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🚀 Live Deals
🍹 Tequila III
The memo for this is live, and I encourage you to check it out.
We’ve amassed $600k+ in interest on this one, with a cap of $400k, so make sure you jump in if you want an allocation.
Plus some incredible perks
Remember, Phase I investors get priority for Phases 2 and 3.
👋 New Members
Welcome to the 27 new members this week 👋
A few notable members..
▶️ Sarah McNabb is the CMO at GigaStar, which securitizes YouTube ad revenue to make YouTube channels investable assets. You can buy a percentage of a creator’s future YouTube ad revenue — regulated, revenue-producing, and built for all investors
🏙️ Brandon Richman is the co-founder at Surge Holdings, Inc, which deploys intelligent infrastructure to make cities smarter. Prior to that he was at Diode Ventures, and Black & Veatch building solar farms, data centers, and smart roads.
🏆 Weekly Leaderboard
Each week, we reward the community member at the top of the Leaderboard.
This week’s winner is…
🎉 Maverick 🎉
Maverick is new to the community but has already helped out a bunch! He’s 40% thinker, 40% doer and 20% talker. He’s a global citizen with an excellent Substack.
💬 New Discussions
- Eric Klein shares the inside scoop on why Sonder collapsed.
“When Sonder went public in 2022 via SPAC, it was a way for the founding team and their investors to fill their pockets (again in my opinion).
The Marriott thing should’ve worked but they deemed ‘integration issues,’ while I personally think it was the first time Marriott saw first hand how bad it was internally.
Essentially management clocked out and they were left with 9,000 20-year leases. A lot of Sonder’s markets were lobbied by the hotel industry and forced to do 30+ night stays (not all, but a lot).” – Eric Klein, Sonno Homes
- Valerie wonders what will happen to all the stuff that Boomers’ descendants will inherit.
- Apollo Sports Capital just acquired a majority stake in Atlético de Madrid. You may remember Apollo launched a sports division in September. This is the very first investment.
- Tigran K shares his experience from working in the RIA industry:
“As a former RIA I would add that adding alternatives to the investment options increases adviser’s liability, because this can be seen by regulators and upset clients’ lawyers as taking on excessive risks.
Mentioning ‘private placements’ in my brochure, for example, triggered an audit from state regulators and, although I passed it, the interaction wasn’t pleasant at all. – Tigran K
- The #1 and #3 top country music paid downloads are 100% AI generated
- Prompt engineering, once hailed as the next hot technical career track, has rapidly collapsed.
“Prompt engineering is dumb and you are right, couldn’t hold it’s own long term, it’s not a job. Context engineering is something entirely different, requires creativity and very good engineering.
Context engineering (what we choose to show to the model) and the product layer (what we build on top to delight users) is where the battle will be won imo” – Pawel Janowski
🍾 New Altea Perk
Two months of Delta Pro Investment Tracker
Delta by eToro consolidates your stocks, crypto, commodities, and alternatives into one real-time dashboard
Delta Pro unlocks automated syncing, deeper analytics, insights, alerts, and advanced metrics that help you understand exactly what’s driving your portfolio.
Community member Matei Banfi is giving Altea members an exclusive upgrade: Two months of Delta PRO for free.
Anyone can get Delta, but this perk is exclusive to Altea members.
💸 Altea Affiliate Program
Earn 30% commission by helping grow our community.
Our new affiliate program rewards you with 30% commission for every person who joins Altea through your referral link.
How it works:
- We give you a unique referral link
- You can share your link anywhere; email, social media, private chats, etc.
- Every time someone joins Altea via your link, you get paid 30% of fees. (Payouts range from $200 – $3,300)
- This is not just for City Captains — anyone can participate.
Cheers,
Wyatt
