One Step Up Issue #16

This week, we look at global banking, Snowflake's upcoming IPO, the Eisenhower Matrix, how to own a piece of the Swiss Alps, Unity, three exec profiles, Memos from Bessemer Venture Partners + more

1. Banking When You Can’t Bank on Anything: Part 1
   Banking When You Can’t Bank on Anything: Part 2

2. Snowflake IPO: In-Depth Analysis

   The end goal of choosing Snowflake is that you load data, run queries, and do little else – which is an immense value proposition due to the amount of time wasted prepping, balancing, tuning and monitoring traditional data warehouses originally built for on-premise.

3. Eisenhower Matrix: Master Productivity and Eliminate Noise

   The Eisenhower Matrix has four parts, which you use to categorize the work in front of you:

   1. Important, but not urgent

   2. Urgent and important

   3. Urgent but not important

   4. Not important and not urgent

   If you think about it for a second, you realize that the Eisenhower Matrix can help you not only with prioritizing what you work on today, but also with deciding which big projects to work on. The matrix helps you distinguish between what is important and what is urgent.

   

4. Ever wondered if you could own a piece of the Swiss Alps?

   Abdulla E Fakhro @abdullaefakhro

   1/ Jungfraubahn Holding AG – an interesting company with a 100+ year storied history and listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange – offers a unique opportunity to own a piece of the Swiss Alps! $JFN.SW

   

5. Unity is Manifesting the Metaverse

   Tremendous breakdown of Unity’s history, present and future.

   The company's engine — which makes it easier to develop a new game — is used by 53% of the top 1,000 mobile games. 

6. George Armoyan, chairman of Clarke Inc

   Tyler @cdnvaluestocks

   George moved from Syria to Boston to live with an uncle for high school. His family could afford for George to go to a US university, but a family friend convinced him to go to Dalhousie. That friend had been a Lebanese refugee in Syria when Armoyan's father helped him.

7. Entrepreneur profile: Wayne Huizenga

   Matthew Cochrane @Matt_Cochrane7

   1/ Let's discuss one of the most successful, but forgotten, entrepreneurs of recent times, Wayne Huizenga. I love learning from great entrepreneurs and being a South FL native, I don't think Huizenga gets the credit he deserves. A thread 👇

   

8. Statistics, lies and the virus: Tim Harford’s five lessons from a pandemic

9. Mr. Big: Will Supersizing Restoration Hardware Stores Backfire For CEO Gary Friedman?

10. The Memos: Bessemer Venture Partners

    BVP released internal investment memos - providing a fascinating insight into how decisions were made to invest in some of the biggest companies like Shopify, LinkedIn, Twitch and more - before they became multi-billion dollar companies.

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Till next time.

Daniel Vassallo @dvassallo

Treat your life as an adventure, not a competition. A good life is a story you're proud of. There's no score.