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What if we could rewrite the rules?

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Smart money at 0.63 with the index flat for a few weeks is the bit I'd flag. This kind of divergence has preceded decent moves before, though direction is never obvious from sentiment alone.
Smart Money / Dumb Money Confidence (2026-11-03) • Smart Money 0.63 | Optimistic • Dumb Money 0.52 | Neutral Track the latest Smart & Dumb Money Confidence on SentimenTrader: sentimentrader.com/?utm_sour…
Agreed on the direction. My accountant was already rerunning founder models at higher rates last month. Cheap-money valuations reprice hardest, businesses with real cash flow hold up fine.
Cost of capital is now rising again, just like it did in 2022. This is not good for asset prices in 2027, I remain optimistic but I’m now more sceptical than I was a few months ago. UK property prices could remain stagnant, and developed market stocks could have a flat 2027. Large-cap NGX stocks and FGN savings bonds are looking good right now.
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Health of the broader market is improving @stockscansin Stocks above 20DEMA at 60%+
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Good list. I keep coming back to the Rothschild motto on that cover, Concordia Integritas Industria. Pretty much sums up the whole stack.
Lindy tales of what it takes to build an enduring reputation:
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Agree with the substance here. Founder quality isn't the constraint anymore, capital depth still is. My hunch is that gap closes as European funds scale, but I want to watch the next cycle play out before calling it.
Replying to @pmoe
Never been a better time to build in Europe, never seen so many so serious founders tackling major missions in Europe! LOOOONG EURO
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Satya Nadella on coding agent usage of Github: "Agent generated PRs have increased 6X over the past six months. And agents now open more than a third of all PRs on the platform."
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Ran the numbers recently on UK vs Gulf electricity for a compute project, roughly a 4x gap. That's the commercial reality behind Verchere's point. Power demand will keep pulling gas development forward.
“Gas has always been part of the decarbonisation story, but security is also important. What we have looked at is that, across all energy transition trajectories in Europe, from the fastest to the slowest, Europe will remain an importer of gas” Christina Verchere, CEO, OMV Petrom, during “Upstream gas strategy: aligning reserve development with market growth” at the ADIPEC Strategic Conference. Gas development strategy is increasingly connected to power demand. Proximity to power markets, LNG export infrastructure and regional growth is influencing which reserves move forward. Infrastructure reliability and long-term demand link upstream portfolio choices with domestic energy security and industrial development. The ADIPEC Strategic Conference brings together energy leaders, policymakers, investors and technology innovators to examine the priorities shaping global energy. Join the wider conversation on resilient supply, investment and the partnerships needed to support long-term growth. Book Your Delegate Pass: bit.ly/4BDQb0C #ADIPEC #ADNOC #GlobalEnergy #EnergyLeadership
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The decline of new funds is *steep* but we'll see a flood of angels soon. Anthropic's IPO is estimated to bring $10M+ liquidity to over 1,000 employees. h/t @kwharrison13
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Same with podcasting. The episodes I thought were played out kept pulling in new listeners months later. Repetition does the heavy lifting.
You could be incredible at what you do and still be the best-kept secret in your industry, because people can’t buy from you if they don’t know what you do. Publishing means taking your ideas out of your head and turning them into digital assets: videos, podcast episodes, articles, social media posts and, ideally, a book. Start with your ten best ideas and make them chapters or posts. Then keep repeating them, because people are often hearing an idea for the first time when it’s the 11th time you’ve said it. Publish the same ideas again and again and it snowballs, building demand until the money starts coming in. FYI, every business I run creates new assets with permanence every quarter - videos on YouTube, a book every two years, culture documents for onboarding. Watch how I structure them: bit.ly/3U8tDUN
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Six patterns, one theme: optionality is getting expensive. Founders I know are building redundant regional structures. Costs more upfront, cheaper than being locked out when the lines harden.
Leading companies are tracking six emerging patterns of geopolitical change and realigning their businesses to achieve resilience, seize growth, and build competitive advantage. These patterns describe the same underlying shift: Globalization is not retreating; it is realigning along geopolitical lines. mck.co/3Wb3BBg
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Rough one for the Paraguay crew. When I ran the UAE numbers with my accountant, banking infrastructure was the whole case. You're buying institutional quality, not a rate.
Dear Paraguay bros, ready to move to Dubai yet? Let me know, can sort you with proper banks Sad to see…
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Salesforce $CRM has signed 7 acquisitions since June: • Contentful (closed Sep) • Fin: ~$3.6B (closed Sep) • Listen Labs (closed Nov 2) • Loops (closed Nov 2) • Braze: ~$5.66B, pending • Rune Technologies: pending • Cresta: pending teapawt.net/andreskg_/status/21177…
Salesforce on acquisition tear: Cresta ~$2.7B Rune Technologies ~$400M Braze ~$5.5B Listen Labs ~$2B Fin ~$3.5B Contentful ~$1.4B Total: $15.5B Pending: $14.5B Update timeline: 12 months (down from 18)
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Sat through similar conversations at ADIPEC before. The data centre load is the wildcard here. Real power demand, but nobody knows how durable it is. Underwriting 20-year supply against it is a bold call.
At @ADIPECOfficial 2026, Marco Dunand, CEO of Mercuria, Rashid Al Mazrouei, Chief Marketing & Origination Officer of @ADNOCGroup, and Patrick Eilers, Founder and Managing Director of Transition Equity Partners, joined @Ed_Crooks of the @TheEnergyGang podcast to explore what could shape the next wave of global LNG demand. bit.ly/3WlhLzM #EnergyConnects #ADIPEC2026 #LNG #naturalgas
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I'd agree on the conviction part, though the LP side is the binding constraint in my experience. Funding capital calls into mark-downs takes liquidity as much as nerve.
In deep tech you can be long term right But short term wrong For investors with conviction in the long term, the short term represents an opportunity to buy up. The early results might not look great on paper for LPs But if you can weather the storm it can pay off big time
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Replying to @kimmonismus
rc = release candidate. I'm not sure they would bother with such a formal naming convention if it were just an image model.
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Just saw a girl in uproar on TikTok that she saw someome say they pay £20 a month for AI and she has no idea why and that there are no even extra paid features There is a whole different world out there We’re so early
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