An Ode to a Dead Dealmaker
Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:* How OpenAI’s Sora is transforming everything from Hollywood to videogames to Madison Avenue* Foreign trade and fearsome foes!* A guide to acquiring one of S...
How to Hire—and Deploy—a Great Chief of Staff
After filling a cap table with prestige names and an Atherton basement with Screaming Eagle, what does a busy mogul on the rise acquire next? Increasingly these days, a chief of staff.
Long a staple ...
Apple Settles Shareholder Suit on Cook Comments
Let’s talk about something other than TikTok. How about the fact that Apple has agreed to pay $490 million to settle a years-old shareholder lawsuit alleging that CEO Tim Cook misled investors in co...
Hartz and Minds and TikTok w/ Special Guest Julia Hartz
There was a moment in this week's episode when our special guest Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz posed a question that stuck with me. How do we help our kids manage smartphones when we, as adults, don't h...
The Sora Saga Has Only Just Started
A month ago, Greg Pilon, a 44-year-old visual effects artist on such films as “Deadpool 2,” thought he heard the tick-tock of a doomsday clock for his industry.
What set the gears in motion? His ...
Pro Weekly: Tighter Reins on Cloud Spending—Except for AI
We’ve updated our estimates for several of the biggest spenders in our Cloud Database. The changes show that some companies are trying to hold the line on cloud bills—except when it comes to spend...
Microsoft Security Breaches Rile U.S. Government Customers
Microsoft became the world’s biggest seller of cybersecurity software by bundling it with Office and Teams apps. But after a series of hacks exploited that software in the past year, several of Micr...
Musk’s Rocket Ship Takes Flight as Do Mnuchin’s TikTok Ambitions
Let’s start with some good news: today’s successful rocket launch by Elon Musk’s SpaceX (cool video here). This was the third flight test of SpaceX’s Starship, the enormous new rocket the comp...