Trung Phan
@TrungTPhan
Write on business with @workweekinc. Building an privacy-first AI research app (http://Bearly.AI) and LLM API management platform (http://Liona.AI)
Hermès has perfected the psychology of scarcity and demand. The CEO of the ~$250B French luxury giant says Hermès “creates desire” by selling “time”. This concept of “time” means heritage, craftsmanship and making customers wait. I wrote more here:readtrung.com/p/how-hermes-s…
You can be funny, or you can be politically correct. It's almost impossible to be both. South Park is hilarious b/c they skewer almost everybody.
South Park just agreed to a $1.5B deal over 5 years to stream on Paramount+. Might be the most valuable streaming show after previous deals with Hulu ($192m) and Warner Bros ($550m). Show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone get 50% of revenue due to one of the most lucrative…
Lebron, Bezos and Ken Griffin partying to “Not Like Us” in St. Tropez. Just the way Kendrick planned it.
[NEW] Bearly AI site redesign. We asked 5 LLMs to critique our platform. All made same reccomendation: change landing page to focus on privacy-first features (E2E encryption, zero-logging policy, query anonymization). So, we did (use code PRIVACYFIRST for 20% off annual plan).
South Park is locked in for Seaon 27 with a new $1.5B streaming deal over 5 years with Paramount+ A new milestone for Trey Parker and Matt Stone that ranks up there with the time they showed up to the 2000 Oscar's in designer women's dresses after taking LSD-laced sugar cubes.…
South Park just agreed to a $1.5B deal over 5 years to stream on Paramount+. Might be the most valuable streaming show after previous deals with Hulu ($192m) and Warner Bros ($550m). Show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone get 50% of revenue due to one of the most lucrative…
With Substack showing newsletters can spark conversations in a feed I think @nikitabier brings newsletters to the platform. They bought Revue, a newsletter platform, in 2021 and killed it. They have the advantages Substack is trying to build (advertising and network effects),…
Long Twitter. “As a Twitter subscriber, picture getting access to premium features where you can easily read articles from your favorite news outlet or a writer's newsletter from Revue, with a portion of your subscription going to the publishers...” axios.com/twitter-acquir…
My book, The Wealth Ladder, is now available: geni.us/wealthladderha…
high-speed restaurant soup delivery could be an Olympic sport
The comment section of Channel 5’s Hunter Biden interview is cooking
One major takeaway of the Astronomer scandal is that everyone now knows the name of the CEO and Head of HR. But still no one knows the name of Coldplay’s drummer. A lesson in there.
