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          Good morning, Andrew here. Andreessen Horowitz just announced plans to move from Delaware and reincorporate in Nevada, following similar moves out of the state by companies including Dropbox, Tesla and TripAdvisor. It could be a watershed moment: One of the most influential firms in Silicon Valley is openly telling its young portfolio companies to consider moving, too.
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          This isn’t just about a few big names. It’s a signal to the entire tech ecosystem that the “Delaware default” might be coming to an end. We dive into that below, along with Linda Yaccarino’s exit from X, big news in noncompete agreements and more. (Was this newsletter forwarded to you?
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             Does the bell toll for the First State as the home for most of corporate America?
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          A loud new cheerleader for ‘Dexit’
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          For more than a year, Delaware has battled against what legal observers have nicknamed Dexit: companies leaving the First State, the legal home for most of corporate America, over concerns that it has become hostile to big business.
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          Elon Musk has been among the most prominent proponents of the movement. But Andreessen Horowitz, an influential venture capital firm, may have just become the most consequential.
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          Andreessen Horowitz is
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          moving the incorporation
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          of its primary business, AH Capital Management, to Nevada, three executives of the venture firm wrote in a blog post yesterday. The firm — known in Silicon Valley as A16Z — has been incorporated in Delaware since its founding in 2009.
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          In the post, the executives wrote that what once was a no-brainer — incorporating in Delaware — was “no longer the case.” A state court system that had clear laws that afforded founders and their boards sensible leeway to run their businesses now has an “unprecedented level of subjectivity” that leaves companies vulnerable to expensive shareholder litigation, they argued.
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          A16Z’s critique follows attacks by Musk and others on Delaware.
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          The Tesla chief became an opponent of the state after a judge
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          repeatedly
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          the carmaker’s plan to give him a huge payday tied to stock performance.
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          Musk then began
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          moving his companies
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          out of Delaware and urged others to follow. Some have, including Dropbox; Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square; and Tripadvisor, which had
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          its own bruising battle
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          with a state judge.
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          Meta
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          also considered such a move.
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          But A16Z represents a bigger potential threat.
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          It’s one of the country’s largest venture capital firms, managing about $45 billion in assets. And start-ups often clamor to win investment from it as a validation of their strategy, giving the firm’s pronouncements great weight. (That said, some corporate-governance experts took issue with A16Z’s argument: “It literally misstates Delaware law,” a
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          legal professor, Ann Lipton
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          , wrote on social media.)
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          While A16Z
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          previously recommended
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          that start-ups incorporate in Delaware, the firm now suggests that nascent businesses go elsewhere, potentially depriving the state of
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          billions in revenue
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          . “While we will continue to fund companies incorporated in Delaware,” the executives wrote in the post, “we believe Nevada is a viable alternative and may make sense for many founders.”
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         <span>
          Given both A16Z’s influence in Silicon Valley and
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          other venture capitalists’ misgivings
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          about Delaware, could other tech investors drive a bigger exodus?
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             HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING
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        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
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          President Trump threatens a trade war with Brazil, sinking its currency.
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          Amid a new barrage of tariff announcements, the president threatened Brazil yesterday with
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          a 50 percent levy
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          on exports to the U.S. (Worth noting: the U.S. ran a trade
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          surplus
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         <span>
          with Brazil last year.) The attack appears rooted in political grievance: Trump cited a “witch hunt” trial against the country’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, who is a Trump ally. Separately, the inflationary effects of tariffs have sharply
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          divided Fed officials
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          over whether to lower interest rates, newly released minutes from their June meeting show.
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          Deal talks reportedly heat up for WK Kellogg and for Starbucks.
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         <span>
          Shares in Kellogg, the cereal giant, soared yesterday after The Wall Street Journal reported that it was
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          near a $3 billion sale
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          to Ferrero, the Italian maker of Nutella. Separately, CNBC reported that Starbucks was evaluating bids for a
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          stake in its China business
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          that could value the unit at up to $10 billion.
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        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
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          A top S.E.C. official says that “tokenized” stocks are securities.
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         <span>
          Hester Peirce, a commissioner who leads the agency’s crypto task force, said that so-called tokens that are
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         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          essentially digital copies
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          of stocks and other securities should still be regulated by securities laws. Tokenization drew attention when
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         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          Robinhood announced a giveaway
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          — to European investors, not to U.S. ones — of tokens tied to the privately held stock of OpenAI and SpaceX, a move that OpenAI criticized.
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         <span>
          X, after Yaccarino
         </span>
        </h2>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span>
          To Silicon Valley and Madison Avenue insiders, Linda Yaccarino’s
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          departure as the head of X
         </a>
         <span>
          yesterday was
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          hardly a shock
         </a>
         <span>
          .
         </span>
        </p>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span>
          Even so, her exit leaves a management hole in Elon Musk’s business empire. Musk already faces restive Tesla shareholders worried that he’s
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         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          distracted by other issues
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          — concerns hardly likely to be eased after Musk said he was
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          forming an alternative political party
         </a>
         <span>
          , aggravating his feud with President Trump.
         </span>
        </p>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span style="font-weight:700;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000">
          Yaccarino didn’t say why she was leaving,
         </span>
         <span>
          citing only a “historic business turnaround” and promising “the best is yet to come.” (X users hounded Grok, the Musk-run chatbot intertwined with the social network, but were
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          largely ignored
         </a>
         <span>
          .) Musk’s
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          only public comment
         </a>
         <span>
          : “Thank you for your contributions.”
         </span>
        </p>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span style="font-weight:700;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000">
          How to grade Yaccarino’s 26-month stint?
         </span>
         <span>
          Musk hired the advertising veteran in 2023 to rebuild the site’s ad business after he slashed head count and gutted the platform’s content moderation teams. At the same time, the platform became more open to extreme political views (
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          including Musk’s
         </a>
         <span>
          ),
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          hate speech
         </a>
         <span>
          and
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          disinformation
         </a>
         <span>
          , drawing
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         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          the attention of global regulators
         </a>
         <span>
          .
         </span>
        </p>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span>
          Yaccarino, known in ad circles as
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          the “velvet hammer”
         </a>
         <span>
          for her mix of charm and hard-nosed negotiating, sought to smooth relations with some blue-chip brands,
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          including Apple
         </a>
         <span>
          . But she also oversaw litigation against advertisers and reportedly
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         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          threatened others
         </a>
         <span>
          to either spend on X or face a court battle. (Yaccarino later
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          dismissed the report as “hearsay.”
         </a>
         <span>
          )
         </span>
        </p>
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         <span>
          X is expected to generate about
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          $1.3 billion in ad revenue
         </a>
         <span>
          this year, according to eMarketer, which is still down from Twitter’s prepandemic levels.
         </span>
        </p>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span style="font-weight:700;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000">
          What’s next?
         </span>
         <span>
          The Wall Street Journal name-dropped
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          potential replacements
         </a>
         <span>
          , including John Nitti, X’s global head of ad innovation; Angela Zepeda, its marketing chief; and Monique Pintarelli, who oversees the Americas business division.
         </span>
        </p>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span>
          Whoever takes the top seat will have to try both to
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          restore X to profitability
         </a>
         <span>
          and to work with Musk, who
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          didn’t exactly endear himself to advertisers
         </a>
         <span>
          at the 2023 DealBook Summit.
         </span>
        </p>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span style="font-weight:700;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000">
          X faces significant challenges.
         </span>
         <span>
          The
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          ad sector as a whole is hurting
         </a>
         <span>
          , and Musk’s ambitions to build the social media platform into a kind of “everything app” have yet to be realized. (Yaccarino yesterday mentioned X Money, a long-discussed plan to introduce payments on the social network, as coming “soon.”)
         </span>
        </p>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span>
          In any case, while X is a prominent part of Musk’s business kingdom, it’s a smaller component: Earlier this year, Musk
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          sold X to xAI
         </a>
         <span>
          , his faster-growing artificial intelligence business.
         </span>
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         <span>
          The fate of the noncompete
         </span>
        </h2>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span>
          Banning noncompete agreements was a cornerstone of the Biden administration’s efforts to protect workers, which ultimately put the F.T.C. on a collision course with much of corporate America.
         </span>
        </p>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span>
          The commission, under its former chair, Lina Khan, outlawed the agreements, a type of employment clause, last year, arguing that they depressed wages and hurt the economy. Business groups vehemently disagree.
         </span>
        </p>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span>
          Today, the F.T.C. under President Trump faces a deadline on whether to continue defending the rule in court, Danielle Kaye reports.
         </span>
        </p>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span style="font-weight:700;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000">
          Background:
         </span>
         <span>
          The rule sought
         </span>
         <span style="font-weight:700;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000">
         </span>
         <span>
          to ban the agreements, which affect an estimated 30 million workers across income levels,
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          according to the F.T.C
         </a>
         <span>
          . It was set to take effect last September. But
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          a federal judge in Texas blocked it
         </a>
         <span>
          , ruling that the commission lacked the authority to issue the ban.
         </span>
        </p>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span style="font-weight:700;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000">
          Business groups have pushed back.
         </span>
         <span>
          One argument: They say that the ban would hamper businesses’ ability to protect trade secrets and confidential information.
         </span>
        </p>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span style="font-weight:700;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000">
          The rule is at a critical juncture.
         </span>
         <span>
          Legal experts say that Andrew Ferguson, the current F.T.C. chair, will likely side with businesses and let it lapse. “We are reviewing the decision and weighing our options,” Joe Simonson, a commission spokesman, told DealBook yesterday.
         </span>
        </p>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span style="font-weight:700;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000">
          There is a catch.
         </span>
         <span>
          A third-party intervener — someone who is personally affected by a noncompete and therefore has legal standing — could petition courts to uphold the rule, Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director at the Open Markets Institute, told DealBook. In a letter last month, the advocacy group
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          urged Ferguson
         </a>
         <span>
          to defend the ban on noncompete clauses.
         </span>
        </p>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span style="font-weight:700;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000">
          Companies must still contend with state laws.
         </span>
         <span>
          California, Minnesota, North Dakota and Oklahoma have banned noncompete agreements altogether, while 34 states, plus Washington D.C.,
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          restrict their use
         </a>
         <span>
          . “In blue and red states alike, the trend is very much toward complete bans,” Vaheesan said.
         </span>
        </p>
        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
         <span style="font-weight:700;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000">
          Compliance is a big hurdle.
         </span>
         <span>
          That is especially true for employers with operations in multiple states, Mark Goldstein, an employment lawyer at Reed Smith, told DealBook. Regardless of what happens to the F.T.C. rule, he said, many of his clients are rethinking how they will word employee contracts in the future.
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          Chart of the day
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         <span>
          Nvidia made Wall Street history yesterday when it
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          briefly surpassed $4 trillion
         </a>
         <span>
          in market valuation, the first listed company to do so. The chipmaker at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom has risen more than 20 percent this year, shaking off
         </span>
         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline">
          worries about the rise of DeepSeek
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