-“Overpay for the thing that is toughest to get” – Brooklyn Bridge Venture’s Charlie O’Donnell on the Tumblr deal.
–Frank Quattrone’s investment bank boutique Qatalyst Partners were the only bankers involved in the USD $1.1 billion deal.
-Ahead of tomorrow’s Bitcoin and the Future of Money talk, Wired UK guide to Bitcoin.
-“We want to traffic in areas where there is not a lot of capital chasing for returns”,
-“Hackers are the animals that can detect a storm coming or an earthquake…there are two big things hackers are excited about now: Bitcoin and 3D printing.”
-“Trust is good, control is better” – list of all Borgen episodes (with the opening quotes),
–This is probably one of the best, most subtle and intelligent reviews of Upstream Color, one of the most interesting films of the year.
– Credit/Debt trading Hedge-Funds expanding rapidly and Third point seeking an IPO for its reinsurance arm,
– How Broadcast (antenna) networks can rake billions by going cable-only by The Verge (in the US, not sure if this works for EM, specially Brazil),
-Following up on the series Brian Eno in Finance (first installment: Eno’s letter to Nassim Taleb via The Drunkeynesian) this is Eno talking to Cambridge University Economist Ha Joon-Chang,
– Cervante’s Ocho Comedias for $145,000 and a first edition of Raymond Chandler’s Big Sleep for $19,000: browsing Bauman rare books.
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