A Canonical List of Rich People Shit: July Edition

Plus: an A.I. wunderkind marries an Anthropic insider while his $45 billion fund implodes; Ferrari’s first “P” car heads to auction for as much as $20 million; Sag Harbor gets The Corner back and more

We’re already a few days into August, but I couldn’t let July disappear in the rearview mirror without doing the monthly roundup (it really is the perfect thing for cocktail fodder). So let’s dive in.

Serena Williams returned to Wimbledon at 44. The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post reported that The Polo Bar is moving by 2029, but those close to the situation have said “not so fast.” RPS reported Nantucket’s “NO INFLUENCERS” sign before the story ended up nearly everywhere else (with very, very little credit from others), and tickets to The Odyssey were listed for as much as $10,000 before the show had even opened. Mamdani put nearly one million potential pieds-à-terre into a searchable database, and SpaceX lost $1.2 trillion in value. Chanel bought Charvet, and auction sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips rose 70 percent. UBS also came out with a rather less celebratory statistic: global wealth was up 10.8 percent, while median wealth in the US has fallen 20 percent since 2020. So before we get any further into August, here’s a canonical list of what people were talking about in July.

In today’s letter, Paige Paul joins Substack, an A.I. wunderkind marries an Anthropic insider while his $45 billion fund implodes; Ferrari’s first “P” car heads to auction for as much as $20 million; Gen Z brings its parents to job interviews; and Sag Harbor gets The Corner back.

After the jump!