Wrexham Adds Apollo Partner Lee Solomon to Board
Wrexham appoints Apollo Global partner Lee Solomon to its board of directors. Apollo invested in Wrexham at the end of 2025. https://t.co/Lg4ot9to6y
Fox Sports, YouTube Launch Always‑On FIFA World Cup Stream
For the @FIFAWorldCup, @FOXSports is teaming with @YouTube to create an "Always On" stream during the event. Content will include studio clips from the likes of @Jaboowins and even free, live match teases (5 minutes of 1st half, 5 minutes of...
Warner Music Buys Sureel AI to Safeguard Assets
Warner Music Acquires Sureel AI, a Platform That Aims to Protect Music and Other Assets From Unauthorized Use and Monetization https://t.co/bWuQ1iyfz0 via @variety
Leadership Success in AI Age Requires Speed, Not Code
The leaders who thrive in the AI age will not be the ones who can code, they will be the ones who can lead at AI speed. In this video, I break down the 6 capabilities that matter most, technological...
Rising CPI Undermines Fed’s Dovish Signal Ahead of FOMC
The Fed's dual mandate isn't sending a 'dovish' signal for the FOMC next week. Core CPI ticked up to 2.9% and headline accelerated to 4.2%. Kevin Warsh is going to have an interesting first meeting... https://t.co/M5GLQ5YmIn
May Inflation Data Inconclusive, Fed Likely Holds
For the Fed, May’s inflation report settles nothing • Core was mild, but a soft monthly print buys less when it's drowned out by a hot headline and a "boomier" demand backdrop. The case for patience now needs a run of...
Nuvei Eyes Payoneer to Unite Payment Acceptance and Payouts
🚨 JUST IN: @Nuvei is reportedly in advanced talks to buy @Payoneer for ~$2.7 billion. Per @Reuters, citing two people familiar, a deal could be signed in the coming days, though sources say it's not done yet. If it closes, the...
Listen, Don't Pitch: Validate Ideas in Under a Month
You pitch your idea. People nod and say "cool, I'd use that." You walk away convinced you're onto something. Then you launch and nobody buys. The nod was just politeness. I recently interviewed Marius Meiners, who took Peec AI from zero to...
May 2026 Core Update Shakes Rankings, Highlights YMYL Risks
Google's May broad core update was a beast. My latest post covers interesting cases, findings, and analysis. Grab a cup of coffee or a red bull. It's not short :) -> Core Roars Back – Interesting Cases and Findings From...
Simplify Campaigns: Fewer Ads, Better ROI
Saw one of the most abysmal account structures I've seen in awhile yesterday. Audited a brand in the UK doing $75k/month in spend and they had 33 ads live and 13 campaigns.... Founder couldn't understand why they were bleeding money every month. Friendly...
China's Factory Prices Surge Fastest in Four Years
China’s factory gate prices rose at their fastest rate in almost four years last month, official data showed, signaling the impact of higher energy prices from the Iran conflict. by @TomHale_ https://t.co/uaNNSWoVEY https://t.co/OEof6XTBwU
LinkedIn Launches Creator Marketplace to Tap Creator Influence
🚨NEW🚨 LinkedIn just launched a Creator Marketplace. 🤝🏾 This has been a long time coming. LinkedIn's creator ecosystem has more than doubled between 2021 and 2025, and brands have followed. 70% of marketers say buyers trust peer and expert voices over brand-produced content,...
May CPI Rises 0.5%, up 4.2% YoY
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.5% on a seasonally adjusted basis in May, after rising 0.6% in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. https://t.co/iXeBfYPbKV Over the last 12 months, the all items index...
7 Million Tuned In: TNT’s Pay‑Wall Verdict?
Did TNT Sports make the right decision restricting the UEFA Champions League Finals free to air viewership in the UK? And does 7 million viewers validate the approach, or does it signal a missed opportunity? We break down some of the...
May Inflation Hits Expected Peaks, Core and Headline Rise
May Core #CPI prints at 2.9% as expected - previously 2.8% y/y Headline prints at 4.2% as expected- previously 3.8% y/y
NFL Rights Deal: League Holds Leverage, Teams Scramble
New pod: @RichLightShed on the looming NFL rights renegotiation bonanza: who wins, who blinks first, and why the league still has all the leverage. https://t.co/tTrjxcHZZN
AI Stack Boosts Retention, Unlocks Over Half Profit
My AI retention stack: Klaviyo → email + SMS automation Claude → write all flow copy (welcome, abandoned cart, post-purchase, win-back) Smartreply → 24/7 AI customer support on Shopify Aftersell → post-purchase upsells Retention is where 50%+ of brand profit gets made. Most people leave...
Boots Owners Abandon IPO, Eye $10bn Sale
Sigma/Chemist Warehouse confirm FT scoop: Boots in talks over $10bn sale as owners look to ditch IPO plan https://t.co/gFxRloC0s7 via @ft
DCF Benefits Skilled Analysts; Expertise Outweighs Model Choice
Michael Mauboussin on the DCF model "Skilled analysts were more accurate when they used a DCF model than when they used multiples, especially for firms that are hard to value. By contrast, the less-skilled analysts were worse off using a DCF...
Show Clients Ongoing ROI, Don't Let Value Fade
Operators, every month I tell my clients exactly what their Operations ROI is. I count the value of every automated task, every dollar of savings, and every dollar of revenue directly tied to my team (less our cost). And every...
Translate Videos Into Any Language, Keep Your Voice
WOW Taking your content global just got ridiculously easy. No re-filming or awkward dubbing. The new Language Swap Skill from @pika_labs translates your video into any language... while keeping it in your OWN VOICE 🤯↓ https://t.co/dIUYaYjBNA
Canfor Acquires PinkWood I‑Joist to Diversify Amid Downcycle
Macro: Canfor buys PinkWood I-joist for $68M to diversify amid lumber downcycle. Key: 5x EBITDA, 46M ft cap, $55M at close. Risk: leverage, EPS pressure. Trade: buy on pullback. — Viktor Kopylov, PhD, CFA More insights: t.me/si14Kopylov
Break Founder Dependency to Accelerate Growth
… You hired capable people. Growth still slows. The bottleneck isn’t your team. It’s your nervous system. Audit where people wait for you. Notice where you’re protecting ego, not quality. $8M brand: 23 approval gates→4.Revenue: $8M→$14M in 11 months Your company is slow because you’re...
2‑Year Yield Outpaces Fed Rate, Signaling No Cuts
Bond markets anticipated the Fed Notice the blue line (2-year Treasury yield). It began rising sharply in late 2021 while the Fed Funds Rate (red) was still near zero. Bond investors correctly anticipated large rate hikes before they happened. The Fed eventually caught up. Now...
Speak Your Audience’s Language, Not Your Own
Mike loved building cars on YouTube. He spent hours out in the garage filming rust repair, chrome bumpers, even full restorations. But for months, almost nobody watched. One video after another led to more and more disappointment. The car builds were...
AI Teammate Consolidates Sales Stack Into Single Prompt
THE MODERN SALES STACK IS COMPLETELY BROKEN 🚨 Enter @lev8ai: an AI teammate that replaces your entire fragmented, expensive stack with one single, conversational prompt. With it, no more duct-taping ZoomInfo, Clay, Apollo, and 6sense just to run your Go-To-Market motion 🧵...
AI‑driven Roll‑ups Turn Fragmented Markets Into Billion‑dollar Wins
- Thrive Holdings is reportedly planning to bet $1 billion on this particular AI-powered roll-up. - @NWischoff said three companies in her portfolio have pivoted to roll-ups over the last 24 months and are crushing it (7-10x their entry valuation). -...
Twitch Tests Category-Wide Bonus Sub Promotions, Creators Opt-In
Twitch will soon test Category-Wide Promotions, which will allow advertisers to offer Bonus Subs across an entire category. In most cases, it will be Gift X Subs, Get Y Bonus Subs. Creators will be opted in by default, but can opt out.
Biopharma Salary Rankings Reveal Top and Bottom Payers
Part 2 in our compensation series is now out: Who pays the best (and worst) in biopharma? A look at typical employee salaries Chock full of interactive + searchable data spanning big pharma, biotechs, CROs, generic drugmakers, and more: https://t.co/DyguxvyfFX https://t.co/v9aLsh8SVn
Sell First, Build Later: $17M Seed Secured
They sold the product before they built it. Now they've raised $17M For twenty years, I told founders the same thing: build first, sell later. Watching how @fonio.ai started, that advice has quietly expired. Before the product was ready, co-founder @Daniel...
PE Demands AI Moats for SaaS Deals in 2026
Some private equity firms in 2026 won't show your SaaS to their investment committee without at least one AI moat. I sat down with Einar Vollset of Discretion Capital , who advises on B2B SaaS exits between $2M and $20M...
Biopharma Salary Secrets Revealed Through SEC Filings
How much is everyone in biopharma getting paid? Every year, I review several hundred SEC filings that give a glimpse into pay practices — both for execs and median employees As we roll out our pay series, I'm chatting live w/...
Build Marketing Infrastructure Before Launching Campaigns
“It’s too early for marketing.” That’s not what a fractional CMO is supposed to say to a founder who’s ready to spend money. But I meant it. A CEO approached me with plans to expand into the U.S. and Europe....
China’s Consumption Push Repeats Old Production‑centric, Flawed Strategy
“China’s long-term strategy to improve consumption has turned out to not be a new strategy at all; instead, it is the same strategy China has always relied on—one that focuses on increasing production with an expectation that household incomes will...
Fox One CEO on World Cup Subscription Strategy
🎙️ NEW: Fox One C.E.O. Pete Distad joins me ahead of this week’s World Cup kickoff to explain how the streamer plans to leverage the tournament to attract and retain new subscribers—and assess the broader challenges and opportunities facing the...
Yield Rise Meets Oil Surge, Market Bets on Quick Resolution
Looking at the heat map below 👇, we see that the right tail drivers of earnings (+20%), margins (15.8%) and credit spreads (73 bps) continue to propel the cyclical and secular bull market. But the left tail is perking up...
Kuwait Begins Direct Asian Crude Sales, Boosting Dark Shipments
Kuwait is offering to sell its crude to refiners in Asia for the first time since the Iran war started. Another key sign that more Middle Eastern crude is flowing “dark” via the Strait of Hormuz by tanker (on top of...
Deutsche Bank Slashes Eurozone 2026 Growth to 0.5%
💠Deutsche Bank slashed its 2026 euro area GDP growth forecast from 1.1% to just 0.5%, citing higher energy costs, weaker global demand, and tighter financial conditions. 💠Other major forecasters have also cut their outlooks: European Commission, ECB, IMF, S&P Global, Conference...
AI Adoption Lags Potential; Disruption Happens Task‑by‑task
The real AI workforce story is not that usage has already exceeded expectations. It is that the ceiling is vastly higher than current enterprise behavior. A new rendering of Anthropic’s labor market data shows the real gap: Many knowledge-work categories are technically...
Suniva Merges with NY Installer SUNation.
Suniva to merge with popular NY solar installer SUNation #energysky -- via Solar Power World: https://t.co/Df1z4wlVOz
Growth Slows, Central Banks Pause—Sell 2‑5Y Sovereigns
Macro: growth slows, central banks pause. Key drivers: inflation, USD, yields. Risks: policy hawkish shocks, energy disruption, weak PMIs. Trade: cut duration—sell 2–5y sovereigns. 📊 — Viktor Kopylov, PhD, CFA. More insights: t.me/si14Kopylov
Document Standards to Cut Rework and Boost Velocity
… You keep saying «That’s not how I would do it», at least 40x per week. But Your standard lives in your head. 68% of FMCG execution issues = unspoken standards. Your team is guessing. $38M distributor documented 12 core standards: → 60% less...
Hot Economy, Geopolitics Fuel Inflation, Threaten IPO Momentum
Last week’s momentum-filled gains were abruptly reversed on Friday after the jobs report showed that the US economy is running quite hot while there is still no easy offramp from the conflict in Iran. Add them up and we get...
AI Impact Comes From Boring, Iterative Maintenance Work
The highest leverage work in AI right now is some of the most boring. (Well boring to others, I kind of love the pain of problem-solving.) Everyone and their boss wants to build the cool AI agent... the shiny autonomous thing...
Proven Startup Launch Playbook From Monaco Experience
The playbook to launching your startup: Monaco launched less than 4 months ago. I work with our customers every day planning their launches. This is the high-level playbook we follow:
Launching Rocinante: Tackling Hard Tech Deployment Challenges
Hard tech is back. Now comes the annoying part: deployment. Today I’m launching Rocinante Fieldworks, an advisory + venture platform for frontier infrastructure, starting with space nuclear. Bring me your hardest problems. https://t.co/fN9vg3TUBh
Mercedes AMG F1 Sweeps Season, Sets $223M Profit Record
The @MercedesAMG F1 team is dominating on the track, sweeping the first 6 races of the season. It is also scoring off the track, posting an F1-record $223 million in operating profit. Full breakdown 👇 on the team's 2025 financial...
Caleb Hammer’s Audience Insights Head to VidSummit 2026
Well, @sircalebhammer absolutely crushed it on @joerogan. I’m even more excited to have him joining us as a keynote speaker at VidSummit 2026. His story, his business, and his understanding of audience psychology are something every creator can learn from. See you in...
J&J to Buy Firefly, Securing Degrader Antibody Platform
J&J to acquire Firefly, maker of ‘degrader’ antibody drugs, for up to $1B https://t.co/7LR42oP7kZ by @gwendolynawu #biotech $JNJ
Personalized Emails at Scale with AI-Powered Blocks
Every once in a while, I see something in email and go… huh, why isn't this already how it works. This is one of those. It's called Allan. Your designer stops building emails, they build blocks (heros, body copy, CTAs, product modules)....