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Gary Alexander

Happy birthday Jules Gary Alexander, founding member of The Association! These guys had such a great sense of humor!

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GrubHub: Terrible Deceleration Kicking In

GrubHub: Terrible Deceleration Kicking In

For many years, GrubHub (GRUB) has long been an investors’ favorite within an otherwise-hated food technology sector. More than any other food tech company, GrubHub has managed to continually post electrifying growth rates (albeit helped by M&A) while continually expanding its addressable market and slimming its loss profile.

Now however, it seems that GrubHub’s victory parade has begun to slow…

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Avalara: Approaching A Buy Point At All-Time Lows

Avalara: Approaching A Buy Point At All-Time Lows

Avalara (AVLR) hit its high point of the year after the Supreme Court ordered Wayfair (W) to pay state sales taxes on its online sales. After a broad prediction that this ruling would force many companies to begin untangling complex sales tax reporting issues – which is Avalara’s bread-and-butter – shares of the enterprise tax software company rose to all-time highs near $60, which at the time…

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SurveyMonkey: The IPO Gains Won't Last

SurveyMonkey: The IPO Gains Won’t Last

It’s surprising to me that two recent IPOs in the technology space, SurveyMonkey (NASDAQ:SVMK) and Eventbrite (NYSE:EB), have performed similarly well in their IPOs and now trade at very similar valuations. It’s a tale of two worlds between these two companies: while Eventbrite is growing north of 60% y/y, SurveyMonkey is struggling to hit revenue growth in the low teens. Yet, SurveyMonkey just…

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First Look At SurveyMonkey's IPO

First Look At SurveyMonkey’s IPO

It’s been a long time coming: SurveyMonkey (SVMK), the San Mateo-based provider of its ubiquitous survey software, has finally filed for its IPO. At one time, it appeared that SurveyMonkey was staying private forever – in 2013, it touted one of the largest private capital offerings at the time, recapitalizing itself with a mixture of $800 million in equity and debt.

It doesn’t seem that…

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The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 599

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 599

<strong>Short story</strong>: Five Wishes by Gary Alexander, from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine,  November 2012. <i>Recommended.</i>

  <strong>Poem</strong>: Burial Rites by Philip Levine, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from April 2017. <i>Recommended.</i>

  <strong>Essay</strong>: Space, listened to on the Twenty-Thousand Hertz podcast, from March 2017. <i>Highly Recommended.</i>

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The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 598

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 598

Short story: Four Wishes by Gary Alexander, from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, November 2012. Recommended.

Poem: The Queen’s School for Girls by Ciro Faienza, from Strange Horizons, April 2018. Recommended.

Essay: Are they Real or Fictional? listened to on the Skeptoid podcast, from April 2018. Recommended.

What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?

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GQ Italia "An Education" feat. Laurie Harding and Gary Alexander by Sergi Pons with styling from Andrea Porro x the March 2016 Issue of GQ Italia