Category: Notes
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Why Running is Good for Business (Travel)
This is a presentation I used as the backdrop for a short internal talk I gave at Paramount in 2022 after a business trip to some of the company’s offices in Europe. TL;DR: the original presentation where I argued that running/walking/exercising was great for business ⤵ The talk was part of an internal initiative called…
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M&A Integration Framework
This was originally posted on my LinkedIn profile, but I’m reposting it here, now that I have a “permanent” home on the web again. TL;DR: the original 2022 presentation I gave at Paramount ⤵ I’ve been involved in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures most of my career – from my early days at Turner during the…
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The Wizard of Rio de Janeiro
My father was a recording engineer and was involved with major record labels in Brazil from the time he graduated college until early 2011 when he passed away. He started working as an intern at RCA straight out of college, spent many years at Odeon and then joined the EMI ranks where he worked until…
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Olga
My grandmother Neiva had a lifelong friend who had escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in what I can only guess was occupied Poland during World War II. She told me that her friend – Olga – was a beautiful, Jewish Polish teenager when she was sent to the camps and because of that she…