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And happy hump day.

Apparently PE firms aren’t satisfied with owning majority control of high-margin software businesses, and now they want to start owning pieces of the NFL.

I’m pretty convinced that will be a net negative for every football fan, but I’m curious to hear what you think, so let us know at the bottom.

Let’s get into the other big stories from yesterday.

TL;DR:

• 📰 News

• 🔗 Links

• 🐥 Tweet

• 💰 Funds

• ™️ Startups

• 📶 Recs

• 🗳 Poll

HEADLINES
PE eyes the NFL 🏈

• Private Equity Ownership Is Coming to the NFL (WSJ)

• VC’s top fund families feature household names and up-and-comers (Pitchbook)

• Venture Funding To China-Based Startups Dries Up (Crunchbase)

• G Squared Raises $1.1 Billion Amid ‘Secondary Market’ Interest (PYMNTS)

• X is testing a video conferencing tool (TechCrunch)

• The biggest trends young NYC investors are bullish about — and why (TechCrunch)

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- Clay

RESULTS

Here are the results from our poll question in yesterday’s piece:

Where are we in the American Dynamism hype cycle?

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Still early - I expect more funds to start investing in the future of America first (12)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Starting to flatten (12)

🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ We're in a bubble (7)

31 Votes