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Peter Thiel doesn’t need much of an intro. He has been at both sides of the fundraising table, sometimes concurrently. He first invested in a precursor to what would become PayPal and soon after joined it in the early days as a co-founder and CEO. Later he founded and invested in Palantir, which specializes in big-data analytics. In August 2004, Th
... See moreAli Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
There are essentially two business models right now: boring, useful things that can print money and tastemaker brands that can brute force cultural relevancy.
Dumb $ is funding the middle: stuff that is neither useful nor cool enough to make it past current startup headwinds.
Daisy Aliototwitter.comEugene Wei – Tech, Media, and Culture - [Invest Like the Best, EP.117]
open.spotify.comInside of three years, it appeared, Sam Bankman-Fried had created a business so valuable that his share of it implied that he was now the richest person in the world under the age of thirty. “When I first looked at the numbers, I was like, Can this really be true—can this guy really be worth twenty billion dollars?” said Chase Peterson-Withorn, who
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Leading “solo capitalists” manage more money than many funds. Oren Zeev manages more than $1 billion without additional investment support. Elad Gil, Josh Buckley, Harry Stebbings and Lachy Groom manage funds in the hundreds of millions with similarly lean structures.
Mario Gabriele • The Future of Solo Capitalists | The Generalist
In 2016, NY Times spent $30m to acquire Wirecutter. It's shaping up to be a good acquisition - revenue now topis $50m.