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AMD Didn't Buy a Company. It Bought a Seat Where the Future Gets Designed. (opens the original)
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Every acquisition answers one question: what exactly are you paying for?Most buyers answer it with a revenue number. Trailing twelve months, a multiple, a recast EBITDA figure that has been argued over for six weeks. The asset is the cash flow. The price is the cash flow times a number.On Monday, AMD announced a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, the AI model and research lab led by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock transaction valued at roughly $8.2 billion, with closing targeted by the
The Warner Bros Deal: The $7 Million a Day CLock That Forced a Settlement (opens the original)
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The Paramount Warner Bros deal just cleared its biggest obstacle nine days before a $7 million a day ticking fee was set to start. Charles Oglesby and I break down why that timing matters and what it teaches you about buying a business at any size.Paramount beat Netflix for Warner Bros Discovery with $31 a share in cash, a $7 billion regulatory termination fee, and a promise to cover the Netflix breakup fee. Sellers price certainty, not just the headline number. Then 12 state attorneys general s
Paramount Paid $7 Million a Day for One Word: Certainty (opens the original)
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On October 1st, a meter was set to start running on the largest media deal in Hollywood history.The trigger was a ticking fee Paramount wrote into its own offer. Starting October 1, Paramount would begin accruing a 25-cent-per-share fee, about $650 million per quarter or roughly $7 million per day until closing. Nobody forced that clause on them. They volunteered it to win the deal. TheWrapThen, on September 21st, nine days before the meter started, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who led
The $110 Billion Lesson Hiding in the Paramount-Warner Deal (opens the original)
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On Monday, California’s Attorney General stood at a podium and announced a settlement. It resolved a 12-state legal challenge to Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery and cleared a key hurdle for the transaction. The combined company would put two historic film studios, two streaming platforms, and two news organizations under 43-year-old David Ellison. NBC NewsNBC NewsThe coverage treated it as a media story: CNN, HBO Max, whether your streaming bill goes up.
The Real Reason Big Tech Is Buying AI Companies: It's Not What You Think (opens the original)
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Six weeks ago Big Tech was buying AI companies. This month it stopped buying companies and started buying control points. In this no-guest reaction episode, Charles and I break down six real deals from the last two weeks and translate every single one into a move you can run on a 1 million to 5 million dollar business.The headlines call this an AI boom. It is a control grab. Every one of these deals is a company deciding it is cheaper to buy the bottleneck than to buy the business, and the deal
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