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January 24, 2025
This Week on The Floor
We are off to Miami next week for iConnections MFA Global Alts 2025, where we’ll be interviewing senior thought leaders and investors across the industry!
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The app that might tank AAPL?
The most important thin you’re missing on your resume
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Markets Recap / Deal News
Interviewing this week? Here’s some content for your conversation.
Could one little app be the thing that derails Apple, the world’s second largest tech stock?
Analysts are revising their estimates lower ahead of AAPL’s Jan 30th earnings announcement date, citing lower iPhone sales and lack of enthusiasm around the Apple AI rollout.
But we wonder if there’s an additional wrinkle: TikTok.
Quick recap: last weekend, the Supreme Court upheld the sale-or-ban ruling for TikTok in the US…before President Trump assured ByteDance that the ruling would not be enforced.
We watched the drama unfold in what seemed like little more than a momentary lapse in access for TikTok users in the US.
Not so fast…
Turns out “trust me, it’ll be fine” isn’t enough for Apple.
Apple has removed the TikTok app from its app store.
For users who either purchase a new iPhone — or upgrade to the latest version and need to upload their apps from the App Store — TikTok is no longer available.
A red-hot secondary market for OLD iPhones with the app installed has emerged 🤯
Even worse for creators, CapCut — the editing tool upon which the vast majority of creators rely, and which is ALSO owned by ByteDance — is ALSO gone.
What’s the big deal, you ask?
Well, we can speak to this from personal experience!
Our very own creator Kristen is caught in no-man’s land without access to either platform on her new phone, and is debating returning it.
Until Apple either gets comfortable with the legal risk — or a sale happens — many consumers and creators of social media content are going to be seriously deterred from purchasing a new iPhone, which could negatively impact AAPL in the near-to-medium term*.
*note: this merely our personal opinion, not professional investment advice.
Are You Missing the MOST IMPORTANT Part of Your Resume?
Hot take:
The most critical part of your resume ISN’T your GPA.
It might not even be the prestigious job or summer internship you had last year.
In fact, I’d argue that your secret weapon is what you share in the oft-neglected “Skills/Activities/Interests” section at the bottom of the page.
Why?
Let’s recall our conversation with Tony Abbiati, CEO of a $30bn+ ultra high net worth private wealth management firm:
Tony shared that, try as he might to be objective in interviews, he can’t help but smile when he finds out a candidate comes from his hometown in Maine.
He finds himself predisposed to like someone he has a shared commonality with, especially one that’s relatively rare.
You need to use this section of your resume to strategically highlight what makes you special in the hopes that it will either be SO unique that it piques the curiosity of your interviewer…..
…or something that creates a special bond between the two of you.
I can’t tell you how many resumes we review where the “Skills/Activities/Interests” section has a line or two with items like “travel, reading, good food”.
Guys, everyone likes these things.
No one’s going to look at your resume and be like, “wait, you like GOOD FOOD!?!? Tell me EVERYTHING about your passion, let’s bond over our shared love of eating food that is NOT BAD.”
Instead, get specific about what sets you apart.
Here are some examples pulled from real resumes we’ve reviewed:
Rather than: “travel and community service”:
“Lived and worked for six weeks in India volunteering at Shanti Bhavan, a non profit K-12 school offering free education to children born into India’s lowest socioeconomic class”
Rather than: “good food”:
“Expert at preparing traditional Ethiopian recipes”
Rather than: “reading”,
“Certificate in Russian language & literature; have read all of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Gogol in the original”
You won a National Pun competition when you were 17 years old?
You play the bagpipes?
You can speak a rare language?
You went to the Olympic trials for rhythmic gymnastics?
Tell me about it in this section of your resume.
Because let’s face it: while every candidate wants to be hired based on their merits, your interviewer isn’t just choosing a faceless worker drone.
They are choosing someone they are going to sit next to for 12-14 hours a day.
They are choosing someone to put in front of clients.
And the more they can either bond with you over shared niche commonalities, or learn about the unique skills that make you who you are, the more you will stand out from the pack.