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Adam Neumann gets a big check from a16z... [Advertisement] August 16, 2022 [View Online]( | [Sign Up]( | [Shop]( [Morning Brew]( TOGETHER WITH [Apple One ]( Good morning. A new study in the journal Nature Food found that a full-scale nuclear war between the US and Russia would kill 5 billion people (more than half of humanity). It gets better—the vast majority of us wouldn’t die instantly from the blasts. No, we’d perish from starvation as the soot kicked up by the detonations would block sunlight, sending crop yields down 90% in a matter of years and causing a global famine. Let’s get after it today . —Matty Merritt, Max Knoblauch, Abby Rubenstein, Neal Freyman MARKETS Nasdaq 13,128.05 +0.62% S&P 4,297.14 +0.40% Dow 33,912.44 +0.45% 10-Year 2.787% -5.2 bps Bitcoin $24,071.31 -1.17% Oil $89.41 -2.90% *Stock data as of market close, cryptocurrency data as of 11:00pm ET. [Here's what these numbers mean.]( - Markets: Stocks are in such a [sweet spot]( right now that not even gloomy economic data out of China could slow their roll. Those warnings did take a bite out of oil prices, though—slower Chinese economic activity = bad sign for global growth = less demand for fuel. REAL ESTATE [You can’t get rid of Neumann]( [Jerry trying to push Newman out of his apartment, but Newman rolls back in.](Seinfeld/Sony Pictures Entertainment via Giphy It’s not how many times you fall, it’s how much money Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are willing to give you to get back up. WeWork founder and barefoot king Adam Neumann is back in the real estate startup game, this time nabbing [$350 million]( in funding from venture capital heavyweight Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) for his new housing rental company, Flow. An early investor in companies like Facebook, Airbnb, and the orb that [scans]( your eyeballs for crypto, a16z is considered a golden ticket of sorts for tech startups. And despite Neumann being forced out of his last job after WeWork’s valuation plummeted by almost $39 billion and its IPO plans fizzled, a16z clearly thinks he’s got some of the magic sauce. - The $350 million for Flow is the largest individual check the firm has ever written, per the NYT. - Andreessen Horowitz also invested in Neumann’s crypto company, Flowcarbon, in May. Flowcarbon appears to have no relation to this new real estate venture with half of its name. What exactly is Neumann trying to revolutionize this time? Rental housing. Flow will launch in 2023, but there aren’t many details about how it will be different from traditional rental- or management firms. What we do know is that Neumann bought 3,000 apartments in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta, and Nashville to build out living spaces with “consistent service and community features,” according to the NYT. Does this just mean every Flow apartment in the US will have a matching pool? Maybe. Final plot twist: In explaining the firm’s investment in Flow, Marc Andreessen, co-founder of a16z, wrote that current rental market dynamics make it more difficult to create community in larger cities, and that limited access to home ownership contributes to inequality. 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And yesterday, the DOJ unsealed charges against a Pennsylvania man who allegedly posted on social media that he wanted to kill FBI agents. Kenya elected a new president...but there’s drama. Kenya’s Vice President William Ruto was [declared]( the victor in a tight contest to lead East Africa’s largest economy. There’s just one problem: Minutes before Ruto was announced the winner, four of Kenya’s seven electoral commissioners issued a statement saying that they could not stand by the results due to the “opaque nature” of the handling of the votes. Investor urges Disney to make changes. The hedge fund Third Point said it [took a stake]( in Disney and is pushing the entertainment giant to make big changes, including spinning off ESPN and buying the remainder of Hulu. This is actually the second time Third Point, helmed by billionaire investor Daniel S. Loeb, has taken aim at Disney. It sold off its previous stake in the company in the first quarter. CLIMATE CHANGE [It’s getting hot in here]( [A map of the US showing the "Extreme Heat Belt" on fire](Photo Illustration: Dianna “Mick” McDougall, Sources: Getty Images If you’ve been feeling like a lobster whose bath is going from pleasantly tepid to just a wee bit scorching, you might wanna get used to it. More than 107 million Americans are expected to suffer through extreme temperatures more often and for longer over the next 30 years, according to [new data]( released yesterday by the nonprofit First Street Foundation. How extreme? Well, over 1,000 US counties are projected to experience at least one day above 125°F by 2053, mostly located in an emerging “Extreme Heat Belt” stretching from northern Texas and Louisiana to as far north as Illinois, Indiana, and even Wisconsin. That’s likely to impact where people decide to live. - To help you with that decision, the First Street Foundation created a [tool]( where you can type in your address—or the one of that place you’re thinking about buying—and find out the property’s risks from extreme heat. - If you’re feeling especially apocalyptic, it will show you the risks of flood and fire, too. What’s next: These extremes could mean the US is about to start experiencing a whole lot more climate migration and a very different real estate market. “If people move then you have an impact to the tax base and changes to demand for properties and values overall,” First Street Foundation CEO Matthew Eby [told CNBC](.—AR �  �  �  mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20this%20story%20from%20Morning%20Brew%21&body=It%E2%80%99s%20getting%20hot%20in%20here%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.morningbrew.com%2Fdaily%2Fstories%2F2022%2F08%2F15%2Fextreme-heat-belt%3Futm_campaign%3Dmb%26utm_medium%3Dnewsletter%26utm_source%3Dmorning_brew%0A%0AWant%20more%20great%20content%3F%20Subscribe%20to%20Daily%20Brew%20%E2%80%94%20Delivering%20the%20latest%20business%20news%20from%20Wall%20St.%20to%20Silicon%20Valley%20daily.%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.morningbrew.com%2Fdaily%2Fr%2F%3Fkid%3D4904f90a%26utm_source%3Demail_share%0A ADVERTISING [More ads coming to an iPhone near you]( [A figure surrounded by mobile advertisements](Francis Scialabba Great news for people who can always easily find the little “x”: After upending the mobile ads business with new privacy features last year, Apple may expand advertising in its own first-party apps like Maps, Podcasts, and Books, according to a [report]( by Bloomberg. Bringing ads into Apple’s native apps could allow publishers to pay to have their company appear higher in search results or in recommendations, similar to the way ads are already displayed in the App Store. The news is a bit ironic, because last year, Apple introduced a privacy feature called App Tracking Transparency (ATT) that gave users the choice to allow apps to track them across other apps and websites. And, when given an option about tracking, most people said “no thank you”—78% of iOS 15 users opted out. The resulting shift has been cataclysmic for the tech industry, costing Facebook, Twitter, Snap, and YouTube $17.8 billion in lost revenue already this year, according to an estimate by Lotame. Could it also explain why mobile game ads always show someone playing the game really badly now? Maybe! Zoom out: As it’s throttling rivals’ ad businesses, Apple is ramping up its own. 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