HQLA Essentials

Virgin Galactic, known by its ticker SPCE, is a highly volatile, high-growth space flight company, which is supposed to be flying customers to outer space.   

After its SPAC through Chamath Palihapitiya's VC Firm Social Capital Hedosophia (with the original ticker IPOA), SPCE has come a long way towards being a real option for actual consumer space flight. It looks at the moment like flights are most likely to start with just touching the upper atmosphere and only just entering 'outer-space' in a technical sense, however, Virgin has plans to get all the way to the international space station. Even though most millionaires agree they would pay $250,000 for a ticket, it may still be some time before SPCE is charging them for commercial space flights, and even longer until the company is turning a profit. Definitely a stock to look out for though, with gains already north of 300% after its SPAC merger in September 2019. Let's not forget they also have Blue Origin (by Jeff Bezos) and SpaceX (Elon Musk's company) to compete with. These Billionaires are very competitive with their space companies.

E-Commerce stores, how much is it worth for a certain user-base or revenue figure? We find out by comparing a few different Shopify successes. From Vacuum cleaners to Gucci handbags, to the patriotic apparel worn by the far-right.

Amazon is a mega-conglomerate that is only getting larger.   

Acquiring brands like Twitch, Wholefoods, and more recently MGM Studios, as well as many others over the last year, Amazon is growing at a massive rate. As we've seen, it's not just from the delivery and warehousing.  

Will it be the first company to hit a market cap of $5 Trillion? Who knows. What we do know is that  Jeff Bezos has built an automation powerhouse used by over 70% of US households. Scaling rapidly with over 1.3 million employees, AMZN is a holding which has really come to be an essential service in the pandemic.   

An important consideration to the investors recently has been around Bezos stepping down as CEO, as Andy Jassy takes the top position. Will Bezos spend his days continuing to intervene? Or will he spend all the time at the Washington Post and on his Blue Origin spaceship?

This is an energy-efficient solution to Bitcoin's major flaws and uses a lattice structure instead of the traditional blockchain structure.

Lucid vs Tesla 

Apple vs Microsoft 

Square vs Twitter

What's the deal with NFT's, are they worth all the Ether? Are they here to stay,  or a quickly dying fad that will be lost in the depths of the internet and forgotten by next year? 

Never mind all the future stuff for now though, if you want some engaging dinner conversation about how much people are spending on Logan Paul's custom Pokemon Cards, or how Beeple has legitimized Non-Fungible Tokens by selling his NFT at auction house Christie's, then look no further. 

In this discussion, we look at everything from definitions to minting to the cut that creator gets when their art is re-sold. It's all on the Crypto Blockchain baby

Wesfarmers is an Australian conglomerate most famous for owning Bunnings (and previously Coles). They've bought and sold many Aussie companies, much like a huge private equity firm would, except these mergers are the largest in Australia.

Jessica Alba launched her company onto the NASDAQ this month.  It's currently valued at over a billion dollars but doesn't have the most diverse income stream, with most of the sales currently from diapers and wipes. 

The company is now exploring its new market share in the homecare area, with refillable bottles available. However, they have some big competition like Method, which already makes a sustainable line of environmentally-friendly home care products.

Grab is growing more popular in Asia as a real competitor to Uber and Lyft. But they do more than just call a cab for you. They will deliver your food,  provide financial services, organize your calendar, allow you to message people, and even help you with marketing your business.   

This is a super app because it can really do it all. They're working on growing the platform and the userbase, as well as the functions of the app, to keep you on there for anything you need.   

The pre-merged SPAC is trading under the ticker AGC (Altimeter Growth Corp). It has taken some heavy losses in the last month as there has been a huge downturn across the whole tech sector. Check it out and let us know what you think below.

Recently IPO'd, this stock gives crypto traders the picks and shovels to chase the new digital goldrush: buying Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other Altcoins. 

We discuss Garry Tan, the original Venture Capitalist who made over 6,000% taking this company right from its seed stages all the way through to the largest direct listing in history.   

Massive growth in revenue has been launching the company into high growth. As there are more people trading bitcoin, there is more and more revenue coming through the door. COIN has had over a billion dollars in revenue by the end of last year.