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• Why Collaborative Consumption Will Completely Transform The Economy
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on October 23rd, 2011 at 1:39 pm, Comments: 0

  I have written about collaborative consumption here extensively. I believe it will completely transform our economy over the next two decades. Whole industries and economic structures will both rise and fall. If you really want to understand what’s taking place here, on a historic level, the biggest economic revolution since the industrial revolution, watch Rachel [...]

• Welcome Rob Ross and William O’Neil + Co. to Estimize
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on October 19th, 2011 at 1:46 am, Comments: 0

  What a week it’s been already. The Estimize private beta is rolling, data is flowing, bugs are being squashed, feedback is being heard and accounted for (thank you), and we just plow forward. We’re now in the thick of this quarter’s earnings releases, a two week period which will be completely nuts for us four [...]

• What I Found At Occupy Wall Street
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on October 18th, 2011 at 6:11 am, Comments: 0

  I went down to the Zuccoti Park on Sunday to see the protests first hand. I wanted to understand whether this movement had the chance to become more than a movement, but a platform which might produce some type of real leadership. I also wanted to understand what the demographic makeup of the crowd was, [...]

• Leap of Faith
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on October 13th, 2011 at 3:04 pm, Comments: 0

  We launched the Estimize private beta today to our first 250 community members. Oh man are there a lot of bugs, things that are half complete, not styled correctly, not functioning properly. It’s a beautiful mess right now. And I couldn’t be more proud of it my team. This is the very uncertain process that [...]

• What Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party Mean for US Politics
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on October 12th, 2011 at 3:34 pm, Comments: 0

  The Occupy Wall Street movement is growing, this no one can deny. It started as a few hippy socialists a few weeks ago and has grown into a whole movement with thousands of people in many different cities. I heard a good comment today about the Occupy Wall Street movement, the person said, “if they [...]

• Skillshare Class Update
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on October 11th, 2011 at 3:01 pm, Comments: 0

  Tomorrow night (Wednesday) at 7PM EST I will be holding a Skillshare class at the Wix lounge here in NYC. I’ll be talking about applied behavioral finance, or to put it in a less academic light, how to think like a hedge fund manager. You can find the description of the class here. I opened [...]

• Twitter Lowers The Hammer!
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on October 11th, 2011 at 4:11 am, Comments: 0

  An interesting, unfortunate, and inevitable thing happened to the Twitter ecosystem today, Twitter has decided that it will wrap all links with the t.co link shortener, regardless of whether it has already been shortened or not. You can find their announcement to Twitter developers here. This move by Twitter has wide ranging effects for its business, [...]

• What Steve Jobs Taught Me
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on October 6th, 2011 at 4:20 pm, Comments: 0

  There aren’t enough superlatives to explain who Steve Jobs was and what he meant to the world, so it’s useless trying to sum it up. Rather, I’d like to say a word about what Jobs taught me specifically. It’s something I recite to myself every day, and it permeates everything I do in life. People don’t [...]

• “Destruction Leads to a Very Rough Road, But it Also Breeds Creation”
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on September 29th, 2011 at 3:55 pm, Comments: 0

  No one will confuse Anthony Kedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers for an economics PHD, but tangled inside some pretty out there lyrics he’s written over the past two decades is some real truth about where this country has been and where it’s going. Kedis has been witness to the rise and fall of [...]

• Why Main Stream Financial Media Is Largely Worthless
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on September 28th, 2011 at 7:44 pm, Comments: 0

  In some ways, I’m happy that main stream financial media continues to be completely bereft of any value or understanding of how markets actually work. The truth is, the more suckers there are out there, the more inefficiency there is in the market for us to take advantage of. All these little lemmings walking off [...]