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The future of asset management, creative destruction, and why it is springtime for innovators:
Phil Bak
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Phil Bak
@philbak1
Founder/CEO Skyline Standard
- Friend of mine wasn’t getting his raise request. I told him to show up next day w haircut, best suit, carry one of those resume folders, and to leave late morning for an hour to sit in a coffee shop, then come back quietly like nothing happened. The next week he got his raise.When your analyst leaves the office for 2 hours on a Tuesday for a “doctors appointment”
- Boomers will literally wait in a hotel line to tell someone at the front desk that they are "checking out" instead of just going home.
- Family friend, healthy male about 65 or 70, was about to go on ventilator last night for covid at NYC hospital. They gave him the new drug cocktail (hydroxychloroquine and whatever else), woke up this am breathing easily and no fever. Firsthand story.
- Replying to @philbak1There’s an element of showmanship that they don’t teach in any MBA courses. So much of business is about showmanship, moxie and swagger. Not to say you don’t need substance behind it, of course you do. But charisma, gusto and risk-taking are in far shorter supply.
- "my mortgage is 2.5% fixed" is the new "have fun staying poor"
- Replying to @jasonscheerThe moment this young man became a lifelong republican
- Early this morning one sell order of 653 BTC took 5.9% off Bitcoin’s price in one trade. $MSTR owns 129,218 Bitcoins. What happens when they are forced to liquidate?
- Replying to @FromWhiteCastleHe didn’t have to beg or scream or anything. Didn’t have to say another word.
- Replying to @teddyfuseLMAO, I think the hotel will be able to figure it out on their own
