Bill Gates, College Dropout: Don’t Be Like Me; Cultivating a culture of innovation begins with children – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 4 Jun (Thurs)

Life

• Bill Gates, College Dropout: Don’t Be Like Me: NYT
• Cultivating a culture of innovation begins with children: TODAY
• Eric Schmidt: Here’s why most companies fail, and why Google won’t: BI
• Idealab’s Bill Gross reveals the single biggest reason why startups succeed: e27
• College Dropouts Thrive in Tech: Quitting school to start a company used to be seen as risky; now it’s a badge of honor: WSJ
• Creating an ethical culture while growing your business: BRW
• Researchers Put Hierarchies Through the Himalayan Test; Do hierarchical countries like China succeed more than countries that put little value on ranking? : WSJ
• Here’s how the ‘self-management’ system that Zappos is using actually works: BI
• Google’s cofounder wrote an essay about how the world has changed since the company started: BI
• The secret power of introverts: Fortune
• Thomson Reuters on making information useful: McKinsey
• How To Develop Superior Thought Leadership Content Than The Competition: Forbes

Investing Process

• Malaysia Ex-Minister’s Son Sued Over Debt for LionGold Shares: Bloomberg
• A few tell-tale signs that you should short a Chinese stock: BI
• Insider Traders Made Some Easy Money on Stock Offerings: Bloomberg
• ETF Mashups Are the Financial Equivalent of a Cronut: Bloomberg
• Sometimes Companies Need to Break Up, Too. Is It Time to Split Up?: JG
• Hanergy Employees Exercised Options Before Shares Plunged: WSJ
• Jim Simons Transcript: Quantitative Finance and Building a Firm: AA

Greater China

• Martin Lee Ka-shing, heir to HK tycoon Lee Shau-kee’s empire: WCT
• How Deng Xiaoping Helped Create a Corrupt China: NYT
• Taiwan’s embattled IT companies look beyond PCs, phones: Nikkei
• CEOs and PC’s: The ABC’s of Acer’s Fall: Forbes
• Top dog: China’s newfound passion for pets is big business: Reuters
• Euphoria has China’s stock market in its dangerous grip; There is a fin de siècle feeling and today’s stresses are the most serious since the end of the 1990s: FT
• China Tech Magnate Sees Bubble in Industry That Enriched Him: Bloomberg
• China’s initial public offerings are such hot commodities that a company seeking $2 billion attracted bids approaching the entire annual economic output of Hong Kong. Bloomberg
• Hong Kong Exchange Bets Chinese Traders Are Just as Good as High-Frequency Ones: Bloomberg
• Apple’s Success With IPhones in China Fuels Local Appetite for Apps: Bloomberg
• Tiananmen Anniversary Makes Money Transfers in China Trickier: Bloomberg
• Gross’s Next Short Is This China Stock Index – But Not Yet: Bloomberg1, 2
• Startups See Dollars in China’s Young and Lonely; In China, the success of Momo, a dating site with 69 million members, is attracting rivals. Bloomberg

India

• Oil Addiction Will Put India Into Top 3 Global Guzzlers: Bloomberg
• Nestle Is Facing Heavy Metal in Indian Instant Noodles: Bloomberg

Japan & Korea

• Robot maker’s rocky path to a shareholder-friendly strategy: Nikkei
• US fund takes aim at Samsung merger plan: FT
• Peter Pan inspires Japan monetary policy; Kuroda alludes to classic tale’s message of power of self-belief: FT
• Honda Pumps the Brakes on Trying to Become a Media Company: WSJ

ASEAN

• Indonesia’s $326b Retail Market Still Has Strong Appeal, Index Shows: JG
• Forbes Thailand’s 50 Richest: Forbes
• Thailand’s 50 Richest 2015: Collective Wealth Crosses $100 Billion: Forbes
• Energy Drink Carabao Dang, Named After Rock Band, Is Thailand’s Big Fizz: Forbes
• Indonesia Is Using Drones to Catch Tax Cheats: Bloomberg
• CEO Budi Gunadi Sadikin wants Indonesia’s Bank Mandiri to be the region’s largest. He discusses the consumer-banking explosion, the impact of digitization, and the grooming of future leaders. McKinsey

Macro

• Bond Selloff Slams Asia: Yields on some government debt jumps to highest level in years: WSJ
• BofA Explains How the Bond Rout Could Turn Into a Bloodbath: Bloomberg

Energy & Commodities

• Commodities’ glut to drag on, BHP chief warns: FT
• Revaluing commodities: Two pioneering academics make the case for commodity index investments: FT
• OPEC’s Problem: There Is No Minister of Shale; Today’s U.S. oil producers are more like tech startups than big, integrated crude producers: WSJ
• How OPEC Hurt Big Oil: WSJ

Healthcare

• Life-threatening complications from bacterial infections are on the rise among hospital patients, increasing at a double-digit rate as the population ages and costing U.S. health-care programs billions of dollars a year. Bloomberg
• Cancer breakthrough proves AstraZeneca was right to spurn Pfizer offer: Telegraph
• The dilemmas thrown up by the war on cancer; The NHS cannot ignore value for money in the pursuit of innovation: FT
• Financial pressure is a mind-altering drug for NHS and AstraZeneca: FT
• Anne Wojcicki, the freewheeling queen of home DNA testing: FT
• The unhealthily high price of cancer drugs; Companies take advantage of inflexible patient demand to try to recoup research costs: FT

TMT

• SoftBank Is Building A Portfolio Of Asia’s Most Important E-Commerce Companies: Techcrunch
• Spotify Wants Listeners to Break Down Music Barriers: NYT
• Apple Takes On a Market Full of Streaming Services: NYT
• How the Cash Flows in Spotify Streams: WSJ

Consumer & Others

• Starbucks has plans to become the next McDonald’s: BI