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Active equities trader and managing partner of proprietary trading firm Seven Points Capital, Michael Katz, returns for a third appearance on Chat With Traders. As we’ve previously done a 'regular' interview and an episode analysing how Mike traded the Lyft IPO, we’ve tweaked the format again and this time Mike’s answering questions submitted by listeners of the show. There were many brilliant questions sent in, which I’ve sorted into four categories: Strategy, Trade Management, Trader Development and Prop Trading.

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You know that the key to investing is having a diversified investment strategy and on this episode of Retirement Starts Today you will hear how people that decided to switch gears during the crisis ended up losing out. We will also discuss the Lyft IPO and why betting on individual stocks is no safer than […]

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In this episode JC talks about the upcoming earnings reports from the banks and what the results could mean for the stock market as a whole. He also gives his long play of the day which happens to be a bank stock this week. JC also discusses Disney's streaming announcement and what that might mean for Netflix. In addition, he gives his opinion on the Lyft IPO. www.ChamesEntertainment.com

New S&P ESG 500 products will promote sustainable investing and offer needed diversification for most ethical investors. Sustainable assets leap 34% to $30.7 trillion in 2 years globally. Green bond awards help ethical and sustainable investors find green fixed income products. Ethical investors avoid Lyft IPO and suspicious of social media companies with regulatory issues. Transcript & Links April 12, 2019 Hello, Ron Robins here. Welcome to my podcast Ethical & Sustainable Investing News to Profit By! Presented by Investing for the Soul, April 12, 2019. Now again, if any terms are unfamiliar to you, simply Google them! Also, you can find a full transcript, live links and sometimes bonus material at my podcast page located at investingforthesoul.com/podcasts News Now for the exciting news to profit by for ethical and sustainable investors! The first item I want to talk about is that with all the news concerning Facebook and Google regarding the regulatory pressures they’re facing around the world, it means that somehow, investors have to take into account the potential for severe disruption in their business models and possible negative impacts on their profitability and stock prices. So this post, titled, A regulatory lens when assessing ESG risks, by Sudhir Roc-Sennet, of Vontobel Asset Management, writing in Investment Europe, is truly pertinent. Sudhir says that and I quote, "Internally we look at sustainability through an ESG-R lens, which includes regulation alongside environmental, social and governance factors. Many of our investment companies have held leading industry positions and, as a result, regulation is one of the greatest risks they face." Close quote. You might be aware that your ESG portfolio is probably top heavy with tech and social media companies. So, a review of your holdings in light of regulatory risk might be warranted. Financial stocks too are often overweighted in our ESG portfolios. So, come the next recession – which two-thirds of American economists predict in the next two years – financial stocks could again become the subject of significant regulatory and financial risk. So be careful about overweighting in sectors that have potential regulatory risks. ------------------------------------------------------------- This next piece of news excites me. It’s title, S&P unveils ESG version of 'iconic' 500 index, by Chris Sloley at CityWire Selector. I quote, "S&P Dow Jones Indices has launched an ESG-centric version of its long-running S&P 500 index as part of plans to launch a wider family of responsibility-focused indices... The index has been developed to serve not only as a performance tracking tool but also as a building block for creating new ESG index-based investment products such as ETFs." Close quote. This is exciting news for ethical and sustainable investors. The S&P 500 index and financial products based on it, are among the most popular financial products to have ever been conceived. RobecoSAM will be creating the index. They also are responsible for the FTSE4Good index. I believe many large financial institutions and pension funds have been awaiting this development to make even greater investments in ESG related investment vehicles. For yourself as well, financial products arising from this could help resolve the problem I just mentioned. That is, not being overly invested in one market segment such as tech or social media. An S&P 500 ESG product will likely be quite diversified. However, I do say that though the components of this new index will be screened for ESG characteristics – you will inevitably be investing in some industries you don’t like. Thus, if this is a concern for you, take my quick and easy DIY Ethical-Sustainable Investing Pays Tutorial to learn how to create a diversified portfolio that truly reflects your values. ------------------------------------------------------------- Now the following is information that many of you will want to know about! What are the best green bonds around! Environmental Finance in London assembled a team of 24 top green bond experts to come up with the… Winners of Environmental Finance Bond Awards for 2019. These awards aren't about which green bonds made investors the most money, but, rather, included characteristics such as quality, innovativeness, best practices, etc. Nonetheless, if you're wanting to invest in, or add to your present green bond holdings, you might find some ideas among the winning green bonds here. Don’t forget, go to my podcast page at investingforthesoul.com/podcasts and go to this show date for links I’m mentioning today. ------------------------------------------------------------- Speaking about investing with your personal values, I know many ethical and sustainable investors wouldn’t touch oil fracking stocks. And a lot of it is because of the environmental costs posed by fracking. Unfortunately, as a Canadian report makes clear on David Suzuki’s site – the famed Canadian biologist-environmentalist – the impacts of fracking are still largely unknown and it’s the next generation who’ll feel these impacts! See the post, As fracking booms, report finds we know little about impacts. ------------------------------------------------------------- Now some great news about the growth of sustainable investing. There are two posts I want to talk about. The first, Global Sustainable Investments Rise 34 Percent to $30.7 Trillion, by Emily Chasan, Bloomberg, and the second Greenwashing purge sees sustainable funds lose share in Europe, by Siobhan Riding, of the Financial Times. Both stories reveal data from the same Global Sustainable Investment Alliance study released on April 1. On the one hand, we see a massive and continuing rise in sustainable investing globally. That’s terrific! However, on the other hand, in Europe, the actual rise in sustainable investment assets has been slower than the growth of the whole market. Now, Europe has for many years been the leader in sustainable assets under management, so it’s not a surprise to see it slowing down there. Here’s a quote from the latter article on this point, quote, “Holdings in sustainable funds made up 49 per cent of professionally managed assets in Europe at the start of 2018, compared with 53 per cent in 2016.” Close quote. So, why is it going down, again, quoting the same article, it says, “Sustainable investment funds have lost market share in Europe as a clampdown on greenwashing forces asset managers to reduce their assets in such strategies.” Close quote. And I say that’s a good thing! ------------------------------------------------------------- Hey, were you excited by Lyft’s IPO on March 29? Numerous ethical and sustainable investors weren’t. Why, because early evidence is that they’re putting more cars on the road and pulling people off public transit! Thus, adding to congestion. Also, people are tending to use these services instead of biking or walking. In short, Uber and Lyft seem to be adding to congestion, pollution, and a less healthy lifestyle. Furthermore, they are presently losing money on a grand scale. Annually, Lyft at around $900 million and Uber around $1.8 billion with little prospect of any profits from either of them soon! Lyft’s IPO stock price on March 29 was $72 and as of the time of recording this post, is in the $60 range. For a good read on them go to Environmental investors are calling Uber and Lyft's bluff when it comes to going green, by Ross Kerber & Heather Somerville of Reuters. ------------------------------------------------------------- Now, many of you listening to this podcast in the US have retirement savings accounts through your employer known as 401(k)s. But I bet you've wondered why there aren’t ethical/ESG options? Well, a recent survey by Natixis found that though, I quote, "61% of workers would increase their retirement savings if they could put their money in socially conscious investments… just 13% of workers have access to those kinds of impact investments." End quote. There appear to be several reasons why employers are reluctant to offer ethical/ESG investments in US 401(k) plans. Chief among them, according to the Natixis survey, is that employers don't feel it's right for them to "impose their morals on their employees’ investment choices." Personally, I think that answer is absurd since they're also offering many other options too, which when considered, are also 'moral choices!' In fact, I’d argue that every investment has a moral component! The second principal reason is due to the US Department of Labor making it clear that ESG couldn't be used as the main criteria for selecting investments. This, of course, reflects President's Trump's campaign to promote old and dirty industries – which usually score low on ESG measures. If you are in a situation where your employer isn’t offering the type of 401(k) investments you want to chat with your fellow employees, see how they feel too. If they’re with you, then go to your employer and make it known to them what you want in your investments. You might be surprised that they probably agree with you and just might take the actions necessary to get those ethical/ESG investment options you want! The information on this 401(k) situation is gleaned from an article titled, Workers want those hard-to-find socially responsible investments in their 401(k) plans: Survey, by Lorie Konish of CNBC. ------------------------------------------------------------- In my podcast of March 15, I discussed how some new ETFs were focusing on gender issues because more women in management seem to improve corporate financial performance. However, it seems that some of these funds don’t seriously advocate for women when it comes to stockholder resolutions concerning equal pay and pay equity disclosure, for instance. And that is rather odd. Therefore, if you invest in these funds and care about these issues, read the data gathered by Morningstar in the post Investing with equal pay in mind may be more difficult than you think, by Lorie Konish at CNBC. ------------------------------------------------------------- So, there we have it for this podcast! Again, to read the transcript and get all the links and additional information mentioned here, please go to investingforthesoul.com/podcasts and look for this edition. And remember, I’m here to help you grow in your investment success—and investing in opportunities that reflect your personal values! Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about this podcast or anything else investment related. A big thank you for listening—and please click the share buttons to share this podcast with your friends and family. Come again! Bye for now! © 2019 Ron Robins, Investing for the Soul. All rights reserved.

After appearing on Chat With Traders last year for episode 156, Michael Katz returns: Mike’s a short-term equities trader and managing partner of proprietary trading firm Seven Points Capital. The purpose of doing this episode was to have a very specific and detailed discussion about how Mike traded ride share company Lyft on the first day of its IPO (Mar 29). And to make it easier for you to follow along with our discussion, I’ve included intraday charts with Mike’s entries and exits in the show notes—go to: chatwithtraders.com/173 Note: You are responsible for your own trading decisions. No recommendations given.

It’s been a WHILE since the last After Hours segment but Pat & Posh are BACK with another banger! This episode features one of our most insightful, interesting conversations yet. We kick things off by paying homage to a local LA legend, Nipsey Hussle, who tragically passed away a couple of weeks ago. He was an instrumental part of shaping the culture of Los Angeles and went above and beyond for his community. His family and friends are in our thoughts and prayers. We also have a deep discussion about the “reality distortion field” and the striking similarities between two of the biggest documentaries of the year, FYRE (on the Fyre Festival) and The Inventor (on Theranos and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes). Other topics include the corruption that occurs in large organizations (the recent USC scandal as an example) and the Lyft IPO, among other upcoming tech IPOs, and what it means for the industry. We also share some VERY exciting news… Make sure to tune in! SUBSCRIBE TO TFH NEWSLETTER & STAY UPDATED > http://bit.ly/tfh-newsletter FOLLOW TFH ON INSTAGRAM > http://www.instagram.com/thefounderhour FOLLOW TFH ON TWITTER > http://www.twitter.com/thefounderhour INTERESTED IN BECOMING A SPONSOR? EMAIL US > partnerships@thefounderhour.com

Discussed market data, weekly jobless claims, Fed funds rate, the economy, Boeing 737-max issues, and the LYFT IPO.

VISIT PETER AT THE LAS VEGAS MONEY SHOW May 13 - 15, 2019 https://conferences.moneyshow.com/moneyshow-las-vegas/speakers/4532d84bf93311d3a5dd00104b96e7b5/peter-schiff/ Recorded April 2, 2019 February Durable Goods Order Declined Slightly Less Than Expected We had a quiet day in the U.S. stock market today.  Not much reaction from a slightly weaker than expected February Durable Goods Orders number that came out before the market opened.  They were looking for a weak number; the consensus was for a decline of 1.8% - we got a decline of slightly less than that: 1.6%. They revised the prior month down from +.4% to +.1%, so we declined less, but from a lower number. Overall, slightly weaker.  In fact, the Core Capital Goods number was also slightly weaker.  They were looking for a rise of .2%; instead, we had a drop of .1% - although they revised the prior month up from .8% to .9%.  Still a little weaker on the day. Lyft Hitting Lows But the market still seems to be oblivious to the weak data, in fact later in the day we did get the auto sales numbers that were disappointing, as well. A lot of bad news is being routinely overlooked by Wall Street.  Lyft, the company that went public on Friday: I discussed the lackluster performance of that IPO on Friday.  In fact, most of the commentary that I listened to or saw was positive.  They were describing the Lyft IPO as a big success… everything went great… the stock went up… But what concerned me about the stock was not how it went up, but how weakly it closed. It pretty much closed on the low of the day.  It had sold off pretty much all day, following the pop on the open. Lyft Sank into Bear Market on Day 2 The stock came public at $72 and it immediately traded as high as $88.6, but closed the first day of trading at $78.29. Still above the $72 opening, but anybody who bought the opening print was down.  Then it got clobbered on Monday and it fell again today.  It only closed down slightly.  It closed relatively near the highs of the day, but the low was $66.10.  That's 25% below the peak price on Friday. So that's a bear market.  In fact, officially Lyft sank into a bear market on its second day as a public company.  So that bear market got even worse today.  The stock is now better than 8% below its IPO price.

In episode 149 we welcome back our guest from Episode 122, Phil Haslett. Meb and Phil begin the episode with a chat of the IPO environment so far in 2019, and the recent Lyft IPO. Phil then gets into the cyclicality of IPOs in general, and that IPOs tend to be most successful when the market is not so volatile. Meb asks Phil about the IPO process. Phil starts with banking and how the banking relationship works, and what some companies have done to avoid the high costs of going through the IPO process. Google was the first to give an alternative approach to the IPO process a shot, and Spotify found huge success through a direct listing. Next, Phil gets into the changing characteristics of what firms look like in today’s IPO cycle, vs. the past. He discusses that the value of which companies go public is far higher than it used to be, and they are going public much later. This stems from companies raising large amounts of capital as private companies. Eventually, though, they’ll need to go public for a couple of reasons. 1) venture capital investors that invested early, may run out of patience waiting for an exit, 2) the need to address liquidity for other shareholders 3) recognition, and 4) be able to issue stock and raise capital for potential future M&A. The conversation then shifts back to Lyft, and their S-1 filing. Phil mentions some interesting points he and his team found in the S-1. He discusses Lyft’s $300 million R&D spend, signaling the likelihood it is making major investments, possibly in autonomous driving. They also found that the company has presented itself as a transportation as a service (TaaS) company. Meb brings up the topic of dilution, and why it is so important in understanding venture capital investing, and Phil walks through the fundamentals of capital raising, and shareholder dilution, and what it really means to early investors. Next, employee wealth, and how to think about managing it is addressed. Phil shares some advice of being diversified to offset the concentration that comes with both owning shares and earning a paycheck from the same company. As the conversation begins to wind down, Phil covers his take on the future of the private investment space. Hear all this and more in episode 149, including the future of EquityZen, and Phil’s predictions for the 2019 IPO market.

On today's episode we discuss how to pay for college on the cheap, why is financial literacy in the U.S. so low, is there ever going to be a solution for the retirement savings crisis, the Netflix model for financial advice, why the financial services industry is like the fast food industry, there are plenty of rich people to go around, the Lyft IPO, how much money would it take to get you off social media for good, why Michael is the Brett Favre of writing about the CAPE ratio, credit card recommendations is a big business, should financial advisors have their own advisor, where the 'Bell' in Tace Bell came from, why The Avengers movie franchise is just like the finance industry and much more.   Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.

Rob Black talks Lyft IPO Downtrend and is joined by Patrick O'Hare to discuss the market after last quarter! Tune in to hear it all on this edition of Rob Black and Your Money!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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On this podcast, I rant about the Lyft IPO: how it is being hyped by the media and what retail investors sometimes don't understand about initial public offerings. People still don't understand they're not "getting in early" when they go to buy IPO shares of a company, despite companies like Blue Apron and GoPro imploding after their respective IPOs. So why doesn't the mainstream media ever warn investors of how much risk is associated with IPOs? Because they don't want to, I go on a rant. QTR Podcasts are always free, but some people choose to make a small recurring donation, which is gratefully accepted: https://www.patreon.com/QTRResearch   THANK YOU TO ALL OF MY KIND PATRONS   Please show love to those who support the QTR Podcast.    Biggest Patron Donors    Quantamize - visit for free trial - Twitter: @QuantalyticsRes  Corvus Gold - http://www.corvusgold.com Investors Underground - day trading community - Twitter: @investorslive  Chris Boas  Ken R  Chris Bede - Twitter: @cbede  Russ Valenti - Twitter: @russellvalenti  "Piggly Wiggly Fine Purveyor of Rare Yam Trees" Longest Running Supporters   Max Mulvihill - Since 2/2018  Kyle Thomas - Since 4/2018  Chris Bede - Since 5/2018  Dariusz Kordonski - Since 5/2018  Chris Gerrard - Since 5/2018    All podcast content is subject to this disclaimer.    Chris is not an investment adviser. Listeners should always speak to their personal financial advisers.     THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE - OPINION ONLY AND FOR JOURNALISTIC AND DISCUSSION PURPOSES    Disclosures: No position in LYFT

VISIT PETER AT THE LAS VEGAS MONEY SHOW May 13 - 15, 2019 https://conferences.moneyshow.com/moneyshow-las-vegas/speakers/4532d84bf93311d3a5dd00104b96e7b5/peter-schiff/ Recorded April 2, 2019 February Durable Goods Order Declined Slightly Less Than Expected We had a quiet day in the U.S. stock market today.  Not much reaction from a slightly weaker than expected February Durable Goods Orders number that came out before the market opened.  They were looking for a weak number; the consensus was for a decline of 1.8% - we got a decline of slightly less than that: 1.6%. They revised the prior month down from +.4% to +.1%, so we declined less, but from a lower number. Overall, slightly weaker.  In fact, the Core Capital Goods number was also slightly weaker.  They were looking for a rise of .2%; instead, we had a drop of .1% - although they revised the prior month up from .8% to .9%.  Still a little weaker on the day. Lyft Hitting Lows But the market still seems to be oblivious to the weak data, in fact later in the day we did get the auto sales numbers that were disappointing, as well. A lot of bad news is being routinely overlooked by Wall Street.  Lyft, the company that went public on Friday: I discussed the lackluster performance of that IPO on Friday.  In fact, most of the commentary that I listened to or saw was positive.  They were describing the Lyft IPO as a big success… everything went great… the stock went up… But what concerned me about the stock was not how it went up, but how weakly it closed. It pretty much closed on the low of the day.  It had sold off pretty much all day, following the pop on the open. Lyft Sank into Bear Market on Day 2 The stock came public at $72 and it immediately traded as high as $88.6, but closed the first day of trading at $78.29. Still above the $72 opening, but anybody who bought the opening print was down.  Then it got clobbered on Monday and it fell again today.  It only closed down slightly.  It closed relatively near the highs of the day, but the low was $66.10.  That's 25% below the peak price on Friday. So that's a bear market.  In fact, officially Lyft sank into a bear market on its second day as a public company.  So that bear market got even worse today.  The stock is now better than 8% below its IPO price.

LYFT IPO News: Lyft started trading on NASDAQ and immediately plummeted. On the 2nd day of trading, LYFT is already trading below its IPO price. Is the LYFT IPO 2019 a flop? And will LYFT recover? In this podcast, Markus compares the LYFT IPO to other popular IPOs - and it's shocking!

Gmail celebrates an appropriate April Fool’s anniversary, the winners from the Lyft IPO, Mark Zuckerberg asks for regulation and food tech has delivered a meatless Whopper™. Sponsors: PaintYourLife.com: Text the word TECH to 48-48-48 Metalab.co Links: Google launches Gmail message scheduling and expands Smart Compose to more devices and languages (VentureBeat)  New Facebook tool answers the question 'Why am I seeing this post?' (TechCrunch) The biggest winners of Lyft’s $24 billion IPO (Quartz) The CEO behind 'Fortnite' says it's 'evolving beyond being a game' and explains the company's ambitious vision (Business Insider) Mark Zuckerberg: The Internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas. (The Washington Post) Citizen Zuck: The making of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg (CNET) Burger King begins selling the meatless Impossible Whopper (The Verge) Subscribe to the Ad-Free Feed!

Alissa went to the Lyft IPO announcement and saw the Mayor! Scott introduces a new segment and theme song! Garcetti said something about tents! The LA Times published a big charter expose and Hayes reads some wild stuff a charter founder wrote! The city disappeared a possible witness against the LAPD! The Sheriff's alleged-abuser friend has a gang tattoo and there's video of him breaking into his ex-girlfriend's house! It's our one year anniversary episode!

Wassup friends, Oh man, dis episode was DOPE! Comedian Lancey Richardson (Comedy show every Thursday at 8pm at Chicago Joe’s) cracked us up while real estate gangsta Joey Cacciatore (http://jos-cacciatore.com/) coached us up! Why did Joey drop out of college to develop the bad ass Lacuna Artist Lofts property? What are the 3 techniques Joey uses to make serious chedda in real estate? How did Joey take a $300,000 parking lot in 2017 and turn it into $9 million of condos today?! Why the F is Joey Cacciatore so cool? (Hint: has something to do with meditation. I told y’all *reflection* is fo’ real!!) We also got a taste of my grandma Zarifa - she slam dunked the Lyft IPO *grandma Arabic accent* tech bubble all over again! Finally, we broke the news to Lancey that he missed in the crazy news cycle: Trump was elected President in 2016! And according to Joey, we have 10 more years of Trumps in the White House after Ivanka wins in 2024!! (WTF?!) Enjoy! Amer SHOWNOTES: 7:30 Brexit day 3 years ago March 29th 9:15 markets up 13% this quarter 15:50 last year fed stopped raising interest rates 23:00 Muslim underground railroad 30:00 Estate taxes putting companies out of business 33:30 50K to 500K in 25 years 35:45 Capital gains tax 39:25 Hedge-fund risk 42:20 FUNNY 45:30 Don’t go to college 56:15 Art of real estate development 1:00:00 making bank through real estate development 1:24:00 How much money you make - how much you can borrow 1:26:00 Zareefa - Lyft IPO, 1:28:00 Uber vs Lyft 1:34:30 “Not just ride sharing” 1:37:00 Facebook dumpster fire 1:43:30 Gov probably going to regulate social media - sell facebook 1:44:00 Apple new services - credit card, tv plus, apple news, #BUYAPPLE Connect with Amer Abdullah and BNOS: Visit the BNOS PODCAST: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/business-news-and-other-%24/id1438358922?mt=2 Visit the BNOS Blog: Coming soon! Like BNOS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/businessnewsandothershit Follow BNOS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theAmerAbdullah Follow BNOS on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theAmerAbdullah --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/business-news-and-other-sheet/support

On this week's episode we discuss NATO turning 70 and it's been 113 years since the rules for college sports were established in the US. We discuss Brexit and snowplow parents. Also included: Lyft IPO, Hikikomori, the good deeds of football fans, and Ukraine's election. 

Studies show that the International Monetary Fund has a 99% miss rate when it comes to predicting recessions, what US cities are above and below their pre-crisis housing peak, and how do dividend paying stocks fare versus the S&P 500?

Episode 72 - Hey! I’m back!

Diving deep into Lyft's IPO as $LYFT on the Nasdaq. Rival Uber appears next up on the NYSE and the comparisons are underway. But while Lyft's performance may well shape Uber's are these two really in the same business? We're not so sure. And just who is the original ride hailing app? Hint: it's not Uber. Plus our Fast Five: - Salesforce has a Backpage issue - The rise of the Chinese phone makers - Huawei's latest challenge isn't spying it's insecure tech - Facebook bans white supremacists - IBM's new Hyperprotect Services Our Tech Bites Segment: Facebook is sued by the US over enabling discriminatory housing advertisements. It's real and it's not going to be an easy fix. Our Crystal Ball Prediction: Will Uber'sIPO be impacted by Lyft's performance? Hint: we think so and it won't be a free ride. Information: This Futurum Podcast features Daniel Newman (@danielnewmanUV), Fred McClimans (@fredmcclimans) and Olivier Blanchard (@OABlanchard). If you haven't already, please subscribe to our show on iTunes or SoundCloud. For inquiries or more information on the show, email the team at podcast@futurumresearch.com or follow @FuturumPodcast on Twitter. To learn more about Futurum Research please visit www.futurumresearch.com. Disclosure: Futurum Research is a research and analysis provider, not an investment advisor. The Futurum Tech Podcast is a newsletter/podcast intended for entertainment and informational purposes only. Futurum Research does not provide personalized investment advice and no investment advice is offered or implied by this podcast.

In MACROECONOMICS: Quick update on the yield curve, it reverted back from inversion! Good news, I guess?The US Committee on Foreign Investment orders Chinese company Beijing Kunlun to jettison its majority stake in Grindr. Why you may ask? The answer could blow apart tenuous trade talks between the US and China.In BUSINESSES: LYFT enters the public markets, popping to 87$ a share in a frenzy of exuberance before nestling down to $78 at the bell, but still up near 9% on the day. What did we learn from the LYFT IPO that we didn't know already?Bayer AG pays the piper for another bundle of lawsuits related to blood-thinner Xarelto to complement its hellish ordeal with Monsanto subsidiary's Round-up. If Bayer is destined to founder in an ocean of liability lawsuits, what is the play for us? On ROBERT'S STOCK TIP CORNER, we discuss the merits of buying Dow DuPont, or not.

Join the Acquired Limited Partner program! https://glow.fm/acquired/ (works best on mobile)   Call it the playoffs. Call it the Olympics. Call it March Madness. No matter which sports analogy you borrow, it falls short of capturing what Lyft's IPO yesterday kicked off in the tech world. A generational changing of the guard from the FAANG to the APLUSS (Airbnb, Pinterest, Lyft, Uber, Slack, Stripe). A breaking of the liquidity dam that's kept capital, technology and talent locked up in a small number of Silicon Valley winners for longer than ever in history. And most importantly, a public market avenue for investing in the largest single market created since the advent of the internet. Acquired is live on the scene recounting and analyzing the history of Lyft (and ridesharing broadly) in every exquisite detail!   Links: Lyft’s S-1: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1759509/000119312519059849/d633517ds1.htm Donate to Homobiles: http://bit.ly/2TM40nAÂ   Carve Outs: Ben: Bill Gurley on "Runnin' Down a Dream" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmYekD6-PZ8 David: "Cricket Fever" on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80222770   Sponsor: Thanks to Perkins Coie, Counsel to Great Companies, for sponsoring Acquired Season 4. You can get in touch with Kara Tatman, who you heard at the beginning of this podcast, at https://www.perkinscoie.com/en/professionals/kara-e-tatman.html

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Sure, we just aired a new episode yesterday but things keep happening, and after talking about this crop of IPOs for so long, we can't help ourselves. (You can follow us on Twitter, here and here, by the way, if Equity isn't enough for you.)Lyft, as you know, started trading today, closing the loop on a long saga that brought the smaller of the two domestic ride-hailing unicorns to the public markets. After so much speculation about which of the two would get out the door first, Lyft did, and now we get to see what sort of pricing shenanigans happen next. Does Uber drop rates and punish Lyft? Or does Uber work to cut its losses, lowering its expenses and providing a clearer path towards profitability before its April IPO roadshow kicks off? (Not a path to profitability, mind; Uber and Lyft need to show a path to the direction of profitability first.)We hit all the basis, going over the company's pricing path, its varying share figures, final raise metrics, and more. If you want the hard stuff, we've got a shot for you. Now that the Lyft IPO has wrapped, we'll be shifting our focus to Pinterest, Zoom and of course, Uber. Stay tuned. Ok, now we're done. Until next Friday. Unless something else happens.

Lyft IPO’d today, Huawei’s profits don’t seem affected by governmental pressures, Stack Overflow is looking for a new CEO, Alexa Business Blueprints allow you to create custom skills for your business and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: LightStream.com/ride DataDogHQ.com/ridehome Links: Lyft pops 20% in trading debut (CNBC) In This Tech I.P.O. Wave, Big Investors Grab More of the Gains (NYTimes) Huawei tops $100 billion revenue for first time despite political headwinds (CNBC) The Next CEO of Stack Overflow (Stack Overflow Blog) Amazon’s Alexa for Business Blueprints lets employees make custom voice apps (VentureBeat) The Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Podcast Suggestion: RunAs Radio The danger of 'I already pay for Apple News+' (TechCrunch) Europe is splitting the internet into three (The Verge) ‘A battle for the top of the funnel’: Pinterest’s long road to becoming a commerce platform (Digiday) Forget Brexit and trade wars, Europe’s start-ups are thriving (Financial Times) The Enormous Numbers Behind Amazon’s Market Reach (Bloomberg) The Elaborate, Dying Art of Hustling for Money at Dave & Buster's (Vice)

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The news to know for Friday, March 29th, 2019! Today, new details about the Mueller report, Facebook under fire again, and the airline that suddenly shut down. Plus: Lyft debuts on Wall Street, and the four sports that could debut at the Olympics. Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes! Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.  Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com to read more about any of the stories mentioned under the section titled 'Episodes' or see sources below... Today's episode is brought to you by Swap.com. Go tohttps://www.swap.com/newsworthy for free shipping on your first order. Become a NewsWorthy Insider! Click here:  https://www.theNewsWorthy.com/insider                 Sources: More Mueller Report: WSJ, FOX News, NYT Special Olympics Funding: NYT Wow Air Shuts Down: CNBC, AP Jussie Smollett Fine: Fox News, CNN, AP, Variety Lyft IPO: CNET, CNBC, WSJ Facebook Housing Discrimination: Reuters, AP, WSJ Facebook's Ad Library: TechCrunch, Ad Library Netflix Fastest Growing: PR Newswire, Variety Olympic Breakdancing: BBC, ESPN/AP    

Exciting end to the first quarter with the Lyft IPO today, the first of the tech wave of IPOs expected to come later this year. Our markets finish the quarter strong with all 4 major indexs higher on the day and finishing with the best Q1 since 1998.Tune into today's podcast with Tyler Herriage of the Vertical Research Advisory (VRA) to see the main reasons why the VRA System remains bullish.

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Sure, we just aired a new episode yesterday but things keep happening, and after talking about this crop of IPOs for so long, we can't help ourselves. (You can follow us on Twitter, here and here, by the way, if Equity isn't enough for you.)Lyft, as you know, started trading today, closing the loop on a long saga that brought the smaller of the two domestic ride-hailing unicorns to the public markets. After so much speculation about which of the two would get out the door first, Lyft did, and now we get to see what sort of pricing shenanigans happen next. Does Uber drop rates and punish Lyft? Or does Uber work to cut its losses, lowering its expenses and providing a clearer path towards profitability before its April IPO roadshow kicks off? (Not a path to profitability, mind; Uber and Lyft need to show a path to the direction of profitability first.)We hit all the basis, going over the company's pricing path, its varying share figures, final raise metrics, and more. If you want the hard stuff, we've got a shot for you. Now that the Lyft IPO has wrapped, we'll be shifting our focus to Pinterest, Zoom and of course, Uber. Stay tuned. Ok, now we're done. Until next Friday. Unless something else happens.

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Squawk Box anchors discuss the latest round of US-China trade talks resuming in Beijing, as Chinese stocks rally on hopes of progress. The S&P is on track to record its best Q1 since 1998 but legendary investor Warren Buffett says fears of an imminent slowdown in the global economy are justified. We preview today’s $24bn-listing of Lyft, which is the first public offering by a ride-hailing company. In London, on what was meant to be Brexit day, UK prime minister Theresa May is set to attempt another Parliament vote on her withdrawal agreement. We’re also talking about Huawei which has posted a 25% annual rise in profits despite what it calls a US campaign to ‘smear’ the company.

Dan looks at the expected Lyft IPO pricing with Paul Hudson, Founding Partner of Glade Brook Capital Partners. In the "Final Two", Facebook gets sued for housing discrimination and Google CEO's meeting with President Trump.

Squawk Box anchors discuss the UK parliament impasse following MPs’ rejection of all 8 of last night’s alternative Brexit decisions as well as Prime minister Theresa May’s resignation offer to break the deadlock. We discuss the move down in bond yields, as the US 10-year treasury yield hits the lowest level since 2017. We are live from Beijing to take a look at US and Asian market moves as China vows to open up to more FDI ahead of the next round of trade talks with Washington. Also, Saudi Aramco snaps up a majority stake in petrochemicals firm Sabic for $69bn. Elsewhere, ride-hailing company Lyft boosts its price range ahead of its IPO, chemicals giant Bayer is slapped with an $80m damages pay-out over another weed killer-related cancer case and we have an exclusive interview with former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi.

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Lyft Pre-IPO Disability Lawsuit, Facebook Move to Hurt Diversity Recruiting, Supplier Diversity, and Gucci Changemakers This week Torin and Julie make a pact to have a “Noose Free” episode….or do they? They dive deep in Lyft’s pre-IPO discrimination lawsuit and how FIXABLE this one is, come on ya’ll! Julie and Torin duke it out on the good and the bad of Facebook’s decision to remove remove microtargeting from their advertising platform for employment.  Julie calls BS. What about supplier diversity programs? They have impact, but how many companies hide behind them to hide their failure to hire? Gucci’s recompense continues with investment in the community and in young designers, but does a celebrity guidance council actually matter? Name Drops:   Josh Akers for the Lyft IPO heads up JZ, VP of Marketing Smashfly - Google Local Guide Series https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LYX5Hqucb3g Disability Solutions https://www.industryweek.com/talent/pepsi-polaris-talent-disabilities-gets-results #AbledsAreWeird, Follow Imani Barbarin!   https://www.romper.com/p/twitters-abledsareweird-shines-a-light-on-the-things-said-to-people-with-disabilities-16962363  Imani Barbarin Cams Coffee Creations (Wintson Salem, NC)  - Hires and empowers individuals with developmental and  intellectual disabilities.  https://www.camscoffeecreations.com  Runway of Dreams event 3/27 -- Zappos is doing a Adaptive Fashion Event - Tune - 6pm PST to Watch Our Live Stream Event -- https://www.zappos.com/e/adaptive/runwayofdreams TATech and Smashfly RM Leadership Summit http://tatechrm.io/ Episode Links: Lyft: https://www.forbes.com/sites/berenicemagistretti/2019/03/20/lyft-ipo-federal-lawsuit-disability-discrimination/ Facebook: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebook-agrees-to-dismantle-targeted-advertising-system-for-job-housing-and-loan-ads-after-discrimination-complaints/2019/03/19/7dc9b5fa-4983-11e9-b79a-961983b7e0cd_story.html?fbclid=IwAR0UjShNgSxyJiE78ph_C4Gb9kDZPBRVGQOAc97msefk4wJPYIQyKQjeO6E&noredirect=on&utm_term=.089b9f799d0f  Gucci: https://www.ebony.com/news/gucci-changemakers-program-diversity-inclusion/ More on Torin and Julie: Julie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliesowashdisabilitysolutions Torin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torinellis  Cred:  Produced by Chad Sowash Music by DJ Cellz Image by Thomas Ulrich from Pixabay 

Ed Butowsky, top wealth manager in Dallas and managing partner of Chapwood Investment, LLC, explains in detail why you need to avoid buying into Lyft IPO.

Full analysis of Lyft's upcoming IPO. The ride-sharing startup is rumored to list at a valuation of ~$25B. Revenue in 2018 was $2.2B (+103%), with an operating loss of $978M. Do you think this is a fair valuation? What are your thoughts on Lyft's financials & future?

Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm took us through an IPO, a big round, 943 startup pitches, two new unicorns, and some scooter news. A very 2019 mix, really. Up first we took a peek at the latest from the Lyft IPO saga. Recall that Lyft is beating Uber to the public markets, and we can report that it's having a good time doing so.

Ride-hailing company Lyft Inc will IPO later this week with investors seemingly undeterred at the Uber rival’s heavy annual losses which reached $911m last year. It has been a good 48 hours for both US president Donald Trump and British prime minister Theresa May. In South African news, the stock which accounts for 25% of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s SWIX index weighting and 20% of the daily trade, is to list its major assets in Amsterdam. The JSE struggled yesterday with the overall index losing 1.3% and losers outscoring gainers by three to one.

Hey peeps, Flip-flop-Fed. Right Said Fred. Yabba dabba dooooo! Yeah, so the Fed flip-flopped last week. First, interest rates were UP in December. Now, they’re DOWN in March. And guess what? Stocks prolly ‘bout to flip-flop. Errryone just ch-ch-ch-ch-chill. Keep investing 20% of yo chedda, no matter what the market do. Bein’ chill-ion gonna get you to a billion. What about Mark Zuck? He always in some muck. Our passwords weren’t secure? Man, W-T-F ??!! And y’all gon love Meghan’s story about being on a flight with Jesse Eisenberg (yep, he’s as creepy as he looks). Lyft IPO goin’ bananas. Investors straight THROWIN billions at Lyft! Is it gonna be another Snap? Dat sh!t still down 35% from IPO even tho it came out bangin. Finally, Bud Lite been talkin’ smack to MillerCoors on TV commercials, sayin Miller & Coors brew with corn syrup. And now MillerCoors suing the sh!t outta Bud. Let’s sit back and watch deez 2 clowns beat the sh!t outta each other!! Click listen and enjoy! Amer Shownotes: 3:00 The NZ Mosque shooter 11:00 Meghan Powell - Air and water show at the Cards Against Humanity Theater. Every Wednesday in April at 8pm. 12:00 Agenda 15:00 The markets-down week in stocks-dovish. Fed has embraced an easy money policy. Why are they flip flopping? 20:00 What does the Fed know that we don't? 24:30 Lifeblood of economy is interest rates-stay invested 30:00 60/20/20 rule - keep that 20% continuing to invest 36:30 Does this data negatively affect the market 39:00 Facebook-down 3.5%. Instagram check out. 40:00 Jesse eisenberg story 48:20 FB has been storing passwords incorrectly 53:30 Disney and Fox 58:00 AT&T and Time Warner is a much messier merger 1:09:00 IPOs for Levi's, Pinterest, Lyft, Uber - is this a sign of an oncoming down market? 1:14:00 Bud Light vs MillerCoors - corn syrup --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/business-news-and-other-sheet/support

This week on the podcast, Ali Mogharabi on what Lyft is worth, Christine Benz with fixed-income ETFs for retirees, Ariel’s John Rogers with two of his favorite mid-cap stocks, Brian Moriarty on the state of the high-yield bond market, Eric Compton with ratings changes in the bank sector, and Christine Benz with IRA contribution tips for later in life.

There were some edit issues in the initial publishing of this week's Equity episode that have been corrected. The player below will play the corrected episode. Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm took us through an IPO, a big round, 943 startup pitches, two new unicorns, and some scooter news. A very 2019 mix, really. Up first we took a peek at the latest from the Lyft IPO saga. Recall that Lyft is beating Uber to the public markets, and we can report that it's having a good time doing so. The popular ride-hailing company, second-place by market share in its domestic market, is oversubscribed at an already-healthy valuation. If the company will raise its price or the number of shares that it sells isn't yet known, but early indications hint that Lyft timed its IPO well. Next, we took a look at the recent OpenDoor round that has been long-rumored. Tipping the scales at $300 million, and valuing the home-buying-and-selling startup at $3.8 billion, the company's latest equity event was a bit higher than expected. There are other players in its space, and the firm isn't yet recession-tested. All the same, a Murderers' Row of capital lined up for the latest round. Moving on, Kate went to Y Combinator's Demo Day and got a closer look at the accelerator's latest batch. There were a ton of two-minute pitches, many of which sounded the same, but chances are we'll see a few unicorns emerge from the bunch. And, interesting tidbit, some of the companies actually forwent Demo Day and raised capital before they could hit the stage! Later, we discuss two new unicorns. This week's unicorns had a theme and one that was new to Equity. This time, both the billion-dollar businesses mentioned on the show were founded by women. As Kate noted, there aren't too many of those, so to see two in the same week is great. Glossier, founded by Emily Weiss, brought in a $100 million Series D led by Sequoia Capital. The round values the beauty business at a whopping $1.2 billion, tripling the valuation it garnered with a $52 million Series C in 2018. As for Rent The Runway, a startup founded by Jen Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss, it closed a $125 million round led by Franklin Templeton Investments and Bain Capital Ventures. This round values the company at $1 billion. Hyman took to Twitter to share some inspirational words on raising capital as a woman, a pregnant woman, in heels! And finally, we took a look at a Parisian scooter tax. Mostly because Alex wanted to talk about Paris. And that's Equity for the week. We'll see you soon!

There were some edit issues in the initial publishing of this week's Equity episode that have been corrected. The player below will play the corrected episode. Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm took us through an IPO, a big round, 943 startup pitches, two new unicorns, and some scooter news. A very 2019 mix, really. Up first we took a peek at the latest from the Lyft IPO saga. Recall that Lyft is beating Uber to the public markets, and we can report that it's having a good time doing so. The popular ride-hailing company, second-place by market share in its domestic market, is oversubscribed at an already-healthy valuation. If the company will raise its price or the number of shares that it sells isn't yet known, but early indications hint that Lyft timed its IPO well. Next, we took a look at the recent OpenDoor round that has been long-rumored. Tipping the scales at $300 million, and valuing the home-buying-and-selling startup at $3.8 billion, the company's latest equity event was a bit higher than expected. There are other players in its space, and the firm isn't yet recession-tested. All the same, a Murderers' Row of capital lined up for the latest round. Moving on, Kate went to Y Combinator's Demo Day and got a closer look at the accelerator's latest batch. There were a ton of two-minute pitches, many of which sounded the same, but chances are we'll see a few unicorns emerge from the bunch. And, interesting tidbit, some of the companies actually forwent Demo Day and raised capital before they could hit the stage! Later, we discuss two new unicorns. This week's unicorns had a theme and one that was new to Equity. This time, both the billion-dollar businesses mentioned on the show were founded by women. As Kate noted, there aren't too many of those, so to see two in the same week is great. Glossier, founded by Emily Weiss, brought in a $100 million Series D led by Sequoia Capital. The round values the beauty business at a whopping $1.2 billion, tripling the valuation it garnered with a $52 million Series C in 2018. As for Rent The Runway, a startup founded by Jen Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss, it closed a $125 million round led by Franklin Templeton Investments and Bain Capital Ventures. This round values the company at $1 billion. Hyman took to Twitter to share some inspirational words on raising capital as a woman, a pregnant woman, in heels! And finally, we took a look at a Parisian scooter tax. Mostly because Alex wanted to talk about Paris. And that's Equity for the week. We'll see you soon!

EP167 - Instagram Checkout Hot Take  This episode is a hot take on Checkout on Instagram feature.  We cover the main features, details about the closed beta, potential pros and cons, and a recommendation for brands thinking about selling on Instagram. Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 167 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday, March 20th, 2019. Join your hosts Jason “Retailgeek” Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. New beta feature – Google Automated Transcription of the show: Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this episode 167 is being recorded on Wednesday March 20th 2019 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scott Wingo. Scot: [0:40] Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners yesterday Facebook announced an exciting new feature for Instagram called checkout on Instagram those marketing Geniuses over there so today we wanted to give you our hot take on that. Jason: [0:58] I am excited to talk about that Scott but before we jump into it you are officially podcast cheating on me now. Scot: [1:07] I am I am you know we need full disclosure I told Jason I was going to do a podcast use very supportive so we have an open podcast relationship if Jason wants to do a podcast that’s fine but I really know he doesn’t have time to so when your Chief Commerce retail e-commerce strategy officer don’t have time for one podcast baby new podcast is really kind of a spiffy thing so it’s the future Vehicles so I was framework called vehicle 2.0 where we talked about what’s eclectic are changing car ownership electrification an autonomous vehicles so if any of those things are interesting to you at over the vehicle to. Get spooky., and you can find a new podcast would love to bring some Jason Scott show folks over there another funny thing is we got a call a couple weeks ago from Lyft they’re having a big event in Houston it’s a rodeo to Sunday your. [2:10] Find out your first review and 30 Day Rodeo can you imagine a lot of people that go to the just a lot of radio and so we didn’t experiment which is pretty interesting we did a kind of driver rewards thing where we set up right near this rodeo and lift would send messages out two drivers that were doing a lot of work on their Network and giving free car washes so that was fun we wash over 400 vehicles in a pretty short 3-day. It was three days around but it’s really time or in the evenings so does a lot of car washing soap not it’s exciting to partner with companies like Lyft there are also in their IPO process if people are interested in IPOs the lift. [2:57] Roadshow is available it’s really cool by 30 minute video I think it’s well worth your time you go to Retail Road show.com the SEC makes companies now publish their Roadshow and it’s a little known fact that they do that so I can go out there and do that it is only up there for about a week so we’re recording this on the 20th and I think I’ll probably be down by the 3rd or 24th so rachaelrayshow.com to watch Lyft IPO it’s a really cool another aspect of what looks spelling so that’s what’s going on in my room. Jason: [3:30] That is very cool you in one of your first podcast episodes for vehicle 2.0 you broke down the Lyft s-1 filing which was also very informative and interesting. Scot: [3:43] Yeah yeah and unkind of swing that back over here diepio pipeline is is just bursting with with all kinds of convenience really goodness so we could lift in there Ubers rumored to be in the pipeline instacart Postmates are also candidates and then as he sings come out we’ll be covering all the distance cop show if they’re little more relevant than this was. Jason: [4:09] Yeah in sign up for a long time listener G of course to know that I used to be a rodeo clown and I can tell you those 30-day rodeos are exhausting you are super sore by the 30th date. Scot: [4:21] Your Barrel by the end of your Barrel your rubber Barrel this is all dented. Jason: [4:25] Exactly fun but yeah there’s actually a lottery for which Clown goes in the barrel every day so you’re not generally in the barrel all 30 days. Scot: [4:33] Wow what to do a whole episode Deep dive on Jason’s rodeo clown. Jason: [4:38] Exactly that one that would be super interesting and I did get a chance to listen to several your podcast they were super informative I’m right up to the point where you have gas so I’m I’ve done a full dose of Scott wingo and I’m excited to to hear from I think the CEO of smart car. Scot: [4:56] It’s exhausting God doing it on you cuz I’m not used to talking so much. I usually get like 5 minutes out of 50 and now I have to like there’s a lot of a lot of space to fill I miss you. Jason: [5:09] I bet you I got to we having a cute version of that problem and then the last thing before we we jump into it I am too busy to do another podcast but to be clear it’s what makes me too busy to do another podcast is my job as the audio engineer for this podcast. Scot: [5:26] Yeah I learn from that we have we have a ghetto person for that. Jason: [5:34] Thank you for not saying like confident person. Scot: [5:38] Not nearly as good as you are but they have a lot more time to work on. Jason: [5:42] I was I was a little jealous about that aspect that I’m excited and I’m a subscriber. Scot: [5:48] Cool let’s talk about Instagram so if you’ve been living under a rock Instagram is a very popular social media Network driven by pictures of the kids in my family have a rule when we get we’re at a restaurant this doesn’t apply to Applebee’s or anyone basic but if we’re at a fanciest restaurant no one touches her food until we instead because instant or it didn’t happen so that’s what I’m talkin about tonight so Instagram is very popular as a refresher it was acquired by Facebook for a huge at the time record-breaking billion dollars in 2012 looking back from 2019 most people feel like that was quite a seal and other stuff so show history there was a reminder that that Facebook owns Instagram. Ceaseless jump into the announcement I know as the chief Commerce strategy officer you probably about this for a while what were the highlights. Jason: [6:55] Yep before I jump in that we always like to have useful tidbits on the show and so I feel like the the valuable one for this show is going to be that there are actual, psychological studies that have proven that when you take pictures of your food before you eat it you actually enjoy the food West. I’m super sorry. To share that with you but I feel like the Wingo family could actually be enjoying your meals a little bit more if you weren’t interested in them. I’ll put a note to those studies in the show notes and you can decide. Scot: [7:25] I’ll try that with my kids but I think it’s actually more correlated to the number of likes your free picture gets sick. Jason: [7:31] Yeah Isis I suspect that that is true and who cares if you enjoy your food if you get new new follower, yeah so this is obviously a feature for Instagram that for a while Instagram has had the ability to pin products to organic content. [7:52] So you you can have some hot spots on photos and click that hotspot and there’s been a vehicle where you could sort of Click through 2 e Commerce site that had that product so it would take you out of Instagram to the mobile version of the, the Brand’s website to look at a product detail page in in most cases and so what the what they’ve done here is they’ve eliminated the need to leave the Instagram app and go to the e-commerce site so you now get a a native product detail page in Instagram can let you do attribute so you could like selected their shoes you could select a color and a size and then you can add it to carts and then there’s not really not add to cart they’re sort of just a checkout button because you’re only allowed to buy one thing at a time and when you check out you enter, your your name and address and your payment information and they will ship you the product, so essentially Instagram is becoming your favorite thing on Marketplace wedding letting, primary Brands and in most cases at the moment did you need a Brands sell stuff natively on the platform they’re paying undisclosed. [9:10] Take radar feature to Instagram and the Hope from Facebook Sandpoint is, we have people like in this visual platform that are doing a lot of product Discovery and had a lot of high buying intent and now we’re dramatically reducing the friction to convert that buying intent into purchases. Scot: [9:32] I have I’ve been busy washing cars and haven’t had a chance to look at experience I know I looked at the launch Partners a lot of them were in the fashion category that in fashion we have the age-old problem of of styles and colors I have they saw that or do they just kind of plan on that neat have a different PDP for each. Jason: [9:52] No no they do they have a dream you drop down so you so you can select a size and color they a little bit about it’s a closed beta at this point so there’s 22 Grande selling if you’re a brand interest in selling the you can’t apply or sell right now yeah but you can have up to five products in one piece of Instagram content this is only organic content so this is not an ad format so you can. Certify visibility for this content you have to be publishing content that that a lot of viewers are already consuming and they say that the way they selected these 22 initial. Partners are folks that were already heavy users of the Instagram platform and we’re getting a lot of Engagement and we’re already tagging their content with product and so you know that apparel and Beauty category did it heavily skewed towards apparel and Beauty it’s mostly digital-native Brands you know some of the. You know so it’s it’s the Warby Parker’s and the Unicorn clothes. There’s some laundry stuff like Prada Nike and Adidas to me are the big mainstream manufacturers, there on the platform but there’s also like Burberry and in the oscardelarenta and revolve clothing some folks like that. [11:21] Yeah so they do let you do those attributes. General question what they there are some from my perspectives, limitations to what they do let you do on the product detail page and I’m actually going to hold off on. Hitting those now cuz it we are going to come in and walk through some of the. The the pros and the cons at least as you and I see them but you know we’ll put a link to their actual announcement and I’ll try to find, a product what are the limitations is this only works in the Instagram mobile app so it’s only on a mobile it’s only a nap but I’ll try to list a product so that you can click through it yourself they do have a video demonstration on their on their blog announcing it so you can kind of watch a video of someone checking out. Scot: [12:10] Call is it IOS and Android or did they just pun. Jason: [12:13] Yeah it’s all the platforms that other mobile platforms that are Instagram supports it is also only in North America right now. Scot: [12:19] Okay yeah and then I should actually know this but do you know so let’s go back so there’s been a long history of social networks trying to kind of Mary e-commerce and frankly a lot of success what are some of the historical highlights of biscuits have been tried that you recall. Jason: [12:41] Yes it is it it’s an interesting conundrum there’s been a lot of efforts at what I’ll call the social commerce in the US, like a particular bunch of iterations and sort of social by buttons and none of them have really been very successful and yet there are Platforms in particularly China by throughout Asia where this this Paradigm is super popular in heavily adopted and so for a long time we’ve always wondered are. [13:12] Eastern consumers just fundamentally different than Western consumers are they even more digitally native and Savvy in China and therefore ahead of the US consumers and so this will eventually catch on or you know it is the, are the experiences that the Pinterest and Facebook have tried. Fundamentally inferior to the experiences that that we chat and and others have done in China like. Don’t know the answer but I can tell you that Facebook launched e-commerce on the platform in 2010 and there was actually a pamper store where you can buy your diapers on Facebook back in 2010. That really didn’t go anywhere and in the subsequent 9 years. They’ve they’ve dropped a lot of Commerce capability some that wasn’t adopted and it’s been sort of abandoned and others that are that are still utilize but aren’t you don’t fall short of actually letting you do the transaction. [14:14] And so you know I think like 2014 that they wants to Facebook buy button. Which is you know not not in service today but they also wants things like collection ad formats which were like a, Commerce oriented ad format that let you have multiple products in a single ad, in 2014 and that that so is used today if you know it doesn’t let you go all the way to the by, in some non us markets Facebook actually lets small sellers host or friends on Facebook and they’re they’re powered by Shopify. So that’s interesting in some markets. Course in 2016 they made a big push to doing Commerce in the Facebook Messenger platform and there’s some. Some examples of that being useful but that certainly doesn’t you know have. Have brought engagement and you know their competitors have had similar challenges to Pinterest as as. [15:17] You know incrementally added shopping features like Rich pins and shoppable pins and Shop the look but hasn’t really you know been able to do transactions on the platform. Twitter had the the buy button for a little while and killed it Google has some shopping for mass that had buy buttons in it then aren’t aren’t. You know hugely successful and Broadway deployed so there’s a checkered past here and it’s, going to be interesting to see if now is the time that works if Instagram is resolved some of the fundamental challenges or you know the timing is just right I have my own Theory which I I promise to reveal by the the end of the podcast. The you know, one of the things that most of these efforts have in common and I I think I did notice this about the the Instagram one is if they do get successful one of the Whitney in ways they envision brand being able to publish their content to the platform is through this company I I think I’m familiar with Kyle Channel advisor. Scot: [16:26] Yeah yeah yeah so I was as surprised as you are to see jamas are there so I’m not involved in the day-to-day but you know the usually when someone needs a Marketplace integration Channel that’s what it’s called and then Spirit of of kind of. [16:46] Open the other partners that were announced where Shopify and Bigcommerce which are more kind of SMB e-commerce platforms so there it’s not like an option where you say hey if you want this widget to show up on your website you can also make it shoppable on, Instagram and then more of a competitor to channel advisor is called Commerce Hub there more XML you Dropship e but a lot of similar kind of connections that we have them so they announced kind of the for lunch partner Sarah Channel visor was excited to to the apartment I actually don’t know so I was going to ask you earlier I’ll swing back that, when Twitter first came out the buy button we got in this really big argument with them because they just wanted a retailer to put the Spy button up there and tell them inventory one time and then they would keep track of it going forward I said well that’s okay but you see these retailers have all these pools of inventory so, it’s very easy for you to get in an oversold situation because you know on on Tuesday March 1st when the retailer said they had a hundred of these widgets. [17:52] Then here on the 20th and they have zero days do it listen to us and turn off it end up being kind of a Calamity and they had to go back and figure it out you know how the inventory kind of checks are done on the sir they kind of, get the better systems will do you can either sink inventory I’ve been kind of constantly update it, I or you can do kind of call back when something’s about to be out of the car is she going to say hold on one second let me go back and verify I still have this widget in stock do you have any idea on how that’s working. Jason: [18:21] Yeah it’s a great question I don’t have super detailed. [18:31] Sort of architecture understanding of the solution I can tell you that all of these 22 vendors have bespoke Integrations and they specifically mentioned that they did Integrations with, customer service and with OMS in so what that means is. Like they say they do have some sort of robust automated way to talk to the order management system of those individual sellers. And it in the one thing that’s interesting to me very often went a platform like this watch as a service. By the way they they they do an integration with like one or a few popular platforms and then they pick beta partners that are only using those platforms. That does not appear to be with what Instagram did they pick 22 brands that were popular on Instagram and figured out how to integrate with all of them and so my suspicion is. Some of that these Integrations are likely more robust than others and so. You know it wouldn’t surprise me if the higher volume sites is like the Nike and Adidas there’s probably a real-time Perpetual inventory system in there with her it’s pull or push I don’t know. But it’s not going to surprise me if. A few of these Brands you know are doing that integration via you know file sharing and in nightly uploads or something like that and and could have some some real disparity on availability of they ever, ever had a product go viral or something. Scot: [20:00] I know I’m speaking for listeners when I told us out here what would be really helpful Jason is if you could do some experiments for a so you can go order between one and three hundred items from let’s say I’ll pick a random on here Prada and then let us know what your your your rate of receiving goes in and out of stocks I think they’ll be super useful. Jason: [20:24] I would totally do that but I’m afraid that that that this purchases would come out of my Star Wars budget which would be tragic. Scot: [20:30] You have a very large Starbucks Star Wars budget. Jason: [20:34] I think the parts going to be expensive. Scot: [20:38] So do you think this is going to kind of finally bring that Chinese level of of Engagement and activity to the marriage of Social and e-commerce. Jason: [20:51] I don’t so so to be clear like I actually think this is, probably a good step forward I think Facebook and Instagram were smart to do this and I think in certain circumstances that makes sense for the brands to take advantage of it so I I think I could have some adoption I think it could be more successful than any of those. Serta previous efforts that we that we highlighted earlier in the show but at the same time I don’t think this solution as is hits the sort of. WeChat level of of a shopping engagement. I don’t think this is going to end up being a primary selling platform for any Brands and I would certainly argue. It should not be a primary selling platform for any of these Brands it ought to be. A smart sort of secondary platform the brands leverage but not the primary way that there. That they’re looking at getting their product in the hands of consumers and so in that way I don’t think it’s going to have the same kind of adoption that some of the. The really big brands have had success with in China. [22:08] But I will like so if you know in the way I got to that is kind of just thinking through the pros and cons of this experience in there are some clear benefits to this right so I mention early on. That Instagram is very much a discovery experience right in there the. There you know there was a great quote earlier this year and now I’m I’m spacing on and who was from that I want to get. Attributed to Katrina at 6 fix that like Google saw Amazon solved. Buying but ruined shopping. [22:49] In the gist of it was essentially that e-commerce has gotten really good at the transactions of trading goods for for currency but that we haven’t really figured out how to do this sort of. A surprise and Delight of browsing for stuff in discovering stuff you didn’t know you wanted and in the modern digital era in North America the two platforms that scene. To do that sort of serendipitous Discovery the most are Instagram and Pinterest. Enso adding Commerce to a platform where people are already doing a lot of browsing and Discovery experiences. [23:29] Makes a lot of sense and it it frankly fills in a gap like there just aren’t that many consumers that are. Shopping for designer clothes by you know thumbing through Pro detail pages on Amazon. You know I know Amazon would like to change that but at the moment that’s just not the case so I think it’s it’s super smart and important that this is a discovery experience-based. Platform, you know we’ve talked a lot in the past on this show about the mobile Gap that you know the whole shopping audience is moving from laptop to mobile phones but they actually convert much poor on mobile phone, are mobile websites they convert really poorly on apps they do better but almost no retailer or brand can get a meaningful audience with her app that almost all cases the app has very poor reach and so you have this problem. [24:22] Bad experience on web small audience on mobile apps and Instagram is a potential perfect solution to that it’s a nap. With a huge a highly engaged audience so it you know it it potentially can be that that solution to the mobile Gap, like all marketplaces one of the big things it’s bringing to the party is a bunch of eyeballs right and so there’s a lot of traffic on Instagram that you get to monetize if you’re participating in this. And you know there’s a lot of brands that even though you can’t do Commerce on Instagram before this feature. The Instagram and other social networks are already a super important part of the marketing mix and so a lot of. [25:07] Particularities digital-native Brands you know really. Launched by creating organic content on the social networks and having that content go viral and that’s, really one of the primary ways that they do customer acquisition and so you know there’s a ton of brands that invest a lot of money in content for these social networks, and you know one of the challenges has always been you no attribution for that content like what’s the ROI for that great viral story that you did on on Instagram, they didn’t have a Commerce call the action will now it can have a Commerce call the action and you can you can monetize that and you can attribute that so suddenly you have a better way to, attribute value to all that that effort and content York rating on the platform so to me those are all favorable things that would make it appealing. To try this new platform of course there’s also some cons. Scot: [26:06] What is the current Jason. Jason: [26:07] Yeah well so a big one right off the bat hat is this a platform that’s owned by Facebook and you have to enter your credit card information into it right and there has not been a lot of favorable news, about Facebook lately and they’re certainly has not been a lot of favorable news about trust and security with regard to Facebook and so I do think it’s reasonable that Facebook is going to have a trust Gap, that they’re going to have to overcome to become a Commerce provider and I think everyone that sells has this trust problem and I would argue that Facebook potentially at the moment has a more acute version and so, that’s going to be super interesting in all these beta announcements Facebook has been super clear that they’re not disclosing what the fees are for the service. And so you know it is going to be interesting to know what the take rate is here like is it. You know a few percent that covers credit card processing then that could be a great deal you know is it. Higher take rate than a sort of Commerce base Marketplace I got Amazon or Ebay than you know. [27:20] That could be problematic because these are all brands that have a a direct-to-consumer economic model and they you know there. They’re not expecting to have to give away a huge chunk of those margins to an intermediary I mention it’s a great solution for mobile, oh, it’s only a solution for mobile and so if you’re someone that doesn’t use the Instagram app or you want to do Discovery experience on a on a browser or a desktop. This is not going to reach you so the audience’s is inherently limited one of the big problems to me is, mousse brands that decided to be a direct to Consumer brand did it because they wanted to have a direct relationship with the consumer and they wanted to collect first-party data about how that consumer was shopping for him buying their products, and wanted to build a relationship with that consumer and have a higher lifetime value and most d2c brands would talk about how. That the value of each customer is much higher than a single transaction and certainly much higher than selling a single SKU. [28:28] This this solution breaks all that right like the brand selling through Instagram don’t get any customer data. Instagram gets that customer data you don’t get the payment information Instagram gets that payment information and in fact at the moment they’re piloting a. An opt-in choice to let Instagram share the buyers email address with the seller. So so when you buy a product on this From Prada there’s going to be a checkbox you’re going to have the option of checking that says Prada can have your email address but if you don’t check that does not even going to know who you are or have any way to contact you, and you know in those cases people don’t check boxes to opt-in for marketing stuff so, I feel like first-party data is a big down or of this kind of solution. [29:23] You also have a problem that that the first time you buy a pair of Nike shoes on this platform you’re going to have to enter your payment information in the Facebook which is kind of klujian in a pain as it is with most mobile phones. But then Facebook’s going to store your payment information and so in the future if you’re on Nike Site and you want to buy some Nikes Nike isn’t going to have your payment information even though they sold you that pair of shoes you’re going to enter your credit card again. But conversely if you later discover a pair of Adidas on Instagram that’s going to be a very low friction purchased because. Adidas friends at Nike earlier you know got through that that friction hurtling got the customer to enter their payment information on Instagram so in a way. You’re you’re giving customer data that benefits competitors as much or potentially more than it benefits you so that’s a little risky. And then there’s just a bunch of. [30:20] Tactical execution thing that like I don’t think as it stands right now the Instagram check out full of is a best-in-class checkout flow so you can’t use Apple pay for example it’s you know it’s. Limited and payment types are all these edge cases that consumers sometimes want to do like gift cards or splitting a purchase on the two credit cards or things like that you’re not going to able to do any of these things for the Instagram platform. The best practice for entering a shipping address right now is to use the lookup database so you start typing a street database and we find your old address and save you a bunch of keystrokes. You can’t do that on Instagram if you got to enter all that the address Fields Me and You Lie, a huge killer for a bunch of Brands is that you can’t sell multiple skus or accessories or upsell the customer doll you each item is a separate transaction, and then you know one of the things that makes e-commerce most successful, is having social proof on that product detail page having ratings and reviews having Rich content that tells a story about that product. And you know there are no ratings and reviews on your product detail page on Instagram and there’s actually not a lot of rich media like the rich media is up front in the discovery experience but once you get to this conversation. Yet you know you not getting like detailed information and description and selling points about the products. [31:44] You know those are just a bunch of things that like if you were comparing it to experience you could deliver from your own e-commerce site are sort of in my mind inferior. [31:54] And so none of those are deal-breakers they just are less than perfect right so you roll all that up and I was thinking about. You know what I be advising my my clients to use this feature and the kind of conclusion I came to is. [32:13] Most of those down sides are not negatives to the brand they are negatives to this one channel and so they limit how much success you could have on the channel. But they don’t actually like fundamentally hurt the brand and so you know. [32:31] In a mind if you’re a brand that’s already spending a bunch of money on Instagram content and you’re getting organic reach with some of that content then. [32:40] Probably makes a lot of sense to try to monetize that and you know some of the negatives I mentioned will like slightly limit the success you can have but you can still have. Pretty meaningful success but if you’re not someone that’s creating a bunch of of Instagram content then I think you need to think really carefully because there’s a major expense and commitment to this this is very different than a. A transactional market place where you know you got a thousand skews and channel advisor and you just had publishing it sends a thousand of them to this platform, that’s not going to help you here like you’re gonna have to create bespoke content that has tags to these individual skews and that content is going to have to show up organically to a meaningful a size audience on Instagram. So if I was not on the Instagram platform and I was looking to grow I’m not sure I would look at this as a primary tool and I for sure would never recommend to anyone that they say hey what’s not have our own e-commerce site that’s not have a direct-to-consumer effort let’s just selling Instagram like I think that would be a. A horrific mistake to be sort of a digital sharecropper and try to build an audience exclusively here that you don’t own so to me it’s a great secondary channel that can really accelerate things for some people that are already good marketers but it’s probably not you know the holy grail for for replacing e-commerce sites and and those sorts of things for for everybody to see bran. Scot: [34:08] Yeah the the One Direction Twitter was going I thought was interesting in that it’ll be interesting to see if Instagram goes this way is it a lot of times, people, aren’t really looking at the brand pages and falling them their find influencers right so I’ll pick on a Kardashian or less a Kanye that’s about let’s see let’s say LeBron James right so he sells Nike shoes and so he may want to put something on his content that’s actually a shop old Nike ad but it’s like him wearing the shoes and chocolate that starts to get kind of complicated right so you know she doesn’t want just anyone kind of, making an ad Nike shoppable so then how do you collaborate the influencers in the shop ability to see if Instagram tries to go that route or or if it stayed with the branch being the one stopping. Jason: [35:06] Yeah like that was an early question about this was is there an amenity for influencers or even a way to track a Filippi’s I can influence are referred to say the brand did do this content and did have a sellable product on Instagram if if influencer directed an audience to that brand could they somehow be tracked and compensated for that because, there’s a lot of of. Influencers who is monetization like you know do use Instagram as the primary way to reach customers and it is pretty arduous at the moment to do at the Venetian on that and so yeah none of that is in this platform right now you know I will say a couple months ago Mark Zuckerberg talk about the direction Facebook was going in and he mentioned that commerce was going to be a major part of the the future of Facebook and so I don’t think this is the only major Commerce feature that we’re going to see this year so you know I I won’t be surprised to see other, Commerce amenities make their way into the various Facebook platforms and you know I do think there’s a a huge influence our community that’s not perfectly well served right now so I wouldn’t be surprised to see some new products there but there’s no no hanser indication that that is. Eminem or you know the next step of this. Scot: [36:27] Any last Lots. Jason: [36:31] No idea this this to me is one of those things like you know the bummer is as a brand, you didn’t have this on your road map yesterday you had a big road map of initiatives that you drink we didn’t have enough resources to get and now you’ve got this new problem. You know where it is hey Jason said this is maybe a good hit. So where does this go in the priorities do I bump something do I need to jump on this right away and let you know I do think a bunch of brands are going to struggle with. Sort of figuring out how this fits in the privatization the good news is I don’t think they’re going to be opening this up to other brands in the very near future so I think we’re going to several months to. To watch and see if we can get any any. Tidbits about how customers are adopting this with these top brands before anyone really has to make the the decision to invest in it so it’s a little bit it’s a kind of thing you definitely want to know about him be falling carefully and it’s a you know. However it plays out I think it’s an encouraging sign that the Facebook is trying more Commerce things I think that’s super important. But you know I don’t think anyone is I don’t think it’s going to change anyone’s economic fortunes dramatically in the in the near. [37:47] And that’s probably a good place to leave it because we’ve slightly exceeded our allotted time for this abbreviated hot take. If we missed any questions that you have if you want to continue the conversation we do every to jump on our Facebook page or hit us on Twitter and won’t be happy to discuss it more, as always in this hot take was helpful that great way to repair says jump on iTunes and give us that five star review. Scot: [38:15] Yeah thanks for doing the same one we always try to give you more podcast for your money so be enjoyed this episode. Jason: [38:22] And until next time happy commercing.

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瞑想アプリCalmがユニコーンに｜Calm使ってみたよ｜マシュー・マコノヒーの囁きボイス｜Calmのオフラインマーケ｜オシャレな鍼治療屋さん｜こんまりのSpark Joy！旋風｜Pelotonの勢いすごい｜8,000億IPO？｜Pelotonからインフルエンサーに｜エンジェル投資家200人｜Appleとヘルスケア｜Appleクリニック｜大手薬局CVSのウェルネス化｜ウェルネス思考｜小話:SF出張に行ってきたの巻 ◎話したニュースやプロダクト ・Meditation app Calm hits unicorn status with fresh $88 million funding - TC https://tcrn.ch/2RIVvZn ・空港マッサージ店「ExpresSpa」とCalmコラボ https://www.xpresspa.com/Articles.asp?ID=278 ・Marie Kondo Tidies Up Stephen’s ‘Late Show’ Desk - YouTube https://youtu.be/f1aBqpF6mwQ ・オシャレ鍼治療 wthn https://wthn.com/ ・Peloton Picks Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan to Lead IPO - Bloomberg https://bloom.bg/2Uje4Wo ・Sixteen percent of US adults own a smartwatch - TC https://tcrn.ch/2TM3S8y ・Apple Is Going After The Healthcare Industry, Starting With Personal Health Data - CBInsights https://bit.ly/2HgfZJ0 ・CVS introduces new concept store with more health care, less retail - USA Today https://bit.ly/2E7TeU9 ◎ひとこと Lyftの初ライドシェアIPOが楽しみです（宮武）

Hey friends, Markets Are KILLIN’ it! WTF is going on?! Mr. Market was in a *really* good mood this week. He’s up 11%+ to start off the year, up NINE straight weeks! Well, if you’re following me, you cool as a cucumber. Chill as a chickpea. Easy green peas-y. Why? Because you playin the long game, buildin’ legit wealth. You ain’t gamblin Wolf of Wall Street style. Up or down market, put in yo 20%. Why’s the market up? Well, Fed’s slowin their roll on quantitative easing sales. And Trump’s startin to get all scared on China trade war, talm’bout moving deadlines and meeting with China’s president. Art of the deal my a** ... Click “Listen” now to hear my guest Meghan Powell and I talk about movin from a paycheck mentality to a *net worth* mentality. Yup. It’s time. Grow up and get you some real cheddar. I’ma show you how. Finally, we discuss all the shi**y things banks did this week. Don’t get me wrong, banks are important, I use ‘em all the time to help me make bank. But dayyum deez banks LOVE to do stupid a** sh!t to hurt people! Like help rich Frenchies evade taxes, help Russians move dirty money, and lose billions on losing stock trades they stuffed in a drawer 10 years ago hoping it’d go away. SHOW NOTES: 6:00 Our guest Meghan Powell: If you have a sales team that would benefit from Improv Sales Training contact Meghan Powell at MPowell652@gmail.com for more info 15:00 The Markets are doing *great* WTF is going on?! 17:45 60/20/20 rule 39:00 Would a Bernie Sanders win negatively affect the stock market? 43:00 Change your money mindset - move from a paycheck mentality to a *net worth* mentality 54:00 Google’s YouTube losing advertisers fast due to permitting a soft-core pedophile ring in its comments section 1:00:00 Elon Musk - why the F do you keep posting sensitive info on Twitter? 1:03:00 Lyft IPO: *driver* “get in, we’re going PUBLIC” 1:07:30 If you’re having a bad day, just look to Kraft Heinz-slashed their dividend, stock -28%, $15 billion write down, SEC investigating and a partridge in a pear tree 1:11:00 Danske Bank was kicked out of Estonia after $230 billion of money laundering. UBS fined 4 Billion. Deutsche bank lost 1.6 billion. Banks suck this week. 1:20:00 McKinsey consulting company - they suck too. 1:21:30 Apple credit card teaming up with Goldman Sachs for some reason. Clowns don’t know what they’re doing. Special Mentions: become Anti fragile, Babyshark, Rich dad, Poor dad, and Bernie Sanders --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/business-news-and-other-sheet/support

Dave Caruso reports on a possible Lyft IPO.

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Investors are finally getting a glimpse of a potential Lyft IPO in 2019. Unfortunately the company submitted a "confidential filing" meaning we still have to wait for details. We run through what we know about Lyft and its biggest competitor, Uber. We also hit the most recent market data for wearables and VR/AR. Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn Or, reach us by email @ IndustryFocus@fool.com

Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had the Three Excellent Friends (Connie Loizos, Danny Chrichton, and Alex Wilhelm) on hand to kick things about with Scale Venture Partner's own Rory O'Driscoll. As I've written the last few weeks, what a pile of news we've had recently. And like the last few episodes, we had to pick and choose what to drill into.

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had the Three Excellent Friends (Connie Loizos, Danny Chrichton, and Alex Wilhelm) on hand to kick things about with Scale Venture Partner's own Rory O'Driscoll. As I've written the last few weeks, what a pile of news we've had recently. And like the last few episodes, we had to pick and choose what to drill into. This week: Twilio-Sendgrid, Palantir, Uber, Lyft, and Tencent Music IPOs, Instacart, and Saudi Arabia. In order, I think? First, we tackled the week's biggest venture-themed M&A: Twilio buying SendGrid. Keep in mind that they are both recent IPOs; Twilio went out in 2016, and SendGrid in 2017. The $2 billion-ish all-stock transaction is effectively Twilio using its rich market cap (rich in terms of its revenue and profit multiples) to snag an obvious (though intelligent) extension of API-powered communications toolset. Next up we dug into the chance that Palantir is worth $41 billion. Spoiler: It isn't. Then we chatted the two other recently-floated IPO valuations for Uber ($120 billion) and Lyft ($15 billion). They probably make more sense, depending a little on how you add and then divide. All that and we also touched on the recent delay in the Tencent Music IPO, a profitable company. Then we riffed through the Instacart round ($600 million more at a $7.6 billion valuation; wow), and re-touched on Silicon Valley's currently least popular dinner party topic: how much Saudi money has recently gone to work powering tech startups. A big thanks to you for not only sticking with Equity for so long, but also for making it quite literally as popular as it has ever been. It's super fun to have the biggest crew with us every week that we've ever had. You, yes you, are a delight.

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had the Three Excellent Friends (Connie Loizos, Danny Chrichton, and Alex Wilhelm) on hand to kick things about with Scale Venture Partner's own Rory O'Driscoll. As I've written the last few weeks, what a pile of news we've had recently. And like the last few episodes, we had to pick and choose what to drill into. This week: Twilio-Sendgrid, Palantir, Uber, Lyft, and Tencent Music IPOs, Instacart, and Saudi Arabia. In order, I think? First, we tackled the week's biggest venture-themed M&A: Twilio buying SendGrid. Keep in mind that they are both recent IPOs; Twilio went out in 2016, and SendGrid in 2017. The $2 billion-ish all-stock transaction is effectively Twilio using its rich market cap (rich in terms of its revenue and profit multiples) to snag an obvious (though intelligent) extension of API-powered communications toolset. Next up we dug into the chance that Palantir is worth $41 billion. Spoiler: It isn't. Then we chatted the two other recently-floated IPO valuations for Uber ($120 billion) and Lyft ($15 billion). They probably make more sense, depending a little on how you add and then divide. All that and we also touched on the recent delay in the Tencent Music IPO, a profitable company. Then we riffed through the Instacart round ($600 million more at a $7.6 billion valuation; wow), and re-touched on Silicon Valley's currently least popular dinner party topic: how much Saudi money has recently gone to work powering tech startups. A big thanks to you for not only sticking with Equity for so long, but also for making it quite literally as popular as it has ever been. It's super fun to have the biggest crew with us every week that we've ever had. You, yes you, are a delight.

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