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Welcome back to Dry Powder. I’m Bill
Cohan.
As a child, I was riveted by the Apollo space missions. So when Matt Gohd, the executive chairman of the Zero Gravity Corporation, invited me to take a ride on his company’s modified Boeing jet to experience weightlessness for close to 10 minutes, I responded with an enthusiastic yes. But as I discovered, Gohd’s tenure at the business has been about as topsy-turvy as the massive parabolas
that his planes trace over the Atlantic. It’s a fascinating story, and a hopefully enjoyable interlude from our regularly scheduled programming, which will return, as ever, this Sunday.
By the way, earlier this week, I spoke with my Puck colleague Baratunde Thurston about the various ways that Wall Street is thinking about, and responding to, the rise of artificial intelligence. You
can find our wide-ranging exchange, which is presented by Meta, by clicking here.
But first…
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John Ourand
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- Zaz and Iger’s Venu setback: The prospects of Venu launching anytime in 2025—or ever, really—took another blow last week when a federal judge...
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PERFORMANCE UNLEASHED
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The rise, fall, and return of Zero-G, the “zero gravity”
lower-priced alternative to Blue Origin, which allows tourists and researchers to experience the flavor of space over the Atlantic for 10 grand a pop.
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During the predawn hours of December 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, I drove
from Orlando to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, gathered together with my fellow travelers, ate a bagel as directed, signed away all legal liability (also as directed), and got fitted with a modified spacesuit. Matt Gohd, the executive chairman of the Zero Gravity Corporation, had invited me to take a ride on his company’s modified Boeing 727-200 jet to experience weightlessness for close to 10 minutes. During the 90-minute flight, the plane would cut steep,
25,000-foot ascents and trace massive parabolas over the Atlantic—“the most...
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PERFORMANCE UNLEASHED
With a distinct sporting personality, the Range Rover Sport is a
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