AI Rollups, the latest fad to take venture capital by storm, point to a different source of excess returns that is only becoming more valuable

Written by Jay Barney, Haiyang Zhang, and Jerry Neumann

Read by Scott Brick

Read ‘Invisible Companies’ here.

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How Thomas Peterffy built the machines that killed the trading floor and made Interactive Brokers into a $100 billion business

Written by Dom Cooke

Read by Scott Brick

Read ‘The Making of a Market Maker’ here.

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Written by Jeremy Stern

Read by Scott Brick

Read ‘The Wu Tapes’ here.

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Written by Jeremy Stern

Read by Scott Brick

Read ‘The New World’ here.

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Jeffrey Yan turned down $100 million, airdropped billions to strangers, and can’t travel without a bodyguard. The story of how he built Hyperliquid, a blockchain and crypto trading exchange, into the most profitable startup per employee on earth.

Written by Dom Cooke

Read by Scott Brick

Read ‘Beyond the Sky’ here.

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