How private equity is gouging some of the country’s best-known corporate brands
Private Equity Is Starting to Share With Workers, Without Taking a Financial Hit (Published 2024)
The buyout giant KKR pioneered a model of granting ownership stakes to employees at portfolio companies. Now it wants the approach to spread.
Exclusive | Blackstone to Grant Equity to Most Employees in Future U.S. Buyouts
The private-equity firm’s plan is part of a broader movement in the buyout industry to expand ownership beyond management ranks.
There Are Actually Just Three Ways To Grow
Most brands obsess over distribution when the real growth comes from moves marketers can’t make alone
The Rot Economy
At the center of everything I’ve written for the last few months (if not the last few years), sits a cancerous problem with the fabric of how capital is deployed in modern business. Public and private investors, along with the markets themselves, have become entirely decoupled from the concept of what “good” business truly is, focusing on one metric — one
Inside Uniqlo’s Quest for Global Dominance
The brand conceives of itself as a distribution system for utopian values as much as a clothing company. Can it become the world’s biggest clothing manufacturer?
The Shareholder Value Myth
Shareholder primacy theory is suffering a crisis of confidence. In The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and
Shareholder Democracy Is a Corporate Governance Myth That Won’t Die
In a new article, we challenge one of corporate law’s most persistent narratives: the concept of “shareholder democracy.” With people on opposing sides of recent high-profile battles at compa…
How Silicon Valley missed the next wave of e-commerce
There are lots of exciting retail companies — just not in the U.S.
Here’s a Way to Stop Silicon Valley Megalomania
‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market.
The Shareholder Supremacy
I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly, offensively stupid, so disconnected from reality that it's hard to understand how Meta can run a terrible company with decaying services that's also wildly profitable, or how Meta, Microsoft and Google can
On Independence
No brand money. No affiliates. No investors. The rules Worse on Purpose runs on.
Private Stock by PRS Guitars
Maryland-based Manufacturer of Electric Guitars, Acoustic Guitars, and Accessories.
louisgray.com: The Myth of the Billion Dollar Startup
According to the Wall Street Journal, there are now as many as thirty companies who consider themselves startups valued at a billion dollars or more , based on how much money they’ve raised through pr
WSJ News Exclusive | Private-Equity Giants Back New Nonprofit Promoting Employee Ownership
More than 60 groups, including banks and pension funds, have also signed on to support Ownership Works, which aims to promote broad-based stock ownership as a means of curbing income inequality.
“What we’ve got to understand is that this epistemic chaos, this collective psychosis, has risen as a result of the shareholder-driven model of global capitalism. What we’ve got to do is look at the mechanisms of that wealth pump itself & start to change that.” theecologist.org/2026/sep/09/soft-body-turtle
The soft body of the turtle
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