The Affirmation Song - Audrey Callahan + Michael Wilbur sax- Liberty. You "earwormed" me with this song. It is really good. And she is a great singer. [Why can't I get it out of my head?] I showed it to my daughter too!
Glad you liked! It's really catchy, I also had it stuck in my head. It's on the streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, etc) if you want to listen to it without needed the video.
In 2019, GME bought back 34.6 million shares for $178.6 million. In 2021, it sold 8.5 shares ATM for $1.677 billion. So, in a two year period, they reduced the float by 25.5% and added $1.5B in cash to the balance sheet.
You can argue they got lucky to be a meme, of course, but I think even without that, the 2019 buyback was a good bet that the future share price would be higher.
It's impressive in how well it turned out, but I don't think I'd count it as much more than being lucky. If the stock had never become a meme stock, the huge buybacks would have been a net-negative because the cash would've been a lot more useful during the pandemic. May have bankrupted them, who knows..
Is the music collab stuff really that epic? Not much different than making beats and then rapping over it, except that ppl are willingly giving up IP rights. Ppl been rapping over involuntarily donated samples and beats forever too.
It's definitely not new, but I feel that like with many things, at some point the quantitative becomes qualitative, so it was possible before.. but not like this.
You may find a tape of someone in your city, your underground scene.. but not someone in Singapore or Brazil. It may have been popular with the hip hop crowd, but not across basically all genres.
The resulting mix maybe have spread to a few people, but not millions, and easily uploaded to Spotify and such..
I just feel like the level of cross-pollination (in music, but also in science, visual arts, finance, etc) is just getting next level and is bound to change the world over time.
When you remove friction ENOUGH, it becomes a new thing, kinda like starting a business when you have to spend millions to buy racks of servers, or when you can enter your credit card on AWS.
This was an epic post! Especially the part about Solana as i have been hearing it so much lately and watching it rise and fall over the last two weeks. I cannot believe the Wikipedia page was created ! Thanks for the insights.
The Affirmation Song - Audrey Callahan + Michael Wilbur sax- Liberty. You "earwormed" me with this song. It is really good. And she is a great singer. [Why can't I get it out of my head?] I showed it to my daughter too!
Glad you liked! It's really catchy, I also had it stuck in my head. It's on the streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, etc) if you want to listen to it without needed the video.
Great!! I just found it on Google Play Music.
..horn...📯
mmmmm its a long game.
but I won't lose my way..
..horn...📯
this is my affirmation song....📯💥
[loop replay, loop...]😲🤪😜🤘🤙🤘
Ok, now you've got it stuck in my head AGAIN
Not to be that guy, but:
In 2019, GME bought back 34.6 million shares for $178.6 million. In 2021, it sold 8.5 shares ATM for $1.677 billion. So, in a two year period, they reduced the float by 25.5% and added $1.5B in cash to the balance sheet.
You can argue they got lucky to be a meme, of course, but I think even without that, the 2019 buyback was a good bet that the future share price would be higher.
It's impressive in how well it turned out, but I don't think I'd count it as much more than being lucky. If the stock had never become a meme stock, the huge buybacks would have been a net-negative because the cash would've been a lot more useful during the pandemic. May have bankrupted them, who knows..
Is the music collab stuff really that epic? Not much different than making beats and then rapping over it, except that ppl are willingly giving up IP rights. Ppl been rapping over involuntarily donated samples and beats forever too.
Thanks for da share doe, very talented musicians
It's definitely not new, but I feel that like with many things, at some point the quantitative becomes qualitative, so it was possible before.. but not like this.
You may find a tape of someone in your city, your underground scene.. but not someone in Singapore or Brazil. It may have been popular with the hip hop crowd, but not across basically all genres.
The resulting mix maybe have spread to a few people, but not millions, and easily uploaded to Spotify and such..
I just feel like the level of cross-pollination (in music, but also in science, visual arts, finance, etc) is just getting next level and is bound to change the world over time.
When you remove friction ENOUGH, it becomes a new thing, kinda like starting a business when you have to spend millions to buy racks of servers, or when you can enter your credit card on AWS.
Thought you'd find this interesting: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-part-i-mysteries/
Thanks Spencer. I saw the link posted by Patrick O'Shaughnessy, but haven't had a chance to read it yet. I appreciate you sharing it, though!
This was an epic post! Especially the part about Solana as i have been hearing it so much lately and watching it rise and fall over the last two weeks. I cannot believe the Wikipedia page was created ! Thanks for the insights.
Thanks for reading, glad you enjoyed it!