Stuck Ship

Kevin LaBuz
5 min readMar 29, 2021

Forrest Gump said it best: shit happens. Always has, always will.

On March 23, the Ever Given, a container ship the size of the Empire State Building, ran aground in the Suez Canal. The initial take is that strong winds and poor visibility caused the snafu. While a boon for meme creators and amateur web developers, the incident is no laughing matter.

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Kevin LaBuz

Head of IR & Corporate Development at 1stDibs. Previously finance at Etsy, Indeed, and internet equity research at Deutsche Bank. Find me on Twitter @kjlabuz.