Michael Bodley
@michael_bodley
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Senior VC reporter @PitchBook [email protected] | Baltimore-bred | Bigger @maggierogers’ fan than you 🪐
New York, NY, USA
Joined June 2013
Justin Bieber is now a top 10% product manager
If I hit this dictation button after sending a text and it beeps and stops my music one more time, I’m gonna find everyone at apple and put them in a rear naked choke hold Even if I turn off dictation I somehow hit the voice note thing The send button should not have multiple
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“Prices are no longer rising simply because new buyers show up. Investors are starting to judge tokens the way they judge companies — by whether they have users, revenue, or a working product.” Story via @business
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Crypto’s riskiest tokens are crashing on a scale that stands out even by the industry’s own volatile standards, abandoned by retail speculators saddled with humiliating losses and a growing sense the...
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🧐 “For many traders, the meme-era logic was the point: buy a token early, hope someone else arrives later, and repeat. It was speculation built on the greater-fool trade, and for years, it worked. But that engine has broken down.”
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Spotify Wrapped is the most successful marketing tactic of the last ten years Built on one simple idea: People are obsessed with themselves
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Anyone want to tell me what could possibly go wrong? DMs open.
CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets. A new era of media is here.
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I am a failure & a fraud :/
Gotta’ pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers. 2025: 0.0000000000000000001% @maggierogers fandom. Mark my words.
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Day 63628352 of me informing PR that I don’t do quote checks/quote approvals.
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dying at the Axios style here Why it matters: The intoxicated suspect was a raccoon.
Can't make this up: A raccoon got drunk at a Virginia ABC store in Ashland and then passed out in the bathroom https://t.co/tYe0aN3gGj
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A stat worth knowing: McKinsey the consulting firm has more employees than there are journalists of any kind in the US, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Newspapers are closing at an emergency-level rate—over the past 20 years, America has lost more than 3,000. For the past six years, the photographer Ann Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country. See more images: https://t.co/fZqNYFMo1O
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I was just saying “it’s over” like in a competitive sense and now my kids aren’t gonna have Christmas gifts this year #ThankYouNFL
Ravens OLB Dre’Mont Jones was fined $14,055 for this apparently “violent gesture” after a sack late in the Week 12 win vs. the Jets.
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Incredible article about Charlie Munger’s final years. An utterly fascinating man until the very end.
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The Berkshire vice chair was making gutsy investments, forging unlikely friendships and facing new challenges to the end.
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This investigation was supposed to come out in Blockworks (and was within ~1 hour of publishing at one point!) before the layoffs. Now, the piece found a home in Unchained — very grateful to the team over there for their help. If you're interested in backroom crypto VC
SCOOP 🚨: Berachain gave its co-lead investor a refund right that is valid for up to a year after BERA's TGE, according to documents obtained by @Unchained_pod. Unchained has published those documents, along with the full story (by me), at the link below. The refund right was
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Pluribus is the last appointment-viewing TV since The Last of Us, and I will die on this hill. (sorry, Severance fanboys)
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unnecessary PR reminder that...an interview does not guarantee your client a quote in a story an interview does not guarantee your client a quote in a story an interview does not guarantee your client a quote in a story an interview does not guarantee your client a quote in a
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I’m sorry, does that hoodie say “2008 Global Financial Crisis” on it?
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“dog-involved shootings are not unheard-of in the United States.”
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