WARNER MUSIC IPO The crime here goes back to 2004, when Time Warner blew out its record division for $2.6 billion. Today Warner Music is valued at $15 billion. Assuming you’d taken that $2.6 billion, invested it an annual rate of return of 10%, after fourteen years, i.e. today, you’d have $11.95 billion. 10% is […]

Gaslit Nation My skin acted up. For those playing the home game, I have pemphigus foliaceus. Google it if you want, but be prepared to bleed. It took eighteen months and four doctors to diagnose. According to the organization, and there’s one for every disease, the average patient sees five doctors in a year, proving […]

Robert Kolker is the author of the best-selling book “Hidden Valley Road” (an Oprah’s Book Club choice!) as well as the “New York” magazine article upon which the HBO feature film “Bad Education” is based and the book “Lost Girls,” the film of which recently debuted on Netflix. First, we explore the mechanics of a […]

It’s everywhere, covered in the NYT, WSJ and WaPo. You see good intentions are no longer good enough. And celebrities no longer get a pass. If you stand for nothing, no one is interested. This is the opposite of the past four decades, when it became about building your brand all over the world and […]