Brand name investors threw money at Sam Bankman-Fried without even looking at the balance sheet — The FTX collapse is the apotheosis of everything wrong with the cryptocurrency industry and Silicon Valley’s lax attitude toward corporate governance. In response to FTX’s failure, Binance announced an ‘industry recovery fund’. But, in the wake of Sam Bankman-Fried’s fall from grace, we’ve learned the company was run with little…

Musk’s success was based on building on and improving industries with proven business models. But, Twitter is a media company… — Ah, the tech bro Elon Musk love fest continues unabated. It’s weird to watch grown men — the fandom, unsurprisingly, largely tilts male — beating their breasts and clutching their pearls as the oft-saluted market forces take out the new drywall on Musk’s recent Twitter renovations.

It’s long overdue, but perhaps it’s time people stopped fawning over Elon Musk and introduced a little skepticism into their appraisals of his business acumen. Musk has been noticeable in his silence over the last two months or so, only breaking that most welcome of peace with an idiotic Twitter…

The #crypto industry finally explained.

Not having ever been a parent, I've watched these competitions with a detached curiosity, often wondering just who the children are attempting to win these accolades for? Like the soccer or hockey parents who lose their collective minds when a ref dings their precious on either the pitch or the…

Both Piers Morgan and Tucker Carlson’s vindictive behavior are a master class in straight white fright. — As the media obsessed over Harry and Meghan’s Oprah interview, many interrupted their dissection of the “royal dis heard ‘round the world” to revel in the schadenfreude of another Piers Morgan screwup. Morgan stormed off the set of the show he co-hosts, Good Morning Britain (GMB), after being tactfully, yet…

That the Chinese government has its hand in all Chinese national and multinational companies should caution folks to not make this a racist stereotype; that Beijing, and specifically the CPC, is an investor in all businesses in some form or another—part ownership, investment, or even specific regulatory favoritism. The behavior…

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for many of my friends in the United States, what with the pestilence, the lack of leadership, the hoarding in the supermarkets, and it’s not even the post-Apocalyptic dystopian future we were promised. However, what’s been slowly creeping into my Facebook feed of…

Watching Americans storm the shelves of supermarkets for foodstuffs would be hilarious if it wasn’t so alarming. Hong Kong, with a population of about 7.5 million has seen a little more than 130 cases* of diagnosed COVID-19 infections with four confirmed deaths. About a month ago we had a three-day…