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00:00:00 – Bloomberg Deals opens
00:01:01 – Paramount’s New Offer For Warner Brothers
00:02:40 – Stripe Is Said To Express interest In PayPal
00:05:14 – Coreweave Seeking $8.5B To Finance Meta Deal
00:08:49 – Ravi Mhatre, Lightspeed Venture Partners Parter, Co-Founder
00:11:34 – Mhatre: 2026 Is The Year AI Begins ‘Big Deployments’
00:12:37 – Mhatre: Anthropic Is An Incredible Company
00:14:33 – Mhatre: Can Monetize SAAS Done By Digital Agents
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