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Finance is Narrative Not Numbers

The Subtle Art of Manipulating CFOs

22 Aug 25, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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What is an Asset?

Plus a new course from Napkin Math!

22 πŸ”’ Aug 18, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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A Tale Of Two Acquisitions

The Unity Conundrum

8 πŸ”’ Aug 12, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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The Meh-taverse

A Book Review

66 Aug 4, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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Snapchat’s Probably Screwed

Apple's ATT Fallout Continues

142 πŸ”’ Jul 28, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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Crypto Has A Use Case

How Braintrust Used Tokens to Kickstart a Market

47 πŸ”’ Jul 21, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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Has Venture Lost Its Soul?

A Book Review of The Power Law

60 Jul 15, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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Look On My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair

I Have Some Thoughts To Share

34 πŸ”’ Jun 30, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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Facebook’s Capitulation

Abandoning a Trillion Dollar Advantage

35 πŸ”’ Jun 23, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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Are We Really Addicted?

An interview with Nir Eyal

33 Jun 22, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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Selective Optimism

People who promise high returns forever are liars

73 πŸ”’ Jun 16, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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Software is Eating the Individual

The Embedded Human

58 πŸ”’ Jun 10, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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The Inventor of the iPhone Has Some Thoughts

Build by Tony Fadell: A Review

94 Jun 2, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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The Addiction Economy

Addicted, Overwhelmed, Oversubscribed: How Technology Hooked the World

137 πŸ”’ May 26, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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How Startups Can Survive the Creator Economy Winter

The Race for Revenue Share

64 May 19, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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Crypto’s Failed Promise

The problem with crypto-as-a-nation-state

132 May 12, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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The Empire Stripes Back

A $100B Bet on Two Brothers

91 πŸ”’ May 5, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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Cashβ€”Kingmaker or Killer?

A examination of when cash can anoint a market winner

54 Apr 28, 2022 by Kyle Harrison

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Microsoft should buy Netflix

Netflix and Bill

35 πŸ”’ Apr 21, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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The Race for New Payment Rails

Who is building the next Visa?

31 πŸ”’ Apr 14, 2022 by Reggie Young

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The Futility of Utility

A personal essay

72 πŸ”’ Apr 8, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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Twitter’s Shot at Becoming a Meme Stock

It’s Musk's world and we’re just tweeting in it

34 πŸ”’ Apr 5, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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Twitter’s Probably Screwed

The Rugged Landscape of Digital Advertising

78 πŸ”’ Mar 30, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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Planet of the Billion Dollar Bored Apes

Is Bored Ape Yacht Club a Decentralized Disney?

24 πŸ”’ Mar 24, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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BIG announcement incoming

I'm going full time on Napkin Math

36 πŸ”’ Mar 23, 2022 by Evan Armstrong