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▶ 5:25 · $AIRTABLE · Spoon = Bent, Apple vs OpenAI, Snap Rips, Ads in BMW, The Most Feared (John B. Quinn) Live
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Spoon = Bent, Apple vs OpenAI, Snap Rips, Ads in BMW, The Most Feared (John B. Quinn) Live

2026-08-04 · 11 company · 20 thematic
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john quinn

Founder of 1,300-lawyer litigation-only firm; represented Perplexity in landmark Ninth Circuit CFAA case vs Amazon; describes litigation as non-cyclical and discusses AI agent legal frameworks (contracts, torts, copyright).

john coogan

Co-host of TBPN, a live technology and business show focused on startups, venture capital and Silicon Valley.

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“Air Table, founded in 2012 and once valued at 11.7 billion, is getting acquired by Bending Spoons... at 2.7 times ARR... total equity value was $2.25 billion equity value. Just clearing the preference stack.”
—john coogan
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$AIRTABLEbearish· highjohn coogan
Airtable acquired by Bending Spoons at 2.7x ARR, marking SaaS bust
Airtable's $11.7B peak valuation collapsed to a $1.285B enterprise value sale, clearing only the preference stack; single-point SaaS products face multiple compression from 40-100…
$BSP···bullish· mediumjohn coogan
Bending Spoons emerges as Constellation Software of prosumer high-churn SaaS
Bending Spoons acts as a value-based buyer of last resort for distressed SaaS assets, right-sizing teams and running them efficiently for cash flow, creating a Constellation Softw…
$BSP···bullish· mediumjohn coogan
Bending Spoons emerges as Constellation Software of prosumer SaaS roll-ups
Bending Spoons is building a value-based roll-up platform for high-churn prosumer SaaS, buying at 2-3x ARR and right-sizing operations; it provides liquidity in a market with few…
$NOTIONbullish· mediumjohn coogan
Notion's AI-driven growth acceleration justifies $11B tender while Airtable stagnates at 20% growth
Notion's tender at $11B with 600M ARR and >50% of revenue from AI-enabled customers shows AI adoption can re-accelerate growth for horizontal productivity tools, contrasting with…
$SNAP···neutral· mediumjohn coogan
Snap beats on revenue and subscriptions but loses Western users, trades at <10B on $6B run rate
Snap delivered 19% revenue growth and 85% subscription growth to $316M/quarter, but North America DAUs fell 7% and Europe fell 2%, leaving the stock cheap at under $10B market cap…
$INTELLIGENCEbullish· highjohn coogan
Intelligence hits $60M ARR with Design Arena, building intelligence marketplace
Intelligence's Design Arena uses human preference signals to improve AI models across design, gaming, and web creation, scaling to 5.6M users in 192 countries and aiming to become…
$ALLOCATEbullish· highjohn coogan
Allocate bridges $10T wealth advisor capital to private funds, only 3% in alternatives
Allocate connects independent wealth advisors ($10T AUM, only 3% in alternatives vs 20-50% for endowments) to private funds, unlocking massive new LP capital as private markets gr…
$PERPLEXITYbullish· highjohn quinn
Ninth Circuit rules Perplexity agent not trespassing, legal win for agentic commerce
The Ninth Circuit held that Perplexity's shopping agent acts on behalf of the user, not as an independent trespasser on Amazon's servers, establishing a foundational precedent for…
$KAIZENbullish· highjohn coogan
Kaizen builds Pentagon counter-drone marketplace in 9 weeks, modernizing gov software
Kaizen replaces legacy PE-owned point solutions and low-margin services firms with AI-native application layers, delivering 10x better citizen and administrator experiences; deplo…
$COGNITIONbullish· highjohn coogan
Cognition positions as independent agent lab, acquires founding teams, sees Japan adoption
Cognition's Devon agent integrates with existing tools rather than replacing them, pursues model-agnostic routing (OpenAI for security recall, Anthropic for precision), acquires f…
$SPCX···bullish· highjohn coogan
SpaceX first earnings: 92% YoY growth, Starlink $4.3B, AI $2.6B surpass launch
SpaceX's debut public earnings reveal connectivity (Starlink) and AI segments now dwarf the launch business, with $7.81B revenue beating estimates, 92% growth, and a new Nvidia pa…