Founders Fund invested $20 million into SpaceX 18 years ago, and kept investing. Its stake could be valued north of $60 billion. An exclusive Q&A with partner Scott Nolan, and early SpaceX employee, ahead of the IPO. www.axios.com/2026/05/28/s...

Today's @Axios Pro Rata newsletter: Platner's field of dumb, Lilly's big vax buy, new details on the govt quantum deals & much more: www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Hall of fame FT correction

Full episode just dropped! An explainer for those who don't really understand what #PredictionMarkets or Kalshi are, and a deeper dive for those who get it but have concerns. Plus, Trump fam connections, what they really think about Polymarket, and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=86oa...

We know that OpenAI and Anthropic want to go public. The question is why: www.axios.com/2026/04/03/a...

Private equity's next step into 401(k)s www.axios.com/2026/03/31/p...

What we know, and still don't know, about Jeff Bezos' big plans to apply AI to manufacturing www.axios.com/2026/03/20/j...

The White House won't answer questions about a $10 billion payment that was apparently required to secure the TikTok sale. Neither will the buyers nor TikTok itself. It's unprecedented. And officially undisclosed. U.S. investors and biz leaders should want answers. www.axios.com/2026/03/18/t...

Today's newsletter: The Dept of Whoa vs. Anthropic www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Trump spoke for 108 minutes on Tuesday night. Mentioned AI only twice. Less than 2% of his wordcount. Elected officials are largely ignoring a revolution that will change all Americans' lives and jobs, well beyond electricity prices. www.axios.com/2026/02/26/t...

Teachers unions think Apollo may have misled folks back in 2021 about its Epstein ties. Published this 2+ hours ago. Still no comment from Dechert, which did the investigation. www.axios.com/2026/02/17/e...

This could be the biggest week for IPOs in five years www.axios.com/2026/02/04/i...

Elon Musk is making one of the most audacious moves in the history of business and tech, @danprimack.bsky.social writes.

Elon Musk's grand vision comes into focus with SpaceX-xAI deal www.axios.com/2026/02/02/e...

It's impossible to know how many blue-collar jobs could be rendered irrelevant, or how soon, @danprimack.bsky.social writes.

So much talk about how AI could disrupt white-collar work. Not nearly enough on how it also could take blue-collar jobs. www.axios.com/2026/02/02/b...

U.S. stocks performed worse during the first year of President Trump's second term than during the same period of his first term. The S&P 500 also underperformed the first year of the Biden and Obama presidencies. www.axios.com/2026/01/21/t...

Trump takes on private equity with new housing plan www.axios.com/2026/01/08/t...

Subtracting Maduro doesn't automatically add American-style capitalism to Venezuela, let alone American capitalists. www.axios.com/2026/01/07/a...

"This is ground zero for the thorny politics of income inequality, which will become more pervasive as the AI revolution mints more billionaires and costs "normies" their jobs." www.axios.com/2026/01/05/c...

Been a bunch of chatter about how Groq employees make out in the Nvidia deal. Made some calls to find out. In short, very very well. Even if not fully vested. www.axios.com/2025/12/28/n...

NEW: Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

Cliffhanger... www.axios.com/2025/12/05/p...

Chicago folks: I've got a pair of front-row tickets to tonight's live taping of NPR's "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me." Want 'em? They go to whoever pledges to donate the most to Chicago's Food Bank. Email your blind bid to [email protected].

Thinking about this @inafried.bsky.social @danprimack.bsky.social piece as Gemini takes the top spot on the App Store…

Private equity exec sentenced to 7 years in prison for fraud. Trump commutes sentence. He serves just 12 days. surprise fact: PE exec's defense attny once was Florida prosecutor who helped cut the plea deal w/ Epstein. www.axios.com/2025/12/03/t...

Exclusive: Elon Musk's SpaceX has a "bigger chance of being the most valuable company" than OpenAI, Sequoia Capital's Roelof Botha told @danprimack.bsky.social at Axios' BFD event today.

My @axios.com BFD conversation with @polymarket.bsky.social CEO Shayne Coplan www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3kJ...

Almost all efforts to stem the tide of Big Tech have failed, leaving politicians with few deliverables beyond viral videos of CEOs being berated during congressional hearings, writes @danprimack.bsky.social.

Harvard's financial are out. Donations up. Endowment performance up. Federal funding way down. www.axios.com/2025/10/16/t...

💰 Axios BFD returns to NYC on November 18. Guests include: Sequoia Capital's Roelof Botha, Coinbase president/COO Emilie Choi, Coatue founder Philippe Laffont, Emma Grede, Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue, and more! Join us: axiosbfdsummitnewyork2025.splashthat.com

Digging into the largest private equity deal ever www.axios.com/2025/09/29/e...

Private equity Patriots www.axios.com/2025/09/25/b...

Today's Axios Pro Rata newsletter on the Kimmel situation

The TikTok ban hits this Wednesday. Trump is likely to kick the can again, even if that's against both the spirit and letter of the law. Congress -- including GOP senators who yelled about national security -- could force the issue, but won't. www.axios.com/2025/09/12/t...

The TikTok ban deadline is next Wednesday www.axios.com/2025/09/12/t...

There's something surprising in Giorgio Armani's will www.axios.com/2025/09/12/g...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Axios he wants the U.S. to get a cut of university patent revenue. That could disrupt the entire startup ecosystem, @danprimack.bsky.social writes.

When Trump told Google's CEO Sundar Pichai that Biden had begun the antitrust case, Pichai didn't bother to correct him. Why anger a new friend? www.axios.com/2025/09/08/t...

The widow of the late San Diego Padres owner would like to sell her piece of his private equity firm on the open market, per sources. Firm management, including her brother-in-law, has no plans to let that happen. www.axios.com/2025/08/29/s...

Trump's wind farm stops could chill U.S. infrastructure investment www.axios.com/2025/08/27/t...

Scoop: Donald Trump Jr.'s VC firm bets on Polymarket www.axios.com/2025/08/26/t...

Exclusive: Serial tech entrepreneur Ethan Agarwal enters the CA governor's race www.axios.com/2025/08/25/t...

All of this is a far cry from what happened during Trump 1.0.

The private equity executive order is signed. Now what? www.axios.com/newsletters/...

The jobs data "rigging" theory gets even sillier when you look at the reports in question. The cult of revisionism: www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Skydance this week is expected to complete its $8 billion acquisition of Paramount Global, following a 20-month process that was cinched via political appeasement. The big question is what comes next. www.axios.com/2025/07/29/s...

Got a lot of beach reading time ahead. Nonfiction recommendations please…

In 2014, Ifty Ahmed led a small investment in Circle that's now worth billions of dollars. One year later he was under arrest, before fleeing the country. Now he may be dead. www.axios.com/2025/06/24/c...