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Lovable founders Anton Osika and Fabian Hedin
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July 2026

Lovable, the Fastest-Growing Company Ever?

A Swedish startup reached half a billion dollars of run-rate in nineteen months, on intelligence it does not own, and is now reported to be raising at $13.2 billion. The record and what the price implies, the business model and what it rents, whether the moat holds when the models belong to someone else, how it stands against its peers, and what return is left at $13.2 billion. An examination, not a recommendation.

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Portrait of a Wall Street trader
Cockpit · Featured
June 2026

Market Timing Game

Investors face many decisions. One of the most consequential is whether to attempt to time the market or to keep a buy-and-hold strategy. This game lets you experiment with market timing on real-world securities, and reach your own conclusion about how it performs against buying and holding.

Play as a guest, or create an account to keep your record: your own statistics, how every player has performed, and your place on the leaderboard.

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A Wall Street street sign with American flags
Cockpit · Featured
July 2026

Equity Watchlist

The thousand most relevant listed companies in the world on one screen. Sort by return, size, sector, currency, volatility or drawdown, and open any name for its price history, rebased to 100 or as an actual share price.

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Airplane cockpit instruments
Cockpit Report · Featured
July 2026

H1 2026 Investment Portfolio Cockpit Report

How the main markets, sectors, countries, currencies, rates and credit behaved through the first half of 2026, with seven classic model portfolios read as references. An examination, not a recommendation.

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Le Chaton Fat, the parody kitten of the viral Mistral meme, in front of the Eiffel Tower
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July 2026

The Mistral Mystery: How Much is the European AI Champion Worth?

Four funding rounds, three years, not one published revenue figure: Mistral is the rare frontier AI company that keeps its numbers to itself. In June 2026, reports put its next valuation near €20 billion. A discreet history, what the company sells and to whom, what €20 billion implies against its American and Chinese peers, and how much information an investment decision really needs.

30 min read
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Article · Featured
June 2026

Project Prometheus: from zero to $41 billion in 7 months

A Socratic examination of whether a seven-month-old company with no product and no disclosed revenue can be worth $41 billion. The piece treats the price not as a valuation but as an option premium, and works through it input by input: the physical-AI thesis, the bet on Bezos, the audacious plan to own industrial data by owning the companies, the Blue Origin record, the bubble question, and the size of the prize.

28 min read
SpaceX Starship, the fully reusable launch vehicle.
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June 2026

Is the SpaceX IPO Valuation Really That Stupid?

A Socratic examination of the largest IPO ever, and whether $1.75 trillion is a number to mock or to understand. The offering prices around $135 a share to raise roughly $75 billion, listing on Nasdaq as SPCX. What the price is a claim on, the Google and Anthropic compute deals, why a trailing revenue multiple misleads, the price-discovery and index-inclusion debate, the curse of the new listing, founder control, and the questions worth answering.

25 min read
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June 2026

Is Anthropic worth $965 billion?

A Socratic examination of the question every potential investor in this round should ask. The Series H closed on 28 May 2026 at $965 billion post-money. Revenue and the $47 billion disclosed run-rate, the funding trajectory through Series H, the SpaceX compute deal, the void-shares notice, the DoD dispute, the AI-flation signals, the criticism of the reported metrics, and the four regimes for the next decade.

30 min read
The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David, 1787. Socrates, calm and reasoning, takes the cup of hemlock from his disciples.
The Death of Socrates, Jacques-Louis David, 1787. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Statues of Socrates and Confucius at the Ancient Agora of Athens, sculpted by Wu Weishan and unveiled in 2021.
Statues of Socrates and Confucius at the Ancient Agora of Athens. The monument by Wu Weishan was unveiled in 2021, a gift from China to Greece. The Agora is where Socrates spent his days in conversation with Athenian citizens, asking questions and examining assumptions, refusing payment in deliberate contrast to the sophists of his time.
The method

Read past the headlines. Examine investment assumptions with Socratic rigour.

The Socratic frame

Socrates is widely regarded as one of the fathers of Western philosophy. He worked in Athens four centuries before our era, surrounded by disciples including Plato and Xenophon, who would later carry his thinking forward. The Socratic method is not a body of doctrine. It is the discipline of asking questions and examining assumptions. He gave no advice, sold nothing, and considered himself unknowledgeable. Free of conflict of interest and unmoved by dominant opinion, he sought only truth, without compromise. The pursuit cost him his life: judged guilty of corrupting the youth by stimulating the kind of thought the Athenian elite found uncomfortable, critical thinking, he was sentenced to drink hemlock. This publication adopts his frame. It gives no advice. It questions the conventional wisdom most investors hold without realising they hold it. I know that I know nothing is the editorial humility that makes confident analysis possible.

The cockpit metaphor

The reader is the pilot. The publication provides the instruments: charts, frameworks, history, tools. Pilots master their instruments before flying off the rules. The writer never flies the plane. The writer equips the pilot.

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