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Denyer spitballs on betting


This podcast has been one of our best performing. Not a surprise, Simon Denyer is one of the smartest guys in the room. 

Part of the conversation was about betting. 

A question I've asked a few times on the podcast is about where betting sits in the private equity playbook. 

I was struck by how bullish George Pyne was on TGL, and how explictly he referenced it as a potential betting product.

The p/e money likes betting for semi-obvious reasons to do with risk diversification and revenue predictability. 

As Denyer notes, when evaluating sports investments,

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🧵 OpenAI's ad pivot

You'll have seen the Anthropic Super Bowl ad.

I did a quick data scrape of this FT article.

Main bits:
'I would just disclose, as a personal bias, that I hate ads, they would be like a last resort for us as a business model. Advertising had its place as a way for the early internet to make money...'but i think they sort of somewhat fundamentally misalign a user's incentives with the company providing the service'

That was Sam Altman in 2024.

OpenAI has asked advertisers to commit an initial £200k in order to appear in ChatGPT results. The

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