Slate Money - Spice World
<p>This week: OpenAI completed a $122 billion investment round. <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zxqezqfhjwidbrsvk66ded57" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Felix Salmon</a>, <a href="https://www.elizabethspiers.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elizabeth Spiers</a>, and <a href="https://www.axios.com/authors/epeck" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Emily Peck</a> discuss what this deal says about the private and public markets and try to wrap their heads around the astronomical valuations of OpenAI and SpaceX. </p><br><p>Then, Maryland-based spice company, McCormick, announced it will merge with Unilever’s food division to create a new spice and sauce mega-company. The hosts discuss the unusual case of …