In the wake of Big Tech earnings, the surface numbers looked stellar: Microsoft reported $90 billion in revenue, up 18%; Amazon hit $200 billion, up 20%; Meta grew 28%. But beneath the headlines,…
Ed Elson — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Ed Elson has appeared on 13 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Better Offline, Prof G Markets, The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Ed said
“This is financial hijacking of the highest order... Infantino... has now taken a page out of Trump's financial playbook.”
— Ed Elson on FIFA's for-profit spin-off
Episode appearances
13 Microsoft earned a decisive Wall Street victory this earnings season while Meta stumbled, and the divergence tells a sharp story about investor patience with AI spending. On the July 30th episode…
In 2025, the US fertility rate fell to another record low, and economist and blogger Noah Smith calls the slow-motion consequences “corrosive.” On Prof G Markets, Smith joined Scott Galloway and…
Trump’s Tariffs Are Back — And Crazier Than Ever The Supreme Court ruled Trump’s tariffs illegal in February. Within months, he found new legal loopholes to reimpose them — and then announced 50%…
In January, OpenAI filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC, signaling its intent to go public. By late June, the New York Times reported the company was hitting the brakes, spooked by SpaceX’s…
The 2026 World Cup is generating a familiar kind of magic—men embracing in the stands, strangers uniting around a common purpose—but it also reveals a hard economic truth: the antidote to…
The Week: Iran, Brexit, SpaceX, and the Business of Sports Last weekend brought news of what appeared to be a ceasefire deal between Iran and the U.S.—a memorandum of understanding. But within…
In 2026, Britain will appoint its seventh prime minister in a decade, a turnover rate unmatched in nearly 200 years. The proximate cause is Keir Starmer, who won a landslide Labour victory in 2024…
Elon Musk became the first trillionaire in history after SpaceX raised $86 billion in the largest IPO ever, pricing at $135 per share before climbing roughly 30% in its first week. But Chinese…
SpaceX went public on Friday at an IPO price of $135, opened at $150, and traded up to around $160 by midday — an 11% first-day pop that fell short of the 25% many had predicted. The debut made…
"Most companies using AI today are giving everyone a copilot, which makes the existing structure work slightly better without changing it," Jack Dorsey said this week. "We're off to something…
In January 2025, Kick, the live streaming platform, published a single month of clipping stats: 1,737 clippers made more than 309,000 video clips. One streamer, Clavicula, published more than…
🎙️ The Speakers & Context The Format: A solo newsletter read by the author, Ed Elson, substituting for Scott Galloway on No Mercy No Malice. The Key Players: Ed Elson: Author of the newsletter…
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