Podcasts about 10B

Mark Dow is a global macro trader and author of the blog Behavioral Macro. Previously, he worked as a policy economist at the U.S. Treasury and the International Monetary Fund, after which he was a senior Portfolio Manager at Pharo Capital, a $10B fund. Here he talks about why QE isn't money printing, what's driving markets, narratives and much more!

My guest today is Denise Brosseau. After an early career in the technology industry, Denise co-founded and was the founding CEO of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (now Watermark), the first trade association for high growth women entrepreneurs. She built the organization to 1200 members and from one office in Silicon Valley to 7 cities across the US and one in Europe. She was also the co-founder of Springboard Enterprises, hosting the first venture capital conference for women entrepreneurs. Springboard has since helped women-founded and women-led companies raise over $10B in funding for their businesses over the last 20 years. More recently, Denise was the founding COO of Futuro Health, a non-profit funded by $130M from Kaiser Permanente to support the next generation healthcare workforce. Through her non-profit career, Denise developed an expertise in thought leadership and today she is a thought leadership consultant working with entrepreneurs, trade association executives and corporate leaders and their teams. She is the author of Ready to Be a Thought Leader? and has two very popular courses on LinkedIn Learning on thought leadership. A Wellesley graduate with a Stanford MBA, Denise has been honored as a Champion of Change by the White House. Here's what to expect during the episode: What is thought leadership? Why should nonprofit leaders care about being one? How do you become a thought leader? How about working with a board around thought leadership? Building on what you've already done. The value of reaching out to other people as a thought leader. You learn just as much as you teach! ~ Connect with Denise: Website: https://thoughtleadershiplab.com/ Twitter: @thoughtleadrlab LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisebrosseau/ Courses: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/search?keywords=denise%20brosseau&u=2125562 Free resources from Denise: Message Template - https://thoughtleadershiplab.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Message-Template.pdf Message Template Completed Example - https://thoughtleadershiplab.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Message-Template-Example-1.pdf  Go to  https://hilandconsulting.org/boardorientationchecklist to get your free Effective Board Orientation Checklist from Mary. Mary's book is now available on Amazon or wherever books are sold: Love Your Board! The Executive Directors' Guide to Discovering the Sources of Nonprofit Board Troubles and What to Do About Them. Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated!   Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that, and follow us, on Facebook. Connect with Mary! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryhiland Inspired Nonprofit Leadership Facebook Group: https://tinyurl.com/inspirednonprofitleadership Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hilandconsulting Website: https://www.hilandconsulting.org

Miguel Armaza sits down with Alex Taussig, Partner at Lightspeed Ventures, a global multi-stage VC with over $10B in AUM, focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise and Consumer sectors. They've backed some amazing companies, including Snap, Affirm, and GrubHub. Alex focuses on online marketplaces and co-leads Lightspeed's investment efforts in Latin America. He is also the author of the popular weekly newsletter, DRINKING FROM THE FIREHOSE, in which he writes about recent trends in commerce, media, tech, climate, science, and popular culture. In this episode, we discuss - Alex's story and why he decided to stop pursuing a Phd and left academia to join the tech investing world - The intersection of marketplaces and fintech and why the payment technology is the motor oil that makes transactions flow smoothly for marketplaces - Why in Venture Capital it's very important to ask the best possible questions and pay close attention to the answers that reveal an underlying truth - Early investing mistakes and the importance of focus - Lessons from several years of writing a successful newsletter… and a lot more! Alex Taussig Alex joined Lightspeed in 2016 as a partner on the consumer investment team and has spent 12+ years in venture capital. He is passionate about partnering with founders who are reimagining major categories of commerce using technology. At Lightspeed, Alex has led investments in startups disrupting massive industries like food (Daily Harvest, Frubana), retail (Faire), education (Outschool), and weddings (Zola). He also co-leads Lightspeed's investment efforts in Latin America. Prior to joining Lightspeed, Alex was a partner at Highland Capital Partners, where he led investments in and supported over a dozen companies, including thredUP (IPO TDUP, 2021), Carbon Black (IPO CBLK, 2018), 2U (IPO 2014, TWOU), and RentJuice (acquired by Zillow, 2012). Alex is a trained research scientist and breaks down business problems with deductive logic and analytical rigor. He originally studied physics at Harvard College, where he graduated summa cum laude, and then went on to receive a Master's degree in materials engineering from MIT, where he was part of a research group building the first fully optical computer chip. Alex also received an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, an honor given to the top 5% of the graduating class. Alex publishes a popular weekly(ish) newsletter called DRINKING FROM THE FIREHOSE, in which he writes about recent trends in commerce, media, tech, climate, science, and popular culture. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children and enjoys baking, anime, and heavy metal music. About Lightspeed Venture Partners Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise and Consumer sectors. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped build more than 400 companies globally, including Snap, Nest, Nutanix, AppDynamics, MuleSoft, OYO, Guardant, Affirm, and GrubHub. Lightspeed and its affiliates currently manage $10.5B across the global Lightspeed platform, with investment professionals and advisors in Silicon Valley, Israel, India, China, Southeast Asia, and Europe. For more FinTech insights, follow us below: Medium: medium.com/wharton-fintech WFT Twitter: twitter.com/whartonfintech Miguel's Twitter: twitter.com/MiguelArmaza Miguel's Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3jWIpqp

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We sit down with the hottest new protocol layer in crypto today: Solana, and its cofounder Anatoly Yakovenko, who is the CEO of Solana Labs. If you listened to our Ethereum episode or follow crypto even at a cursory level, you've likely heard of Solana and its ability to scale transactions thousands of times higher than Ethereum. And, unlike other so-called "ETH killers", Solana is doing so in production today with large and real applications. We dive into the project's history coming out of the 2017-18 crypto winter, how it works and what's ahead now that they've recently raised $314m (yes that is Pi $million) from a16z and Polychain Capital, with their native SOL tokens currently trading at a market cap around $10B (!). If you love Acquired and want more, join our LP Community for access to over 50 LP-only episodes, monthly Zoom calls, and live access for big events like our Book Clubs. We can't wait to see you there. Join here at: https://acquired.fm/lp/ Sponsors: Thanks to SoftBank Latin America for being our presenting sponsor for this special episode. SoftBank has truly been the first and best large capital allocator in the Latin American startup ecosystem, and we are very excited to work with and learn from them over the rest of 2021. If you are an entrepreneur, employee, other investor or simply someone who's interested in learning about the best young companies in LatAm right now, get in touch with them at: https://bit.ly/acquiredsoftbanklatam and tell them that you heard about them on Acquired. Shu's Twitter (which we highly recommend following!): https://twitter.com/snyatta Paulo's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulo-passoni-67195/ Thank you as well to Modern Treasury and to Fundrise. You can learn more about them at: https://bit.ly/acquiredmoderntreasury (and you can find our reverse interview with them at https://www.moderntreasury.com/acquired ) https://bit.ly/acquiredfundrise Topics covered: Anatoly's background as a wireless engineer at Qualcomm, and how it led to a fundamental discovery of how to improve crypto system scalability Solana's role in the crypto protocol ecosystem and why there's a need for it (and why it can and will exist) alongside Ethereum versus "killing" it Starting Solana during the 2017-18 crypto winter, and how it forced them to focus just on building and shipping versus raising and posturing Bootstrapping adoption with the mining community (Solana's "true believers") and the early and ardent support they provided Where Solana falls on the Vitalik "Scalability - Security - Decentralization" trilemma, and why Solana's superpower of maintaining composability is so attractive Links: Solana: https://solana.com Solana on Twitter: https://twitter.com/solana Solana Hackathon submissions: https://airtable.com/shriNT26cAZeDJagn/tbl5fZ4E1BBbVAttW FTX: https://ftx.us Audius: https://audius.co Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

Everyone loves a unicorn, but how do you keep innovation alive past the start-up phase? Pushing past the awkward “teen years” and igniting the next wave of growth means rethinking your culture, organizational structure, and innovation investments. Join Workday's EVP of Product Pete Schlampp as he shares how he's accelerating product innovation on the hunt to $10B.

Do you have a target list of the people you desire to hire? It is easy to plan the roles you need to hire but the “who” is what matters most.  A very simple hack is to just create a spreadsheet and every time you hear of someone good, add them to your list.  Now here is the important part… reach out and seek to understand. Simply reaching out and listening to their desires is all it takes to attract a well positioned player for your company.  Our guest today: Eric Dahan, Co-Founder & CEO of Open Influence A premiere influencer marketing company with clients that include Disney, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Under Armour, among others. The company is also a leader in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence within the ad industry thanks to its predictive analytics tools and entire influencer taxonomy, which contains over 10B data points. Eric is a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient and Inc. 30 Under 30 honoree. Eric has hired over 100 people for Open Influence and has a strong proactive program in place. Today we discuss: Why you should always be interviewing How to run a proactive hiring campaign Challenge today? (Reactive hiring and approach to talent) Cascade risk of people getting burned out and demoralized Takes time to train new people An ounce of prevention  Avoiding the “oh shit” moments Why is this important to the company? From a p&l standpoint, building a more lucrative  business Retaining the best and brightest that they have worked so hard to to build up Attracting, building, training and elevating the best people Rick's Nuggets People are harder than ever to attract Building a passive talent pipeline allows you to constantly raise productivity How do we solve the problem? (Creating a proactive approach and system to hiring) Planning This is the structure Getting the team to buy in The why Accomplish more by delegating Create a strong feeder of young candidates In network referrals Inbound, through website Industry niche focused Building relationships with professors in college Elevate and create a management layer Empower managers to Giving a bit more time to go out and find people Budget for strong hires Role creation for strong talent Elevating from within Hired HR director to help with recruiting and building out better processes A lot of time saved with onboarding Point person for planning & vetting  Rick's Nuggets Dedicate 1 hour a week to talent development (first 20) Adopt a policy of opportunistic relationship building  ie: hackathons, hosting events Understand the person's pain & desire Start interviewing 2 months prior the role becoming available Value alignment is key!  Judge on values, not skills  Key Takeaways -Value: Think about the ideal structure and what is going to make you scale. What is the break point? How do you make sure you bring it to life? Think of hiring as something that you will always have to do To really scale, make hiring continuous   Guest Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-dahan-3b428b62/ Websites: https://openinfluence.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/openinfluence/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenInfluence Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/openinfluence/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNBoxMi-r7CIhNFwConnXmA?view_as=subscriber   This show is proudly sponsored by Criteria Crop: https://www.criteriacorp.com/  

In their recent Q1 earnings call, Co-CEOs Chano Fernandez and Aneel Bhusri spent a good amount of time talking about Workday’s growth goals and where they are focusing their efforts. First, hey are looking to increase their global work force by more than 20% (2,500 new hires by the end of 2021). Second, and this is a longer-term goal, is to get to $10B in annual revenue; they are currently forcasting $4.5B for 2021. Jeff Lazarto, UpperEdge’s Workday Practice Leader, gives insight into why these focus areas are important to Workday, but more so, the impact it will have on Workday customers.

Tesla retira los radares pero añade DMS, mientras que SpaceX sigue con el plan Starship para llegar a Hawaii, y más pruebas del Super Heavy. Patrocinador: Llegan los nuevos programas de inmersión lingüística de verano https://cursosnle.com/ de Nathalie Language Experiences. Pensados para niños de 10 a 18 años, podrán viajar a Londres, Malta o Pirineos y aprender inglés con profesores nativos https://cursosnle.com/ y con familias de acogida. — Pide más información sin compromiso hoy mismo https://cursosnle.com/. Con el FSD 9.0 inminente y la retirada del radar en los nuevos Tesla, la confusión de algunos conductores sigue creciendo. Mientras tanto el plan de Hawaii sigue adelante para la Starship, así que nos preparamos para un aterrizaje sobre el mar no muy lejos de Honolulu en algún momento de 2021. Tesla's Removal Of Radar On Models 3 And Y Is Confusing At Best https://jalopnik.com/teslas-removing-radar-for-semi-automated-driving-on-mod-1846976679 Firefly Aerospace Awards Contract to SpaceX to Launch Blue Ghost Mission to Moon in 2023 | Business Wire https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210520005731/en/Firefly-Aerospace-Awards-Contract-to-SpaceX-to-Launch-Blue-Ghost-Mission-to-Moon-in-2023 Japanese billionaire, Russian actress to fly to ISS - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com/japanese-billionaire-russian-actress-to-fly-to-iss/ Rusia rodará la película «El desafío» en la Estación Espacial Internacional | Microsiervos (Espacio) https://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/espacio/rusia-rodara-pelicula-estacion-espacial-internacional.html (1) The Verge on Twitter: "Tesla starts using in-car camera for Autopilot driver monitoring https://t.co/QxU4PlnmA8 https://t.co/gKA5wtlRHE" / Twitter https://twitter.com/verge/status/1398053833520168960?s=28 Tesla loses U.S. designation for some advanced safety features https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-agency-briefed-tesla-radar-235056963.html (1) Bernie Sanders on Twitter: "When we landed on the moon, there was great collective pride in that achievement. Our space program should be something that we ALL take part in. We shouldn’t hand over $10B in corporate welfare to Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk, who are jointly worth $350B, to fund their space hobby. https://t.co/f1uLPXPjuR" / Twitter https://twitter.com/sensanders/status/1397619187867062278?s=28 Tesla is already shipping cars without radar sensors - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/25/22453518/tesla-vision-radar-autopilot-model-3-y-fsd?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4 ELON está presentado por Matías S. Zavia (@matiass https://twitter.com/matiass) y Álex Barredo (@somospostpc https://twitter.com/somospostpc). Su tema original está compuesto por Nahúm García (@nahum https://twitter.com/nahum). — Alojado en Cuonda (@cuonda https://twitter.com/cuonda)

Welcome to the Streaming Now Podcast. The podcast all about reviewing popular movies and TV shows available online on the major streaming services (Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus, Prime Video, Hulu, Apple TV, Paramount Plus, Peacock, etc.) and anywhere else WIFi is required. Join host’s Kyle and Brian as each episode they talk about something new Streaming Now.ON TODAY'S EPISODE1. Alice in Borderland Review (6:12) > If you want to hear a quick spoiler free preview, listen here and then pause: (6:12-11:17)>Resume here to listen to the part of the review where we talk about major spoilers: (11:17-36:38)We’re reviewing season 1 of the TV series, Alice in Borderland (**Spoilers Included**). A Japanese Mystery Sci-Fy Thriller streaming on Netflix about a group of delinquent friends that one day find themselves mysteriously transported into a parallel universe,  resembling Tokyo,  but without 99% of the population. In this universe, people are forced to compete in potentially fatal games of survival. Refusing to do so results in certain death.>IMDb Link (Including trailers): Click Here>>Genre: Action, Fantasy, Mystery >>Streaming on: Netflix >>Kyle's rating: 8/10>>Brian's rating: 8/102. Top 10 Summertime Movies (36:38)Are you ready for Summer? So are we! The weather is heating up and to celebrate, we’re releasing a list of our 10 favorite summertime movies streaming now. 10 summertacular movies that will each be sure to get people into the summertime spirit. We’ll countdown our list from 10-1, give you our ratings and tell listeners which streaming service they can watch them on. >IMDb Link to full list: Click Here 3. Recommendations (57:58) Finally, we’ll end the show by sharing all of our latest streaming recommendations from the past week. Ratings & spoiler free reviews included. Our full list of picks this week are:>IMDb Link to our list (with trailers): Click HereA.) The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story>>Genre: Documentary >>Streaming on: Netflix>>Brian's rating: 7/10>>Kyle's rating: 7/10B.) Jupiters Legacy>>Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi  >>Streaming on: Netflix>>Kyle's rating: 7/10 (highly recommend if you like superhero genre)C.) Billy On The Street>>Genre: Comedy, Game-Show, Reality-TV>>Streaming on: Netflix>>Brian's rating: 7/10 (highly recommended) 4. Sneak Peak at next episode's SOTW & full review (67:31) >Next week's SOTW: OxygenOxygen is about a women named Liz, who wakes up from a deep sleep only to find herself trapped inside a cryogenic chamber, with no memory of how she ended up there. Desperate to escape before she runs out oxygen, Liz attempts to regain her memory in hopes that they lead to some clues that answer how she got into the cryogenic chamber and more importantly, how to get out. >>Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Fantasy, Drama>>Streaming on: Netflix>>IMDb Link (Including trailers): Click Here  We want to make you a part of our show! Please leave us a review, email us a TV series/movie recommendation or connect with us a social media and we'll give you a shoutout on the podcast! Follow Streaming Now on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram:  @TheSNpodSend us an email: streamingnowshow@outlook.com

(1) Pan-European payments system aims to challenge Visa & Mastercard in 2022 (0:39). (2) Tiger Global is raising a $10B fund to amp up its high-velocity investing (5:52). (3) Continuous glucose monitoring & the billion-dollar opportunity in diabetes management (12:11). Read this 3 Shifts Edition: https://6pag.es/5cmrwc. Sign up to receive free summaries of our deeply researched briefs: 6Pages.com.

ServiceNow had another strong quarter, exceeding high end revenue guidance and Wall Street estimates. On top of that, they now have over 1,100 customers paying over $1M per year, which represents an impressive 23% growth from last year. ServiceNow’s goal is clearly to expand customers’ portfolios and for net new customers to start out with as many products as possible from as many of their “workflows” as possible. This includes its IT Workflows product set (ITSM, ITOM, ITBM, GRC (now IRM), and Security Operations, etc.), their Customer & Employee Workflows (CSM, Field Service Management, HR Service Delivery, etc.) and their Creator Workflows. To accomplish this, they are using the “better together” solutions pitch which seems to be working. In this podcast, ServiceNow Practice Leader, Adam Mansfield, discusses where ServiceNow will focus moving forward and the tactics they will deploy to reach their $10B revenue target. He also shares how enterprise customers could potentially take advantage of key insights from the earnings call in their upcoming ServiceNow negotiations and renewals.

Jon Najarian left the coveted life of a professional football player to become a “nobody” in the trading pits, upheaving his world in an instant. Bit by bit, Najarian pushed through the tough challenges of the trading floor that molded him into a master of all markets. Recognizing crypto's value proposition, he more recently shifted his focus to become an investor, trader, and commentator within this new market. Crypto is causing widespread concern among legacy investors, he believes, causing a slow but steady shift to a new age of scarce value. Follow Jon Najarian: ​https://twitter.com/jonnajarian In this episode, Melker and Najarian discuss a range of topics including: Dominating Chicago football Options, calls, puts, and strikes Overleveraged speculators Learning to trade in the pits $10B flushed in 4 hours Wash sales and artificial pumps The Doge day sell signal Million-dollar baseball cards Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn The smell of fear on the trading floor The intrinsic value of dollars Market Rebellion --- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This podcast is presented by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworks.co --- Voyager This episode is brought to you by Voyager, your new favorite crypto broker. Trade crypto fast and commission-free the easy way. Earn up to 9.5% interest on top coins with no lockups and no limits.  Go to https://thewolfofallstreets.link/voyager and download the Voyager app and use code “SCOTT25” to get $25 in free Bitcoin when you create your account. --- Mina Mina is the world's lightest blockchain, powered by participants. Rather than apply brute computing force, Mina uses advanced cryptography and recursive zk-SNARKs to ensure a super-light and constant sized chain, that allows participants to quickly sync and verify the network.  The team behind Mina is backed by VCs, including Coinbase Ventures, and Mina's adversarial testnet was the largest public testnet outside of ETH 2.0. To get involved ahead of Mina's mainnet, visit https://thewolfofallstreets.link/mina  --- Matcha Matcha is the easiest way to trade in DeFi. Matcha enables traders to seamlessly swap tokens using 20+ aggregated liquidity sources that deliver better prices than going to a centralized exchange or Uniswap.  Connect your wallet and start today at https://thewolfofallstreets.link/matcha  ---- Join the Wolf Den newsletter: ►►https://www.getrevue.co/profile/TheWolfDen/members

The Wall Street Journal reports that communication platform Discord has ended talks to be acquired by Microsoft for $10B or more. The company will remain independent for now, but is also reportedly exploring the opportunity to go public in the months ahead. Here are today's stories: - Discord says no deal to Microsoft, will reportedly remain independent - NEW LEADERSHIP FOR OVERWATCH - GameStop CEO stepping down this summer - Coming Soon to Xbox Game Pass: Fable Anniversary, MLB The Show 21, and More - Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition Free Follow me on other platforms and stay up to date! Twitter: http://twitter.com/jampacksam Instagram: http://instagram.com/jampacksam YouTube: http://youtube.com/thejampackreport

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Today’s blockchain and cryptocurrency news Brought to you by OliveAI.com/careers Bitcoin is down .5% at $57,200 Ethereum is down 1% at $2,037 and Binance Coin is down 1% at $335.00 Those are your leaders by market cap, top gainers in the last 24 hours… Helium up 21% BitTorrent up 20% Tron up 15% The IRS is working to get customer records from Kraken. The Weeknd’s NFT auction is going swimmingly on Nifty Gateway. Binance Futures hit a record high of over $10B yesterday. Thailand’s Central bank will test retail digital currency next year.

Discord potentially being bought for a whopping $10B means there is evidence for longer-run inflation in asset prices like stocks and real estate – more so than we've already seen. Spotify is adding an additional set of users from the popular Locker Room app used amongst basketball fans. Spotify is revamping the social audio application to be used to allow musicians, podcasters, and fans to interact with each other. Spotify is officially the largest audio company in the world. NBA Top Shot raised $305M from Michael Jordan, Will Smith, Aston Kutcher, and Kevin Durant – to name a few. The website sells NFTs of highlight reels of memorable moments from distinct players, like Tyler Herro. Like the video! This is for educational purposes only and should not be taken as advice. DM us on Instagram..............�https://www.instagram.com/pineapple__chunks/ Apple Podcast Link..............�https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pineapple-chunks/id1525157285 Spotify Link..............�https://open.spotify.com/show/05b2mxk08zp7jgqnOaHGZg Comment how much you love water if you read this!! Merch..............� https://www.redbubble.com/people/pchunks/explore?asc=u Website link..............� https://pinneapple-chunks.simplecast.com/episodes These episodes are for entertainment purposes ONLY. IF stocks or companies are mentioned, Peter and Elihu MAY have an ownership interest in them -- DO NOT make buying or selling decisions based on Peter and Elihu's videos. If you need advice, please contact a qualified CPA, attorney, insurance agent, contractor/electrician/engineer/etc., financial advisor, or the appropriate professional for the subject you would like help with.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The big question on everyone’s mind: Will there be inflation? Answer: Yes, but there won’t be hyperinflationThe government has printed trillions of dollarsArtificial levels of consumption have been createdOverconsumption may drive up commodity prices which may end up leading to inflation“I do think it will drive inflation. I do think it will drive commodity prices.” – ChamathAlthough Chamath believes there will be inflation, he doesn’t believe there will be hyperinflation because modern-day technology can stop it before it happensThe Suez Canal was blocked by a ship that weighed 200,000 metric tons and longer than the Empire State buildingWhy is this a big deal? 10% of global trade moves through the Suez CanalGlobalization has made everything cheaper, but outsourcing production has its risks:A recent flood in a nickel mine will cause a shortage in nickel supply and prices for nickel will increase globallyThe US off-shored its pharmaceutical and PPE production so when COVID happened, it lacked the resources and supplies to help people during the pandemic Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgSacks' Inflation Deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vBeh__Kyf57jfhWPOQXaU64VdLaowQBAHwXjBzuVSPs/edit?usp=sharing Follow the besties: https://twitter.com/chamath https://linktr.ee/calacanis https://twitter.com/DavidSacks https://twitter.com/friedberg Follow the pod: https://twitter.com/theallinpod https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast Intro Music Credit: https://rb.gy/tppkzl https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg Referenced in the show: Tweets https://twitter.com/davehclark/status/1375045409542823939 https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1374901873484967938 https://twitter.com/Mat_Yarger/status/1374212541367345155 https://twitter.com/Mat_Yarger/status/1375163739759116297 https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1375488265915002883 https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1375244032230625281 https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1375283834711777282 https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1375484528559448064 Bitclout https://rb.gy/sjtjzy Show Notes: 0:00 Besties get ready to rumble & discuss recent Twitter polls 7:25 Debating inflation, Sacks presents his deck 37:20 Amazon social team goes on the offensive, Facebook's regulatory capture play around content moderation 48:42 Suez Canal, rethinking our centralized infrastructure & supply chain risk management, infrastructure bill concerns 1:00:18 Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for $10B, Sacks on SaaS exits from Yammer experience 1:02:49 Poker talk, going to the movies, Disneyland, EU incompetence

Sacks' Inflation Deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vBeh__Kyf57jfhWPOQXaU64VdLaowQBAHwXjBzuVSPs/edit?usp=sharing Follow the besties: https://twitter.com/chamath https://linktr.ee/calacanis https://twitter.com/DavidSacks https://twitter.com/friedberg Follow the pod: https://twitter.com/theallinpod https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast Intro Music Credit: https://rb.gy/tppkzl https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg Referenced in the show: Tweets https://twitter.com/davehclark/status/1375045409542823939 https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1374901873484967938 https://twitter.com/Mat_Yarger/status/1374212541367345155 https://twitter.com/Mat_Yarger/status/1375163739759116297 https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1375488265915002883 https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1375244032230625281 https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1375283834711777282 https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1375484528559448064 Bitclout https://rb.gy/sjtjzy Show Notes: 0:00 Besties get ready to rumble & discuss recent Twitter polls 7:25 Debating inflation, Sacks presents his deck 37:20 Amazon social team goes on the offensive, Facebook's regulatory capture play around content moderation 48:42 Suez Canal, rethinking our centralized infrastructure & supply chain risk management, infrastructure bill concerns 1:00:18 Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for $10B, Sacks on SaaS exits from Yammer experience 1:02:49 Poker talk, going to the movies, Disneyland, EU incompetence

The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is now in exclusive acquisition talks to acquire the online communication platform Discord for upwards of $10B with a deal set to close as soon as next month. Here are today's stories: - WSJ: Microsoft is now in 'exclusive' talks to acquire Discord - Microsoft Is in Exclusive Talks to Acquire Discord - Xbox chief says Project Scarlett ‘will not be out of position on power or price’ - Kojima Productions likely to announce its next game ‘quite soon’, says art director - Google Stadia might get touchscreen controls on Android soon - Back 4 Blood Delayed to October - Returnal Goes Gold - Play at Home Freebies Available Now Follow me on other platforms and stay up to date! Twitter: http://twitter.com/jampacksam Instagram: http://instagram.com/jampacksam YouTube: http://youtube.com/thejampackreport

Sony’s next batch of free PS4 and PS5 games is now available - The VergeSony continues its Play at Home infinitive by offering a stack of amazing games, which PS4 and PS5 owners can claim for free starting today. Several titles available include Subnautica, The Witness, and Astro Bot Rescue Mission.Microsoft, Discord talk $10B deal - Fox BusinessDeal valuing chat app at $10 billion or more could be completed next monthSub Rosa is out (again?), in Steam Early Access this time - Rock Paper ShotgunAfter previously being hidden from the Steam storeCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Reveals New Multiplayer Maps Coming Soon - ComicBook.comNext week, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's mid-season update will see new maps added to the game. Yesterday, developer Treyarch pulled back the curtain on Miami Strike, and today, the team revealed the new Hefe Mansion Gunfight map! The Hefe Mansion multip…Halo Infinite’s developers smashed a piano to record sounds for the game - The VergeHalo Infinite developer 343 Industries smashed a piano into pieces to record sound effects, the studio revealed in a new blog. They also put dry ice on some of the pieces, which created some spine-chilling sounds.

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Biden: “I make no apology” for ending policy on “separating children from their mothers”; Biden: GOP measures to restrict voting are “unamerican… it’s sick”; Biden: Republican party must decide whether to work together or “divide the country”; Biden blames many border issues on Trump administration; Biden: “Going to be hard” to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan by May first deadline; Biden: “I can’t picture” U.S. troops staying in Afghanistan for another year; Biden: If North Korea escalates, “we will respond accordingly”; At least two injured in Tornado touchdown near Birmingham; Massacre suspect makes first court appearance in wheelchair; Suspect’s lawyer: We need to “fully assess” his mental illness; AstraZeneca vaccine:76% effective against symptomatic Covid; Most states will open vaccinations to residents ages 16+ by end of April; Miami Beach brings back curfew to combat spring break crowds; Rutgers to require Covid vaccine for students in the fall; Biden admin to spend nearly $10B to expand vaccine access; To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Listen to the end to hear Kenny's journalistic deep dive (AKA conspiracy theory) on the Discord acquisition! Links: Live feed from Icelandic volcanic eruption Result from LHCb experiment challenges the standard model Substack UI bug cost me $2k Crystal 1.0 released Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for $10B

A report early Monday from VentureBeat suggested that Discord was being considered for an acquisition, with Bloomberg later reporting that Microsoft is in talks to acquire the gaming-centric communication platform for $10B. Here are today's stories: - Microsoft in talks with Discord over $10 billion-plus acquisition: report - Microsoft rebrands Xbox Live to Xbox network - Nintendo's upgraded Switch may use NVIDIA DLSS for 4K gaming - 'Resident Evil Village' is coming to Stadia on May 7th - Report: PS3, Vita, And PSP Stores To Be Permanently Closed In A Few Months - Resident Evil Re:Verse will begin open beta tests April 8 - 11 Follow me on other platforms and stay up to date! Twitter: http://twitter.com/jampacksam Instagram: http://instagram.com/jampacksam YouTube: http://youtube.com/thejampackreport

This week we discuss tech’s rich valuations, Airtable vs. Excel and the Goldman Analysts’ Presentation. Plus, some advice on when to buy a house. 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(https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/can-we-stop-pretending-sms-is-secure-now/) Goldman Analysts Work Too Hard (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-18/goldman-analysts-work-too-hard) Relevant to your interests Netflix cracking down on password sharing: ‘You need your own account to keep watching’ (https://wgntv.com/news/netflix-cracking-down-on-password-sharing-you-need-your-own-account-to-keep-watching/) Why you should use pyenv + Pipenv for your Python projects | Hacker Noon (https://hackernoon.com/reaching-python-development-nirvana-bb5692adf30c) Google’s plan to disrupt higher education (https://thehustle.co/03152021-Google-higher-education/) Nokia and AWS to enable cloud-based 5G radio solutions (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nokia-aws-enable-cloud-based-120000051.html) Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant cites ‘glut of innovation’ in data science and ML (https://venturebeat.com/2021/03/14/gartners-2021-magic-quadrant-cites-glut-of-innovation-in-data-science-and-ml/) Stop Talking About Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud and Start Talking About Integration (https://thenewstack.io/stop-talking-about-multicloud-and-hybrid-cloud-and-start-talking-about-integration/) Swiss Police Raid Apartment of Verkada Hacker, Seize Devices (https://nz.news.yahoo.com/swiss-police-raid-apartment-verkada-161703433.html) China’s tech giants test way around Apple’s new privacy rules (https://www.ft.com/content/520ccdae-202f-45f9-a516-5cbe08361c34) Clubhouse promises its accelerator participants either brand deals or $5K per month during the program (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/15/clubhouse-promises-its-accelerator-participants-either-brand-deals-or-5k-per-month-during-the-program/) Open-source team details the complexities in bringing Linux to Apple's M1 Macs (https://9to5mac.com/2021/03/15/asahi-linux-project-port-m1-macs/) Michael Dell: Public Cloud Isn’t More Secure Than On-Premise (https://www.crn.com/news/managed-services/michael-dell-public-cloud-isn-t-more-secure-than-on-premise) CD Foundation Announces Industry Initiative to Standardize Events from CI/CD Systems - CD Foundation (https://cd.foundation/blog/2021/03/16/cd-foundation-announces-industry-initiative-to-standardize-events-from-ci-cd-systems/) Microsoft Apologizes ‘Deeply’ For Worldwide Azure, Teams Outage (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/microsoft-apologizes-deeply-for-worldwide-azure-teams-outage) Boosting developer success on Google Play (https://link.thehustle.co/click/23235305.126250/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmRyb2lkLWRldmVsb3BlcnMuZ29vZ2xlYmxvZy5jb20vMjAyMS8wMy9ib29zdGluZy1kZXYtc3VjY2Vzcy5odG1s/5f3be10f2c81bf6314610498Bdecac5b2) IBM's CEO and outgoing exec chairman take home $38m in total for 2020 despite revenue shrinking by billions (https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/17/ibm_exec_payouts/) AWS throws its home-grown Arm CPUs at new memory-intensive instance type (https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/17/ec2_graviton_x2gd_memory_intensive/) Historical trends in the usage statistics of content management systems, March 2021 (https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management/all) Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/16/squarespace-raises-300m-at-staggering-10b-valuation/) Azure Active Directory issue takes down Teams, Office, Dynamics and more for some users (https://www.zdnet.com/article/azure-active-directory-issue-takes-down-teams-office-dynamics-and-more-for-some-users/) Microsoft's latest cloud authentication outage: What went wrong (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-latest-cloud-authentication-outage-what-went-wrong/) Google Nest Hello, IQ cams go down in partial outage - 9to5Google (https://9to5google.com/2021/03/17/google-nest-outage-takes-down-live-video-history-on-some-devices/) Oso announces $8.2M Series A to simplify authorization for developers (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/17/oso-announces-8-2m-series-a-to-simplify-authorization-for-developers/) Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-09/hackers-expose-tesla-jails-in-breach-of-150-000-security-cams) IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/iam-access-analyzer-update-policy-validation/) Nonsense Air travel is picking up as TSA records highest passenger screenings in nearly a year (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/13/air-travel-tsa-records-highest-passenger-screenings-in-nearly-a-year.html) Zoom Escaper lets you sabotage your own meetings with audio problems, crying babies, and more (https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/15/22331744/zoom-escaper-sabotage-meetings-fake-audio-problems) Elon Musk crowns himself ‘Technoking’ of Tesla (https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/15/22331315/elon-musk-tesla-technoking-title-ceo) IRS expected to delay filing deadline to May 15, as agency grapples with a backlog of 24 million unprocessed tax returns (https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/03/17/irs-deadline-delay-tax-backlog/) So, When Will You Be Able To Get A PS5? 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Avocado icon Mission Produce jumps into the mango game because “commodities only exist in the minds of the inept.” Squarespace hits a $10B valuation building websites, but the real story here is its “Comp”: Wix. And Uber’s huge switcheroo in London is an unprecedented precedent for the entire Gig Economy. $AVO $WIX $UBER Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Got a SnackFact for the pod? We got a form for that too: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe64VKtvMNDPGSncHDRF07W34cPMDO3N8Y4DpmNP_kweC58tw/viewform Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alex Mashinsky is the CEO and founder of Celsius, the platform that lets you earn interest on your crypto and use it as collateral to get fiat loans. Celsius offers a platform of curated services that have been abandoned by big banks – fair interest, zero fees, and fast transactions. Their goal is to disrupt the financial industry, one user at a time, and introduce financial freedom through crypto. Guest: Alex Mashinsky Why you should listen: Alex explains the successful journey that has seen users deposit $10B in assets with Celsius. The Celsius token was one of the best-performing crypto assets in 2020. Key takeaway: Alex says Celsius is a supporter of DeFi and they are the bigger user of Aave, as one example. Celsius is aimed at noobs or everyday holders of Bitcoin and Ethereum and allows them to generate yield or get loans without the risk and knowledge barrier of DeFi.  Supporting links: Leverj Celsius Previous podcast with Alex Andy on Twitter  Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a 5-star rating and a positive review in whatever podcast app you are using.

Chris Bakke is the co-founder and CEO of Laskie. Previously, he was the co-founder of Interviewed (acquired by Indeed), COO of 42Floors (acquired by Knotel), and managed business development for Zillow and RentJuice (acquired by Zillow). On this episode, Chris discusses his experiences selling his companies and then working for the acquirers such as Zillow and Indeed during the pandemic. He also discusses the growth of the freelancer economy and how companies are starting to think about their approach to full-time employees vs. contract workers. Finally, they talk about founding Laskie, Twitter and the founders-dilemma of deciding whether to sell when an offer comes by or continuing to build. Enjoy! (02:18) - Chris’ Background Working for Early Stage and Public Tech Companies (04:42) - What was it like working at Indeed in the midst of the pandemic? (07:47) - What is it like to transition from a founder of a company to being an employee after an acquisition? (10:09) - When you take on the new role do you know what’s required of you from the jump, or is it expected your role might change? (13:01) - Are there questions that you wish you asked in previous acquisitions to understand what it will be like on the other side? (15:13) - How did the idea for Laskie come about? How do you describe what y’all do? (19:02) - How long does it take to get approved as a vendor? (21:14) - How many times do companies hire full time people when a freelancer would do just fine? Are we entering a world where companies cut down on full time people in exchange for more freelancers? (24:31) - How do you overcome the issue of freelancer loyalty between competitors? (28:23) - Personality Testing in Freelancing (30:40) - Should hirers think about the idea of 1-3 days of working on a project with a potential employee before deciding to hire them? (36:04) - Has there been anything unique in this COVID era in terms of requested services you’ve seen? (39:18) - Chris’ Experience Working With the Same Group of Founders for All of His Companies (40:10) - Are the roles of the group pretty clear each time you start a company together? (45:31) - Was there someone who told you to stop doing founder-led sales and bring someone on or was it something you had to figure out? (47:07) - What is “the game” of being a venture-backed company? (50:19) - Was your goal to be the next billion-dollar company or did you know you wanted in and out in two years? (53:22) - Do you think there’s a lot of companies that should have sold much earlier but keep pushing for that $10B sale? (56:42) - What did it do to your psyche when you saw that first offer from a founder's perspective? (1:01:45) - Why are you bullish on San Francisco/Silicon Valley? (1:05:47) - If you were CEO of Twitter for the next year, what would you do? (1:09:17) - Do you have a childhood experience that put you on your life path? (1:12:20) - If you had a billboard on the busiest highway in Danville, what would it say? (1:23:43) - How can people reach you? Twitter: www.Twitter.com/ChrisJBakke LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/bakk3/

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as soon as they’re available. Stories we discuss in this episode (with links): Tesla (TSLA) leads battery cell cost by wide margin, according to new report Tesla Gigafactory Berlin pushes for production soon despite precarious permit situation Tesla Model Y is already putting pressure on NIO and Xpeng with rapid ramp-up in China Tesla and LG in talks to produce 4680 battery cell at new factory Rivian CEO shares how roomy the back of the R1S will be Toyota releases first teaser picture of new electric car ahead of unveiling Aston Martin promises (some) battery EVs by 2025 A first look at US cement manufacturers’ road map to carbon neutrality EGEB: How will Amazon’s Bezos Earth Fund spend its $10B by 2030? Harley-Davidson announces new chief electric vehicle officer https://youtu.be/PkhpkggDouc Subscribe to the Electrek Daily Channel on Youtube so you never miss a day of news Follow Mikey: Twitter @Mikey_Electric Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify TuneIn Share your thoughts! Drop us a line at tips@electrek.co. You can also rate us in Apple Podcasts or recommend us in Overcast to help more people discover the show!

US suspends tariffs on UK goods seeking to resolve dispute The United States has agreed to suspend retaliatory tariffs imposed on UK goods over a long-running dispute over aircraft subsidies. The tariffs on a range of products including Scotch whisky, biscuits and clotted cream will be halted for a period of four months. The UK had earlier dropped its tariffs on some US goods, as it looks to seal a post-Brexit trade deal with Washington. Lufthansa reports record loss of $8.1B in 2020 Lufthansa has suffered its worst annual loss in its history, as the COVID-19 crisis ravages the aviation industry. Net loss came in at 8-point-1 billion dollars for 2020, after global travel restrictions wiped-out passenger demand. The German carrier has also warned that air traffic would not return to pre-pandemic levels before the middle of the decade. Deliveroo seeks $10B valuation in London IPO Deliveroo is planning a London stock market listing that could value the British food delivery firm at up to 10-billion dollars. The IPO could mark the biggest new share issue in the UK in three years. Deliveroo will adopt a dual-class share structure for its market debut, giving its founder and CEO Will Shu more control over the direction of the company.

There's no question racist language, signage, and symbolism was on full display at an "anti-lockdown" rally in Edmonton over the weekend. Senator Paula Simons and former federal cabinet minister Amarjeet Sohi clearly agree it needs to be addressed, but have different thoughts on how. They join Ryan for a great back-and-forth out of the gates. Alberta's upcoming provincial budget promises to be a tough one. What goes into the difficult decisions government faces? Dr. Trevor Tombe and Ted Kouri roll out a new project at TheNext30.ca, aimed at educating the public on the budget process. (How would you save $10B?) She's a Real Talker - and an ultramarathoner. What's motivating Laura Sherrer-Townsend to complete 50 ultramarathons before her 50th birthday? We find out. Plus, after his high-profile interview with former talk radio host Danielle Smith, Ryan reads your emails, sent to talk@ryanjespersen.com. 5:51 - Amarjeet Sohi & Senator Paula Simons 38:10 - Dr. Trevor Tombe & Ted Kouri 1:31:45 - Laura Sherrer-Townsend

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Follow-up: Rittenhouse violates bond @1:07 News: Superspreader Sunday! @4:46 Supreme Court ruled that California can't restrict indoor church services @10:53 Tyler Broker points out the silly comparisons Catholic Church in U.S. was sitting on more than $10B when it got a another $1.5B from the PPP @12:44 Stimulus details @14:12 Anchor on Newsmax walks off @15:19 Morgan Wallen @22:26 Canada declares Proud Boys are terrorists @24:57 Profiles in Sedition: Ted Cruz v Trump children @26:09 Matt Gaetz v Steven Sund @37:22 Politics: Video link from the impeachment @42:54 Trump won't testify under oath @45:14 Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill) Cheney v Greene @48:50 Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-QAnon) is not an outlier in the GOP McCarthy encouraged Cheney to apologize WY censured Cheney Pentagon Chief outs Trumpers @59:25 DOJ Clearing house as well Maher: The Capitol insurrection was “a faith-based initiative.” And, “Magical religious thinking is a virus and QAnon is just its current mutation.” @1:00:34 Coronavirus: Ron Wright @1:02:12 Final stories: Crazy Cat Lady @1:03:48

Today we bring back Casey Gauss to talk about some of the strategies across the hundred or so brands under Thrasio. We will cover on page optimisation and some of the Google SEO they are implementing at the current time.   Founded and built Viral Launch at the age of 21 to help 10,000's of brands generate more than $10B in sales on Amazon. Casey is currently an executive at Thrasio, deep into the weeds on best practices for success on Amazon.

ServiceNow had another strong quarter and year, beating expectations and landing even more customers spending over $1M per year. While ServiceNow’s revenue is still heavily coming from its IT Workflows solutions (ITSM, ITOM, ITBM, GRC (now IRM), and Security Operations, etc.), ServiceNow continues to gain adoption of Customer Workflows (CSM, Field Service Management) and Employee Workflows (HR Service Delivery). They have also seen significant growth in Creator Workflows (Now Platform App Engine and IntegrationHub). In this podcast, ServiceNow Practice Leader, Adam Mansfield, discusses where ServiceNow will focus moving forward and the pitches he expects them to make as they work to reach their $10B revenue target. He also shares how enterprise customers could potentially take advantage of key insights from the earnings call in their upcoming ServiceNow negotiations and renewals.

Today’s blockchain and cryptocurrency news Brought to you by ungrocery.com Bitcoin is down 1% at $32,354 Ethereum is down slightly at $1325 and Polkadot is down 1% at $17.64 Top gainers in the last 24 hours: Golem up 35% Aave up 17% Uniswap up 16% Mad Money’s Jim Cramer tells lottery winner to buy Bitcoin. Crypto exchange LVL is opening pre-orders for a MasterCard debit card. Samsung eyes a $10B nanochipmaking facility in Austin Texas iSTOX raised $50M in a series-A funding round.

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In this week’s Recap we talk about how Elon Musk is now the world’s richest person over Jeff Bezos, Stocks are at record highs and Bitcoin is having a wild climb in prices. Elon Musk edges past Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to become the world’s richest person. A +6% rise in Tesla shares early Thursday lifted the value of its CEO’s stock holdings & options by $10B, taking his net worth to about +$191B. A more modest rise of less than 2% [...] The post Recap January 10: Elon Musk Richest In The World, Stocks Record Highs, Bitcoin Explodes (Recap ep105) appeared first on Investing & Day Trading Education: Day Trading Academy.

Fresh out of the studio, in episode 338, Shai Oster, the Asia Bureau chief for The Information is back on his annual review with us again to discuss the state of China technology giants and SoftBank in the time of COVID-19 pandemic and predict what is to come in 2021. Starting the conversation, Shai reviewed the predictions he made in 2019 and explored the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on how they played out in 2020. From there, Shai reflected on the year that dominated the headlines in 2020: the diffusion of the China-US tensions to other regions: India and Australia against China tech giants, Tik Tok's problems in the US, Ant's botched IPO and SoftBank's attempt to go private. Last but not least, Shai offered his predictions for 2021 and what is to come for the Chinese technology giants and SoftBank for the year ahead. Here are the interesting show notes and links to the discussion: Shai Oster (@beijingscribe, LinkedIn, TheInformation Profile), Asia Bureau Chief in The Information  So since your last appearance on the show, what have you been up to? 2019 Predictions:  China & US: Trump’s impeachment China economy: growth  Tiktok will retreat from US, scale back & renew focus china, maybe India, Southeast Asia and Africa: accurate  Huawei  The shift of Chinese money to other markets 2020 Events that shook China and SoftBank: The China-US tensions have exacerbated and percolated to other regions now (and that includes Australia and India) to Chinese companies: 1/ India banning 47 apps including Wechat, Tik Tok and many apps from China and 2/ Australia and US banned Wechat. Let’s go to India first, given that the major unicorns are invested by Chinese tech giants, for example, PayTM by Alibaba, and the rise of local giants such as Reliance Jio backed by a strong US consortium: Facebook, Google, Silver Lake Partners, KKR, how do you see the challenges moving ahead for Xiaomi, which is dominant in India as well?  How do you think the Biden administration will handle the current tensions with China?  In the year ahead, do you think China will come down hard on US companies that are heavily invested here, like Apple or Starbucks Coffee? Currently, the Chinese government has directed the local companies to be self-reliant, and specifically in the semiconductor industry, does that mean that we will see the decoupling of the supply chain accelerate much quicker? Given that Tencent owns a few major gaming companies, for example, Epic, and with the recent lawsuit between Apple and Epic, do you see a possibility that the US government will pressure Tencent to divest their holdings in the US? Tik Tok’s problems in the US and elsewhere: First, Kevin Mayer, the former CEO of DisneyPlus was poached and then became the CEO of Tik Tok US and Group COO, and subsequently resigned in July 2020, given the Trump’s administration insistence that the company has to be sold. Finally, after talks with rumors that Microsoft might acquire the entity completely, the eventual decision is that Oracle becomes the beneficiary of being an investor (along with Walmart) for Tik Tok US to ensure that data resides in the US. What are your thoughts on Tik Tok’s current situation in the US?  Can ByteDance grow further given that there is so much pushback from other markets? Where do you see ByteDance’s growth markets are? Will be they turn inwards towards domestically or expand to other markets where the push back is lesser, for example, Southeast Asia? The Botched IPO of Ant Financial and what’s going to be next? The Chinese government has ended Ant Financial’s IPO with direct interference from President Xi as reported by various outlets. What are the causes in your opinion as to why the IPO ended up not happening? What are the implications for Alibaba Group as a whole with Ant Financial not able to IPO? What must Ant Financial do in order to convince the authorities to allow them to IPO?  The billion-dollar question: Will Ant Financial eventually IPO? A lot of people did not realize that the Ant Financial IPO has left a lot of money on the table in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, do you think that the companies which are going to IPO in HKSE will benefit from this event?  Does this offer a lesson to how Chinese tech companies should conduct themselves? Which companies do you think might run into trouble with the state?  COVID-19 Pandemic:  Which tech companies in China are the major beneficiaries of the COVID-19 pandemic?  China has managed the COVID-19 pandemic much better than the US. What are the implications to the Chinese economy from now with the various successful vaccines, for example, Pfizer vaccine being approved?  SoftBank in 2020 and its current strategy to go private After the Wework debacle, SoftBank has gone on a few different directions: 1/ Selling their Alibaba stake, 2/ Sell ARM to NVDIA and Boston Dynamics to Hyundai, 3/ Ran a stock market gambit with futures in tech,  4/ DoorDash’s IPO giving them 10B gain that will write off Wework’s investment, and 5/ quietly buying back shares to go private? How do you assess SoftBank’s performance in 2020 and do you think that with DoorDash’s success, will SoftBank Vision Fund 2 happen? Has SoftBank’s enormous influence on the tech industry waned after WeWork’s debacle? Where do you think that they will spend the remainder of the $100B Vision Fund on? Do you think that SoftBank will go private according to Tim Culpan’s analysis on Masa’s strategy? Do you think that SoftBank will manoeuvre and make a comeback after being private?   2020 is now closing to the end, what are your predictions for 2021 so that we can have a future conversation a year from now? Closing Any recommendations?  Shai's recommendations: Rui Ma and Ying Ying Lu, Techbuzz China podcast and subscribe to The Information with the key breaking news it broke in 2020. How does our audience find you? Editor's note: Our team in Analyse Asia thanked our audience for your support and wished everyone a Happy New Year 2021. The episode is recorded in the last week of 2020. Podcast Information: RSS Feed Apple Podcasts Himalaya Spotify Libsyn Google Play Overcast FM SoundCloud Luminary Twitter Facebook Video Facebook Page Linkedin Stitcher Castbox RadioPublic Acast PodBean ListenNotes TuneIn The show is hosted and produced by Carol Yin (@CarolYujiaYin) and originally created by Bernard Leong (@bernardleong, Linkedin). Sound credits for the intro music: Taro Iwashiro, "The Beginning" from Red Cliff Soundtrack. analyseasia · Reflections and Predictions on China and SoftBank in 2020 with Shai Oster

Today, we have a lot to get through on the last episode of Quick News Daily for the week. We discuss another allergic reaction to the COVID vaccine, the extra doses found in the vials for the vaccine, and French President Emmanuel Macron testing positive for the coronavirus. We also discuss Biden's latest nominee, why you shouldn't be worried about Republicans objecting Electoral College votes in the House, MacKenzie Scott, and more!----more----Find Quick News Daily on your favorite podcast player: https://rebrand.ly/QuickNewsSources:Alaskan has allergic reaction after getting Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccineFDA says Pfizer vaccine vials hold extra doses, expanding supply McConnell warns GOP off Electoral College brawl in CongressSales top 3 million for Barack Obama's "A Promised Land'MacKenzie Scott Has Donated More Than $4 Billion In Last 4 MonthsFrench President Emmanuel Macron tests positive for Covid-19 Biden expected to nominate North Carolina environmental official to run EPA (Mostly Accurate) Transcript: OPEN  Today is Thursday, December 17th, thanks for listening once again. There were actually a ton of really interesting stories out there today, so it was tough to narrow them down. I tried to choose the ones that would be most relevant to our lives, just like the mission of this show is supposed to be, so you’ll have to let me know how I do with that. *WILLY WONKA EFFECT* There are some pretty hot takes in here, so it’s going to be a fun one. To amend those words of Willy Wonka, let’s get caught up right away. COVID REACTION AND EXTRA DOSES So, here’s the deal: I’m going to talk about this first story because we all need to be informed and aware of the risks. That said, we should keep this in perspective. I’ll explain more about what I mean in just a second.  The story I’m talking about is the news from Alaska yesterday that a health worker who received the COVID vaccine had a severe allergic reaction. It happened within minutes of getting the shot, they had to give him a shot of epinephrine, and then he was fine after that. The health officials there said that this reaction was similar to the ones in the UK last week. The only problem is that this patient did not have a history of allergic reactions, whereas the two from last week did. In that way, those made sense, and it’s why this one is scarier. It’s human nature to fear the unknown. It’s why we’re afraid of the dark.  So the caution and perspective that I want to give is that I feel like all of these reactions wouldn’t be big stories if this was a typical disease instead of COVID. If we only heard about 3 severe reactions to even something like the regular flu vaccine, I’m sure doctors would be thrilled. The data isn’t real easy to find, but a study from 2009 showed thousands of really serious side effects from the flu vaccine, so I just want to emphasize that the actual news story here is that there are only 3 news-making allergic reactions.  The other side of that coin is that millions of flu vaccines go out every year, whereas, realistically, there have maybe been a couple hundred thousand COVID vaccines that have been given to the regular public. That same argument I just made about “only 3” is the same one that the idiots used this spring to justify why we shouldn’t be in lockdowns. They always said “the flu kills more people per year” after like 2 weeks of knowing about the coronavirus. It’s comparing apples to oranges. I guess, what I’m trying to say is that we should acknowledge these cases, we should study them, we should be cautious, but don’t let this scare you out of getting the vaccine altogether. Talk to an actual doctor, don’t just take my word for it.  But hey, let’s hear some good news about the vaccine, which is actually more of a story about how our pharmacists are pretty smart people. As early as Monday, and for sure by Tuesday, pharmacists nationwide began noticing that there was still quite a bit of vaccine left over in the vials that were shipped out. Originally, I talked about how there were 5 doses per vial of vaccine, and we went through all of that math. Well, to prevent against spills and other waste, the vials are always filled more than is needed. For example, if 5 doses is 5 ounces, then they probably fill the vials up to like 5.5 or something like that. In this case, the pharmacists are finding that there are 1-2 extra doses per vial, which experts say is unusual. I’m not sure what could make them overshoot the target so much, but it’s a lucky break for us.  If we do some more quick math, 1 extra dose is 20% more, and 2 is 40% more. This means our expected vaccine totals could be as much as 40%, which would help tremendously with our supply problems. It could mean that shortage that’s coming in the spring might not be as bad. Not everyone will be at 40%, and temporarily, some places still have to strictly follow protocols, so they can only use 5 no matter what. Realistically, maybe we’ll be in the 25-30% range, which is phenomenal.  I was just trying to figure out why they could have miscalculated so much, and the biggest things I thought of were: they didn’t know how much would be lost to spilling or the environment because no vaccine has ever had to be kept this cold, or they didn’t want their shortage problem to be even worse than they were already projecting, so they wanted to be damn sure there were 5 doses in there, or maybe because these are being so closely monitored in terms of their climate and having the GPS sensors and all that, maybe there’s a lot less waste because everyone’s watching them like hawks. Whatever it is, we’re lucky for it.  Alright, last point here since it’s just my own hearsay at this point, but I guess I can sort of see why Trump supporters would think there’s some conspiracy against him these days. First, the vaccine effectiveness results get released the weekend after the election, all of these vaccines are super effective, they can be distributed in less than a month’s time, and then we find out that we can get up to 40% more and maybe our shortage problem won’t be as bad? Man, that is a very good stretch of luck, I have to say.  I don’t believe in these conspiracies, but since my whole ending theme song is inspired by a movie where a guy takes down a fascist government that rose to power using a virus they created and a secret cure that they had the whole time, I’d be remiss not to mention it at all. In reality, humans are always looking to make these everyday events have special meaning. For some reason, we have this sense that there’s something bigger at play out there. Maybe it’s because we think we’re the only intelligent life that exists in our universe. Whatever it is, we try to make things make sense, and random luck just doesn’t add up for us like a good, old-fashioned conspiracy does. I’ll leave you with the best example: the JFK assassination. Nobody believes that a nobody, dumb guy like Lee Harvey Oswald could kill the beacon of hope for an entire generation and change the course of world history, but he probably did. Oh boy, I have to stop before we get too far into that, because even I believe something funny happened there.  BIDEN EPA Another day, another nomination for the Biden Administration. Today, the lucky nominee is Michael Regan, and he has been chosen to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Currently, he’s the secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, and in the past he’s worked at the Environmental Defense Fund, as well as the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. Apparently, Regan is only 44 years old, which is insane. He must have started working for Clinton right out of high school or something. Also, he looks like he’s in his late 30s, tops, which is impossible. I don’t know what his skin care regimen is, but it’s working.  I feel like I’ve been saying this a lot, which is a good thing, but if he’s confirmed by the Senate, Regan will become the first Black American to lead the EPA.  MACRON Sort of coming back around to another story from last week, French president Emannuel Macron has tested positive for the coronavirus. He did it with style, which I respect. His motto was “go big or go home”, because in just the past few days, he’s met with a ton of other European leaders, so now they have to quarantine as well.  Let me tell you what I mean. Here’s his schedule: Last Thursday and Friday, the European Council met in Brussels, and 25 of 27 leaders of EU nations were there. On Monday, he helped mark the 60th anniversary of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, where he met the Spanish prime minister, as well as the leader of the OECD. Tuesday, he met with the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Then, just yesterday, he had lunch with the prime minister of Portugal, and he met with his own cabinet.  The Spanish prime minister tested negative today, but he said he’s still quarantining until Christmas Eve, December 24th (honestly, if you didn’t get the coronavirus but were exposed, what better reason is there for taking the week off before Christmas? That’s a power move right there).  European Council president Charles Michel said he was quarantining as a precaution. France’s prime minister also tested negative today but is still quarantining as a precaution, as is the President of France’s National Assembly, which sounds like their version of Speaker of the House to me. The prime ministers for Portugal and Spain also said they’d be self-isolating as precautions.  Lastly, Macron’s wife, Brigitte, has proactively started her quarantine, but she has not had any symptoms so far. Since they say “proactively”, I’m guessing she’s still waiting for her test results. She has a little more to worry about than Macron since she’s 67 years old compared to his 42. That’s an interesting story between them, by the way. Look up their history together if you’re bored and have some spare time.  Obviously, I wish President Macron well. Like I said last week, I have a soft spot for the guy, but I wasn’t thrilled with that police law he backed down from. Again, I’m hoping he can turn a corner and salvage his legacy. And all kidding aside, it was pretty crazy how he met with pretty much anyone who’s powerful in Europe while he was potentially contagious. It’s great that everyone so far is testing negative, and it gives me some confidence in basic COVID precautions like masks, social distancing, and hand washing. It’s a good thing they didn’t invite any Republicans, I’ll say that much.  MCCONNELL WARNING There has been some talk recently, at least in the media, that some Republicans are going to try to object to certifying at least some Electoral Votes, which the House is going to certify on January 6th. I went over this shortly after Biden was actually declared the winner in November, but to object, you need one Representative and one Senator to formally request it. I can’t remember exactly, but I think that the whole House then votes on whether to accept the votes, and if a majority does, they certify them anyway. Since the Democrats still have a majority in the House, the votes are all going to be certified.  In a private teleconference with GOP Senators, Mitch McConnell and the rest of the leadership team warned Republicans against doing this because of the reason I just said: the House is never going to throw out these votes. Now, do I think that some representative and some senator are going to team up to do this? Of course I do; you can definitely find two clowns in a circus, and Mitch McConnell is basically PT Barnum. Not to mention the fact that the Republicans are all about the show and don’t actually care about results. It’s all theater for Fox News or OANN or Newsmax or whatever propaganda network is going to be the new leader.  So, my guidance to you is to not stress out about this, even if there are objections on January 6th. Nancy Pelosi is still Speaker, and she’ll shut that stuff down right away.  OBAMA BOOK SALES Just because Donald Trump is an avid listener of Quick News Daily (maybe...I really have no idea), I want to mention that former President Barack Obama’s first presidential memoir has already sold 3.3 million copies in the US and Canada in just one month. That’s already 3rd best for presidents, and that’s total. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are basically tied since they each have sold between 3.5 and 4 million total, so Barack basically caught them in a month.  For history nerds, Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs are most likely the best-seller of all time for presidents, but the records just aren’t good enough to know for sure. We can make a pretty good guess though since those have been in publication for like 130 years, and when they were originally sold, there were hundreds of thousands of verified sales (and there were a heck of a lot fewer people on Earth back then).  But you just know that this really makes Trump mad, don’t you? He knows he’ll never have a book that successful. Even his claim to fame, The Art of the Deal, has only sold about a million copies.  Honestly, I’d be surprised if he lives long enough to get a memoir out. With his legal troubles, all of that debt, and I think it’s clear that he’s pretty far into cognitive decline, so when he doesn’t have the presidency to protect him, I think he’ll go downhill quickly. If you gave me the option of betting on if he’d be running again in 2024 or that he won’t even make it to 2022, I’d take that second option in a heartbeat. MACKENZIE SCOTT      I want to end on what I think is a good, positive note. It’s the news that billionaire MacKenzie Scott has given away more than $4B in the last 4 months alone. First of all, if you’re not quite familiar with who Mackenzie Scott is, she’s the ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. As part of their divorce, which went final last year, she got 4% ownership of Amazon, which was worth $37B at the time. That was in Amazon stock, which has taken off even more this year, meaning she could be worth a lot more than that. That same 4% is worth $62B these days.  She explained part of her reasoning for this in an op-ed on Medium, saying "Economic losses and health outcomes alike have been worse for women, for people of color, and for people living in poverty. Meanwhile, it has substantially increased the wealth of billionaires."  She and her team chose 384 organizations to give this money to, and she even designated these funds as unrestricted gifts, meaning the organizations who got them didn’t even have to agree to any conditions, which is where they can get you sometimes.  By July of this year, she had already given away about $1.7B to a bunch of different causes, but focused mainly on historically black colleges and universities, and women’s and LGBTQ equity organizations.  For these last few months, she asked her advisers to figure out ways to give away more money faster so that she could help with the COVID fallout. She says “They took a data-driven approach to identifying organizations with strong leadership teams and results, with special attention to those operating in communities facing high projected food insecurity, high measures of racial inequity, high local poverty rates, and low access to philanthropic capital.”  By the way, can you imagine having a whole team who’s entire job is to vet these organizations that you’re going to give billions too? That is a goal.  The CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, told Bloomberg that Scott's nearly $6 billion in donations this year "has to be one of the biggest annual distributions by a living individual", and the director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies wrote that "She still has a long way to go in her stated intention of giving away all the wealth. But she's now made two bold moves, putting to shame the other 650 U.S. billionaires who haven't figured out comparable ways to boldly share”. He’s referring to the Giving Pledge that she signed last year, which is a promise that she’ll give the majority of her wealth to charity. Oddly enough, Jeff Bezos didn’t sign the pledge, although he did commit $10B to fighting climate change earlier this year.  I’ll admit, it feels a bit strange to be praising these billionaires so much for giving the rest of us some help, when regular people helped build those fortunes. At the same time, when you have one person giving away $6B in just one year, and the experts on the subject are saying that’s a record and puts other billionaires to shame, I think it’s newsworthy and shows that some people can handle that much wealth fairly responsibly.  I also don’t think it’s a coincidence that she is a she. Maybe we don’t keep track of every billionaire’s donations to charity, but I think it’s definitely notable that she’s new to being a billionaire and is giving away her wealth at this rate.  Here comes another opinion, but it seems like the people who suddenly gain such an insane amount of wealth are the ones who realize how fortunate they are and how lucky they had to be to get to that point, whereas the people who built their wealth by starting a business or something are more likely to keep it.  END Alright everybody, and that’s the way it is. Like I mentioned yesterday, there won’t be a new show tomorrow. I realized that I never played you Joe Biden’s victory speech after being certified by the Electoral College on Monday, so I think I’m going to send that out as the show tomorrow, so you’ll be able to hear that wherever you’re listening right now. It’ll just be like when I played their victory speeches when the race was called by the media back in November.  As for next week, I plan on having at least one show on Monday or Wednesday. I have a sneaky suspicion that folks might be taking a break from listening to podcasts next week, but I’m not sure. All the big podcasts seem to take the week off, which I’m always hesitant about. I’m thinking about putting together a mini “best of” show, but now I’m thinking maybe I should save that for the week after and make it like a “year in review” show. Who knows, it’s just an idea I’m playing around with.  I’d mention I’m still designing new merchandise, but I’ve been saying that for the last couple weeks, so I’ll just let you know when it’s actually available at this point.  Anyways, that’s the lay of the land. Stay safe, and I’ll see you on the next episode. 

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Building Unicorns and Redefining Online Banking - Renaud Laplanche, Upgrade CEO/Co-Founder I sat down with Renaud Laplanche, co-founder and CEO of Upgrade, a neobank that offers affordable and responsible credit to mainstream consumers. Since inception in 2017, Upgrade has surpassed $100 million in revenue run rate and a billion-dollar valuation. The company is backed by some of the best VCs in the industry and has raised over $200M dollars in debt and equity, including Mouro Capital, Ribbit Capital, Union Square Ventures, FirstMark Capital, CreditEase, and many more. Prior to Upgrade, Renaud founded and ran Lending Club, a company that pioneered consumer fintech and that he took public in December 2014 at a 10B dollar valuation. There’s no doubt Renaud and Lending Club inspired a generation of fintech founders around the world and countless of fintech founders repeatedly cite Lending Club as an inspiration for their companies. Renaud is also in a select and exclusive club of founders that have started not one, but two unicorns. Listen to the full interview --> Spotify | Soundcloud | Apple Podcasts Renaud Laplanche Renaud is the co-founder and CEO of Upgrade, Inc. a neobank that offers affordable and responsible credit to mainstream consumers. Under his leadership, Upgrade reached $100 million in revenue run rate, profitability and a billion-dollar valuation within 3 years of launch. Upgrade is the only neobank backed by one of the world’s top 10 largest banks. Prior to Upgrade, Renaud founded and ran Lending Club for 10 years. He took the company public, reaching a market capitalization of $10 billion in December 2014. At Lending Club, Renaud pioneered consumer fintech and grew the company to become the largest provider of personal loans in America. Renaud was ranked #23 in Bloomberg Markets’ 2015 Most Influential List, an annual ranking of the World’s top 50 most influential leaders across technology, finance, and politics. He was also recognized at the Clinton Global Initiative by President Clinton for expanding access to affordable and responsible credit. In 2014, he won the Economist Innovation Award in the consumer products category and was named the "best start-up CEO to work for" by Business Insider. Renaud was named “Fintech Executive of the Year” by Finovate in 2020. He also holds the Newport-Bermuda world speed sailing record. About Upgrade Upgrade is a neobank that offers affordable and responsible credit to mainstream consumers through personal loans and cards, together with credit monitoring and education tools that help consumers better understand and manage their money. Over $3.5 billion in loans and cards have been originated by the Upgrade platform since inception in 2017. Upgrade is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an operations center in Phoenix, Arizona, and a technology center in Montreal, Canada. Personal Credit Lines are issued by Cross River Bank, a New Jersey State Chartered Commercial Bank, Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender. Upgrade Card is issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. Rewards associated with the Upgrade Card, when applicable, are provided by Upgrade, Inc. More information is available at: https://www.upgrade.com. Wharton Fintech https://www.whartonfintech.org/ | https://twitter.com/whartonfintech | https://www.linkedin.com/company/wharton-fintech-club Miguel Armaza https://www.linkedin.com/in/armaza/ | https://twitter.com/MiguelArmaza

With a 25 year history, WineBid is the oldest and largest online wine auction site.  The original wine re-commerce platform, Russ tells us about the auction process from the buyer and seller perspective as well as all the data they collect and display for the wines.  This includes innovations such as a 360-degree bottle shot, price history charts, and new functionality like their customized shipping feature.  He even spills the beans on a few tips and tricks to getting the best deals on WineBid!  Detailed Show Notes: Russ’ background - software and e-commerce at realtor.com, myfico.com, gazelle.com, and also had a vineyard in Temecula, California, growing Syrah and TempranilloWineBid - 25 years old, based in Seattle with operations in Napa, the oldest and largest wine auction siteWeekly auctions - open at 7:15 pm PST on Sundays, closes at 7 pm PST the next SundayAll items open at the same timePro’s get 1st 5-10 minutes to view and place bidsWhat doesn’t sell rolls into the following weekNow introducing some wines mid-week, with most wines going in one weekSet good reserves upfrontWineBid Sunday Night is "appointment internet" - people watch the auctions' final minutes with a good bottle of wine, watching some wines get bid upCan monitor all bids at once with WineBidFor Sellers of wineConsignors are mostly private individualsMost sales are for $10,000-$1M+, ideally $100+ average bottle valueSellers send their list and get an estimateWineBid does the appraisal and after agreeing with consignor, ships wine to the Napa warehouseWines are inspected, authenticated, and photographedOnce sold, sellers get a check or electronic wire transferAs part of an estimate, for larger cellars, WineBid will help catalog and pre-inspect on-siteReasons people sell winesAs in many businesses, the 3 D’s - divorce, debt, and deathPeople also have their tastes change and swap out what’s in their cellarsThey move and want to downsize their cellarSpouse/partners - may force sales before they can buy moreWine as an investment - WineBid was featured in an article in the Economist, conducting a 15-year analysisBasket of Burgundy wines would have outperformed the S&P 500Basket of Bordeaux wines would have been close to the S&P 500Need to think of total transaction costs- transactions costs higher for wine as an investment, as a physical assetConsignment vs cash buyout for wine sellers - generally make more money consigning and capture more upside, but takes more time and can get paid sooner, at a discount, with immediate cash buyoutBusiness modelSeller commissions - at most auction houses 5-25%, larger the consignment, the lower the premiumBuyer’s premiums - generally 15-25%, 17% at WineBid vs ~20-25% for live auctionsBuyer demographics - ~135-150,000 registered bidders70% US, 20% Asia, 10% Europe⅔ Male, ⅓ FemaleUpper middle income and higher-tech, finance, professionals (lawyers, doctors)Demographics getting younger, particularly in 2020 -> interested in a broader selection of wines with higher mobile usageMost learn about WineBid via word of mouth, recently doing more social and digital advertising and trying to make the experience more personalTips & Tricks for buyersBid early, put in 1st bid at the reserve, and set your max price upfront -> this may discourage others from bidding on the wineDon’t get emotional and chase the wine upLook for wines that you know you’ll like without scores or in the 90-93 point range (94+ get big premiums); analysis based on average critic scoresOnly ~3% of the wine market is online, ~$10B online with a $325B overall marketCovid pandemic accelerated the move online by ~7 yearsE.g., Wine.com setting record numbers and seeking capital at ~$1B valuationGoPuff buying BevmoWineBid Innovations360-degree hi-res bottle shotsOne of the best for still photography in wine auctionsShipping functionality - can see everything you have and pick and choose what and when to shipSome of the most detailed condition notes on bottlesWine price chart for the history of the bottle, like a Zillow ZestimateMost expensive wine sold on the site - a $50,000 bottle of Rose from Sine Qua NonProvenance premiumsDon’t see significant premiums on provenanceNo significant premiums for original wood cases (“OWC”) - buyers often don’t want to pay extra to ship the wood caseCertificates of authenticity not seeing significant premiumsLabel appearance is important to many buyersThe proliferation of wine critics and influencers has led to some influencers rivaling and outpacing traditional media

➤ Tesla publishes 10-Q SEC filing for Q3 2020, detailing $10B+ capital expenditure plans and sharing more details on Elon Musk CEO performance compensation plan ➤ More information on Elon Musk’s compensation plan can be found here: https://youtu.be/XfHWl_Lhf5o ➤ Additional information on Tesla’s deferred revenue, production rates, delivery constraints, Energy gross margins, and Tesla’s $5B capital raise ➤ Tesla begins to export Model 3 from China ➤ Shanghai places additional restrictions on license plates Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/teslapodcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tesladailypodcast Plaid producer Who Why Plaid producer Ice Lakes Investments Ludicrous producer Fred Hassen Executive producer Rish Singh Executive producer Jeremy Cooke Executive producer Troy Cherasaro Executive producer Bradford Ferguson Executive producer Andre/Maria Kent Executive producer Jeff Sheets Executive producer Jessie Chimni Music by Evan Schaeffer Disclosure: Rob Maurer is long TSLA stock & derivatives