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Saving Atos: Jean-Pierre Mustier handed one of France’s messiest rescue missions

Financial Times M&A

Former UniCredit boss steps into governance and political quagmire to turn around indebted tech contractor

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Talk Your Book: The State of Venture Capital

A Wealth of Common Sense

On today’s show, we spoke with Samir Kaji, CEO, President, and Co-Founder of Allocate to give us an update on Venture markets. See here to learn more about Allocate’s VC platform for advisors and family offices. On today’s show, we discuss: How VC has influenced everyday life Where private market prices should be today Remnants of the free-money era How VC-backed start-ups are surviving 2023 What VC in.

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Private equity firms face worst year for exiting investments in a decade

Financial Times M&A

Amount buyout groups have made selling portfolio companies is running at lowest level since 2013

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of pumpkin spiced latte, grab a seat by the window, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • Brazil Is Embracing the Crisis That Everyone Else Wants to Avoid; Offers Venezuelans Jobs in Growing Migrant Crisis : Latin America’s largest economy is linking newcomers with jobs, while its neighbors and the US struggle with a migration surge that shows no signs of slowing. ( Bloomberg ) • After The Human : The increasingly symbiotic relationship betwe

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Ratcliffe to the rescue at Manchester United?

Financial Times M&A

Plus, media rights gloom, the WNBA super team era

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MiB: Bethany McLean on Pandemic Fails

The Big Picture

This week, we speak with Bethany McLean, a writer for Vanity Fair and coauthor of The Smartest Guys in the Room. She was previously Editor-at-large of Fortune and spent three years working at Goldman Sachs. Her latest book, The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind , was coauthored with Joe Nocera. She explains how the general state of healthcare in the United States was one giant pre-existing condition; that was a major contributor to excess de