
Every Thursday: the week’s biggest trending stories, plus the lore behind them. The decade of planning inside a CEO handoff. The 1974 statute behind a viral complaint. The 661 engineers inside a $499 toothbrush.
The Wave: one big story, told all the way down
Riptide: the rest of the week in five sharp lines
The Split: three AIs, one hard question, the disagreement printed in full
Written by Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson, the deal lawyers behind SMB Law Group: 400+ acquisitions, $1.9 billion closed since 2022, and a shared habit of going too deep on everything.
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