Snap Inc. Down 13% Pre-Market.  The company met earnings for this past quarter but said it would not issue guidance for the next quarter and that its facing headwinds. Deciding to not issue guidance always scares investors. Amazon Down Nearly 15% YTD; Palantir Up 53% YTD.  Palantir Technologies remains hot

Starbucks Stock Falls Over 7%.  Lots of investors are betting on the talents of Brian Niccol to move Starbucks in the right direction. Visitors were down, order size was up and overall same store sales were down. “US comparable store sales — a closely watched metric that includes results from

China’s Export Orders Plunge, Hit by Trump’s Trade War.  The Wall Street Journal. The impact of the trade situation with China is really interesting to watch.  “China’s economy showed its first big signs of damage from the trade war, as steep U.S. tariffs pummeled export orders and production at the country’s

8 stories we are following this am. 1. China’s Export Orders Plunge, Hit by Trump’s Trade War. The Wall Street Journal. The impact of the trade situation with China is really interesting to watch. “China’s economy showed its first big signs of damage from the trade war, as steep U.S.

1. You must keep evolving as a leader. 2. You need to obsess and act to become great. 3. You need to build great teams of highly talented and effective people. 4.  You need to commercialize early. 5. You need to move with urgency.

Registration has closed for our May 7th webinar on 25 business and life mantras, thoughts and concepts. Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast.

Thrilled to kick off the Becker’s Healthcare Annual Meeting today and to moderate 5 sessions today. I am too old to moderate that many sessions.

Learn to love your 90 percenters. https://lnkd.in/gffFHMYf. Focus on what they do great and don’t harp on what they do imperfectly.

Tesla finds itself losing money in its core car business but making money from the sale of regulatory EV credits. Much of the last weeks stock price rise was due to the possibility that rules regarding self driving vehicles would ease significantly and Tesla would be a big winner.  

Futures point slightly down this am after a terrific week last week. The Nasdaq jumped 6.7% last week. But note “Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla are collectively off to their worst start since the 2022 slide, worrying investors”. The Wall Street Journal. “Los Angeles had its credit

Domino’s same store sales dropped this last quarter by half a percent. This has led the stock to fall 2% plus in pre market trading. The stock price is still up 16% year to date.   “Domino’s Pizza on Monday posted a surprise decline in first-quarter U.S. same store sales, as

6 stories that we are following this am. 1. Domino’s same store sales dropped this last quarter by half a percent. This has led the stock to fall 2% plus in pre market trading. The stock price is still up 16% year to date. 2. Futures point slightly down this

We kick off the Becker’s Healthcare Annual Meeting Monday with the largest group of health system leaders speaking we have ever had. Kudos to our amazing agenda team and the health system community. We also have Coach Nick Saban, Michael Phelps, Kevin O’Leary and one of my all time favorite

Clarity of goals and purposes is one big critical key to success. This is as important as anything. Then one needs to execute on those goals. Also don’t listen to the naysayers. I was interviewed Thursday on a great podcast and the interviewer said he has done an AI search

We are super thankful to recent great guests on the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast and on the Becker PE webinars. Thank you to Aniket Bhardwaj Charles River Associates, Chris Felderman Palm Tree LLC and Sean Carson of Sales Empowerment Group. A special thank you also to Craig Castelli