Goldman’s “Wall Cross,” NYT Media News, D.E.I. Finance Fears

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your pocket guide to the latest reporting from Puck.

Today, we lead with Matt Belloni’s rollicking account of how Bezos companion Lauren Sanchez embarked on a secret, trial-by-fire foray into Hollywood filmmaking. After a troubled production, will it ever be seen?

Then, below the fold: Bill Cohan details SVB’s desperate behind-the-scenes scramble to shore up financing before the bank imploded. Baratunde Thurston reflects on the unnerving capabilities of the new ChatGPT. And on The Powers That Be, Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby dissect how the SVB crisis was exacerbated by Twitter, and size up the Times’ media columnist heir apparent.

MATTHEW BELLONI

Jeff Bezos’s ambitious companion self-financed a film that secretly shot last summer and includes a cameo by Bezos’s ultra-private daughter, but crew defections and a director who was later fired turned a low-budget passion project into something far less hassle-free than buying undies on Amazon.

WILLIAM D. COHAN

A double-Goldman scramble, a “wall-cross,” an equity book that wasn’t, a Moody’s downgrade crisis, and a board mulligan: the real story about what went down during the final days of Silicon Valley Bank.

BARATUNDE THURSTON

Reflections on the new ChatGPT, “doughnut economics,” D.E.I. backlash, and what the right got wrong about Silicon Valley Bank.

PETER HAMBY & JON KELLY

Jon Kelly joins Peter to explain how a media crisis fatally exacerbated SVB’s fatal liquidity crisis. Then the duo discuss the next Ben Smith.