I don’t care which Bill does it, @bstaples or @BillRMcDermott but either / both of the two pubco’s I own needs to build this before I have to pull a Thanos and do it myself:
This is so obviously some sort of ego trip / some sort of weird desire for a swan song on the way out. Cant be the rest of the exec team that said no, because they’re pretty much all gone after the past two quarters aren’t they.
How much of an arrogant garden gnome do you have to be to decline a takeover in order to go it alone in public markets? Like dude. Take it private and fix it up there. You came out of retirement to tank the stock like 50%… should’ve stayed home, Todd
There’s absolutely zero appetite for this in the public markets right now. Incremental $ has too many other dips to buy if they’re so inclined (energy, healthcare, “quality” LTM losers). Turnarounds in consumer? Yeah nah everyone’s dead inside after years of $NKE $CMG $LULU $SBUX
Redfin estimates OpenAI and Anthropic employees could hypothetically buy 29% of all homes in the San Francisco metro with post-tax IPO equity.
Breakdown:
OpenAI employees: about $135B post-tax equity, enough to buy 20% of SF homes.
Anthropic employees: about $63B post-tax equity, enough to buy 9% of SF homes.
I was unfortunate to have lost my father aged 4. However, his legacy still stands to date. I have gotten favors just being the son of Joseph Attueyi. I definitely can't relate to not celebrating your father.
I wish I had more time with him, but I'm grateful for being his son!