Joint compound (also known as “drywall mud ... quick-setting, taping, and topping. Spackle, made of gypsum powder and binders, has a gooey paste-like consistency and is sold pre-mixed ...

topping the $150 million “Beverly Hillbillies Estate” bought by media heir Lachlan Murdoch in 2019. Steve Granitz/Getty Images But quarter-billion-dollar compounds aren’t built in a day ...