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OpenAI’s $150/Hour Bet: Turning Wall Street Expertise into AI Infrastructure

PLUS: Former Google's Area 120 EiR Building Autonomous Agents

Nov 4 • 

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October 2025

The $10B Bet on Human Expertise in the AI Arms Race: Inside Mercor’s $350M Raise

PLUS: Former Google Brain engineering executive building at the intersection of AI and security infrastructure.

Oct 28 • 

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Goldman Sachs’ near USD $1B acquisition of Industry Ventures marks a major pivot into VC secondaries and hybrid funds

PLUS: Meta's Engineering Executive Building Something New

Oct 20 • 

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ICE’s $2 Billion Move Brings Prediction Markets Into the Mainstream

PLUS: Former Index-backed Acquired Founder Building Something New

Oct 14 • 

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Salesforce Unveils Agentforce Vibes; Bringing “Vibe-Coding” to the Enterprise

PLUS: Former Atlassian-Acquired Engineering Executive Building Something New

Oct 8 • 

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September 2025

The $50 Billion Play for EA: Gaming’s Biggest Leveraged Buyout in a Decade

PLUS: Former PayPal-acquired executive building something new

Sep 29 • 

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Breaking Barriers in Embedded Finance and Emerging Markets with Saison Capital’s Qin En Looi

PLUS: Former White House Executive Building In The Intersection of AI & Energy

Sep 23 • 

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Navigating APAC & US Crypto Frontiers with CMT Digital’s Doug Hsu

PLUS: Former Uber Product Executive Building Something New

Sep 15 • 

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The AI Barbell Effect

PLUS: Former ClickUp CBO Building Something New

Sep 8 • 

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AI Chips and Geopolitics: How Alibaba is Redrawing the Semiconductor Map

PLUS: Former Google Staff Software Engineer Building Something New

Sep 1 • 

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August 2025

Enterprise AI Infrastructure Matures with Real-Time Capabilities

PLUS: Former Amazon-acquired Founder Building Something New

Aug 25 • 

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Scaling Human-Centric Brands Through Private Equity with Monogram Capital’s Jared Stein

PLUS: Former Palantir Tech Lead Building Something New

Aug 17 • 

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