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In Defense of the Bad Guy.
An argument for distinguishing corporate misconduct from the incentives behind innovation.
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What Google's $10 Billion VC Arm Can Teach You About Investing
What Google’s investments reveal about private businesses—and what they do not prove.
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OpenAI
ChatGPT’s reach, the economics of AI, and the challenge of turning adoption into durable profits.
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The Numbers Don’t Show a Substack Collapse
A response to the claim that Substack is collapsing, focused on aggregate evidence.
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Saronic
Autonomous vessels, a costly shipbuilding expansion, and the challenge of scaling defense contracts.
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Gravity Always Wins
A conversation about IPO excitement, gold, and the psychology of holding on.
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How To Play an IPO
Who benefits from an IPO, how allocations work, and why incentives matter.
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The Private Ledger is Going Paid: Secure Permanent Access to Private Market Research.
Why the publication introduced paid membership and how it supports the research.
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Stripe
The payments infrastructure behind online commerce—and the next bet on stablecoins.
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How I grew to 1000+ Subscribers in 40 days.
Lessons from the publication’s first 1,000 subscribers: niche, consistency, and relationships.
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Executive Summary; June Recap
June’s research on AI drug discovery, ByteDance, and Substack in one reading list.
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Substack
Creator ownership, subscription economics, and the tension between growth and retention.
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ByteDance
A vast consumer platform business whose valuation cannot be separated from geopolitics.
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Isomorphic Labs
From protein prediction to drug discovery: the promise and the clinical proof still needed.
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Executive Summary; May Recap
A compact review of Anthropic, SpaceX, Anduril, and Polymarket.
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Polymarket
Prediction markets’ growing reach, thin take rates, and unresolved ethical and regulatory questions.
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Anduril
Defense hardware and software growing quickly—with manufacturing costs and execution risks to match.
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SpaceX
Starlink, launch, and AI ambitions—and the expectations built into an enormous valuation.
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Anthropic
Claude’s enterprise momentum, compute economics, and the race to build a lasting AI business.
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