Moving Average Podcast: Recent Episodes

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WeWork's CEO Adam Neumann Cashes Out $700M - https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-co-founder-has-cashed-out-at-least-700-million-from-the-c

Fifth Wall VC Closes $500M Fund - https://fortune.com/2019/07/17/fifth-wall-closes-largest-real-estate-venture-fund-to-date/

India Considers Crypto Ban - https://www.reuters.com/article/crypto-currencies-india/update-1-indian-panel-recommends-cryptocurrency-ban-idUSL4N24N2MO

DoorDash the Tip Thief - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/nyregion/doordash-tip-policy.html

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Bolt Raises $68M

Superhuman Drama

Deutsche Bank Layoffs

Facebook Libra vs US Gov't

Virgin Galactic Goes Public

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Facebook and the Libra

Chewy's delicious IPO

Brex raises another $100M wow

Sequoia be scouting

Beyond Meat is beyond me (hah)

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Slack and Postmates looking at IPOs this year

Spotify buying Gimlet for $230M cash

Big Rounds: Ike, GOAT, Lime, Aurora, Nuro, Doordash

Reddit raised $300M from Tencent, everybody freaks out

Calm is a unicorn mental health app, but totally sucks

Bezos gets blackmailed but doesn't bat an eye

Square to support Bitcoin's Lightning Network (eventually)

Term sheet survey shows dwindling faith in the economy

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"New Media" is dead, but only some of them

Pinterest and Palantir looking to IPO

Big funding rounds for Acorns, Hims, Clutter, and Stripe

Saudi Arabia and UAE launch the Aber cryptocurrency

Kik Messenger getting looked at by SEC 

Facebook Research paying users for data 

Facebook is combining Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram (backend) 

Apple is slowing down, Huawei speeding up 

Amazon with some below-par expectations