Kamala’s Gen Z Gap, The Row vs. LVMH, Matt’s Secret Emmys Wins

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon download of Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, Lauren Sherman reveals the investors behind The Row’s new $1 billion valuation, who took money off the table, and how founders Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are scaling to challenge the luxury power players in Europe and Asia.

Plus, below the fold: Matt Belloni details how private equity money is attempting to transform the Hollywood management business. John Ourand scrutinizes the involvement of John Malone in Charter’s decision to renegotiate its WBD carriage deal. Peter Hamby runs the numbers on whether Kamala Harris can win back the young male demo that’s drifted toward Trump. On The Powers That Be, Julia Ioffe joins Peter to chart the strange journey of Ryan Routh, Trump’s would-be assassin. And on The Town, Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to recap the winners and losers from TV’s biggest night.

MATTHEW BELLONI

TPG leveraged its investment in an agency into a $7 billion sale and $2.4 billion return. Can it run the same playbook in the management space?

PETER HAMBY

In a mostly static, coin-flip race, the election may be determined by whether Harris can win back young men—the hyper-impressionable, internet-addled demographic that was once a competitive advantage for Democrats and is now drifting toward Trump. Can she reverse that deficit in the next 49 days? Or is the post-Dobbs coalition enough?

LAUREN SHERMAN

News, notes, and fresh dish on The Row’s new just-north-of-$1 billion valuation and new cohort of investors—the Wertheimer and Bettencourt-Meyers families, LSD, and Natalie & Nick, too.

JOHN OURAND

Everyone in the industry seems to think that cable cowboy John Malone, a WBD board member whose parentco owns a large minority stake in Charter, engineered a tidy affiliate package between his two entities. But what if the reality is a little more complex?