GIBBI, Today
In this newsletter I write the 5 most important news that I read in the day about businesses, media and sports in México and in the World.
Stories:
NFL 2025 Season: Week #1 - Predictions
Klarna, Backers seek $1.25 Billion in IPO
Polymarket moves closer to reentering the U.S.
CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe
OpenAI boosts size of secondary share sale to $10.3 Billion
NFL 2025 Season: Week #1 - Predictions (GIBBI)
Thursday:
Eagles vs Cowboys
Friday:
Chargers vs Chiefs
Sunday:
Colts vs Dolphins
Jets vs Steelers
Jaguars vs Panthers
Saints vs Cardinals
Commanders vs Giants
Falcons vs Buccaneers
Browns vs Bengals
Patriots vs Raiders
Seahawks vs 49ers
Broncos vs Titans
Packers vs Lions
Rams vs Texans
Bills vs Ravens
Monday:
Bears vs Vikings
GIBBI View: NFL returns after 7 months, where the last game was when Eagles won the Super Bowl LIX last february, so now the favorite teams to win Super Bowl LX are Chiefs, Eagles, Lions, Bills and Ravens; about my Steelers, I think that this year they have a better team than last year but it’s not enough to compete against top teams; Predictions: Eagles, Chiefs, Dolphins, Steelers, Jaguars, Saints, Commanders, Bucs, Bengals, Raiders, 49ers, Broncos, Lions, Rams, Bills and Vikings win their games
Klarna, Backers seek $1.25 Billion in IPO (Yahoo Finance)
Klarna Group Plc and some of its shareholders are seeking to raise as much as $1.27 billion as the financial-technology company revives a New York initial public offering that was delayed earlier this year amid market volatility
The company and some of its backers are offering 34.3 million shares for $35 to $37 apiece, according to a filing Tuesday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. At the top of the range, the company would have a market value of about $14 billion based on the outstanding shares listed in the filing
Klarna plans to sell 5.6 million shares in the offering, and selling holders, including executives, co-founder Victor Jacobsson, entities related to Sequoia Capital and Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen’s Heartland A/S, are set to offer 28.8 million shares. The IPO is expected to price Sept. 9
GIBBI View: Klarna had filed for IPO last march but paused its plans for Trump’s tariffs and it looks that next week Klarna will become a public company; Klarna will join to Figma, Canva and other startups that made an IPO this year
Polymarket moves closer to reentering the U.S. (Front Office Sports)
Polymarket will be allowed to offer prediction markets in the U.S. after being barred for more than three-and-a-half years, accelerating the battle for prediction market supremacy
Polymarket has been prohibited from operating in the U.S. since entering a settlement with the Biden-era Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in 2022. But the company has been plotting its comeback, including through the July acquisition of QCX, a small derivatives exchange that is licensed by the CFTC
The sports products offered by Kalshi and Polymarket have come under particular scrutiny because of their similarity to sports betting. Kalshi has been fighting in court with state regulators in Nevada, New Jersey, and Maryland, who want to prohibit the sports event contracts
GIBBI View: Last week I commented that Polymarket was going to return to operate in U.S., because Donald Trump Jr joined Polymarket board and his investment firm, 1789 capital, invested money in the company
CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe (TechCrunch)
CoreWeave, which provides cloud servers to large companies training AI models, has struck an agreement to acquire OpenPipe, a two-year-old Y Combinator-backed startup that helps enterprises develop customized AI agents with reinforcement learning, the companies announced on Wednesday
CoreWeave and OpenPipe did not disclose the terms of the deal. In March 2024, the Seattle-based OpenPipe raised a $6.7 million seed round, with backers including Costanoa Ventures, Y Combinator and others
This kind of customer-specific training requires a lot of computing resources, and by acquiring OpenPipe, CoreWeave hopes to both power and offer such services. OpenPipe’s team will be joining CoreWeave, and customers of OpenPipe will become CoreWeave customers
GIBBI View: CoreWeave became a public company this last March 28th, where it raised $1.5 billion and its stock opened in $39 and closed in $40 that day, and it was the biggest tech IPO in the U.S. since 2021; about OpenPipe, it’s a YC backed startup, where I applied to YC Fall 2025 with my idea GIBBI Speak this last july, and I’ve not been contacted by YC, so today or tomorrow YC is going to inform me that I wasn’t selected to this batch, so sad
OpenAI boosts size of secondary share sale to $10.3 Billion (CNBC)
The artificial intelligence startup is giving eligible current and former employees the opportunity to sell roughly $10.3 billion in stock, up from the $6 billion it was initially targeting, according to a person familiar with the offering
The sale will be at a $500 billion valuation, in line with expectations, said the person, who asked not to be named because the details are private. OpenAI’s latest fundraising round earlier this year valued the company at $300 billion
Participating investors include SoftBank, Dragoneer Investment Group, Thrive Capital, Abu Dhabi’s MGX and T. Rowe Price, the person said
GIBBI View: This is good strategy to retain to your employees and make that your employees can sell part of their stocks and exchange for cash, so your employees can receive some money (sometimes you can become millionaire) and in the same time keep working in OpenAI with still having stake (of course less than in the beginning)