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Axios C-Suite: What Jim learned for the week of May 16
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⚠️ A bad, expensive precedent: It looks like both parties will try to redraw districts yearly instead of once a decade — all because it worked for Republicans this cycle, slicing perhaps a dozen or so seats their way for '26.
- An ironclad law of politics: All new tactics by one party — no matter how unsavory — get copied and amplified by the other. Democrats plan to spin up their own challenges in several states next year.
- Why this matters to CEOs: Well, we just injected even more volatility into politics. Both parties will beg for more cash to compete more vigorously at the state level as they aim to tilt state and national politics.
🌕 Future foretold ... A recent Nvidia job posting: orbital data center system architect.
- Why it matters to CEOs: It's the latest company to put serious coin into moving data centers and AI to space — an Elon Musk obsession.
- Worthy read: The Wall Street Journal has a great primer on how they work.
- 🚀 Wild stat: If Nvidia were a country, its market cap (~$5.46T) would make it the third-largest economy on the planet, behind just the U.S. and China.
💰 AI props up politics: The chart below captures how AI went from irrelevant to dominant in D.C. in one election cycle.
- Andreessen Horowitz and its co-founders have pumped $115.5M into the midterms so far — more than any other donor, per The New York Times.
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