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Jessica Lessin: Big Tech AI acqui-hires are tailor-made to skirt antitrust
“There are laws designed to protect, you know, companies from getting so much market power that they're anti-competitive effects, and these deals are tailor-made to skirt those laws.”
Jessica Lessin: Inflection and Character VCs were compensated via licensing fees
“The VCs invested in inflection. The VCs invested in character. The teams were acquihired and they got like a licensing fee to compensate, you know, for their money.”
Lessin: Microsoft Repaid Inflection AI Early Investors Plus a Small Return
“What the information was able to report last night is a little bit more of the terms there. So it looks like Microsoft gave the early shareholders in inflection their money back, plus a little bit of a return and more to come on what that structure looks like.”