$45B At 25 Years Old, Apple's $2.2B Refund & Jonah Hill Will Annihilate You | GCP 1021

Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week, including why movies are suddenly back with [Spider-Man clearing ~$1B globally in its opening weekend], Jonah Hill announcing he'll annihilate anyone who calls him the fat funny guy from Superbad, and the [$2.2B tariff refund Apple just got] that isn't showing up in anybody's prices. Plus a 25-year-old who ran a fund to $45B and got margin called on his wedding weekend, Elon saying money will be worthless by 2036, and colleges quietly spending endowment money that donors thought was going somewhere else.

This week's Group Chat covers:

• Movies are back — Odyssey, The Invite, and two theater trips a month
• Why streaming is losing — no Stranger Things-level show to stay home for
• [Spider-Man's ~$1B opening weekend] and the flight to quality
• Jonah Hill says he'll beat up anyone who calls him the fat funny guy from Superbad
• White belt confidence, early martial arts syndrome, and why the guys still think everyone should learn to fight
• LeBron, Kevin Hart and Rich Paul golfing at [Sherwood] — and how nothing stays secret in LA
• [The Supreme Court overturning the tariffs] — and the refunds companies are getting back
• [Apple's $2.2B and Amazon's $640M] — the rocket-feather effect and why prices never come down
• Why this is exactly the story that makes socialism sound good to everyone else
• Mamdani, cheap bananas, and capitalism's optics problem
• The Elon trillionaire headline that made rich people feel poor
• [Elon telling the BBC money will be worthless by 2036]
• The friend who took a huge AI job — and called depressed about what he saw under the hood
• The nuclear bomb argument: everyone gets the robots, so nobody sends the robots
• [Leopold] went 0 to $45B in 18 months, then got margin called on his wedding weekend
• Ken Griffin and Citadel on the other side of the trade... again
• Zero day options, prediction markets, and why nobody holds anything for four years
• The new crop of 25-year-old gunslingers who'll run the next Blackstone
• Colleges are dipping into endowments to pay overhead — and donors are finding the money gone
• Why most colleges don't survive the next decade
• Critical thinking as the only skill that matters now

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