14 stories we are following today
1. Futures point slightly down as the tariff threats ramp up again.
https://lnkd.in/g63ticGg
2. Gap dropped more than 20% Friday. It forecast essentially no growth in sales and much higher tariff costs. Blaming tariffs, and there are real challenges, is act one of each CEO’s PR playbook as they struggle to find growth.
https://lnkd.in/gSeKYKWi
3. Palantir Technologies keeps rising as the government doubles down on business with the company. Remember not long ago when DOGE was causing nightmares for big consulting firms doing business with the government. It seems like those days passed fairly quickly.
4. Palantir is up 74% year to date and rose 7.73% last week.
5. The Senate is starting to work through the tax bill passed by the House. Here, conservative senators perceive the bill should go further to to cut costs. Others are more focused on making the tax cuts permanent. They then will need to send the bill back to the House to reconcile the two bills.
https://lnkd.in/gzk_hNdB
6. Tesla sales in France fell 67%. The company is seeing a lot of anti Elon Musk pushback.
https://lnkd.in/giEDjqjZ
7. We are working on a new book called Building Businesses- Leasons from a Career of Wins and Lossses. We have a keynote talk largely based on these ideas this Thursday at the Wisconsin Technology Council Entrepreneurs Conference.
8. We will also have a webinar based on the book hosted June 17. Message to join no charge. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RnARJxX-R4ayeMusSRnSGA
9. At some point a few years into your job/career, you need to decide if you are going to have a job or become a leader. The choice is yours.
10. In business or personal finance, you have to run lean but there is only so far you can cut your expenses. Then, you need to grow your income and revenues.
11. I was recently asked by someone starting a business should I go broader or niche down. My unequivocal advice would be to niche down and test several niches.
12. A motivated computer scientist or someone in the right field can on average go a lot further than a motivated writer. Being in the right industry matters.
13. Bear with me on this concept. I don’t do coaching at all so there is no self serving here.
If you can find the right coach or the right instructor or me to for what you are trying to do, this can be incredibly valuable and you can go a huge amount further. Dan Sullivan writes about this in Who Not How. He is right on. On a personal note to all my friends, don’t bet again me. I’m coming back.
14. I love the podcast Geoffrey Cockrell recently did where he interviewed Bart Walker on DSOs. The Corner Series. McGuireWoods LLP.