Great Freakonomics podcast episode on private equity. It provides a very educational outline how PE works: buying, restructuring, and selling companies. It discusses the recent push to let retail investors access PE funds and the impact it may have. In short, likely not great for retail investors.
This is kinda insane. Valve makes more per employee than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft. Gaming industry has had its troubles this year with layoffs at Activision, Microsoft, EA, and others. And Valve is here making $50 million per employee with average salary per employee of more than $1.3 million.
AWS quietly released Regional NAT Gateway. This seems like a pretty nice improvement for configuring and managing multiple NAT gateways across AZs for high availability. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have any benefits in terms of pricing/cost ☹️