Ryan Gould
Ryan Gould is a Bloomberg News reporter in New York covering deals and dealmaking, including mergers and acquisitions and IPOs. He was among the reporters on Bloomberg’s story about Marvell’s potential acquisition of Lumentum.
Marvell Weighs an $83 Billion Lumentum Deal as Optics Supply Tightens
Bloomberg’s Ryan Gould reported that Marvell Technology is in advanced talks to acquire Lumentum Holdings, a maker of optical components for data centers, in a deal that could make Lumentum a substantial part of Marvell. Gould’s case for the fit is that optics are becoming essential to moving signals between servers as data-center demand grows, and Marvell has said it wants to expand in the field. But with Lumentum valued at about $83 billion and Marvell holding less than $4 billion in cash, how the companies could finance a deal remains unresolved.
Anthropic Weighs Reserving 15% to 20% of IPO Shares for Retail Investors
Anthropic is considering reserving 15% to 20% of the shares in its planned IPO for retail investors, Bloomberg reports, with JPMorgan Chase tapped to lead the US offering. Bloomberg reporter Ryan Gould said the possible allocation could encompass a broad range of investors, but the report does not establish a final percentage or explain how shares would be distributed.
SpaceX IPO Pitch Seeks $2 Trillion Valuation on AI and Mars
Bloomberg Technology’s Ed Ludlow framed SpaceX’s Nasdaq IPO filing as a test of whether public investors will underwrite Elon Musk’s farthest-reaching claims: a company seeking a valuation above $2 trillion, as much as $75 billion in proceeds and a $28.5 trillion addressable market built largely on AI, Starlink and Mars. Bloomberg reporters and guests said the filing asks investors to look past large losses, debt and Musk’s continuing control, while treating Starship and space-based infrastructure as central to the valuation case rather than speculative side projects. The program placed that pitch alongside Nvidia’s effort to prove AI demand is broadening beyond hyperscalers and possible OpenAI and Anthropic filings that could bring similar public-market scrutiny to frontier AI.