Marcelo P. Lima

Marcelo P. Lima

Jul
22
Netflix’s Advertising Ambitions

Netflix’s Advertising Ambitions

Consumers are feeling the pain of inflation. Yesterday, AT&T reported that its wireless customers are having trouble paying their
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Jul
20
Stock-Based Compensation: Friend or Foe?

Stock-Based Compensation: Friend or Foe?

In the border skirmish separating so-called “growth” from “value investors,” few topics spark a more heated battle than that of
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Jul
15
Unity: Doesn’t Add Up

Unity: Doesn’t Add Up

This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post on the Unity/ironSource merger announcement. The most two most salient points
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Jul
14
Unity + ironSource: A Look at the Deal

Unity + ironSource: A Look at the Deal

Yesterday, Unity announced the acquisition of ironSource in an all-stock deal. Unity is a game engine with a dominant position
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Jul
12
Twilio’s Go to Market Evolution

Twilio’s Go to Market Evolution

This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post on Twilio’s margin pressures, the growing apps business, and what this
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Jul
11
Twilio: Racing Up the Stack?

Twilio: Racing Up the Stack?

Erstwhile Columbia professor Bruce Greenwald, in his book Competition Demystified, wrote that over time even products and services that initially
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Jul
08
Upstart’s Credibility Gap

Upstart’s Credibility Gap

Summary: What Upstart Network is, the credibility gap that emerged from repeated revenue guide misses and putting loans on its
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Jul
06
Zuckerberg’s Meta Miscalculation

Zuckerberg’s Meta Miscalculation

Physicist Richard Feynman delivered a commencement speech at Caltech, in 1974, called “Cargo Cult Science.” He pointed out all the
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