Tag: Stocks
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Neumann’s back! Founder Adam Neumann is trying to “purchase [WeWork] or its assets” out of bankruptcy, according to a letter from Neumann’s attorneys. Meet the New Founder, Same As the Old Founder Neumann built WeWork from the ground up, but his overspending and self-dealing tanked the company’s 2019 IPO. The…
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“We did 200 user interviews before we built a thing.” Mike, startup founder Mike* is the founder of an awesome new SaaS company. The product he showed me was far better than most. But what really excited me was the way he built it. “Make Something People Want” Y Combinator’s…
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The FTC has launched an investigation of several big tech companies’ AI investments and partnerships. The investigation could spell trouble for big tech and cut AI off from a major source of funding. From a new report by CNBC: The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it will conduct an extensive…
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Just about every day, a startup raises hundreds of millions to build an LLM. But the real winner in the LLM race won’t be a startup. LLM’s Are Becoming Commoditized Every morning, I launch a browser set to open to 3 tabs: GPT-4, Bard, and a model from a startup…
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Travis Kalanick’s first company got him sued for $250 billion. Time to quit the startup game, right? Wrong. Third Time’s a Charm Travis is known as the brilliant founder of Uber and CloudKitchens. But his first company, a file sharing service called Scour, was a disaster. Angry about music being…
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Elon Musk’s new Optimus robot can fold t-shirts. How long until it’s making them? Musk released a video of Tesla’s new Optimus robot folding a t-shirt yesterday on X: The short video shows the robot slowly but surely turning a t-shirt into a neat little package. Robots usually struggle with…
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Ken Griffin’s Citadel is one of the biggest hedge funds on earth. But last year, its performance lagged well behind the S&P 500. From CNBC: Billionaire investor Ken Griffin’s various hedge fund strategies at Citadel all posted double-digit returns for 2023, but they failed to beat the S&P 500. Citadel’s multistrategy…
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Hedge funds are fighting hard to keep short sales secret. An industry association has sued the SEC to stop new disclosure rules, according to a new report in Barron’s. Hedge funds sued the Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging that the agency broke the law when it finalized a pair of…
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The multibillion dollar Haidar Jupiter fund has lost 50% of its assets in 2023. The macro hedge fund made bad bets on bonds and other securities, magnified with borrowed money. From a new report in Institutional Investor: Haidar Jupiter Fund all but assured it will finish the year deep in…
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“A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle.” Elon Musk Elon Musk is not your typical CEO. He doesn’t have a corner office. There’s no executive dining room. In fact, shortly after taking over Twitter, Elon slept on a couch in the company library. A typical meal: cereal out…
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