My honest question here is "is this Cisco going into its true Oracle-grade dinosaur phase"?
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Saramago, Antunes, Brandao, Espanca...all interesting stuff.
Yes, but fiduciaries aren't (and even VCs generally try not to).
" there are plenty of adequately run companies owned by PE
Define "adequate" and which ones are they? I've certainly experienced directly and indirectly enough to know I'm quite burned on them, and I have yet to meet a single person who enjoyed dealing with one, that wasn't one; anyone on the receiving end of endless cost cutting, sell leasebacks, forced vendor changes to more closely align with portfolio choices regardless of sense, etc.
No, the people who seem to love PEs are either Ayn Rand's fluffer contingent, adjacently or are making money off one already without having to be subjected to their profoundly absent graces.
Pass.
It's a garbage model out of a Dicken's novel and is a huge reason why a groundswell of anti-capitalistic sentiment keeps growing. It's a case study in "worst practices" of venality.
Same (more than once)...in both cases there were a few positives and a cavalcade of negatives, with the latter category expanding like a famished amoeba.
I could fix the whole PE realm in one move: require PE firms to operate as fiduciaries, with severe penalties for failure to comply. The whole sector would collapse or stop sucking, and I don't care which happens.
Start planning your migrations folks, as its all downhill from here.
After that you might have heard people mention Canadian options like McGill and Waterloo, and then MAYBE a handful of European options in Germany and Switzerland.
But the Sorbonne was distinctly understood by a majority of peers for its status.
You can also use the Federal Register as well, but that requires a little inside alchemy to navigate for many.
The more post-punk reissues (e.g. New Age Steppers) is also right up my alley.
But yes, I got the impression early on that Sinead had more than passing familiarity with roots and dub. It just seemed to be always at least at the edges of every album in one way or another. On "Faith + Courage" it was quite prominent.
When her debut record came out, "Mandinka" was a staple on college radio, but that album barely got into the radio overall. I never really liked "Nothing Compares 2 U" but really loved quite a lot of that sophomore record otherwise.
Besides her debut, her album "Faith and Courage" is still a major highlight.
She was a tortured soul that could transcend herself through amazing talent, but she suffered throughout her life; this was compounded by being a public figure with very little fear and no compunction of speaking her mind. She is finally at peace, however sad it may be to hear.
I grew up in an Azorean household, and a lot of stuff besides pork gets prepped that way (or a permutation thereof)
Many of the others simply could not move fast enough after years of ossified businesses that were lucrative but becoming more limited.
Yes, investors were confused (disclosure: I was at VA Linux Systems when it IPO'd) but that's never been a barrier to funding the right thing (anymore than being smart guaranteed you'd pick a winner...if VC's were half as good as they portray themselves, you'd think their win-rate would climb into double digits).
The guys holding the moneybags could hire people to do the vetting, but they mostly pick insiders that maybe hit once or have otherwise sucked up with the appropriate fealty to Sand Hill "principles" than much else.
When folks spend more effort fine tuning a PPT pitch than an actual business plan, it eventually shows.
Big businesses didnt survive the dot com boom and bust because they had bigger budgets. If anything many overextended themselves (e.g. Sun) or missed the boat altogether and were obviated by FOSS (SGI, DEC, et al)
The 'infinite growth at all costs' model has rarely been seriously challenged, and as a result its become blase to think of a smaller scale but more stable and consistently successful business, and instead everything needs to lead towards monopolized or cartel-like "Big Tech".
It's a farce.
Once the ad volume readily affects page load times, or disrupts casting flow (e.g. if my attempt to listen to Brian Eno & Jon Hassell's ambient works is intruded on every 10 minutes with an earbleed level ad for Papa John's Pizza), I just download the content locally and cast it via Emby.