Jake Paul & The Chainsmokers: Turning Fame into Funds, Jake Enters Politics? & Venture Bubble Signs
Chamath PalihapitiyaJason CalacanisDavid SacksDavid FriedbergJake PaulDrew TaggartAlex Pall
Jake Paul is turning owned attention into distribution and talent infrastructure, citing 138 million Netflix viewers for the Mike Tyson event and 400 MVP fighters.His $100 million Anti Fund and The Chainsmokers’ fund target venture economics, but later tranches priced at two or three times earlier valuations without operating improvement leave realized DPI—not TVPI—as the test of Chamath’s bubble warning.
Bill Ackman: People are Going to Lose a Lot of Money
AI is transformational but bubble-like, with one startup’s valuation jumping from $400 million to $1 billion in two weeks and another reaching $5 billion in Series A.Cognition’s claimed COBOL modernization in days could lower bank costs, but pricing power determines whether shareholders retain the savings.Ackman therefore emphasizes disciplined capital use, continual moat reassessment, and exiting when confidence—not merely price—breaks.
What Gives Tokens Value? with Mike Dudas, Managing Partner at 6MV | EP 168
Dudas’s token test is whether value accrues somewhere and reaches holders, making governance-only designs vulnerable when insiders redirect fees.6MV pairs Pump.fun and sub-hour prediction markets with Squads, Dakota, Morpho, Aave, and Kamino as crypto shifts toward application-layer cash flow.The unresolved catalyst is whether meme-driven products can graduate users into better assets, as many L1, L2, and infrastructure tokens may disappear.
Re-Founding Incumbents for the AI Era with Sequence Holdings Co-Founder and CEO Michael Lee
Sequence Holdings is pairing frontier engineering with incumbent advantages, partnering with the Dell family office on its $7.7B acquisition of Baldwin.At BankSouth, average consumer-loan underwriting volume fell 94%, timelines dropped from 30 days to 11, and Q2 loan volume doubled versus Q1 without changed standards.Whether Atlas can repeat that operating leverage depends less on code than on the more difficult human engineering problem.
CLARITY Failed, Many Stablecoins Debate, Circle Launches Arc & Meta's AI Edge | Weekly Roundup
Stablecoin proliferation is shifting toward corporate treasury, as banks and multinationals may issue white-label coins to capture float.CLARITY’s 49–50 failure hit Coinbase roughly 10% and Circle 12%, while the SEC’s five-year exemption may accelerate tokenized-securities innovation but remains reversible.Arc’s more than 190 partners showed Circle’s reach, but its memecoin-heavy debut obscured a payments strategy designed to offset lower rates.
The Six Tokens To Own This Cycle | Yan Liberman
Yan sees Bitcoin reaching the high $90,000s before materially easier liquidity, with only 10–15 investable tokens.His six-token book favors uncrowded productive assets: Grass has roughly $70 million expected revenue and $40 million indicated operating profit against about $330 million FDV.Grass’s October unlocks and AERO’s second-half-of-September expansion are catalysts, but demand, emissions and cross-asset opportunity cost remain unresolved.
Zack Buckley on $PRTH's take private
Priority Technology trades at 4–5x free cash flow despite 10%+ FCF/share growth and over 90% recurring or reoccurring business, while Treasury Solutions contributes roughly $180M of adjusted EBITDA at an 84% margin.The $6.00–$6.15 take-private proposal trails the January 2025 $7.75 secondary and Buckley’s $17 SOTP, while the 9–10 month Barclays/Paul Weiss process remains unresolved amid possible negotiation leverage and kitchen-sinking risk.
水下私募江湖：从SpaceX到字节老股
退出受阻将一级半市场从水下交易逼成有买卖双方、价格和中间方的准市场，36氪留言板五年5000多条信息则显示标的从互联网消费轮转向Web3、硬科技、AI、机器人与商业航天。SpaceX借多层SPV和Web3基础设施将参与门槛降至5000美元，但中国人投资美国AI公司的监管限制、链条断裂风险，以及字节短期是否上市，仍是关键变量。
20VC: SpaceX's $60BN Cursor buy, Stripe's OpenRouter bet, Anthropic math
SpaceX’s all-stock Cursor takeover, completed within a week and carrying a breakup fee, highlights AI M&A’s currency and clearance advantages while testing premium pricing against forward revenue.Stripe’s OpenRouter bet monetizes routing complexity but faces model drift, while Workday’s take-private underscores system-of-record durability without guaranteed upsell; AI-budget ceilings and agentic roadmaps remain key risks.
All of Finance Is Moving Onchain with Dragonfly General Partner Rob Hadick | EP 165
Finance is moving onchain through stablecoins, tokenized assets, and collateral, while product, distribution, and revenue capture value more reliably than decentralization alone.Settlement may modernize before Visa and payment economics disappear, with fees redistributed toward consumers; the upside is a funnel for very large companies, but execution still depends on real-time infrastructure, monetization, and product-market fit.