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💡 ABOVE THE FOLD by Peter Levin

Published 8 months ago • 1 min read

Morning! This is Above The Fold- my weekly email with 5 links that'll make you 🤔 or 🤯. Let's jump in:

⚡️ The links

  • ​Hollywood accounting - how a $65M movie can earn $655M at the box office and still LOSE tens-of-millions of dollars on paper
  • ​Plasma donations - after a plasma center opens, young people in the area are much less likely to apply for payday loans
  • ​Laptop retrieval - a business that retrieves laptops from employees who quit/were let go. Simple, specific service. Love it
  • ​Life-settlement investing - imagine you could invest in an asset class that avg'd a 44% return and its returns were uncorrelated from stocks, bonds, commodities, and real estate. The only catch: your payout depends on strangers’ deaths.
  • ​The invention of PFAS - Dupont, atomic bombs, and how we discovered they were v bad

🤯 of the week: starting in the 1950s, Stefan Mandel traveled around the world competing in lotteries, buying up every every available ticket. He managed to win 14 different lotteries, with his biggest amounting to $27M after buying all 7.1 million tickets (full story).

🤔 of the week:

~ Peter

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Hi! I'm Peter.

Building a fun factory @ HunchStudios.com

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