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Bending Spoons has roughly doubled the size of its company every year and has never sold a company it acquired.
At Bending Spoons, revenue per core team member increased from approximately $1 million in 2023 to a run rate of roughly $4 million in Q1 2024, with AI being the main driver of the growth.
Donald Trump personally sued JPMorgan and its CEO Jamie Dimon for $5 billion, alleging the bank severed connections with him for political reasons.
The G7 has agreed that no single country should supply more than 60% of its members' rare earth imports by 2030.
The US Pentagon is now allowing companies to build and operate critical mineral processing plants on US Army bases.
Realloys is partnering with the US Army to build rare earth facilities on Army bases to help meet a January 1st, 2027 deadline for domestic supply.
Realloys claims to be the only company currently in operation with a rare earth supply chain that has a completely non-Chinese nexus.
Cleveland is undertaking a nearly $2 billion modernization of its airport.
Bending Spoons has roughly doubled in size every year for a sustained period, driven primarily by its M&A strategy.
Bending Spoons acquired AOL from Apollo Global Management for approximately $1.5 billion.
G7 leaders aim to limit their import dependency on any single country for rare earths to 50% as soon as possible after 2030.
In 2023, venture capital deals for Anthropic and Scale AI represented 40% of the total funding raised by companies with female or mixed-gender founders in the US.