Happy holidays, and welcome back to The Stratosphere. In today’s issue, I take a look at Jeff Bezos’s emerging frontrunner bid to purchase The Washington Commanders for a price tag that could reach a staggering $7 billion—or about 30x what he spent for The Washington Post a decade ago.
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Happy holidays, and welcome back to The Stratosphere.
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In today’s issue, I take a look at Jeff Bezos’s emerging frontrunner bid to purchase The Washington Commanders for a price tag that could reach a staggering $7 billion—or about 30x what he spent for The Washington Post a decade ago.
And then, below the fold, speaking of big Seattle-based expenditures, I have the origin story of how Sam Bankman-Fried got his start as a political mega-donor.
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| Bezos’s NFL Dreams and S.B.F.’s First Campaign |
| Will the league let the man behind Thursday Night Football also own one of the teams in the game? Well, if you’re willing to pay 30x what you did for The Washington Post, anything is possible. |
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| Now that the tech titans have fallen short in their attempts to buy the NBA’s Phoenix Suns—which included an unexpected bid from an associate of PeterThiel—the sports franchise hunt turns to Washington. That’s where Jeff Bezos, working with Jay-Z, is widely considered a leading candidate to purchase a stake in the NFL’s Washington Commanders from Dan Snyder. The first round of bids were due December 23rd, the night before Christmas Eve, and at least some came in well north of $7 billion... |
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| FOUR STORIES WE’RE TALKING ABOUT |
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| The Biden Dam |
| Dissecting the Scalise proposition and Biden’s intraparty challengers. |
| JON KELLY & TARA PALMERI |
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| 5 Streaming Predictions |
| After a turbulent twelve months, how will the streaming landscape reform in ’23? |
| JULIA ALEXANDER |
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| Bloomberg’s Buying Spree? |
| Will Mike Bloomberg really acquire The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal? |
| JON KELLY & DYLAN BYERS |
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| S.B.F.’s Saudi Play |
| A chronicle of S.B.F.’s voyage to the Middle East to fundraise from M.B.S. |
| WILLIAM D. COHAN |
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