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What is Clubhouse?
Shortly before the premiere of Season 2 of Undercover Billionaire, Grant Cardone waded into the waters of the recently launched Clubhouse app. This turned out to be a great choice, both for the show and for his other business ventures. If you aren’t familiar with this...

LG May Leave the SmartPhone Business
LG is considering exiting the smartphone market in 2021. After losing around $4.5 billion over the past five years, LG’s smartphone business has been struggling to compete with rivals. Now LG CEO Kwon Bong-seok has notified employees that the company is considering...

Substack – Fad or Gold rush?
This is not the first time the internet created a gold rush around content. Blogging, Podcasting, YouTubing(?) and the like have all brought creators out from under the thumb of gatekeepers and put their content front and center to the end user. As those mediums grew,...

JET.com founder, Mark Lore, is leaving Walmart
Mark Lore is a storied exec. Amazon acquihired him when the purchased Quidsi in 2011. He co-founded Quidsi, and it was the parent company of Diapers.com. Amazon scooped it up for the paltry sum of $545M. Lore later left Amazon to start Jet.com. When Jet was a little...

Did eBay Miss The Mark? PoshMark and StockX eye IPOs
There was a time when eBay was the place to find rare goods. When Amazon's strength as a logistics player started to hurt eBay's bottom line, it seems like eBay tried to compete rather than pivot into their core-competency: a rare goods marketplace, not a dry goods...

Will niche networking Be the Undoing of LinkedIn?
There are a new crop of apps and websites that help people network within specific industries. Wildcast is a website that helps podcasters network with other podcasters Podcasting is a big industry and new titles crop up daily. The choice of podcasts appears to be...

GM rebrands Logo For The Electric Age
GM has rebranded their logo in what seems to be an attempt to appeal to younger, savvier buyers. GM has what new upstart electric car companies do not have - expertise and credibility (if you can it that considering the malaise era through the mid 00s) when it comes...

The Paul Brothers: Have they successfully switched up from being content dorks to being boxers?
Yes, of course it is a mismatch.It's true that Logan Paul, at 6-foot-2 and around 200 pounds, will have some 50 pounds and 6 inches on Floyd Mayweather Jr. when they share a boxing ring on Feb. 20, 2021....Yeah, I'm making fun of this out-of-left-field event, but...

College Has a Negative ROI
For a very long time, college degrees have been a requirement in very many fields in the job market. Many managers don't fail to a bachelor's degree under the qualification. However, time and again, the higher learning institution only equips learners with knowledge...

Will Zoom Be Dethroned?
Hopin’s growth amid Zoom’s fatigue is giving validation to a whole crop of remote-work-focused startups. I see startups in the category sitting in two camps: Either you’re betting that users want a more passive way to interact with video or you’re betting that users...
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