Easiest way to say no to someone is to add playa after “nah playa” it’s like i denied you but at least i called you a playa

Downtown Portland keeps taking BRUTAL hits... The 174 room Hotel Zags just sold for $10M - a MASSIVE ~79% haircut from the $47.5M Pebblebrook Hotel Trust paid in 2013 Here's the kicker: The hotel is in the HEART of downtown Portland, steps from major attractions and public transit The seller invested ~$7M renovating and repositioning the hotel just a few years ago, only to sell it for a fraction of its original purchase price... I visited Portland recently, and honestly, the challenges downtown are hard to ignore Where did it go so wrong for Portland? Stay tuned and follow for more commercial real estate deals trading at massive 'discounts'

Friend went on a date last night and the girl casually mentions she was backstage with some huge DJ last weekend. He asks how she even got back there. She goes “I don’t know, he DM’d me like two years ago and whenever he’s in New York he tells me to come.” Life of an attractive woman is easy mode

I keep seeing “natural diamonds crashed 70%.” I run companies that work with hundreds of jewelers. I’d love to know where that number comes from, because it doesn’t show up anywhere I look. The 1 carat natural index fell about 10% last year. It has risen two months in a row since August. Rough diamonds is where the real damage is. De Beers’ realized price is down 37% this year and they’ve lost money every year since 2023. That’s the miners’ problem and not what a customer pays. The only diamonds down 70% or more are lab-grown. Those have fallen more than 80% in a decade, and a 1 carat D VVS now wholesales for $87. Somewhere along the way “lab-grown collapsed” became “diamonds collapsed.” What the stores actually report: natural diamond sales at US independents up 9% in Q1. Average ticket up 25% to over $4,000. Natural still 85% of the diamond dollars. And the “down from peak” charts all measure from 2022, when people had stimulus checks, no travel, and two years of postponed weddings. Against 2019 the drop mostly disappears. Natural diamond demand is fine. The headline is about a different product. At the top end it’s the opposite of a crash. 5 carat prices rose 8% in the first quarter. Christie’s June sale sold every lot. On the branded side, Cartier and Van Cleef grew even more, at 14% last year on jewelry alone. The customer with real money moved out of handbags and into stones.

"Call Her Daddy" host Alex Cooper & actress Sophia Bush: if a woman is questioning whether she can do better than her current husband, "the answer is always yes." "This idea that it's too late or you're too old, or who are you to want more, that's patriarchy. That is crazy."

"Call Her Daddy" host Alex Cooper & actress Sophia Bush: if a woman is questioning whether she can do better than her current husband, "the answer is always yes." "This idea that it's too late or you're too old, or who are you to want more, that's patriarchy. That is crazy."

Pepsi paid $2bn for Poppi and now says it won't pay the $300m earnout. Everyone's acting surprised. What happens when a giant buys a challenger brand, with the receipts: - Honest Tea, Odwalla, Zico: all bought by Coke, all discontinued. Zico's founder bought it back. - Bai: Dr Pepper paid $1.7bn, wrote most of it down. - Bodyarmor: Coke paid $5.6bn, took a $760m impairment three years later. - Rockstar: Pepsi paid $3.85bn, has lost share every year since. - Freshly: Nestlé paid $1.5bn, shut it within three years. - Dollar Shave Club: Unilever paid $1bn, sold it for a fraction seven years later. - Bonobos: Walmart paid $310m, sold for $75m. - Mirror: Lululemon paid $500m, wrote it off and shut it. - Ballast Point: Constellation paid $1bn, sold for pocket change four years on. - Reebok: Adidas paid $3.8bn, sold for $2.5bn fifteen years later. - Snapple: Quaker paid $1.7bn in 1994, sold for $300m in 1997. The original. The pattern isn't bad luck. The brand was bought to protect the original and core portfolio, not to grow. Once it's off the market, the job is done. If you ever sell to one of these: the cash on day one is the price. Everything else is a promise from someone who is incentivized is not to keep it.

Why is mid-30s too old? That is the question here.

Recession indicator? For the first time in as long as I can remember, the Ferrari dealership has a dozen or so used Ferraris parked outside. I can’t remember the last time I saw one parked outside like a used car lot.

I'm not an Elon hater. I'm just telling you the Honest Truth: This is a marketing stunt. The technology is quite old. Just nobody ever thought of bolting it on a car. Because it's pointless. Porsche or Ferrari could also build something like this if they wanted, but they don't, because it's not worth it for them. It's worth it for Elon though, because his entire brand is all about having the halo of futurism. His marketing scales especially well with tech gimmicks like this, which is why he is financially incentivised to do them, while others aren't. Again, I'm not hating, but actually educating yall. This is not engineering genius. It's marketing genius.