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Hello, I'm Taylor. I'm an early-stage VC at kbs+ Ventures and a professional business photographer at Narratively. I love experiments, projects, big ideas, little adventures, and common sense. This blog is a mixture of writing and photography, as well as curated greatness from around the web. People seem to like it. See the archives here.
"What explains Vuitton’s resilience? Beneath the gloss of advertising campaigns, catwalk shows and each season’s fleeting trends, Vuitton brings a machine-like discipline to the selling of fancy leather goods and fashion. It is the only leather-goods firm, for instance, which never puts its products on sale at a discount. It destroys stock instead, keeping a close eye on the proportion it ends up scrapping (which it calls the “destruction margin”)."