As I’ve mentioned obliquely, what’s going on in Ukraine touches close to home for us. We have dear friends from there, and they have many relatives in great peril. Much of the fencing world is associated with Russia and Ukraine, and our beloved Alex, who was so instrumental in the success of Prophet, was from there. Here is a map of where the terrified citizens are fleeing. We are hoping to house a few of them here at our home in Palo Alto.
Back around the year 2000, I was strolling around the neighborhood when I saw an Open House sign about a block from where I live. It was a Sunday, the traditional day for open houses, so I thought I’d just look around and see what it was like and what it cost.
In the backyard there was the smiling real estate agent, but what caught my eye was something which surprised me: a coffee cart. A really nice one, too, with a barista at its side. There was a short menu of drinks he could make, and I thought to myself, “Cool, a free drink!” So I got myself a latte and pretended to be a potential buyer as I looked around. At the time, I thought it was pretty clever for a real estate agent to spend the extra money to make a house visit something pleasant.
(more…)Palantir, the Palo Alto-based company with its Alex Karp crazy-hair guy, has lost the majority of its market cap in just one year’s time. If James Altucher wasn’t proof enough, maybe Mr. Karp will finally demonstrate my point irrefutably.
Greetings from 50 degrees, it-hasn’t-rained-since-Christmas Palo Alto. It’s Wednesday night as I am typing this, and I really wanted to say something about the /ES futures…….
