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Paramount Closes on Warner Bros. Discovery, Etched Doubles and Instinct Quadruples, and Private Real Estate Reprices Around Rates
Paramount closed a $110B merger on Tuesday.
Most people read that as a media story. It’s an ownership story.
You saw Uber write a $2.3B check for catering, too. We were watching what both deals had in common.
Nobody bought growth. They b...
Founder Friday: Two Operators Who Build the Thing Instead of Advising On It 🎣
If you’ve ever been very good at something and watched someone else monetize it, you know the feeling.
Expertise is not the scarce part. Ownership is.
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An $8B Loss in Anthropic's IPO Prospectus, OpenAI Apologizes to AUS, and the Trade Deal Dimon Says the West Needs
Two headlines, same lesson.
AMD spent $8.2B on a lab that is barely two years old. OpenAI apologized to a government because its agents went somewhere they should not have.
One is what capability is worth. The other is what happens withou...
Founder Friday: From ER Medicine to Global Operations to Family Portfolios 🎣
Every industry trains a different instinct.
→ Medicine trains triage.
→ Global sales trains market-building.
→ Family offices train skepticism.
Three founders whose most interesting credentials were earned somewhere else.
Welcome bac...
Trump Meets Xi on Thursday, Meta's Chatbot Lifts Nasdaq, and SoFi Settles in Stablecoin
Trump meets Xi on Thursday.
Markets already rallied on the handshake that has not happened yet. Private capital does not get to front-run anything.
It gets one shot at diligence, and usually no time to do it.
This week’s three companies...
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