#corporate-finance

#corporate-finance

Sinclair's 8.2% share ownership does not give it a right to vote on the future of our company's strategic direction or to force a merger that might benefit Sinclair. It does not allow them access to any information - financial, station-level or otherwise - that is not public. It does not give them a say in the operations of our company

On November 6, Sweetgreen announced that it was selling Spyce, its division that developed and made its Infinite Kitchen technology to automate the assembly of its bowls and salads. The acquirer is Wonder, the " restaurant and mealtime superapp," as Fast Company dubbed it earlier this year. With that, it's time to eulogize Sweetgreen's star-crossed life as a tech company. No more dreams of AI, blockchain, or robots.

For the first time in financial history, a major credit rating agency has formally evaluated a company built on a bitcoin-backed credit model. In news covered by Bitcoin Magazine, the S&P Global Ratings has assigned Strategy Inc (MSTR) a 'B-' Issuer Credit Rating with a Stable outlook, recognizing not just the company, but the emergence of Bitcoin as collateral inside the credit system. This marks a watershed moment for corporate finance.Bitcoin-backed credit is no longer theoretical. It is now a rated financial reality.

Days later, OpenAI struck a similar multibillion-dollar arrangement with AMD. Celebrated by investors, these deals also raised eyebrows. To some observers, they looked eerily like the circular financing arrangements of the late 1990s, when vendors and clients reinforced each other's valuations without generating real value. Bloomberg aptly described the pattern as an "increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions" fueling a trillion-dollar AI boom.

Melamud stated, "In my 16 years of investing, I had never come across such an enormous TAM (total addressable market) of greenfield opportunity," highlighting the potential for growth in unmanaged travel bookings.

Anna Stopnevich creates family roadmaps in wealth management, focusing on asset structuring, beneficiary identification, and advisory bodies, while preserving family traditions.

A well-known adage reminds us that corporate insiders and 10% owners really only buy shares of a company because they believe the stock price will rise.