Aramco Launches $3B Buyback, Re‑nationalising After IPO
Having IPO-ed only 6½ years and with a tiny free float, Saudi Aramco announces what effectively is a partial re-nationalisation with a share buyback of up to $3 billion over the next 18 months. That’s going to buy-back ~10% of the amount Aramco raised in the 2019 IPO. https://t.co/PqToDfprpJ
G7 Energy Ministers to Discuss Oil, LNG Amid SPR Debate
G7 energy ministers are scheduled to hold a video call (involving the IEA too) today to discuss the oil and LNG markets. Yesterday, G7 finance ministers flagged a potential use of the oil SPR. Japan and several other north East...
Success Comes From Embracing Rejection, Not Avoiding Hardship
Most founders fail because they avoid hard things. Sara Blakely faced rejection for Spanx and kept pitching until one yes changed her life. Melanie Perkins heard no from 100+ investors before Canva took off. Each no built skill, grit, and belief. What hard thing...
AI Pitch Bot Offers Cheap, Consistent Feedback, But Limits Hurt
haha the @runwayml real-time characters is great. i just spent 2 minutes pitching a ghibli version of myself a bladeless blender startup it's only a 2 min demo, but the questions and tone are pretty solid. one question even threw me...
Europe's Energy Weakness Undermines Euro Compared to Peers
Europe's energy vulnerability is contributing to the euro having a worse war than its peers, writes @marcusashworth https://t.co/D2PXb56w3z via @opinion https://t.co/aIh2l1QXUy
Trump, Putin Discuss War, Peace Amid U.S. Sanction Review
Trump, Putin talk of war and peace as US weighs easing Russian oil sanctions https://t.co/XxiEKNK66b
Rosatom Projects Persist Despite Western Sanctions
Interesting report on Rosatom > "Western sanctions have posed financial and logistical challenges to Rosatom’s projects, but most projects are staying the course." https://t.co/aqSfqArRIV
LPs Crave a Vehicle to Scale Small Direct Investments
Somebody asked me what may be a “product” that LPs want right now and isn’t easily available. My quick thought: “Do you have access to hot companies so you can put $1-5m yourself (really any valuation) but then present $10-50m to...
Human-Centric B2B Marketing Thrives in AI Era
The Dual Revolution: Why B2B Marketing Needs a Human Heart in an Agentic World by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/ypgA3clsup @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Marketing #Leadership #MarketingStrategy #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #TechNews https://t.co/Kx9eEND4Un
From First Deal to Full Home Depot Series
Left pic is me in 2018 with my first "big brand" deal, assembling a Hampton Bay Tipton 34" Steel Deep Bowl Fire Pit for The Home Depot... Right pic is a full build my team designed, installed, filmed, and launched...
China's Early‑year Exports Boom, $213bn Trade Surplus
China’s Exports Surge in First Two Months of Year—Trade surplus stood at $213.62 billion for the period https://t.co/siI2mnkBZ1 https://t.co/siI2mnkBZ1
Trump Team Weighs Easing Russia Oil Sanctions to Lower Prices
March 9 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration is considering reducing oil sanctions on Russia to help cool a surge in global energy prices triggered by the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran... according to three sources familiar with the...
HSBC Ends Remote Work for Hong Kong Frontline Staff
HSBC says customer-facing staff in Hong Kong, including traders and salespeople, must either be with clients or in the office five days a week, ending the pandemic era of work from home for frontline personnel in the city https://t.co/OjqshLuaLs @DeniseWee1
When High-Stakes Negotiations Turn Into Disasters
The High Stakes Negotiation That Went Pear Shaped by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/dOWFQNFRXU @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Salesforce #SalesEnablement #RevOps #Leadership #Marketing #SalesNegotiation https://t.co/04yV12vMSR
True Leadership Forged in Darkness, Not Polished Success
We sanitize success. In boardrooms and biographies, we polish the narrative until the ascent looks like a clean, linear climb. But the leaders who sustain performance rarely learned their deepest lessons in the sun. They learned them in the dark. Rock...
Empathy Delivers Real ROI, Says Former Fortune 500 VP
From Fortune 500 VP to Resilience Advocate: The True ROI of Empathy https://t.co/yr3Daj5sJ7 via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesLeader #Leadership #Culture #Motivation #Marketing #Success #Mindset #Entrepreneur #Management #Productivity #Inspiration https://t.co/9Ab4VWap7o
Investors Should Apply Economists' Simple Extrapolation to Stocks
I enjoy very much how economists analyze: Oil is up $50. India imports 5 million per day. This is US$ 250 m extra per day or US$ 7.5 billion per month. How will India make up for annual US$ 90 billion...
China’s Politically‑driven Growth Target Fuels Overinvestment and Waste
FT op-ed: “China’s growth target is a global problem…The target is not based in economics. It’s a political goal…Pursuing that aim, Beijing has been overinvesting for years, but lately it has been dumping the excess output it can’t sell at...
Spot Founder Passion in 20 Seconds, Predict Success
It takes about 20 seconds of convo to gauge if the passion is there in a founder who has an early stage product. The passion / curiosity about the problem space is what you need to grind through the early...
Neglecting Database Performance Undermines AI and Analytics
AI, Analytics, and the Cost of Ignoring Database Performance Engineering - One of the most common and least discussed root causes of these failures is poor database performance engineering. https://t.co/W9H4eApH3S
Booker Proposes Bigger Deductions, Child Credits Funded by Corporate Taxes
Senator Cory Booker just proposed a major tax bill: - increase the standard deduction to $75,000 (married) or $37,500 (single) - child tax credit increase to $3,600 per child (age 6 to 17) with an additional $2,400 “baby bonus” This would be paid...
Trump’s Iran Optimism Fails to Calm Investors
“Trump saying the Iran war will be over very soon is hardly the reassurance that will get tankers sailing normally again in and out of the Strait of Hormuz,” said Vandana Hari, founder of analysis firm Vanda Insights. Investors could...
Invest in Entry-Level Talent Now, Dominate Tomorrow's genAI Market
"Leaders who invest in entry-level talent today will control the genAI talent market tomorrow." > Those who don't will be overpaying for scarce experts who learned somewhere else. #AI #Hiring #CIO #CHRO https://t.co/W7YbwP6jrL
AI Teammates Are Now Essential for B2B Sales
Why an AI Teammate is Now Table Stakes for B2B Sales by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/tVg4MW4MLB @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Marketing #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #MarketingStrategy #MarketingSuccess https://t.co/3zR6aTuubU
China Refrains From Detaining Ships Amid US‑Iran Clash
“China could have held these vessels at port, imposed an administrative delay, invented a customs hold – any number of bureaucratic tools, but didn’t,” he said, calling the decision notable at a time when the United States and Iran are engaged...
SEO's Future: AI Summaries Threaten Clicks, Video Gains
As a B2B SaaS this terrifies me: I have basically stopped clicking on google results. The AI summary is good enough, and for other things I just ask ChatGPT. My business relies on SEO, so my own actions are filling me...
AI Code Tool Costs Explode From $50k to $6M
Dylan Patel, SemiAnalysis CEO: Late last year we were spending $50k on Claude Code. By Super Bowl weekend, our run rate hit ~$6M/year... Our data center team lead, not a developer, now spends $5k/day on Claude Code building his own tools.
Iran Now Cast as Oil‑flow Villain; Markets Act Calm
JUST IN: Classic turning the tables. Now Iran will be the bad guy for doing anything that hinders oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Crude is trading Tuesday morning as if the war is over. The proof will be in...
CPI Inflation Flat in February, Near 5‑Year Low
Wall Street has inflation as measured by the CPI running sideways in February and holding near the lowest 12-month rates in five years* *at least until April, when the data collection/imputation distortions from the Oct govt shutdown could fully unwind...
Turning Strategy Slides Into Real Decision Power
Companies often have strategy slides. But when real decisions happen, people still ask: “What does strategy mean here?” On March 17 at 10 AM ET I’m joining Adam Zales of Amplify to discuss how strategy leaders translate strategy into action. #Strategy #Innovation #Leadership #CorporateStrategy...
Failed Benefit Cuts Prompt New Policy Attempt
The first attempt to kill benefits didn’t work, so they are trying a new one
Oil’s Wild Swing Reignites Doubts About Market Recovery
Crude oil shot up toward $120/bbl, then plunged back below $90/bbl, swinging stocks, bonds, gold, and the dollar along the way. Is the market meltdown really over? #USIranWar #crudeoil #stockmarket #dollar #macro #trading https://t.co/9oO6NbDLq3
NexG's Penny‑stock Gamble Triggers RM130 M Loss
SHOCKWAVE: Malaysian tech giant NexG just reported a RM130.88 Million net loss. The culprit? A disastrous gamble on volatile penny stocks that wiped out core business profits. This isn't just a loss, it's a corporate earthquake. #NexGCrisis #FinancialMismanagement #Stocks
Oil and Dollar Rise as Stocks Slide Further
"...or we could go further... and we're going to go further." Crude oil up, dollar up, stock index futures down. 🎢
Inspire Purpose, Not Tasks, to Achieve Greatness
If you want to build a ship, do not drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry https://t.co/ie1ZWsH3ii
Startups Ditch Copilot as Developers Favor Claude, Codex
Actually, I do hear more startups “taking away” GitHub Copilot from devs - and no one is complaining at those places. Because those devs don’t use Copilot, and are on tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor agents etc. So companies...
Graham Claims US Will Profit From Iran War
Sen Lindsey Graham promises US will gain oil/money from Iran war: "We are going to make a ton of money... Venezuela and Iran have 31% of the world’s oil reserves. We’re going to have a partnership with 31% of the...
Companies Seek AI‑Native Graduates Who Solve Unseen Problems
@amasad's Advice to college grads & Gen-Z: Every company will want to hire an AI-NATIVE graduate who understands the problems that THEY DON'T.
Trump Hints at Lifting Sanctions Until Hormuz Clears
Unclear whether President Trump referred to the already announced easing of Russian oil sanctions for India, or something new. In any case, this is what he said: "We have sanctions on some countries. We're going to take those sanctions off till...
Oil Slides as Hormuz Transits Expected to Ease War Impact
*WTI OIL DROPS AS MUCH AS 10% TO $85.52/BBL AT START OF [Tuesday] TRADING *TRUMP SAYS IRAN WAR WILL END 'SOON' BUT NOT THIS WEEK Not to be callous ... but the market really cares about oil tankers moving through the Strait...
AI Success Requires Behavioral Shift, Not Simple Drop‑In
Only 5-25% of enterprise AI projects show a positive ROI. 📉 If you’re just "dropping" AI into existing processes, you’re planning for failure. Stop treating AI like a standard software update. It’s a behavioral shift. Read why: https://t.co/EDcbE2J13x #CIO #AI #EnterpriseTech #DigitalTransformation
Trump Predicts Quick War End Amid Oil Dip
War might end “soon” - Trump. Oil price menjunam semula bawah $100. According to Bloomberg: “…mounting economic and political pressures..” Question is - can we believe him?
Google’s AI Ranking Prioritizes Expertise over Generic Content
Liz Reid on how Google designs ranking algorithms in the age of AI content Wired ⚡️: Personal Perspectives, Expertise, Effort Tired 😴: Content that says what everyone else knows https://t.co/JFS1su3Sha
AI Pinpoints Brand Gaps Even in Elite Companies
Earlier today I shared a SocialBrilliance analysis of a well-known company. Then I ran the same exercise on Palantir. The result was strong. What fascinated me was not weakness. It was precision. Even elite brands can still have small gaps between brand power and message...
50 Buyers Snap Up New eCom Retention Vault
It's been a long time since @yojimmykim and I have launched anything new. 50 people grabbed the eCom Retention Vault in the first few hours. Didn't expect that. https://t.co/Nvu2sCggkD Thank you 🙏
AI Pilots Need Clear Rollout Plans, Not Just POCs
RT Launching AI pilots without a clear deployment path is the new shadow IT. Brilliant POCs don?t matter if they never scale. Co-author success criteria, plan for rollout and treat experimentation as just one milestone. #AI #CIO @Star_CIO https://t.co/I4avqKjxVA
Speculating Maduro's Ouster as Venezuela Insurance Against Iran
Is it feasible that Maduro was taken off the board to use Venezuela as some sort of insurance policy against attacking Iran leading to tighter oil supply or is that silly
Trump Predicts Iran War Ending Soon, Critiques New Leader
President Trump just finished speaking on the Iran situation now. Here is a summary of his key comments. He says the war will end very soon (but not this week) and he is disappointed by the new supreme leader's appointment. Oil...
HPE's Juniper Deal Fuels Networking‑Driven Growth
$HPE buying Juniper looking smarter and smarter. Networking carrying the quarter and will continue to anchor HPE growth. Backlog looking good as well. 👏🏻
Automate Any Web Task with Simple Text Prompts
You can now automate any browser workflow with just a text prompt. Skyvern just killed the "you need custom scripts" excuse for web automation. It uses Vision LLMs + computer vision to navigate websites it's never seen before. → Fill out any form...