John Fichthorn had been in the hedge fund business for more than 20 years when a half-hour phone call with a stranger put him on
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It’s a brilliant, blue-sky afternoon in mid-August, and Bill Ackman is enjoying being, well, Bill Ackman. Maybe it’s the sun. Or maybe it’s the aftermath
Henry Blodget Was Banned From the Financial Industry. So He Built a Financial Media Empire.
Shortly after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos headlined a $5 million equity round in the scrappy young media brand Business Insider in 2013, its editor and
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Among the gilded denizens of Silicon Valley, it’s known as the “Who cares? rant.” It began when Chamath Palihapitiya argued, in a CNBC interview on April
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In early March, as Congress bargained over an emergency coronavirus spending bill, big pharma lobbyists were on the move — and Ben Hunt was livid.
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If you’re a man in distress and yet own things like, say, Andy Warhol paintings, Melody Capital Partners is your guy, so to speak. The