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Invite your friends to read The Dig
Thank you for reading The Dig — your support allows me to keep doing this work. If you enjoy The Dig, it would mean the world to me if you invited…
Nov 21
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Francine McKenna
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Bitwise Industries was supposed to change the world; its founders lost the plot
So many of these companies - FTX, Theranos, Ozy Media to name a few — promise the world and count on quirky charisma to counter incompetence and a…
Nov 21
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Teri Buhl
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Bitwise Industries was supposed to change the world; its founders lost the plot
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Thank you for reading The Dig
Your support allows me to keep doing this work.
Nov 20
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Francine McKenna
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Uber and Lyft settle with New York but there's so much more to the story
We think everyone missed the real story of the Uber/Lyft settlement with New York. And Uber took advantage of so many legal fracases to pull another…
Nov 20
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Francine McKenna
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Zeke Faux talks "Number Go Up" at the Pen & Pencil Club
I had the pleasure of hosting award-winning Bloomberg investigative reporter Zeke Faux to talk his book. It was quite a conversation for a full house.
Nov 18
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Francine McKenna
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McKenna at Stanford on FTX, its auditors and much, much more
The stakes are now a lot higher for everyone who helped promote or enable FTX, especially the auditors.
Nov 11
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Francine McKenna
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Legal contingencies still a mystery at Uber: Can SEC comment letters shine a light?
The NY Attorney General just fined Uber and Lyft $328 million for wage theft. Do Uber's disclosures tell us enough about this and other legal issues the…
Nov 3
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Francine McKenna
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Legal contingencies still a mystery at Uber: Can SEC comment letters shine a light?
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October 2023
McKenna travels to teach at Stanford, Berkeley, and Ohio State
It was a whirlwind trip to teach Stanford undergrads and Berkeley law students, OSU's future graduate accountants and public company directors for…
Oct 29
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Francine McKenna
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PCAOB NOCLAR is necessary but not for the reasons you think
The proposal should be approved. It should not be necessary.
Oct 24
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Francine McKenna
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Michael Lewis is wrong about the "profitability" of FTX US and FTX Trading
It is kind of hard to understand why the expert financial shenanigans guy on the inside did not look at the audited financial statements Bankman-Fried…
Oct 8
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Francine McKenna
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Michael Lewis is wrong about the "profitability" of FTX US and FTX Trading
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John Coates talks to me about index funds, private equity, and the "Problem of Twelve" at the P&P
We went deeper in the the politics of private equity and didn't spend nearly as much time as we should have on index funds.
Oct 6
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John Coates talks to me about index funds, private equity, and the "Problem of Twelve" at the P&P
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Morgenson and Rosner talk about plunderous private equity at the P&P
I hosted Gretchen Morgenson and Josh Rosner on Sept 12 to talk about their book about private equity. Here's a video and a few more thoughts.
Oct 1
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Francine McKenna
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