What I read this week...

Passing of a legend, retirement of another, and the World Excel Championships

What I read this week… Tom Alberg, early Amazon investor and long-time Amazon board member, dies at 82 (WSJ) Biden’s ties to BlackRock deepen with latest Treasury hire (Bloomberg) Oil crisis: Why the world needs more of ‘The Great Canadian Barrel’ (Canadian Energy Centre) Ford raises price of electric F-150 Lightning by up to $8,500 due to 'significant' battery cost increases (CNBC) July’s heatwave may have killed thousands of Britons (The Economist) Billionaires are funding a massive treasure hunt in Greenland as ice vanishes (CNN) Serena Williams says farewell to tennis on her own…

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