Apple Music Selling $450 Coffee Table Book of ‘100 Best Albums’
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Apple Music Selling $450 Coffee Table Book of ‘100 Best Albums’

Lifestyle Photo Credit: AssoulineLifestyle Apple has partnered with lifestyle publisher Assouline to curate a coffee table book of the 100 Best Albums on the streaming service. Set to appeal to hardcore audiophiles—the gorgeous white-and-gold bound book will set you back $450.The book is called ‘Apple Music: 100 Best Albums’ and it was created in partnership with the lifestyle publisher Assouline. Assouline has created coffee table books for several fashion brands, including Louis Vuitton. On its website, Assouline describes the book as “a celebration of Apple Music’s inaugural list of the greatest records ever made.”The book is designed to be a lasting companion piece to the digital initiative, which launched in the streaming service in 2024. Only 1,500 copies of the book will be produced, which is why it comes with the eye-watering $1,500 price tag....
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Exclusive: The secretive Goldman Sachs pipeline that helps cash-poor founders tap into their vast wealth
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Exclusive: The secretive Goldman Sachs pipeline that helps cash-poor founders tap into their vast wealth

Lifestyle While most of Goldman Sachs’ staff was watching New York’s leaves turn orange this October, the firm’s global head of private banking, Nishi Somaiya, was sitting poolside in the middle of the sunny Montage Healdsburg vineyard, just an hour north of Silicon Valley.Fresh off a quarter that saw her division generate more than $750 million in revenue, Somaiya and Goldman Sachs’ investment banking advisor Susie Scher, had gathered a group of hand-picked founders beneath a wooden pagoda to talk. They were there to discuss a new pipeline, launched in April, that helps founders who are ultra-rich on paper, but cash poor, turn the illiquid stakes in their companies into yachts, jets, and cold, hard cash.This were not the usual gaggle of 20-something college go-getters. The meeting was part of the off-the-record Builders & Innovators...
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