Ray Dalio is watching

Please. All they had to do was just a little real due diligence.

I'd expect a fund like Sequoia to at least look at financials. Or corp structure and governance.

But apparently not.

Check what Croatian tax authorities think of controlled foreign corporations(cfc's).

Most countries don't allow you to just expatriate income to skip taxes while still living in your local country.

Warren Buffett discussed this in his 2007 letter to shareholders Buffett says that "90% of your job as a director is having the right CEO."

"There is a natural tendency for people with big egos and big motors who get to be CEOs who like to do big things and to become bigger spending other people's money. Normally, when big deals come along [for approval] management has already made the deal anyway, they have investment bankers there that will go through a little ritual - I've never seen one come in and do a presentation which says it's a dumb idea! They know what the answer is supposed to be, and it becomes a little game."

Probably wanted to degrade user experience enough to make users just go to Apple, but not enough to attract regulator attention.

Most people create little mental boxes to imprison themselves in.

Try more crazy things, you'd be surprised how often it can work out.

It's spring already here in South Africa. It's a bit early. Not a lot, but enough to notice

You called? XD

Haha wow! Nice to meet you.

In South Africa "guys" is gender neutral too.

I wish the Americans can keep their weird culture war within their own borders.

And then there's Dave Grohl. Not quite popular anymore but rocking harder than even with creative new songs.

Dave Grohl is the Paul McCartney of the 90s - survived the breakup of a band that had massive mainstream success, reinvented himself as a solo artist, now gets to be a lifetime musician with more money than god. I like Nirvana and I like early Foo Fighters, but modern Dave Grohl has been churning out hard-rock oatmeal with copy-paste lyrics since Colour and the Shape.

The Foo Fighters still sell out arenas... wtf are you talking about?

> creative new songs.

Not so sure about this one. Tons of respect for Dave having this amount of longevity though.

Dave Grohl still sells out large venues. He’s still pretty popular.

He's popular among a core group of ageing followers... his die hard fans (and yes, there are a lot of them). But he's not popular in the sense that he's the new "it."

Not many people are It in rock anymore. It’s diversified into many fringe subgroups. Which is great. Just means fewer superstars.

Aging followers are as much followers as young ones. It is not lesser to create for older people and stuff that appeals to them. Just like with art for any other minority.

I didn't say it was lesser. I said it's different than being the new "it." There's "popular" and then there's "society thinks this is the cutting edge of culture - popular." Dave Grohl is the first one.

Not the first. Maybe the first one recently. The old fart from Liverpool and his mates sorta roto-rootered culture and defined “it” for a while. Phil Collins, unfortunately, was the face of pop music in the 80’s. So “average bloke” was a popular look I guess. Chops as a drummer and grew up playing complex music but neither made the big bux. He paid the price for it it seems but survived.

First as in, he's the first example, not the second example.

Is there even a new "it" recently for instrument playing musicians?