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Happy Friday everyone! On this podcast, we are going to be talking about Electronic Payments, The Social Dilemma (Data/Privacy and the future of consumers view on their own data), and some news coming out about the stimulus checks that might be here soon. Electronic Payments are very fascinating. As we evolve to using different methods to complete transactions and trade, will physical money ever become obsolete? We are also talking about data/privacy and how future consumers might take a different stance to companies taking their data. Dan also brings us some information about the stimulus bill that may be getting passed soon. YUGE Episode. 

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Happy 21st Episode! Our podcast is officially an adult in the podcasting space. But in all seriousness, we spend today's episode talking about Tesla Battery Day. Tesla Battery Day is going to be held on September 22nd after 1:30 PM PST (after their shareholder meeting). This will be a Livestream event. We are looking for more information about their Roadrunner Project, Battery Cell Technology, The Chemistry, The Continuation of the Vertical Integrated Manufacturing, The Million Mile Battery and many other potential areas that can lead to innovation that will be showcased. But most importantly this will give investors the opportunity to judge the pace of their innovation. We are also talking about the  Workhorse potentially winning the bid to update USPS’s fleet of vehicles. This is a multi-billion dollar contract that would be amazing for Workhorse. We are also going to be speaking about bribes given to Amazon employees in return for giving competitor data to third parties. In addition to this, they would then have accounts leave bad reviews on competitor products. This opens up the discussion on the products we trust on these websites that hold no responsibility on their stock of goods on their marketplace. Big Big Big episode. Be sure to share this podcast with your friends, and rate us 5 stars on apple. Have a great week! 

Happy Friday everyone, in this episode we are talking about the Tiktok troubles not only oracle but everyone seems to be having. They have not totally closed the deal for tiktok, so there is a chance that the company does not continue to operate in the U.S. if there is an upset. We also talk about the Apple hardware event. In this event the main things shown were the Apple Series 6, Apple Watch SE, IPads, Apple Fitness +, Appe One. A bunch of new products from Apple. We also talk about 5G and its time of arrival. 5G has the potential to change the way we live and we work. Luca has all the information on it! I hope you guys continue to have a great weekend. 

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Happy Monday Everyone,

In this episode we have a fellow listener, student and friend with us, Catherine. We start this episode talking about women in business and the stereotypes, obstacles, and culture that women are facing right now. We also dive into ARM Holdings potentially being sold from Softbank to Nvidia. This merger will further consolidate the chip making industry and will allow Nvidia to compete for government contracts. We also took a look into the Venture Capital world with Covid and the numbers behind the industry during this period. Luca also talks about Conduit and Matchbox.vc as alternative ways to meet and network if you are in venture capital or a founder. Dan also brings us some information regarding corporate bonds and their sudden emergence as money starts flowing into them as times become more uncertain due to covid, international tensions, and the elections coming up. Football is also back and the contracts with cable providers are running out. We wish everyone luck on their fantasy leagues if they have one. 

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Happy Friday everyone! In this episode we dive into the Hindenburg Research document, Huawei, Asana, LVMH, Tiffany & Co, and other electronic vehicle companies. 

In a recent short seller document, he claims that the company especially, Trevor Milton, has deceived investors. Nikola stock was down 10% on Thursday September 10th.

We also talked about China and their ramp up of software and technology. Does them having their own software create a threat to the United States dominance in technology and innovation?

Asana is scheduled to IPO through a direct listing on September 30th on the NYSE. Asana is a web and mobile application designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their work. 

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Happy Labor Day! In this episode, we dive into Soft Bank, a Japanese conglomerate, headed by CEO Masayoshi San (Masa Son). News recently came out that he had purchased call options and stocks in individual companies and the overall market accounting for a rumored 4 billion dollars. These bets have led to over $50B of exposure through options. Tesla was also not added to the S&P500. This may be in part due to them using tax credits to sustain their profits and is not a reliable source of cash flow. The stock Tesla ($TSLA) is very volatile and has increased significantly this year. We also talked about a weird thing that is happening to people in the United States that are receiving seeds from China. It is said that people in all 50 states have received these seeds and the items have been identified but still pose a threat. Gamestop is also looking to be a potential short squeeze. Chewy CEO recently acquired 9% of Gamestop through his investment fund. We also talked about Snowflake and the IPO and the S1 that they released. Going to be interesting to see another largely funded company go public in a pandemic. 

Happy Friday Everyone! In this episode, we have some discussions around the market correction that occurred Thursday. Will the stock market change as we go into the weekend? In addition, we speak about oil and the future state of it. How long till how is obsolete? We also speak about Apples new privacy initiatives and how other app developers are trying to compromise with google as a lot of them will not be able to make money off of advertising.... Facebook... Then we spoke about Starlink, a project from Spacex that is supposed to bring wifi to everyone in the world. They recently just shot up their first public satellite. 

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Happy Monday everyone!

Disclaimer: Welcome to Primer! This podcast is not meant to be investment advice or gudiance and is only opinions stated by people who are NOT professionals. Do not take anything as we do not know anything. We may or may not own stocks in the companies we talk about.

Updates:
    -Dan came into the studio and we now have three hosts
    -Guests are starting to come on

In this episode we dive into nerualink, one of elon musks babies that is trying to help people with nerualogical issues live better lives. We also talk about the tech heavyness of of the S&p500 and how other companies will need to adapat. We then talk about Apple and all the events happening around them. Today they have the stock split along with Tesla, but in addition to that, they are potentially creating a new search engine, ios14 is out for Facebook and they recently took out Epic Games by deleting their app store developer account for the time being. We then talked about the Wuhan Pool Parties and how they have free water parks for the rest of 2020. We end off by talking about other Macro problems like trash during covid and how the defensive players are actually pretty strong choices for stocks.

Happy Friday Everyone! We start this podcast talking about the fed chairman, Powell, and his decision to approach inflation that could keep rates lower for longer. The shift on the inflation goal is seeking to keep interest rates lower for the foreseeable future. Bonds don't look attractive. We also talk about Tik Tok. The acquisition talks between so many different companies over the course of the past 30 days. The real companies that seem to be talking are Oracle trying to purchase Tik Tok are Walmart, Microsoft and Oracle. There were talks of Google going in and speaking with Tiktok with Soft Bank’s help. Even recently the CEO of the company Kevin Mayer had left the business due to political issues and the trump administration planning on banning the company in the U.S> unless a Technology company purchases it. Supposedly we should hear back in 48 hours regarding the deal. We also talked about SPACSs being used as a very attractive financial instrument. People like Bill Akman are cashing in on the opportunity to raise funds with their experience of being in a mergers and acquisitions field, private equity, or other operation expertise to run a business after it gets acquired. We also talked about 3d printing and the digitization of employees. 

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In this episode we are talking about the new covid-19 convalescent plasma therapy that got emergency authorization as part of the Trump Administration’s “Operation Warp Speed” program. The trials that they are using to prove the efficacy of the process has seen mortality decreases of 35%. The recent authorization has also seen backlash from Fauci, saying that the data is too weak to promote it. Futures at the time of writing this are around .3% positive. We also talked about Lambda school and their series C raising 74M. This will allow them to operate more efficiency by allowing them to take on more students. Lambda School is a 18 month course that allows users to learn programming and get a job that pays a salary of at least $50k where students do not pay the tuition until they land a job above $50k. We also discussed some leaked information that was discussed in a TechCrunch article around Palantir’s financials. They had revenue of over 700M a growth of 25% from the previous year (2018), but their losses are 500M leaving a -78% profit margin. The company is over 10 years old with 125 total customers bringing in an average of 7.4M per employee. The company should be releasing their real S-1 soon and we will bring you the information about that. We also talked about Osmind, which is a software for mental health providers and their patients. Their software and data insights improve clinical care while advancing research towards new treatments and precision health. We finally talked about our final topic in regards to how we see the market and how we are investing. 

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-Connor & Luca