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- Vincenzo Landino on NASCAR's identity crisis, Cadillac F1's Super Bowl gamble, and Aston Martin's Eight Sleep investment
- Mach Industries' Ethan Thornton on winning drone warfare through asymmetry, not outproducing China
- Kris Marszalek bought ai.com for $70M, turned down a $500M flip offer the same day, and launched with 300K Super Bowl signups
- Runway raises $315M Series E to scale video generation compute and hit millions of media and entertainment customers
- Construct Capital's Dayna Grayson on re-industrialization, defense as early adopter, and why debt financing is broken for hardware startups
- Ashlee Vance on robot fight documentaries, the brutal economics of streaming docs, and a China trip in the works
NEWS
- Michael Grimes returns to Morgan Stanley as chairman to lead SpaceX's potential $40B IPO
- Apollo reports record quarter with $30B net inflows and $1T AUM after dodging software bets
- monday.com stock drops 21% after flagging AI agents as competitive threat on earnings call
- China pours $26B into humanoid robotics with 140+ companies, threatening US dominance
- Frozen US job market: hiring hits lowest rate since 2003 as workers cling to existing jobs
- Stripe in talks at $140B+ valuation as next step toward long-awaited IPO