FYI: Tne of the more interesting finance stories to come out this week was the $1 billion buyout of the Dollar Shave Club by Unilever. Dollar Shave Club was founded in 2011 with some simple ideas — let’s sell low-cost razors to men by utilize some interesting marketing platforms and cut out all of the usual overhead that causes other razor companies to increase their costs and thus prices. They quickly gained market share. Ben Thompson from Stratechery explains (emphasis mine):
Regards,
Ted
http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2016/07/the-strategy-tax/
