Do Your Research

Have you ever listened to Lyft drivers' stories on Pick Me Up podcast show, sponsored by Lyft? Those stories are beautifully told and are truly inspirational. However, since a few days ago, there has been a bigger Lyft story that has me and potentially another 60 million stock market investors in the U.S. wishing to be a Lyft driver. You ask, why? 

Lyft, Inc. has just filed its S1 documentation with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission to go public on Nasdaq stock exchange in 2019. Lyft drivers, assuming that they have completed at least 10K rides with Lyft are going to get a slight bump in their net worth, because as you will hear in the latest episode of our Renegade Investors podcast show, Lyft drivers are entitled to a nice going-public bonus and have a chance to use that bonus to invest in Lyft's shares before the rest of us. While Lyft drivers are considering to become investors in Lyft, you and I, on the other hand, won't be able to complete 10K drives anytime soon. But, we may still decide to become an investor in Lyft when it goes public soon. The question is, should we?

This episode would not be possible without the free and openly available content around the web, especially on YouTube. We are fortunate to live in the golden age of free information. Thank you!
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Detailed list of sources:

• Pick Me Up podcast website:
  
  • https://creative.gimletmedia.com/episode/will-won-grammy/ |
  
  
  • https://creative.gimletmedia.com/episode/as-long-as-were-together/ |
  
  
  • https://creative.gimletmedia.com/episode/im-gonna-restaurant/ |
  
  
  
  


• CNBC Television YouTube channel: 
  
  • Ridesharing app Lyft files for 2019 IPO, and its jump start could be a major advantage for the stock |
  
  
  • Kara Swisher on Lyft and other hotly-anticipated IPOs for 2019 |
  
  
  
  


• Boss Files with Poppy Harlow website on Sticher- Lyft Founder John Zimmer: On the Brink of IPO:  https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/turner-podcast-network/being-boss-with-poppy-harlow/e/58848176


• Rani Milla Twitter account: https://twitter.com/ranimolla/status/1101588325603913728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1101683206137438208&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherideshareguy.com%2Ftakeaways-from-lyfts-financials%2F |


• CBS This Morning YouTube channel: Lyft president on self-driving cars, what sets them apart from Uber |


• Bloomberg Technology YouTube Channel: Lyft Should Include Drivers in IPO Ownership, NYU's Sundararajan Says |


• Bloomberg YouTube channel: Why GM And Lyft Are Teaming Up |


• Pitchbook.com: https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/an-inside-look-at-lyfts-ipo-filing |


• Renan Dincer's Twitter account:  https://twitter.com/rrnn/status/1101953759175860225 |


• https://freesound.org

Passive index fund investing is arguably the most well-accepted wisdom of modern day finance. No one is smart enough to buy low and sell high consistently. And, all you need is to believe in capitalism and put your money in an index fund that is representing the overall market, and that's the winning formula.

That's the proven formula of wealth. Or, is it?

Borrowing some wisdom from the nutrition and health industry, some times things that are deemed to be not so good for you now were once considered healthy. Sugar was once considered a medicine, and we now have started a  war against it.

Can passive index fund investing be the new Sugar?

This episode would not be possible without the free and openly available content around the web, especially on YouTube. We are fortunate to live in the golden age of free information. Thank you!
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Detailed list of sources:

• CBC News YouTube Channel: The Secrets of Sugar - the fifth estate |


• Freakonomics Radio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2gliEYBo10 |


• Fox Business YouTube Channel: 
  
  • Vanguard Group founder on how to manage your 401 (k) plan |
  
  
  • Vanguard Group founder on the problem with index funds :
  
  
  
  


• Morningstar, Inc YouTube Channel: Bogle: Keep Investing |


• The University of Chicago YouTube Channel: Japan's Economic Bubble and the Lost Decade, with William Tsutsui |


• NPR Planet Money Podcast: Japan's Lost Lesson |


• oldiesfan1968 YouTube Channel: ITALIAN MUSIC - THAT'S AMORE - ROCCO GRANATA |


• Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-funds-passive/index-funds-to-surpass-active-fund-assets-in-u-s-by-2024-moodys-idUSKBN15H1PN |


• https://freesound.org​

The first time I heard NVIDIA's CEO saying that Moore's Law is dead, I was confused! How can Moore's Law be Dead? How is it possible that we can imagine a future with chips and semiconductors in everything we own and use, from the packaging of the food we eat to the clothing we wear? And, at the same time, say Moore's Law is dead. More importantly, if Moore's Law is dead, does it mean Semiconductor stocks and companies are dead too? As an investor, how can we stop mourning the death of Moore's law and instead celebrate it? Or, the question we'd want to answer is how do we invest in the semiconductor sector in the post-Moore's Law era?

We are going to hear from a well-known physicist, Nvidia CEO, Xilinx CEO, AMD's CTO and even Alphabet's chairman and dig deep into the technology that is emerging to continue to increase computation speed, and of course, we do all that in order to discover companies and stocks that are leading the post Moore's Law era and maybe are good additions to our investment portfolios.

Moore's Law can be dead, but the investing party must go on!

This episode would not be possible without the freely and openly available content around the web, especially on YouTube. We are fortunate to live in the golden age of free data and information. Thank you!
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Detailed list of sources:

• Frederick Penn's YouTube Channel: Artificial Intelligence(AI) Defies Moore's Law! NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, GTC 2017 Keynote |


• Big Think YouTube Channel: Michio Kaku: Tweaking Moore's Law and the Computers of the Post-Silicon Era |


• FW Thinking Podcast on iHeart Radio website: The End Of Moore's Law? (Not Really) |


• NVIDIA YouTube Channel: NVIDIA GTC Europe 2018 - Jensen Huang Keynote |


• Xilinx Inc YouTube Channel: XDF 2018 Keynote: Platforms for the Adaptable, Intelligent World by Victor Peng, President and CEO |


• Google Developers YouTube Channel: The future of computing: a conversation with John Hennessy (Google I/O '18) |


• https://freesound.org