Eras of Shareholder Activism: Randos, Raiders, and PE-in-Public
Plus! AI and Ads; A Less Monopolistic iOS; Solving the Hardware Slog; Trust; Data for Dollars
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Hair on the Deal
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The Coiled Spring Effect: Why Dying More Slowly than Expected Produces Bigger Rallies than Thriving More than Expected
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Building the Oracles
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Longreads + Open Thread
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Can the Tool Layer Win Over the Product Layer?
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The Absurdity Heuristic
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The Politics Buffer Strategy
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Our Surprisingly Capital-Abundant World
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Longreads + Open Thread
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Extending the Ad Stack
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The Modern Antitrust Paradox
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