Now, onto the rest of this week’s top stories.

• Want to buy a sports team? Call these bankers.
• The Queen of Airbnb promised an easy windfall. Then it all came crashing down.
• How private equity sees profit in the business of educating autistic kids.
• Your favorite LinkedIn influencer might actually be a PR ghostwriter.

Tesla: Q1 results were worse than expected, with the company missing both its profit and revenue estimates. But plans for a robo-taxi service and a more affordable model got investors excited for the future. That’s a big bet that there are lots of drivers who want a Tesla but can’t afford one.

Meta: Wall Street may have shown Tesla leniency, but Meta didn’t enjoy the same leeway. Despite reporting better-than-expected first-quarter earnings, weak guidance for the second quarter and outsized AI investments spooked investors. Mark Zuckerberg preached patience.

Microsoft: AI spend was also the name of the game at Microsoft. The tech giant pledged to keep investing in the tech as demand for its AI and cloud services continued to rise.

Alphabet: Q1 results blew past expectations, notching a 15% year-over-year revenue bump. Alphabet also issued a $0.20 per share dividend — its first ever — joining its Big Tech peers like Microsoft, Apple, and Meta, in the dividend club.

With sports dealmaking on the rise, BI mapped out the top investment bankers — from the bulge brackets to the boutiques — helping steer these deals. The list includes top banks like Goldman Sachs, as well as smaller firms like The Raine Group.

Meet the top sports bankers.

Also read:

• 20 private-equity firms making big moves in sports as teams embrace outside investors

Instead, her Airbnb empire came crashing down — and her subjects were left to pick up the pieces.

Where things went wrong.

To some, private equity’s business model appears antithetical to special education. It’s a concept that has former staff, researchers, and US senators worried.

How private equity is reshaping special education.

Some firms are offering executives — or “thought leaders” — ghostwriting and editorial services. In some cases, PR pros manage all aspects of an exec’s LinkedIn presence, from writing to analytics.

Inside the world of LinkedIn ghostwriting.

“I make it a point to visibly leave the office toward the end of the working day and to enforce strict rules around maximum working hours so that employees can enjoy work-life balance.”

• People who relocated and regretted it share the biggest mistakes they made.
• The “peak boomer” crisis might only get worse.
• What if no one wants a cheap Tesla?
• A homebuyer’s guide to the real-estate revolution.
• America’s men are working at much lower rates than they used to.
• Jamie Dimon thinks he knows why people are so gloomy about the economy.
• China stopped taking our plastic. Now America is drowning in it.

Matt Turner, deputy editor-in-chief, in New York. Jordan Parker Erb, editor, in New York. Dan DeFrancesco, deputy editor and anchor, in New York City. Lisa Ryan, executive editor, in New York.

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