers in a way not seen since the cold war.

The 100,000+ Russian troops near the Ukrainian border offer a threat of invasion that now rests heavily on the minds of ordinary Ukrainian citizens.

One of the core issues that's ignited this tension is NATO, a military alliance of 30 countries including the US, UK, France, Italy and Germany that promises to defend any member that comes under attack. In December Russia wanted assurances that NATO would limit the resources and troops that it massed in eastern Europe, including a ban on Ukraine ever formally joining the alliance.

It's hard to overstate NATO's influence in geopolitics. According to data from SIPRI, members of NATO account for more than 57% of total global military spending, with the US alone accounting for 40% in the world.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-25 09:00:01 Banned from Twitter & Facebook, but not from Telegram (yet)

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2022-02-24 10:00:01 𝚃𝚎𝚜𝚕𝚊 𝙳𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚗 𝙰𝚗𝚢 𝙵𝚞𝚎𝚕, 𝙾𝚛 𝙲𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙰𝚗𝚢𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎

Few companies evoke as much intense discussion as Tesla. With a CEO that loves to stir the pot on Twitter, and ambitious plans to rule the world of electric vehicles (EVs) Tesla has built an army of advocates, and detractors.

In years gone by one of the biggest points of criticism was Tesla's constant losses. Quarter after quarter, Tesla made billions of dollars of losses — taking on more debt, or selling more shares, to fund its growth habit.

Those criticisms are less valid today, as Tesla reported this week that it had made more than $6.5bn from its operations in 2021, a record high. That number was well received, helping to paper over the ongoing supply chain issues that Tesla also announced, which are set to see plans for new vehicles (like the Cybertruck) get put on hold until 2023 at the earliest.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment