Goldman’s Layoff Spree, Apple TV+ Amnesia, WWJ(eff)D

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon download featuring the latest work from Puck.

Today, we kick things off with Bill Cohan’s penetrating assessment of FTX C.E.O. John Ray’s boggling proposal that the bankrupt crypto exchange might actually be worth restarting, rather than liquidating it into oblivion.

Plus, below the fold: Matt Belloni dissects the pernicious problem of streaming subscriber “recall.” Dylan Byers chronicles what really happened when WaPo owner Jeff Bezos dropped by the paper’s offices last week. Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby dig into Musk’s Sisyphean Twitter challenges. Then, on the latest episode of The Town, Matt recruits Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to make sense of last week’s shake-up atop the Netflix org chart.

WILLIAM D. COHAN

The latest news and notes on what’s really going down on Wall Street: the FTX bankruptcy drama, Goldman Sachs’ layoff drama, and James Gorman’s McKinsey-style succession plan.

MATTHEW BELLONI

The second installment of Puck’s original study reveals how few consumers can remember whether the shows they like are on Apple TV+, Peacock, Netflix, or somewhere else, and why that matters to the future of digital platforms.

DYLAN BYERS

Bezos’s visit to The Washington Post set off alarms in the building. But if the world’s fourth richest man has plans for the nation’s second most important paper, he’s keeping them to himself. He’s in listening mode.

PETER HAMBY & JON KELLY

Jon Kelly joins Peter to chat about Jeff Bezos’s loaded visit to The Washington Post—and the Post’s newfound (and economically accurate) view of itself. Then they dig into Elon Musk’s Twitter challenges.