According to McKinsey & Company, two major players—DoorDash and Uber Eats—control close to 80% of the food delivery market as of 2021. Here’s how the overall food delivery app market has shifted since 2018: The Most Popular Food Delivery App in the U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic has helped accelerate DoorDash’s rapid growth and market dominance. The food delivery company increased its market share from under 20% in 2018 to 53% in 2021....
on But fast forward to the end of last week, and SVB was shuttered by regulators after a panic-induced bank run. So, how exactly did this happen? We dig in below. Road to a Bank Run SVB and its customers generally thrived during the low interest rate era, but as rates rose, SVB found itself more exposed to risk than a typical bank. Even so, at the end of 2022, the bank’s balance sheet showed no cause for alarm....
In this graphic—which was inspired by a chart from Chartr—we compare the speed and severity of the current interest rate hikes to other periods of monetary tightening over the past 35 years. Measuring Periods of Interest Rate Hikes We used the effective federal funds rate (EFFR), which measures the weighted average of the rates that banks use to lend to each other overnight. It is determined by the market but influenced by the Fed’s target range....
Crowdfunding: Partnering with the Public In America, the largest crowdfunding market, legislation on crowdfunding varies from state to state. When a business is involved in equity-based crowdfunding, the business is selling many small shares to investors. Prior to crowdfunding, selling a share to an investor was a lengthy and costly process, riddled with paperwork and expensive legal fees. The older laws that applied to selling shares in a company are not financially feasible or time effective....
The Trade-Off Between Time and Money The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Every individual person has their own unique set of values when it comes to how they approach their lifestyle and career. Generally speaking, however, most people have a viewpoint on the inherent trade-off between time and money, as well as whether these precious resources should be used to seek out experiences or buy possessions....
Two months later, the situation is markedly different. After aggressive testing and quarantine efforts, China’s outbreak of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) appears to be leveling off. Now, numerous countries around the world are in the beginning stages of managing their own outbreaks. March 15th, 2020, marked a significant statistical milestone for this, as confirmed cases of COVID-19 outside of China surpassed the Chinese total. The tracker above, by Our World in Data, charts the trajectory of the growing number of countries with more than 100 confirmed cases of COVID-19....
Each new year delivers the full spectrum of progress from game-changing breakthroughs to incremental advancements in a wide variety of fields. In a noisy media landscape fueled by hype and speculation, it can be tough to know where true value is being created. The infographic above, which draws from CB Insights’ recent report on 11 Tech Trends To Watch Closely in 2023, helps narrow down some areas of focus: The report draws information from earnings transcripts, media mentions, investment activity, patents, and more to arrive at the trends listed....
The domain was registered in 1997 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and the company was incorporated in 1998. The “Google Guys” worked out of a garage in Menlo Park, California, with a simple but ambitious mission: to organize the seemingly unlimited amounts of information scattered throughout the web. It’s almost twenty years later, and we now know that Google’s monetization of search has changed the world. The company basically mints cash for investors each quarter, and this gives Alphabet the leeway from Wall Street to take an unprecedented amount of moonshots to find its next cash cow....
He’s shooting for the stars with SpaceX, changing the future of transportation with Tesla, Hyperloop, and The Boring Company, and he’s already had a profound impact on the e-commerce and payments sectors through Paypal. It’s no coincidence that most of these are $1 billion+ companies. But, focusing only on his successes provides a superficial view of the man. To get the full perspective on his career, it is much more interesting to look at the failures and lows he has experienced....
Investors Betting on Africa Not so long ago, declining commodity prices and the outbreak of an epidemic such as Ebola would have triggered a firesale of interest in Africa. While this effect is evident to some regard, it is clear investors are still betting on the future of the continent as a big emerging market opportunity. “Africa is on the radar,” says Miguel Azevedo, head of sub-Saharan Africa investment banking at Citigroup in London....
Space Exploration is Taking Off Up until recent years, the momentum associated with space exploration had more or less fizzled. While it would seem that rapid innovation is occurring in every other technology field worldwide, the hardware and business models used in space exploration have remained static aside from small, incremental improvements. It is mind boggling that the last time humans walked on the moon was over 40 years ago. However, since the 2010 there have been signs of great ambition in space exploration....
Today’s infographic comes to us from CB2 Insights, and explores how and why the notorious Big Pharma are interested in the nascent cannabis industry. Who are “Big Pharma”? The term refers to some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, considered especially influential as a group. To give a sense of their sheer size, the market cap of the top 10 Big Pharma companies is $1.7 trillion—Johnson & Johnson being the largest, with a market capitalization of $374 billion....
The Greatest Inventions of All Time Make sure to click the image above to expand to view the full, massive version of this visualization, which shows the greatest inventions throughout history. Have you ever wondered about past inventions and their impact on our society today? Raconteur was also interested, so they polled over 400 scientists, academics, and tech journalists to find out which inventions have been the most revolutionary. The top six inventions, as voted by this group, include the internet, the printing press, and the wheel....
The Present and Future of the Internet of Things The Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology macrotrend that we have covered previously both here and here. This particular infographic shows how we got to where we are today, and what it means for the future. The most important factors that have made the IoT possible is the decreases in cost for the technology that makes it possible. The average cost of sensors, bandwidth, and processing have all dropped down substantially since the birth of the internet....
The World’s Strangest Currencies The Money Project is an ongoing collaboration between Visual Capitalist and Texas Precious Metals that seeks to use intuitive visualizations to explore the origins, nature, and use of money. For centuries, humans from all around the world have tried to use different things as money. Some forms, which most people are familiar with today, have been effective catalysts for trade over thousands of years. Other currencies, from squirrel pelts to parmesan cheese, have had their time or place in human history, but were ultimately unsuccessful or made obsolete....
Everyone knows that the U.S. Federal Government has roughly $20 trillion of debt. A question we often get, however, is who exactly owns all these treasuries? And if it’s held abroad by countries like China, what portion do they hold? Today’s infographic comes from TitleMax, and it looks at who owns U.S. debt internationally, as well as the debt from other countries that is held by the U.S. Who Holds U....
But still, there’s something extremely interesting about dissecting the lifestyles of the ultra rich – particularly in looking at where they live, and also how they tend to migrate when local conditions are not conducive to wealth-building or the safety of their fortunes and families. Ultra Rich: By Region Today’s infographic comes to us from HowMuch.net, and it breaks down the population of ultra high net worth individuals that have personal wealth levels exceeding the $500 million mark....
This phenomenon first originated in developed economies as people moved to work in factories that produced consumer goods at a scale never before seen. Then in the 1950s, developing economies started to follow suit. The results have been staggering, and today a country like China has at least 35 massive cities that each have an economic output comparable to entire countries. After many decades of urbanization, the portion of people living in urban areas has surpassed the total rural population....
on Over recent decades, farmers have been able to more than double their production of crops thanks to fertilizers and the vital nutrients they contain. When crops are harvested, the essential nutrients are taken away with them to the dining table, resulting in the depletion of these nutrients in the soil. To replenish these nutrients, fertilizers are needed, and the cycle continues. The above infographic by Brazil Potash shows the role that each macronutrient plays in growing healthy, high-yielding crops....
Particularly in recent years, prices have been pushed sky-high in places like New York City or San Francisco through a combination of limited supply of new homes, increasing demand, shifting demographics, and government regulations. Putting it Into Perspective Today’s visualization from HowMuch.net applies a common denominator to compare 97 of the biggest cities in the United States. Using a measure of median household income against the average mortgage payment in each city, we get a gauge of how many hours must be worked each month just to pay down the house....
