Frank Byrd, CFA
- Jul 29, 2016
Netflix Should Not Exist
Amen of the Week: “When there’s an ache, you want to be like aspirin, not vitamins. Aspirin solves a very particular problem someone has,...
Frank Byrd, CFA
- Jul 7, 2016
Brexit - On the bright side ...
Amen of the Week: “Every single one of the premises on which we ran our company was wrong: centralized marketing, massive centralization...
Frank Byrd, CFA
- Jun 22, 2016
John Oliver's Righteous Rant
Amen of the week: “The myth that profit maximization is the sole purpose of business has done enormous damage to the reputation of...
Frank Byrd, CFA
- May 27, 2016
Is Chipotle Special?
Amen of the week: “So many people told me it was not a good idea to start a restaurant, especially a fast-food restaurant. There was so...
Frank Byrd, CFA
- May 12, 2016
Buffett on our kids' future
Most of my clients in the early 1990s thought the world was ending. I had just arrived at Merrill Lynch fresh out of college, just as...
Frank Byrd, CFA
- Apr 29, 2016
A Neat Trick (while it lasts)
Amen of the Week: “You have to say no to your friends to say yes to your work… What are you going to do … lose that idea because you...