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$25 billion. That's what Bending Spoons is now worth on the Nasdaq, the biggest tech IPO to ever come out of Italy. This week on Signal, Ramón Rodrigáñez Riesco and Andrea Marino are back after a Nova offsite with two weeks of news to unpack. On the table: 🔹 Bending Spoons just IPO'd on the Nasdaq at $25B: the biggest tech listing in Italian history, minting around 100 new millionaires 🔹 OpenAI offered the US government a 5% stake in the company, reopening the debate on states owning AI companies 🔹 The equity story of the year: an 11x Labs employee negotiated pure equity, hit his ARR milestone in a year, and is now sitting on a stake worth hundreds of millions 🔹 Entry-level jobs are disappearing, and paying 20-35% less when they don't 🔹 Fable 5 is back, and how it stacks up against Opus 4.8 🔹 Why founders keep showing up as the happiest people in every workforce survey 🎧 Full episode link in the comments.

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