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Assertion Supported
Coogan: SpaceX is hiring BofA, Goldman, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley for IPO
“SpaceX is set to hire Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley to lead its IPO.”
John Coogan Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 19:28 Capital One Acquires Brex for $5B, Davos’s $500M business, Apple’s Siri rebuild | Diet TBPN
Assertion Supported
Coogan: Goldman Sachs Lost $1B on Apple Card and $3B on Consumer Banking
“Goldman is like, we got to get this off our balance sheet. They've already lost a billion dollars. Their consumer bank overall, which includes Marcus has lost three billion.”
John Coogan Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 1:50 The Jamie Dimon Apple Card, Greenland Ideas, WB-Paramount, TBPN x Vanity Fair | Diet TBPN
Assertion Partly supported
Coogan: Banks Rejected Apple's Unprofitable Card Terms Before Goldman Sachs Accepted
“The whole reason why they jumped at the opportunity to work with Apple, and they kind of bent over backwards because Apple had tried this with, they'd went to a whole bunch of other banks, remember going back to Capital One and every bank had said like, now, a…”
John Coogan Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 10:04 The Jamie Dimon Apple Card, Greenland Ideas, WB-Paramount, TBPN x Vanity Fair | Diet TBPN
Assertion Supported
Coogan: JPMorgan Is Buying $20B Apple Card Debt at $1B Discount
“There's a little bit of both the twenty billion dollar card balances. That's trading JP Morgan's acquiring that at a one billion dollar discount instead of an eight percent premium, you would expect that they would pay 21.6. They're actually paying 19 for this…”
John Coogan Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 2:04 The Jamie Dimon Apple Card, Greenland Ideas, WB-Paramount, TBPN x Vanity Fair | Diet TBPN
Assertion Supported
Coogan: Goldman Sachs won lead left role over Morgan Stanley for SpaceX IPO
“Incredible that Goldman beat out Morgan Stanley for the SpaceX IPO, left lead left. Given that Michael Grimes returned to Morgan Stanley in part for this deal, of course, Morgan Stanley is on the deal but that is it is a big win for Goldman that DJ SpaceX is a…”
John Coogan May 22, 2026 ▶ 5:18 SpaceX S-1, Anthropic Revenue Booms, OpenAI Cracks Erdős Problem | Diet TBPN
Assertion Supported
Coogan: Apple required all Apple Card statements to generate on month's first
“And that's not rocket science, but Apple also wanted another consumer friendly feature. They wanted all of the bills to drop on the first of the month, every month. And normally credit cards will stagger it out.”
John Coogan Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 8:46 The Jamie Dimon Apple Card, Greenland Ideas, WB-Paramount, TBPN x Vanity Fair | Diet TBPN
Assertion Contradicted
Major Banks Offer 60% Valuation Buyouts for Government Appointees' Illiquid Shares
“I did hear a incredible financial innovation. I think it's from JP Morgan or Goldman is one of those two. They offer a service where if you're taking a government post and you need to divest assets, they will basically buy it at like 60% of like the last mark.”
Jordi Hays Nov 23, 2024 ▶ 2:08:58 FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
Assertion Supported
Coogan: Apple Card Program Is Moving From Goldman Sachs to JPMorgan
“The Apple Card program is moving from Goldman Sachs to JP Morgan.”
John Coogan Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 0:28 The Jamie Dimon Apple Card, Greenland Ideas, WB-Paramount, TBPN x Vanity Fair | Diet TBPN
Assertion Supported
Coogan: Goldman Sachs Estimates Big Tech Will Spend $1T on Capex
“Goldman Sachs has estimated that all the American tech giants collectively will spend an estimated one trillion on capital expenditures in the next And so, that will include large outlays on data centers, chips, and power, and the power grid.”
John Coogan Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 12:31 Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
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