From my friend Kanwal Rekhi - who comments on an interesting article in WSJ -
There is an America taunt that goes :
'If you are so smart, how come you are not rich?'.
The flip -
“if you are not rich, you must be smart”
does not logically follow.
“These people start to drink their own Kool Aid and start feeling infallible. Markets and life have a way of humbling the mighty.” Says Kanwal
Some massive changes in the last few months
- Meta Platforms, announced broad layoffs (up to 10,000 after years of breakneck hiring.
- Google parent Alphabet has come under pressure from an activist investor to slash its costs and lay off staff
- Elon Musk - the polymath tech genius, seems to be making a pudding of debt ridden Twitter after paying $44 billion to buy it (taking personally $13b of debt )- is talking about putting it into bankruptcy - after falling ad revenue and cutting its team by half laying off over 3000 people
- FTX - the $32 billion golden child of the crypto boom - imploded. - Some of the biggest names in venture investing, including SequoiaCapital and Softbank have got burned after one of the biggest frauds by SBF
Just six months ago, CEOs, celebs and world leaders like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair flocked to him, gathering at a Davos-like conference he hosted in the Bahamas where he lives as one of the most outspoken evangelists for the power of the blockchain.
Some headwinds are afoot - including rising interest rates, deteriorating macro economic growth, increasing energy costs, and more competitive pressures.
Is this a time to buy low?
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