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OpenAI might soon be worth $500bn – thanks to a potential stock sale for employees.
The company is reportedly in early discussions to allow current and former employees to sell their shares, which would value OpenAI at roughly $500bn. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg
Government jobs created/eliminated under Biden and Trump.
Probably too early to call it a trend change, but worth being highlighted. Source: Chart Eleva Capital, Bloomberg thru Michel A.Arouet
The chart below shows the number of companies founded in China each year.
Private entrepreneurialism fueling China’s economic rise has come to a full stop there. Time will tell what will be the consequences of a pivot to a state run economy again. Source: Michel A.Arouet, FT
Apple $AAPL increases commitment to $600 billion, announces american manufacturing program.
“Today, we’re proud to increase our investments across the United States to $600 billion over four years and launch our new American Manufacturing Program,” - Tim Cook Source: Evan on X, FT
Trump: 100% tariff on chips, semiconductors. Exempt from tariff if made commitment to build in US.
However, companies like hashtag#Nvidia ( $NVDA ) and hashtag#Apple ( $AAPL ), which have already invested heavily in U.S. manufacturing, are exempt from the new policy... Source: CNBC
Updated Uber Free Cash Flow chart is incredible.
$8.5B and counting! 🤯 $UBER Source: Fiscal.ai
The average american now needs to work nearly two full years to buy a single Bitcoin
Source: Documenting Saylor @saylordocs on X
If you put a punitive tariff of 25% on India for importing Russian oil, you have to do the same for China, which is an even bigger buyer.
That means China tariffs go from 50% to 75% (and 20% in Jan. '25). Will it be applied on China as well??? Source: Robin Brooks
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