Karen Smith-Janssen

Billionaires to all: Hardship for thee but not for me

A tale of two movies:

Similar deal structures. Similar budgets.

One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend.

The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second.

And yet this is the coverage.

poor Nintendo, announcing the Switch 2 just in time to have it cost ten thousand dollars

This was….five months ago

what do we want? amber ruffin life stream counter programming

when do we want it? at the same time as the white house correspondents' dinner

Listen this IS in fact how it’s done.

Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor responds to Acting U.S. Atty Ed Martin’s threat to refuse to hire Georgetown graduates who have taken “DEI” courses in their curriculum.

Treanor is a brilliant lawyer & constitutional scholar. Embarrassing for Martin.

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

Group of characters, text is we can teach you A minor in our music course

I have been tryna tell y’all that the Duolingo social media team is diabolical!

As Demand Soars for Charity Marathon Bibs, Nonprofits Are Overworked—and Getting Burned They have to interview candidates, evaluate business plans, and be on alert for runners behaving badly.

Reading that international runners hoping to run the Boston Marathon through Charity Teams this year had to pay an average of $14,000 up front blows my mind. The article does a good job of laying out the logic, but wow. www.runnersworld.com/races-places...

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

The NYT did this nice visual explainer today showing all the people in Elon Musk’s orbit.

What I found most striking is every single one of his friends and backers is a man, (18 men in all).

I’ve said it before, but, from the “metaverse” to the Apple goggles, there’s an odd insistence in big tech that customers want to live in a fake virtual world—even though every single one of those products has been rejected by the market, pretty clearly indicating that customers want no such thing.

High-speed Paris-Berlin daily train service debuts The route is the first directly linking the two capitals' city centres.

It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris

There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm.

And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight

www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...

Public records/Wayback machine make this pointless. I do wonder if execs in other industries will copy the move.

Here’s How Security Firms Say Execs Should Protect Themselves After UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Shooting Security firms offer advice to companies looking to protect their executives after the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

CEOs are on high alert after today's shooting, and @chloeaiello.bsky.social has the scoop on how security firms are protecting executives. www.inc.com/chloe-aiello...

What Happened After One of the Worst Workplace Shootings in America When a worker shot multiple colleagues at the headquarters of Excel Industries in 2016, surviving the attack was just the first challenge.

I’ve wondered how a business picks up and keeps going after a workplace shooting. “From crisis management to the first stages of recovery” aptly describes this surreal journey. Alex Bhattacharji’s year-in-the-making article on surviving an attack

www.inc.com/alex-bhattac...

The Makers of Phony Negroni Are on Track to Sell 2 Million Bottles This Year. How the Nonalcoholic Spirits Industry Is Coming of Age With a flood of competitors and conglomerates eyeing the market, brands are working to create a buzz in the new world of nonalcoholic adult drinks.

I am personally fascinated by the NA drinks trend. Check out this fun read by my colleague @jenniferconrad.bsky.social on the makers of Phony Negroni www.inc.com/jennifer-con...