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Amazon's a 2.2 trillion dollar company that made 78 billion dollars in '25. This OpenAI raise of $110b is 1.4x all the money Amazon made last year. Nutty times!

2026-02-28 View on X

OpenAI

OpenAI says ChatGPT has 900M+ weekly active users, 50M+ consumer subscribers, and weekly Codex users have more than tripled since the start of the year to 1.6M

raising the stakes for AI monetizationZac Hall /9to5Mac:ChatGPT approaching 1 billion weekly active users

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Amazon's a 2.2 trillion dollar company that made 78 billion dollars in '25. This OpenAI raise of $110b is 1.4x all the money Amazon made last year. Nutty times!

2026-02-28 View on X

CNBC

OpenAI raised $110B at a $730B pre-money valuation, up from $500B in a secondary financing in Oct.; Amazon invested $50B, Nvidia and SoftBank invested $30B each

OpenAI announced a $110 billion funding round on Friday, a financing that's more than double the size of its last raise a year ago …

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Amazon's a 2.2 trillion dollar company that made 78 billion dollars in '25. This OpenAI raise of $110b is 1.4x all the money Amazon made last year. Nutty times!

2026-02-27 View on X

CNBC

OpenAI raised $110B at a $730B pre-money valuation, up from $500B in a secondary financing in Oct.; Amazon invested $50B, Nvidia and SoftBank invested $30B each

OpenAI has closed a $110 billion funding round, a financing that's more than double the size of its last raise a year ago, which was a record for a private tech company.

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Nutty stat from Robinhood $HOOD earnings tonight: > Prediction markets now up to $435m in annualized revenue as of Q4; up 3.8x from $115m just a quarter ago [image]

2026-02-11 View on X

Wall Street Journal

Robinhood reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $1.28B, below est., crypto revenue down 38% YoY to $221M, below est., and net income down 34% YoY; HOOD drops 10%+

The brokerage finished 2025 on a strong note, though its stock is down roughly 24% this year — Robinhood Markets finished 2025 …

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And just like that, Mr. Beast is now a banker > About to swag his 1.4b uniques (~15% of the world pop) / 2.8b eyeballs into Bank of Beast customers > Offering 3.0% on savings, $250 in instant loans (paycheck advance), a credit building product, and up to 10% cashback on spend > [image]

2026-02-10 View on X

The Information

Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by MrBeast and last valued at $5.2B, acquires Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app

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And just like that, Mr. Beast is now a banker > About to swag his 1.4b uniques (~15% of the world pop) / 2.8b eyeballs into Bank of Beast customers > Offering 3.0% on savings, $250 in instant loans (paycheck advance), a credit building product, and up to 10% cashback on spend > [image]

2026-02-09 View on X

The Information

Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by MrBeast and last valued at $5.2B, acquires Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app

Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, has agreed to buy Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app, the companies plan to announce Mon...

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We're excited to double down on Rain in their Series C and continue supporting @cnaut @rooqster and the entire world-class Rain team They've built the internet-native programmable payments stack that merges digital and legacy rails; bringing the best of modern money to

2026-01-10 View on X

Reuters

Rain, which helps businesses issue stablecoin-linked Visa cards, raised a $250M Series C led by ICONIQ at a $1.95B valuation, taking its total funding to $338M+

Stablecoin firm Rain said on Friday it has raised $250 million in a funding round led by ICONIQ, valuing the company at $1.95 billion …

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We're excited to double down on Rain in their Series C and continue supporting @cnaut @rooqster and the entire world-class Rain team They've built the internet-native programmable payments stack that merges digital and legacy rails; bringing the best of modern money to

2026-01-09 View on X

Reuters

Rain, which helps businesses issue stablecoin-linked Visa cards, raised a $250M Series C led by ICONIQ at a $1.95B valuation, taking its total funding to $338M+

Stablecoin firm Rain said on Friday it has raised $250 million in a funding round led by ICONIQ, valuing the company at $1.95 billion …

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Tether raising $20b at ~$500b. W/ $5.5b of cash/btc /equity on the bal sheet, and using a blended 4% return on the $173b of USDT o/s, implies ~68x EV/run-rate rev

2025-09-24 View on X

Bloomberg

Sources: Tether is in talks to raise $15B to $20B in exchange for a ~3% stake through a private placement in a deal that could value the company at ~$500B

Tether Holdings SA, issuer of the world's largest stablecoin, is in talks with investors to raise as much as $20 billion …

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Coinbase US => Spot Coinbase International => Perps Coinbase + Deribit => Options If this happens, Coinbase goes fully horizontal in the span of ~ 1.5 years And with tokenization of everything, these venues would be far more than crypto venues Have my doubts this deal actually

2025-03-22 View on X

Bloomberg

Sources: Coinbase is in advanced talks to buy Deribit, the largest bitcoin and ether options trading platform, which was reportedly valued at $4B-$5B in January

and likely won't allow us to keep trading there. 😬😓 More than 70% of the total BTC options volume is traded on Deribit. [image] @tyler_did_it : Major acquisitions happening in the ...

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Interesting $750m strategic investment by Tether into Rumble $RUM (stock is up 45% after hours) Structure is $250m direct + $500m tender. Deal is priced at ~22x LTM Revenue. Broadly continues the theme of funding a range of technology assets (i.e. Blackrock Neurotech) +

2024-12-21 View on X

CoinDesk

Rumble announces a $775M investment from Tether and plans to use $525M to fund a tender offer for ~70M shares of its common stock; RUM jumps 35%+ after hours

Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk :

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