Browsing: private equity
Drones, missiles, and warships were, for a long time, deemed uninvestable in Silicon Valley—or, at minimum, contentious. Consider 2018: Googlers…
Private equity gets cut of two of Taylor Swift’s biggest pop hits through Max Martin catalog sale
Taylor Swift upended the economics of the music industry by buying back her first six albums. Now, her most famous…
Exclusive: This founder went from pressure washing to Wharton—and just raised $40 million for AI
The 24 year-old spent six summers pressure washing houses in upstate New York with his dad. Now he has a…
Pizza Hut’s fate is unknown as it goes from 1990s nostalgia darling to private equity sale
After years of being a struggling business and losing ground to competing chains, Pizza Hut’s fate will now rest with…
Anthropic was open about its confidential S-1 filing on Monday. The $965 billion AI juggernaut announced the filing—which we cannot…
Mecka AI raises $60 million to train robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones
Data is the oil of the AI boom—and the startup Mecka AI hopes to tap the vast reservoir of hand…
Graham Platner runs controversial ad during Red Sox game vowing to ‘reverse the private equity curse’
Graham Platner, Maine’s presumptive Democratic Senate nominee, began Memorial Day weekend by releasing an ad on the cable station that…
Elon Musk’s best friend could make $100 billion on SpaceX. His firm is also owed billions
His name is Antonio Gracias, a handsome private equity investor from Detroit. The two met through the Silicon Valley web…
‘A pressure cooker ready to explode’: The wild secondaries scramble for Anthropic shares
The idiom “feeding frenzy” gained prominence in the mid-century, first primarily to describe the behavior of sharks frenetically ripping into…
On some level, that’s expected: Elon Musk (the world’s richest person) and his businesses have long been their own landscape…












