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What We're Talking About on Whatsapp: ⭐ Rising attacks on Red Sea shipping are delaying shipments out of China, leading to narrowing delivery windows and tight deadlines on Chinese manufacturers. https://lnkd.in/gx9qx_D3 ⭐ Private Equity funds are increasingly filling a gap left by VCs, with investments made both directly and via portfolio companies. Terms can vary from what firms previously received – for example, Delivery start-up Sendle announced a US$11M funding round with investors guaranteed four times their money back in any sale.  https://lnkd.in/gPMmdJDf ⭐ The original Top Gun didn’t just launch Tom Cruise into mega stardom – it also transformed the VHS market forever by lowering the cost of home movies, which were previously extremely expensive. Top Gun retailed for US$26.95 rather than US~$80 using Pepsi ads to offset the costs. https://lnkd.in/g9dcKZTB ⭐ We enjoyed listening to Pat Grady on Invest Like the Best. Pat talked about how Sequioa’s legendary culture owes in part to selfless leadership decisions – from Don Valentine handing over the firm in the 90s, to another subsequent number one Doug Leone changing legal docs to make sure that he could be removed. https://lnkd.in/gMrcwmXw ⭐ We’ve been reading ‘That will never work’, the biography of Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph. Netflix has long used tests to guide all decisions – including testing its one-day delivery proposal in Sacramento and observing that while retention didn’t change, there was an associated increase in new customer sign-ups. ⭐ Another day, another commercial application of AI – Qantas has used AI since 2018 to dynamically adapt flight routes to weather patterns and aircraft capability as well as for fuel supply, https://lnkd.in/gWY74i97.

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