Simon Owens

China's dominance of the electric vehicle market isn't just due to its access to cheap labor; about a decade ago, the government made a massive investment in the sector, supporting startups that tackled every part of the EV supply chain. https://t.co/l3te0tZy9k

Shadow banks, which are basically hedge funds that provide many of the same services of traditional banks but without much government oversight, now control over $240 trillion in global assets. With Trump's tariffs threatening the world economy, these fun https://t.co/A9XXGHEfVX

SpaceX's rockets get lots of press, but the global market for sending cargo to space is only about $15 billion total. The company's real profit potential is its Starlink satellites, which deliver internet connectivity to rural regions all around the world https://t.co/eiaJV1Eu9P

In the most remote parts of the US, pack mules are essential to moving people and supplies across mountainous terrains. Without them, our ability to build and maintain important forest infrastructure is almost impossible. https://t.co/EsjLD42TD1

Senate majority leader John Thune is among the last of the old guard Republicans who hearken back to a time when the Senate still sometimes operated in a bipartisan fashion. He's occasionally called out Trump on his worst behavior, but he's mostly stood b https://t.co/OYaOiU9jip

It seems clear that MrBeast is a sort of heir to Walt Disney, in that he understand traditional media models alone can only take you so far; the real money is finding ways to spread your IP and reach across a lot of different non-media products. https://t.co/U8AA2kbI3j

I think there are probably two things contributing to this rise in Facebook referral traffic: 1. Facebook' decision to no longer algorithmically censoring political news in the wake of Trump's election. 2. The current shitshow that is the Trump preside https://t.co/B4lWcMJ61d

The Creator Economy has already done a good job of replicating the dynamics of reality TV, but we haven't seen many attempts to create the kind of serialized fiction content that is now a staple of every major streaming platform. https://t.co/YNHyiLjg7b

I think Quartz was a victim of timing. It was launched during the scale era of media -- when Facebook was sending gobs of traffic and industry leaders still thought they could convert that traffic into meaningful ad revenue. https://t.co/OAWupXthKi

For years, if someone wanted to get out of their lease at slumlord Jared Kushner's apartments, they had to face down Andrew Rabinowitz, a lawyer who often easily outmaneuvered them in the courtroom and forced them to continue paying their rent. Then Rabin https://t.co/S5IZ1sbstS

How good will Google's AI be at answering questions once it's killed off many of the very websites it uses to supply those answers? While the company claims that the presence of its generative AI on top of search results hasn't triggered a loss in publish https://t.co/AGHux69jF3

For decades, China's economic growth was mainly attributed to its cheap-to-hire labor force, but in recent years it's made huge investments in growing its technological and engineering prowess, to the point now where its robot capabilities are pretty much https://t.co/LFqDXvPyIT

The Barclay brothers were virtually inseparable as they conquered the post-war UK real estate market and eventually cheered on the rise of Thatcherism. It was only after the passage of Brexit, for which they gave full-throated support, that their re https://t.co/Dr1WxEP6uc

“One article, about the near collapse of Lloyd’s, the London insurance market, may have been the most-expensive-per-word magazine story ever written. And we never published it.” https://t.co/s23Uh7qq0M

With print magazines like Vanity Fair, stories take months to research, write, and edit, and, as a result of this dynamic, Graydon Carter wasn't fully steering the Vanity Fair ship until he was almost a year on the job. Luckily for him, his boss Si Newho https://t.co/s23Uh7qq0M

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College administrators and professors have historically never been the best of friends, but the acrimony between the two has spiked in recent years. "At least 141 faculty bodies voted no confidence in their leaders between 2012 and 2021, up from 50 the de https://t.co/xvwM5dT1K6