{"id":11516,"date":"2017-10-08T13:11:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T17:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=11516"},"modified":"2017-10-08T17:13:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T21:13:37","slug":"why-arb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/why-arb\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Arb?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">10:10 October 8, 2017<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">By Larry Chiang<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Why arbitrage?<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Alpha (males) speak in code. <i>Arb<\/i> is arbitrage. When you&#8217;re listening to a group of alphas at a networking event, people drop so much lingo that it&#8217;s SO CONFUSING. If you&#8217;re chasing a higher valuation&#8230;, all you care about is arbitrage. If your goal is to increase your personal value, all you foci on is <i>arbitrage<\/i>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Hold on to your butts because it&#8217;s about to get more confusing. <i>Hold on<\/i><\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">&nbsp;because it is also about to get MORE counterintuitive.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\">I have the rarely held opinion that &#8220;being an arbitrage virgin is not good if you&#8217;re a tech founder&#8221;. Thus, <span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">#puInternship1bpc pops your cherry de la arbitrage.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">#<i>puInternship1bpc<\/i> Pop up Internship \/theorem&nbsp;&nbsp;#ReverseTuition<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Goal. Sell something you don&#8217;t buy<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Goal: sell it first and then &#8220;buy&#8221; the Braun power cord.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Here are a couple of fresh pictures. There are more when you google. For your eBay listing, you&#8217;ll also need 7-8 pictures. My eBay user name is <i><b>larrychiang<\/b><\/i>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Update me &#8220;like you&#8217;re a FedEx package&#8221;. But instead of going from Memphis to Palo Alto. You&#8217;re going from &#8216;arbitrage virgin&#8217; to &#8220;semi-pro #cs183a practitioner&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Enjoy selling a Braun power cord<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image1-2.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" id=\"65E608A8-F9F1-42A7-A5C6-972D4011E1D4\">\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image2-2.jpg\" alt=\"image2.JPG\" id=\"3CFD690B-B0A4-40F1-B872-F977674CA07D\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;sns=em\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10:10 October 8, 2017 By Larry Chiang Why arbitrage? Alpha (males) speak in code. Arb is arbitrage. When you&#8217;re listening to a group of alphas at a networking event, people drop so much lingo that it&#8217;s SO CONFUSING. If you&#8217;re chasing a higher valuation&#8230;, all you care about is arbitrage. 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