Monday StrategyWhy Are Executives Downgrading Their Phones?
Plus, Wall Street’s impending Texas takeover.
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Top CEOs Are Ditching Smartphones
A $299 phone with no touchscreen just sold out its preorders and it’s high performers buying it, not teenagers. The dumbphone trend is a growing recognition that distraction is a design problem, and the research backs it up.
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AWS Just Quietly Built Amazon’s Real Empire
While you were shopping Prime Day, AWS was quietly growing 37% and becoming Amazon’s real money machine. The division that started as internal infrastructure is now the engine behind a $3 trillion milestone and there’s a lesson in that for every business builder.
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Wall Street Is Abandoning New York for Texas
Goldman Sachs is pouring $700 million into a Dallas campus, and Bank of America, Scotiabank and Morgan Stanley are right behind them. What locals are calling “Y’all Street”, signals where financial talent, capital and opportunity are quietly concentrating next.
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