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15 Aug 2024

Temu overtook eBay to become the 2nd most-visited e-commerce website in the world

Source: SimilarWeb, Juozas Kaziukėnas on X

14 Aug 2024

Naval Ravikant Happiness Theory

Source: artofpoets.com

14 Aug 2024

Athletes from four California universities won 89 Olympic medals. (The United States won 126 total).

Athletes from Stanford University alone won more medals than all but seven countries in the world. Source: Erik Brynjolfsson

13 Aug 2024

March 22, 2000

Difficult to compare the internet bubble with the current ai mania. Source: Andrew Kuhn

12 Aug 2024

The rich are getting richer faster than ever before

The top 40% of US income earners hold 83% of the total net worth, near an all-time record. The top 20% account for 71% of the total net worth, up 10 percentage points over the last 2 decades. On the other hand, the bottom 40% of income households hold only 8% of the wealth. Moreover, the bottom 20% of earners reflect just 3% of total US wealth. Over the last few years, the rich have gotten a lot richer. Most consumers are struggling. Source: The Kobeissi Letter, BofA

12 Aug 2024

Where do 8 billion people live?

Source : statsofindia.in

12 Aug 2024

Visualizing Global Gold Production in 2023

Source: Elements

12 Aug 2024

"You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time." — Charlie Munger

Source: Investment Wisdom

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