📰 Private equity

Business Insider

Further reading from the day's section on The AI Bill Comes Due.

Private equity

Business Insider

Microsoft offered buyouts to 60,000 employees, more than a quarter of its workforce, while spending heavily on AI.

Private equity · AI

Business Insider

Further reading from the day's section on What I'm reading next.

Private equity

Business Insider

Roughly 60,000 Microsoft employees are weighing a voluntary buyout, the company's second round this year.

Private equity

Business Insider

Microsoft offered voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, roughly 27% of its workforce, on standard severance terms.

Private equity · Labour

Bloomberg

Data center, cybersecurity, quantum, sales and marketing staff were excluded from Microsoft's buyout offer.

Private equity · Data centres

Business Insider

Skydance told employees to return to the office five days a week or take a buyout.

Private equity

Status

Skydance paired a five-day office mandate with buyouts, and CNN and CBS News leaders sent staff contrasting memos.

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Front Office Sports

An expanded playoff could raise pressure on coaches and keep buyouts, estimated at $185 million in 2026, at staggering levels.

Private equity · Labour

Vetted Sports

Capacity Sports Group's sixth acquisition of the year highlights private equity's roll-up of U.S. youth sports.

Private equity · M&A

Forbes

Starbucks has explored buying Chipotle, which would be the largest restaurant buyout in history.

Private equity · M&A

Front Office Sports

Baseball's new cap matches the NBA, NHL and MLS, with private equity barred from exceeding the controlling owner's stake.

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Front Office Sports

MLB lifted its per-club private equity cap from 15% to 20%, matching the NBA, NHL and MLS, with firms barred from exceeding the controlling owner's stake.

Private equity

The 4th Quarter

The newsletter argues a $25 billion-revenue league that already runs 32 Equity should run its own fund rather than rent out its balance sheet.

Private equity

Front Office Sports

Stephen Ross is in advanced talks to sell a fifth of the Miami Grand Prix to private equity firm Otro Capital.

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Forbes

Logan Paul says not selling Prime at its peak, when private equity would have bought in at $500 million, cost him $100 million.

Private equity

Vetted Sports

A deal worth close to $700 million shows private equity treating fitness brands like sports franchises, with more than 60% of top U.S. gym chains already PE-backed.

Private equity · M&A