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- Jan 29 is the latest (ever) first snowfall in NYC. We got a very brief session today (Jan 25) which counts. Boooo. It didn’t stick, and isn’t supposed to actually snow for at least another week. Almost beat the record.
- Checked butcherbox, no duck.
- Amazon launched RxPass: https://pharmacy.amazon.com/rxpass
- Haircut. 90min massage. Made smoothies. Oat milk. Gym. All the usual.
- Spotify cutting 6%, add to big tech list (although remember this tagline is misleading, tech/software core usually fine).
- Forge report on private markets: https://forgeglobal.com/insights/reports/investors-eye-next-wave-of-2023-unicorns/
- Seed round dilution is usually ~15%, then A is ~20%, then subsequent rounds less and less.
- Lots of private work.
- PIK = Payment in Kind. A PIK loan can be paid with something other than cash (service, product, equity, whatever).
- UBT = Unincorporated Business Tax. 4% for NYC.
- Limited Partnerships and LLC structures of venture funds / PE: management entity, GP entity, LP entity.
- TLSA beat EPS by >7% (lol). Revenue match.
- Forward flow is when someone has originated a set of loans and another party buys them. Just forwarding principal+interest payments on to a new recipient. There’s effectively a new lender (investor).
- For lunar new year: Gonna buy whole ducks from the asian market. Pluck and separate breasts + legs. Breasts will be roasted and served like steaks. Carcass will be rendered down into broth + fat. Legs will be cured and baked in the fat for duck confit. I’ll keep the broth for drinking next week.
- 6 whole ducks means everyone gets a half breast and a half leg confit (expecting ~24 people).
- Remember config just means “preserved” (or candied) in french.
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- Big banks (JPM Chase, Wells Fargo, BoA, others) are working on a digital wallet to rival apple pay. I’m not sure why? You can just pay with their credit cards through apple wallet. I guess it’s just linked to a different account. But same convenience.
- It’s being built by the company that built Zelle, Early Warning Services. Not sure if it will support crytpocurrencies or just fiat.
- Lots of private work.
- Saw cavs knicks at the garden.
- Got my xmas tree picked up. Just call front desk. They come to your unit and put it in a bag so you don’t get needles all over the building on the way out.
- Sequoia pitch template: https://perfectpitchdeck.com/2018/01/30/sequoia-capital-pitch-deck-template/
- Added Ryan (and maybe same +1) for saturday lunar new year (~25 rn), after talking with Bala about climate datasets and potential pipeline opportunities.
- MS received the IRA rollover, will place investments soon.
- Remember material design is google’s set of tools and standards and stuff for cross-platform UI designs / elements.
- Matt Levine posted about Elon. Three segments today! Shocker!
- Rise Gardens reached out to put my plants on The Today Show. They’re filming in NYC over the next few days. They don’t film in your location, they just take the plants (and reimburse, with extra gifts).
- Went through amazon’s return/replacement/refund workflow (which is usually amazing) for the broken cap on the honey, wasn’t great. The automated form flows all failed. Had to go to manual chat for the refund.
- Biggest platform for private equity data (I think): https://notice.co/c/spacex
- SBSC.
- Alltime league pick percentage (nearly 25k picks) is 49.8%. Go Vegas.
- Petty and Jeremy tied for most total points, Grdich and Harner tied for 2nd most total points.
- Petty leading pick percentages at 54.4% over 9 seasons (insane). Teej comin in HOT at 55.1% over the 4 half-seasons he’s played.
- Our best season as a full league was 2017 (52%). Worst was 2022 (46.7%).
- Added a js function to calculate ordinal suffix (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc).
- Katilin requested a pick-5-random button as well as a user-specific verify=False for late picks (lol).
- Upgraded the entire app to bootstrap 5: https://gitlab.com/bmahlstedt/supercontest/-/issues/178
- Upgraded jquery and popper as well.
- Implemented Datatables so the leaderboards could be sorted by other columns, but (1) it conflicted with colspans (2) it conflicted with bootstrap styling (3) it conflicted with the serverside sorting.
