Brad Cherniak
@SapientCapital
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Private tech company shareholder value--work long & hard for it. ‘It is that strange disquietude of the Gothic spirit that is its greatness’ ~John Ruskin
Toronto, Canada
Joined August 2009
We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar… T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men
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Our little trooper out and about after her surgery earlier this week. 🙂🙂🙏🙏👍👍
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"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. " Nietzsche
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after chugging coffee all day, gotta go BAD, but pupster’s asleep on my feet - she needs her sleep to recover from her surgery crisis
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Ian Curtis’s last known photo wasn’t taken by a famous photographer, or in some dramatic setting. It was a simple Photo-Me booth portrait, shot inside the old Woolworths on Mill Street in Macclesfield on May 15, 1980. Just a few days before everything changed. He went there to
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It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
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Chowing down like a champ after her surgery yesterday. Yay!
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I call it optionality but @lukesophinos and @picnoulos call it the escape hatch. The fastest way founders lose optionality is by raising a round that looks good on paper but traps them in a binary outcome. Boom or bust. Lots of early stage founders think capital expands the
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Resting after second surgery for mast cell tumor. ☹️☹️ Tired pupster. But glad to have her back home. 🥰🥰
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“The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyse, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.” Sergei Rachmaninoff
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“I wasn’t the fastest guy in the world. I wouldn’t have done well in an Olympiad or a math contest. But I like to ponder. And pondering things, just sort of thinking about it and thinking about it, turns out to be a pretty good approach.’ – Jim Simons
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WARREN BUFFETT JUST SENT WHAT COULD BE HIS LAST MESSAGE TO BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY $BRK.B SHAREHOLDERS AS CEO OF THE COMPANY Here is the full and entire 8 page press release Warren Buffett just released ⬇️⬇️ To My Fellow Shareholders: I will no longer be writing Berkshire’s
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Shocking stat of the day: The top 10 US stocks now have a combined market cap of $24.5 TRILLION. This is 5 TIMES more than the total value of stocks in Europe’s broad Euro Stoxx 50 index. The top 10 are also 5 and 6 times larger than the size of Germany’s and Japan’s
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BREAKING: Global broad money supply surged +6.7% YoY in September, reaching a record $142 trillion. This measure covers 169 economies, representing 99% of global GDP. Year-to-date, money supply has jumped +9.1%, driven by China and the US. Since 2000, global money supply has
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