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Illumina to pay $8 B to acquire Grail and it’s liquid biopsy, 4 y after spinning out the company wsj.com/articles/sequencing-…
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Rose Blumkin was a gangster who tried to kick buffets ass at age 90. Check out her story:
- Belarus, Jewish immigrant living in Nebraska
- starts Nebraska Furniture Mart out of her basement with $500 in her mid 40s
- store eventually grows to hundreds of million in rev
This doesn't go anywhere deep enough into a subject that's important (especially in today's world where too often people avoid discomfort) and it would be cliche to talk about diamonds and oil being created under pressure...but they are
Emotion born out of discomfort is trying to teach you something. @rajer_thatt on.inc.com/XlxO9xr
Awful, but can you imagine the sight and the sound??
Satellite images reveal that a section broke off the Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier and shattered into many small pieces thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/…
"We wouldn’t expect every new drug or treatment to work, so why would we expect every new technical solution to weave seamlessly into the complex environment of a hospital?"
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This and @BessemerVP's anti-portfolio (bvp.com/anti-portfolio/) are valuable insights - sharing the lessons from your successes and failures in public is not done often enough!
We’re open-sourcing some of our original investment memos on bvp.com/memos today. One pattern that consistently emerges is that our best investment decisions centered on people!
Dermatology is an area so incredibly ripe for digital transformation and telemedicine. Well done @SkinAnalytics!
techcrunch.com/2020/09/08/sk…
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Our team put together some of the eeriest orange sky photos. cnbc.com/2020/09/09/californ…