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At CES, every Chinese company is trying to crack the US market. The products are incredible - better engineered than half the American booths. But they keep failing because despite massive R&D budgets, they’re penny pinching on everything that happens after the product ships: branding, channels, and support US consumers actually buy confidence. that if something breaks, someone will help & the company will still exist in 6 months This shows up everywhere. Suspicious websites, brand messaging that reads like google translate. distribution only through Amazon because building retail relationships takes effort.And when something goes wrong support reps take forever to respond and have no idea what they’re talking about. American companies with objectively worse products win because they are invested in the full experience - the brand feels coherent My recommendation: If you want to win in the US: stop treating brand, channels, and support as cost centers. They’re not optional extras, they’re the difference between a one-time sale and actually building market share

BREAKING: Greenland considers bypassing Denmark, meeting with U.S. about possible acquisition of the country.

Dudes rock

If you bought Silver yesterday, you'd have outperformed someone holding $ETH for 4 years.

Respect the efficiency. Genghis Khan had to ride horses across the Eurasian Steppe, sack cities, and maintain complex diplomatic alliances to spread his DNA. Pavel has disrupted the Warlord industry by simply automating the conquest via FedEx. He will colonize the human gene pool using a SaaS (Sperm-as-a-Service) model. By 2050, "Durov" will be a distinct demographic checkbox on the US Census, right between "Caucasian" and "Pacific Islander."

Google just announced real-time translation for video-calls.

This guy makes Greek Slow Roast Leg of Lamb with Potatoes

2.5 years of AI progress "Salmon in the river"

How it started: How it’s going:

Vanguard CEO on Bitcoin ETFs in 2024: "We'll never offer Bitcoin ETFs, we're not going to change our mind around this". 2025: that person isn't CEO anymore. Bitcoin ETF trading starts tomorrow.

JUST IN: Vanguard officially lists BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF

JUST IN: $11 trillion Vanguard to finally allow clients access to #Bitcoin ETFs starting tomorrow — Bloomberg

Me and my cousin going on a “nature walk” before the Thanksgiving feast

Another bad day for Pierre Poilievre. Danielle Smith has moved on.

.@MarkJCarney has managed the unimaginable in a mere six months as PM: he’s completely recalibrated the federal Liberal Party —from a political vehicle that had become very left-leaning under his predecessor — to its traditional home in the “radical centre” of Canadian politics. The changes are as substantive as they are vast: immediately scrapping the consumer carbon tax; reversing changes to the Capital Gains inclusion rate; broad-based tax relief; a complete pivot from social program-based funding expansions to strategic, capital-oriented stimulus designed to catalyze $1 trillion in economic growth; the re-orientation of Canada’s foreign policy and trading relationships along chiefly economic lines — not values-based ones; the end of Trudeau’s “feminist foreign policy”; the building of national infrastructure projects empowered by a streamlined and expedited approvals process; historic military spending and meaningful cuts to the public service; the beginnings of sweeping trade diversification that we’ve not seen in 40+ years. You can approve or disapprove of Carney’s ideological agenda; but what you can’t claim is that it’s not at the radical centre of Canadian politics. Nor can you assert that it doesn’t meet the moment we’re in and isn’t broadly popular. I’m a Liberal because I’ve always held both centrist and more left-leaning/progressive views on the role of governments in the modern era. I’m largely aligned with Carney’s agenda, and when I’m not, I understand both the public policy and retail political calculations underpinning the PM’s decisions. Carney’s approach to gov’t is not merely sound public policy wise, it’s politically brilliant. For it appeals to “Middle Canada”, including moderate Conservative fed up with the corrosive effects of right wing populism and pragmatic progressives done with the hypocrisy of the progressive left. It’s no surprise the Carney-led Liberals are edging up in public opinion polling. I expect this trend to likely continue unabated for the reasons articulated☝️ #cdnpoli

This is insane.

JUST IN: $USDT issuer Tether becomes largest independent holder of Gold in the world, FT reports.

Hey @Chase… you guys know Operation Choke Point is over, right? Just checking.

JUST IN: JPMorgan has debanked the accounts of the CEO of the Strike crypto exchange.

The UK has officially proposed temporary holding limits of £20,000 per crypto coin for individuals and £10 million for businesses, per Bloomberg.