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Billionaire entrepreneur and investor, former Dallas Mavericks majority owner and longtime "Shark Tank" panelist known for backing startups.
Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, Eric Yuan and Bill Gates have each said AI will cut the workweek to between two and four days. The forecasts set an expectation about hours, and how pay and headcount follow is what boards and employees would have to settle.
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MOUs with six large asset managers aim to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI factories. Nothing is funded yet, but the underwriting model already changes who sets compute prices.
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The book grew from about $7bn in a year, and roughly half of it is priced by funding rounds rather than by markets, which means a demand forecast built on customer orders is partly a forecast of Nvidia's own marks.
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The San Francisco Democratic Party broke with its state party 17-4 to oppose Prop 40, but the six billionaires who have already ended their California residency are the only votes on this measure that are already counted.
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John Doerr put in $7.5 million and Chris Larsen $10 million against a one-time 5% wealth tax. Measured against what the measure would cost them, that is cheap insurance.
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Mark Cuban and Ro Khanna spent a weekend arguing on X about California's Proposition 40. The operative question for founders is where the cash comes from.
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Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger's record bid is being read by outside analysts as a non-passive shield against carried interest. The pricing logic may sit in the tax code.
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