What the boys don’t want you to know about finance.

London
Joined August 2009
Two salaries, a teacher's and a social worker's, bought a house and the S&P in 1960 and two houses and two cars by 1990. @amandacassatt on why that advice stopped working...
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Paris Hilton was one of the first supporters of #AnniesIbiza, voice-noting a 19 year old Annie Doble to tell her she believed in her. @ParisHilton was buying the corsets Annie made by hand...
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.@shellkennedylon on mothers going back to work: she was the original influencer, she knows the best tradesman in the area because she is the one employing him, and she does all of it. Of course she can run a business too...
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Twenty years ago @franklinleonard asked development executives to name the best scripts nobody would make. @theblcklst is now 500 films, $30 billion and 60 Oscars. They existed all along.
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Plenty of brands are built by people who like the category rather than people obsessed with the detail, says @sharmadeanreid of WAH Nails and 39 BC. Customers can feel which is which.
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Sharmadean Reid: How to Build a World, Not Just a Brand 🎧 Listen back to the Hot Girl Finance episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/3Rm…
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"You don't need to provide any information about yourself." @amandacassatt on what a blockchain asks of you, next to what a bank, PayPal or Gmail asks.
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.@sophiaamoruso on using AI: the output is only as good as the input, so keep pushing until the answer stops being generic. Treat it as a sparring partner.
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.@franklinleonard prices Hollywood's discrimination: $10 billion a year lost to anti-Black bias, $2 to 4 billion to anti-Asian, $12 to 18 billion to anti-Latino. That's roughly $30 billion a year...
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Women hold 17% of Fortune 500 CFO seats. @shellkennedylon, founder of @Peanut, calls not understanding how money works the ultimate form of repression.
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Working for yourself means no maternity leave. @shellkennedylon left a corporate job with all the benefits anyway, and says the confidence came from naivety...
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