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How freaking awesome the US capitalist system is. I mean the big, I was thinking the soundbite on this is the United States has 4% of the world's people, we have roughly 23% of the world's GDP, we have 67% of the world's market cap and the stock exchange, right? We won. US corporations are efficient, they're highly valued, they have international businesses. I mean, not just our GDP is, which is like our income is higher than our population ratio, but our wealth.

Our corporate sector is even higher than our GDP. It's my favorite show of the week. Jason Lemkin and Rory O'Driscoll join me for a news breakdown. Today we discuss all the IPOs that we've seen happen in the last week, including the incredible pops from Coreweave and from Circle. Then also we discuss Elon and Trump, what it means for Elon companies, and then we also discuss Rich Wong's statements from Excel that 20% of unicorns will fail.

Is that correct? And how do we think these zombie corns will play out? But before we dive in today, here are two fun facts about our newest brand sponsor, Kajabi. First, their customers just crossed a collective $8 billion in total revenue. Wow.

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