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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="1817616" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="SPAC">SPAC</keyword> <keyword id="10974934" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="thoma-bravo-advantage">Thoma Bravo Advantage</keyword> agreed on Sunday to merge with the mobile-marketing company <keyword id="10974935" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ironsource">ironSource</keyword>.</li><li>The combined company will be valued at a pro forma equity value of $11.1 billion.</li><li>ironSource revenue rose 83% year-over-year in 2020 to $332 million.</li></ul>The SPAC <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/tba-stock">Thoma Bravo Advantage</a> said on Sunday that agreed to merge with the mobile-marketing firm ironSource in order to take it public. The deal will give the combined entity a pro forma equity value of $11.1 billion.The transaction is sponsored by a $1.3 billion Class A ordinary share private investment in public equity (PIPE), as well as $1 billion of cash held in the trust account of Thoma Bravo Advantage. Overall, the merger is expected to provide $2.3 billion in cash proceeds for the combined firm.The PIPE is led by an affiliate of Thoma Bravo who put $300 million into the transaction and also includes investments from Tiger Global Management, Morgan Stanley, Nuveen, Hedosophia, Wellington Management, Baupost Group, funds managed by Fidelity Investments Canada, and other institutional investors.Orlando Bravo, the founder and managing partner of Thoma Bravo, will also join the board of ironSource.The Tel-Aviv, Israel-based ironSource provides an app designed to help businesses scale, monetize, and advertise their company online. In 2020, ironSource's revenue hit $332 million, up 83% year-over-year. The company also turned in $104 million in adjusted EBITDA on the year.In a statement, Tomer Bar Zeev, CEO and co-founder of ironSource, said the deal with Thoma Bravo will bring "the next level of growth" that his company needs.Thoma Bravo Advantage was one of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spac-market-q1-statistics-volume-166-billion-growing-adoption-2021-3">more than 400 SPACs</a> looking to find a merger partner in 2021 before the SPAC convinced ironSource to abandon the traditional IPO route in order to go public via a merger. "Despite our previous progress pursuing a traditional IPO, when we met with Thoma Bravo Advantage we found an alignment of vision and shared conviction about the long-term growth we can drive at ironSource that made them the perfect partner as we take this next step in growing our company, and the market as a whole," Zeev said.ironSource's decision to go public via a SPAC merger instead of an IPO could be called a sign of the times as the SPAC market <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spac-investing-strategies-risks-expert-advice-commentary-analysis-2021-3">continues to boom</a>. Shares of Thoma Bravo Advantage climbed as much as 5% before paring gains on Monday, the first day of trading after news of the ironSource deal broke.<div type="image" title="TBA chart" height="684" width="834" msid="81635998" hostid="261"></div>

SPAC Thoma Bravo Advantage agrees on $11 billion deal to take mobile-marketing firm ironSource public

Private credit is so hot, it was the talk of this week's SALT hedge fund conference.Private credit is a pocket of the lending market that has grown to about $1.25 trillion in assets, according to Preqin data.Private-credit funds lend — typically to leveraged companies — for myriad reasons, from financing acquisitions to servicing borrowers' working-capital requirements.In their infancy, these funds stepped in for regulated banks. They provided small loans (say between $50 million to $200 million) to riskier companies that banks avoided, and often negotiated extras in their credit agreements like seats on their boards.Private-credit funds plied their trade in the so-called middle market, and left banks to work on billion-dollar financings.Now, equipped with trillions of dollars in dry powder, private-credit is taking market share from big banks more than ever before.Let's take a look at the opportunities — dissected by Insider's Alyson Velati <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/blackrock-owl-rock-private-credit-opportunities-tech-healthcare-2022-9">here</a> — firms like BlackRock, Owl Rock and Ares Management have found in this year's choppy credit markets.This post first appeared in 10 Things on Wall Street, a newsletter by Insider that brings you all the biggest stories dominating the finance industry — delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/newsletter/10-things-on-wall-street?r=US&amp;IR=T">here</a>. Download Insider's app <a href="https://link.insider.com/click/27645591.160803/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5zaWRlci5jb20vYXBwP25yX2VtYWlsX3JlZmVyZXI9MSZ1dG1fc291cmNlPVNhaWx0aHJ1JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NvbnRlbnQ9T3BlbmluZ19iZWxs/62667762063d6b9bef0cffb3Bf9c9aa56">here.</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/blackrock-owl-rock-private-credit-opportunities-tech-healthcare-2022-9"></a>1. Private credit has taken off amid a slowdown in dealmaking. There are opportunities for private-equity firms to tap private-credit lenders for loans rather than big banks.Unlike bank loans, private-credit funds would usually underwrite the entire, albeit smaller, loan for a borrower, or team up with a few fellow lenders to provide the loans. Banks corral a syndicate of lenders to write sizable checks, which are then sold to third-party investors in the form of bonds or leveraged loans.It was harmonious. Private credit stuck to small deals for small companies. Banks focused on big-ticket deals.Now, equipped with trillions of dollars in dry powder, private-credit is taking market share from big banks more than ever before.Blackstone and Oak Hill led a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-17/private-credit-club-snags-2-9-billion-mantech-buyout-debt">roughly $3 billion debt package</a> for Carlyle's acquisition of US government contractor ManTech International, which <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/09/14/2516381/7056/en/ManTech-Announces-Completion-of-Acquisition-by-Carlyle.html">closed today</a>. In May, Goldman Sachs' asset-management arm provided <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-04/goldman-s-private-credit-arm-steps-in-with-loan-for-cdk-buyout">$865 million in debt</a> to help fund Brookfield's purchase of software company CDK Global.Private-credit has a greater appetite for risk. They charge a greater interest rate, but can craft a deal faster (no roadshows, lender meetings), and they hold onto the loans usually until maturity.Banks move debt off their balance sheets quickly. And by selling these loans to investors as bonds or loans, this debt is at the mercy of volatile secondary markets.This year, banks have been left holding onto bad loans that they underwrote during the good times, and couldn't offload them when markets soured.This dislocation has created <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/blackrock-owl-rock-private-credit-opportunities-tech-healthcare-2022-9">opportunities for private-credit behemoths like Owl Rock or Ares</a>.For more on private credit, check out these stories:<ul><li>Blue Owl is taking on big banks in funding tech buyouts. The president of the business created by the Dyal-Owl Rock SPAC deal <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/blue-owl-rock-dyal-spac-merger-deals-private-credit-atac-2021-5">shares how he plans to become a "lender of first choice."</a></li><li>Thoma Bravo just scored a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/owl-rock-financing-thoma-bravos-calypso-acquisition-unitranche-loan-2021-4">record-setting loan from Owl Rock to fund a $3.75 billion fintech purchase</a>.</li></ul>In other news:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/blackstone-private-wealth-joan-solotar-alternatives-breit-bcred-futureproof-2022-9"></a><div type="image" title="Joan Solotar of Blackstone in front of a window, wearing a sweater and a watch." height="1800" width="2400" msid="94225236" hostid="261"></div>2. Blackstone has quadrupled its wealth business in four years. Joan Solotar, the firm's head of private wealth, outlined how the private-investment firm will win the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/blackstone-private-wealth-joan-solotar-alternatives-breit-bcred-futureproof-2022-9">war for retail clients</a>.3. Hedge funds are facing a shakeout as underperforming shops stutter. Here is what a $14 billion fund is doing to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hedge-fund-consolidation-underperformers-tiger-cubs-salt-2022-9">come out as a winner</a>.4. SoftBank is considering launching a third Vision fund, the Wall Street Journal reported. SoftBank, led by Masayoshi Son, absorbed massive losses in its previous Vision fund, which is now worth less than the investment that <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-considers-launching-a-third-vision-fund-11663154600?mod=hp_lead_pos4">initially went into it</a>.5. Bankrupt crypto bank Celsius is plotting a comeback after the market crash, according to the New York Times. Alex Mashinsky, Celsius' chief executive, wants to rebuild the company by offering cryptocurrency storage and charging <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/technology/celsius-network-crypto.html?campaign_id=4&amp;emc=edit_dk_20220914&amp;instance_id=71896&amp;nl=dealbook&amp;regi_id=162318335&amp;segment_id=106253&amp;te=1&amp;user_id=0162ea8283becc84919a0c458649e40f">fees for certain transactions</a>.6. Citi expects to divest from its Mexican consumer-banking business by next year, the bank's chief financial officer said at a conference. The bank could sell its interest in Citibanamex via a straight sale or through an <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/citigroup-expects-sale-or-ipo-mexico-consumer-business-next-year-2022-09-14/?campaign_id=4&amp;emc=edit_dk_20220914&amp;instance_id=71896&amp;nl=dealbook&amp;regi_id=162318335&amp;segment_id=106253&amp;te=1&amp;user_id=0162ea8283becc84919a0c458649e40f">initial public offering</a>.7. Staying on Citi, regulators want the bank to move faster to fix problems with its risk-management systems. Citi is expected to submit a plan today, which executives hope will ease regulators' concerns, per <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/regulators-want-citigroup-to-move-faster-to-fix-problems-with-its-risk-systems-11663172835">this story from the Wall Street Journal</a>.8. Startup founders' salaries have been upended amid the market downturn. Venture capital-backed founders have higher salaries than their counterparts who have not raised outside funding, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/top-takeaways-pilot-founder-salary-data-market-downturn-2022-9">new data from Pilot revealed</a>.9. Investors and landlords are watching big expiring leases from the likes of Twitter and Morgan Stanley. The monitoring is so they can understand just how hard remote work <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/9-buildings-to-watch-as-companies-switch-to-remote-work-2022-9">will hit the office sector</a>.10. Inside the rise of the "bait-and-switch" job interview. Are you sure that a new employee is the same <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bait-switch-job-interviews-unqualified-applicants-paying-remote-work-2022-9">person you just interviewed?</a>People moves:<ul><li>Francisco Partners has welcomed four new executives to the private-equity firm:</li><ul><li>Erin Blake has joined as a managing director in legal and M&amp;A. Blake will work with the investment team on legal matters relating to transactions. She was most recently a partner at law firm Kirkland &amp; Ellis.</li><li>Jason Warner has joined as a MD and head of data science. He was most recently a principal in Blackstone's data science group.</li><li>Brian Elrod has joined as a director of tax. Previously, Elrod was a partner in Deloitte's M&amp;A tax group.</li><li>Tulsi Byrne has joined as a director and head of ESG. She was previously the head of ESG for fixed income, private credit, and private equity at Nuveen.</li></ul><li>Churchill Asset Management has appointed Carol Loundon its deputy chief risk officer. She was previously a MD in Churchill's senior lending underwriting and portfolio management group.</li></ul>Curated by Aaron Weinman in New York. Tips? Email <a href="mailto:aweinman@insider.com">aweinman@insider.com</a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronw11">@aaronw11</a>. Edited by Hallam Bullock (tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/hallam_bullock">@hallam_bullock</a>) in London.

Private credit is so hot right now, the execs at SALT were raving about it. BlackRock and Owl Rock are taking advantage of banks' pain to win more of this booming part of Wall Street.

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">iStock; Peabody/YouTube; Samantha Lee/Business InsiderFrom ride-hailing startups like Uber and Lyft, to collaboration platform Slack, and vacation rental marketplace Airbnb, the 2019 IPO lineup is chock-full of widely known tech unicorns with mega-valuations.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Market volatility at the end of 2018 put a pause on the IPO pipeline, but tech investment bankers expect the deals to flow at the turn of the calendar year. </li><li>With a long list of marquee names like Uber and Lyft, IPOs in 2019 could set new records in terms of valuation and exits for Silicon Valley venture capitalists.</li><li>But VCs aren't the only ones set to win. Bankers expect to see private equity firms try their hands at tapping the public markets, as well.</li><li>Meanwhile, the largest tech companies in China are also taking a hard look at US exchanges for IPOs of their own.</li></ul>Tech IPOs could break new records in 2019 as US bankers prepare for some of the largest private companies in the world to make their big stock market debuts. Despite a blockbuster lineup of Silicon Valley success stories, like Uber (<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-proposals-value-company-at-120-billion-in-a-possible-ipo-1539690343">reportedly weighing</a> a $120 billion valuation) and Airbnb (<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-ipo-investor-facebook-executive-2018-7">last valued at</a> $31 billion), there's one big question on everyone's minds: How will stock market volatility impact IPOs?The stock market sell off in October was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-investing-strategy-of-buying-dips-has-ended-morgan-stanley-2018-11">the worst Wall Street has seen</a> in seven years, and some IPO-ready companies even put on the breaks to avoid going public in a down market, bankers said.But technology bankers are an optimistic bunch. While bankers said they are keeping a watchful eye, most still expect there to be around 50 US tech IPOs in 2019. That's just shy of 2018's total, which data provider Dealogic pegged at 53 in mid-December, with a total of $19.8 billion in deal value. "I don't think we're seeing people change their plans in light of the volatility at the moment," said Greg Chamberlain, managing director and head of US Technology, Media and Telecoms Equity Capital Markets at J.P. Morgan. "As we get into 2019, people will think more about the precise timing to go public."When exactly these companies decide to go public is anyone's guess - an IPO-ready team only has to decide about two weeks ahead of the public listing. Though for some banks, the second quarter may be a hectic one. "There's no doubt we're going to have a very busy March, April and May, and that's going to set the stage for the remainder of the year," said Chris Cormier, managing director and head of tech equity capital markets at UBS.But with many companies taking advantage of the opportunity to file confidentially, it's hard to know exactly which companies are near the finish line."At this point, anyone who can file confidentially will file confidentially," said lawyer Anna T. Pinedo, a partner Mayer Brown's corporate and securities practice. "Assuming that the market cooperates, there will probably be a big surge in the number of public filings in early January."<h2>It's the year of the unicorns</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">GettyUber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi could have the biggest IPO of 2019. Bankers have reportedly suggested a $120 billion valuation for the ride-hailing service.</div></div></div>Some of the most valuable private companies in Silicon Valley have plans to go public in 2019. Both <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lyft-reportedly-filed-paperwork-to-go-public-with-an-ipo-in-early-2019-2018-12">Lyft</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-confidentially-files-paperwork-ipo-report-2018-12">Uber</a> filed confidentially in the first week of December, and Slack reportedly <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/r-chat-service-firm-slack-taps-goldman-sachs-to-lead-ipo-sources-2018-12">tapped Goldman Sachs</a> to run its own IPO. Unicorns Airbnb and Pinterest are all also rumored to be in the pipeline. "We had a long period of companies staying private longer, and the birth of a generation of unicorns, and that has accelerated this year when people thought it might be leveling off," said Nick Giovanni, co-head of Global Technology Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs. "What it means is we're set for a tech IPO super-cycle, where there are more companies going public and more large IPOs happening than ever before."Even Bumble, the dating app where women have to make the first move, is weighing its options. And others, like venture-backed vegetarian food company Beyond Meat, has publicly filed - though there's debate about whether a fake meat company should be lumped with software startups.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Bennett Raglin/GettyBumble CEO Whitney Wolfe said that the dating app, which is owned by Badoo, is weigh its options for a possible exit.</div></div></div>"Many of these companies could have executed an IPO a year or two earlier. When they do come to list they will be well capitalized," said J.P. Morgan's Chamberlain.But insiders also expect a healthy pipeline of smaller software startups with deal sizes around the $200 million mark - companies which didn't quite make it public in the big enterprise tech spree of 2018, when bigger names like Dropbox and DocuSign entered the public markets.The cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, a competitor to Blackberry's $1.4 billion <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/blackberry-cylance-acquisition-insiders-2018-11">acquiree Cylance</a>, reportedly hired Goldman Sachs <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crowdstrike-ipo-exclusive/exclusive-crowdstrike-hires-goldman-sachs-to-lead-ipo-sources-idUSKCN1MT2RA">for its IPO,</a> while others like the $1.25 billion experience management company Medaillia have <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/experience-management-leader-medallia-appoints-roxanne-oulman-as-chief-financial-officer-300762958.html">made early moves</a>, like hiring a new chief financial officer."There is still a lot of backlog in software," said Neil Kell, Chairman and Head of U.S. Technology, Media and Telecommunications Equity Capital Markets at Bank of America."If you take size out of the equation and just look at the number of transactions, software businesses are going to grab the majority of the deal flow," he said.<h2>Private equity is ready to experiment with IPO </h2>While venture capital firms are set to see huge returns on decade-old investments, private equity firms also have their eye on Wall Street as an exit vehicle. Over the next year or two, bankers expect IPOs from technology-focused firms like Vista Equity Partners and Thoma Bravo - investors which have traditionally preferred to exit through M&amp;A."There's probably 10 to 20 private-equity-backed software companies that have to come out over the next 24 months," said UBS's Cormier. Private equity IPOs for tech companies are not entirely unprecedented, though investors have only recently shifted their attention toward growing companies rather than cutting costs. SolarWinds, which was bought by Silver Lake Management, HarbourVest Partners and Thoma Bravo in 2010, went public in October. And in a sign of what's to come, Vista <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vista-equity-m-a-ping-identity/vista-equity-hires-banks-for-ping-identity-ipo-sources-idUSKBN1OA2DY">reportedly hired Goldman Sachs</a> to lead an upcoming IPO for its secure access software Ping Identity, which it acquired for a reported $600 million in 2016.<h2>'Majority' of Chinese companies looking at US markets</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Spencer Platt/GettyTencent Music, China's largest music streaming company, went public on the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 12 with a $21 billion market cap.</div></div></div>Another trend insiders expect to see in 2019 is a continued flood of highly-valued Chinese companies hitting the US public markets.From the e-commerce app Pinduoduo to the peer-to-peer lender X Financial, Chinese companies <a href="https://venturebeat.com/2018/09/29/china-is-dominating-tech-ipos-on-u-s-markets-in-2018/">outpaced US companies</a> in US-exchange IPOs throughout 2018. Tencent Music, China's largest music streaming company, made its <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/r-chinas-tencent-music-jumps-11-percent-in-us-debut-2018-12?r=UK&amp;IR=T">stock market debut</a> on December 12 at a $21 billion valuation, and if it performs well, its success could propel other companies to action. China is home to a handful of unicorn tech companies including $75 billion Bytedance, $56 billion Didi Chuxing, and $18.5 billion Lu.com, <a href="https://www.cbinsights.com/research-unicorn-companies">according to CB Insights</a>. While some will choose to list in Hong Kong, New York is on everyone's radar, bankers said.Companies listed on exchanges in China and Hong Kong face stricter regulations than they do in the US, which many founders are drawn to for benefits like different voting rights for different share classes and better investor liquidity."If you talk to any of the big Chinese growth companies, the majority want to list in the US," said Cormier. While international politics have taken their toll on cross-boarder M&amp;A, the impact on IPO has been less severe and Chinese companies have been wooed to the US markets by access to capital and the allure of getting publicity on a global stage, bankers said. "There's all of the political implications of trade negotiations and trade conversations and how that ebbs and flow," said Kell. "But the US is arguably one of the largest, if not the largest top source of public and private capital for companies globally." Get the latest Bank of America stock price<a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/BAC-Quote"> here.</a> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/singapore-waste-energy-garbage-landfill-space-2018-11">How Singapore solved garbage disposal</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

Uber, Lyft, China and more - top tech investment bankers share their biggest hopes and fears for IPOs in 2019

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Carlo Allegri/ReutersUber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.</div></div></div>Hello!The IPO market is picking up steam. Pinterest started its IPO roadshow on Monday, targeting a lower valuation than it achieved in its last private funding round. On Thursday, PagerDuty soared on its debut. And later that day, Uber filed for its own long-awaited listing. By some estimates, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/over-100-unicorns-could-go-public-2019-ubs-report-2019-4">more than 100 tech unicorns could hit the public markets this year</a>. We'll be keeping a close eye on the winners and losers over the coming months.You can read all of our extensive coverage on the Uber IPO <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/uber-ipo">here</a>, but here are some of the highlights. <section><ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/menlo-ventures-shawn-carolan-uber-2019-4">One of Uber's earliest investors explains why he invested in the first place, and how the company is going to keep growing past its IPO</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-spent-billions-more-than-lyft-on-acquisitions-2019-3">Uber spent $3.3 billion on acquisitions in 2018 and 2019 - 10-times more than Lyft</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-2-drivers-fighting-minimum-wage-risks-to-100-billion-ipo-2019-4">Uber driver says he feels vindicated as his fight for the minimum wage is listed as a risk factor in its $100 billion IPO</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-atgs-chief-scientist-how-self-driving-cars-will-change-cities-2019-4">Uber's chief self-driving scientist reveals how different the world will look when autonomous cars eventually roll out</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-original-pitch-deck-shows-evolution-ipo-2018-12">Uber's original pitch deck from a decade ago shows just how much the ride-hailing giant has changed</a></li></ul><section><div data-e2e-name="byline"><div data-e2e-name="byline-content">Elsewhere, Becky Peterson talked to one of PagerDuty's earliest investors about <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bessemer-ventures-ethan-kurzweil-why-bet-pagerduty-before-ipo-2019-4">why he went big on the IT-management company</a>, and Rosalie Chan caught <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pagerduty-ipo-ceo-jennifer-tejada-cfo-howard-wilson-say-whats-next-2019-4">up with the CEO and CFO to talk about what's next.</a>And if in case you missed it, here's six tips from top wealth advisers about <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-6-most-important-financial-life-changes-to-plan-for-before-your-startups-ipo-2019-3">how this new wave of Silicon Valley millionaires should prepare for a sudden influx of cash</a>. In related IPO news, electronic trading platform Tradeweb just went public at a $7.5 billion valuation. I caught up with Billy Hult, the company's president, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tradeweb-president-discusses-ipo-process-electronic-markets-2019-4">to talk about the IPO process, electronic markets going mainstream, and what it means to be a public company</a>.</div></div></section></section>What would you like this email to include? What have we missed? You can reach me at mturner@businessinsider.com.-Matt<h2>Quote of the week</h2>"I'll say I am looking for a short-term futures guy with Python [coding abilities] and two years' experience, and once you narrow that down, there's really only like five or 10 guys out there that fit the bill." - Michael Graves, a hedge fund manager <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/point-72s-michael-graves-starting-own-hedge-fund-2019-1">starting his own fund</a>, on the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hedge-funds-competing-with-startups-for-talent-2019-4">battle for quant talent with Silicon Valley</a>. <h2>In conversation</h2><ul><li>Marley Jay talked to Peter Mallouk, CEO of Creative Planning and one of the top-ranked US wealth managers in recent years, about the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/money-management-advice-from-biggest-us-wealth-advisor-peter-mallouk-2019-4">five ways he says you can invest like "the millionaire next door</a>."</li><li>Rich Feloni talked to Roger Duguay, a managing partner and global practice leader for CEO and board services for Boyden, about <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-are-the-best-traits-of-a-ceos-2019-4">the three</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-are-the-best-traits-of-a-ceos-2019-4"> key traits he looks for in CEO candidates</a>.</li><li>Shona Ghosh talked to Patrick Studener, Bird's most senior exec outside the US, about the company's expansion in Europe, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bird-emea-interview-pricing-scooters-uk-brexit-weapons-2019-4">and how you stop someone wielding a scooter as a riot weapon</a>.</li><li>Lisa Eadicicco talked to Ring founder Jamie Siminoff about how he's bringing his entrepreneurial spirit to Amazon a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ring-founder-jamie-siminoff-life-after-amazon-acquisition-2019-4">year after selling to the tech giant for $1 billion</a>.</li><li>Rosalie Chan talked to Mark Templeton, CEO of cloud computing startup DigitalOcean, about the "cult following" that helped it <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/digitalocean-ceo-mark-templeton-cloud-developers-2019-4">grow a $225 million business even under the shadow of Amazon Web Services</a>.</li><li>Meghan Morris talked to Byron Sorrells, chief operating officer at SAY, about how the fintech platform is trying to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/say-launches-app-to-make-corporate-governance-more-accessible-2019-4">make voting and other corporate governance processes more accessible to individual investors</a>. </li><li>Kate Taylor talked to José Cil, the new CEO of Restaurant Brands International, the parent company of Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/restaurant-brand-international-ceo-jose-cil-interview-2019-4">about </a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/restaurant-brand-international-ceo-jose-cil-interview-2019-4">his plans for the future of the chains</a>.</li><li>Dennis Green talked to Bonobos' new CEO, Micky Onvural, about how the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bonobos-ceo-on-walmart-relationship-2019-4">retailer is </a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bonobos-ceo-on-walmart-relationship-2019-4">helping Walmart make a crucial strategic shift</a>. </li><li>Lydia Ramsey talked to Flatiron Health CEO and co-founder Nat Turner, a year after the health-tech company sold to Roche in a $1.9 billion deal, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/flatiron-healths-nat-turner-advice-on-remaining-ceo-after-acquisition-2019-4">about his </a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/flatiron-healths-nat-turner-advice-on-remaining-ceo-after-acquisition-2019-4">advice for other founders who want to stay on after an acquisition</a>.</li><li>Tanya Dua talked to Procter &amp; Gamble chief brand officer Marc Pritchard about why <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pg-has-saved-over-1-billion-by-overhauling-how-it-works-with-agencies-2019-4">he thinks his crusade to overhaul digital advertising is working</a>. </li></ul><h2>Finance and Investing</h2><section><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/with-looming-job-cuts-barclays-throsby-wrote-irreconcilable-email-2019-4">Tim Throsby sent an email to Barclays' CEO with the title 'irreconcilable.' He warned that a plan to gut compensation by 20% and boost profitability was unrealistic</a>Tim Throsby, a former JPMorgan banker hired by Barclays to much fanfare to run its investment bank, drafted an email over the weekend of March 23 to 24. By the time he got around to sending it to CEO Jes Staley, he was already out.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rich-friedman-goldman-sachs-profile-2019-4">'It's good to be Rich': Meet the Goldman Sachs banker who has built a private investing empire that goes head-to-head with Blackstone</a>The Champagne was flowing in February 2018 when the Goldman Sachs executive Rich Friedman welcomed a couple hundred guests to the Rainbow Room.</section><section><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-stocks-to-invest-in-for-growth-jim-tierney-alliance-bernstein-2019-4">A stock picker who's dominating 92% of his peers breaks down his market-beating strategy - and reveals 5 stocks he loves, even as earnings growth dries up</a>Jim Tierney can use a painful market crash every now and then.</section><h2>Tech, Media, Telecoms</h2><section><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/everything-you-need-to-know-israel-tech-acquisition-hub-2019-4">McDonald's, Nvidia and Salesforce all want a bite of the Tel Aviv tech crop. Here's what you need to know about Israel's bustling M&amp;A scene</a>In late March, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/mcdonalds">McDonald's</a> announced its $300 million-plus acquisition of Dynamic Yield, an Israeli startup that uses algorithms to personalize shopping experiences to the individual.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apttus-head-of-revenue-and-sales-svp-have-left-company-memo-2019-4">2 senior execs at Thoma Bravo's Apttus, including the controversial head of revenue, have left without immediate replacements</a>The head of revenue at <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/apttus">Apttus</a>, an enterprise tech company that has been rocked by a series of controversies and executive turnover, has left the company without an immediate replacement, according to a memo obtained by Business Insider.<section><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-battle-for-management-of-the-home-connected-devices-pits-comcast-against-amazon-and-google-2019-4">The upcoming 'battle for the home' pits Comcast against Amazon and Google - and the cable giant has one big advantage</a>The next "battle for the home" will revolve around home internet-of-things management, and the voice-control stalwarts Google and Amazon could face stiff competition from Comcast and Charter.</section></section><h2>Healthcare, Retail, Transportation</h2><section><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/morgan-stanley-on-how-apple-could-disrupt-healthcare-2019-4">Forget Amazon and Google. Apple could bring in $300 billion a year in healthcare, Morgan Stanley says</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/apple">Apple</a> has been edging its way into healthcare for years. Morgan Stanley says investors aren't taking the move seriously enough.</section><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/clinical-trial-startups-raise-1-billion-to-transform-drug-development-2019-4">Creating a new drug takes a decade and costs a fortune. Investors have poured almost $1 billion into startups trying to change that</a>Making drugs is a notoriously slow and costly proposition.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ikea-ecommerce-strategy-planning-studio-2019-4">Ikea exec reveals how opening a new kind of location will help it win in e-commerce</a>How does Ikea plan to adapt to the increasingly omnichannel world of retail? Well, the furniture-store chain's new planning studio in Manhattan may offer up some important clues.<a href="http://read.bi/ai-101-free"></a> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lawsuit-captain-marvel-shazam-superman-comics-dc-superheroes-2019-4">How a $4 million lawsuit created 'Shazam!' and 'Captain Marvel' as we know them today</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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