Oh, I *really* resonate with this bit by Erik Bernhardsson on the interplay between finance and company building:
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Sometimes friends ask me why I spend so much time reading up on finance. Thanks to Bernhardsson, I now have a pithy little answer:
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“If you look at what a business does and ask why enough times, eventually it boils down to ‘there is a demand out there in the world for return on capital with a certain risk profile within a certain time period’. And those incentives eventually drive company behaviour.”