The Liquidity Event | Money and Finance with Shane and Ally Jane

Gobble gobble, turkey fans! It's the special Thanksgiving episode of the Liquidity Event Podcast! Join AJ and Shane as they discuss the scarce IPO market, Tinder's recession-proof service, a run-through of headline hot takes, and a moment of gratitude--which makes this the all-time sweetest podcast episode ever. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Tinder: More pay for dating app despite cost-of-living crisis

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Ugh, are we talking about Elon AGAIN? Well, yeah, but he's running so spectacularly wild, it reminds us of the joke about a horse wreaking havoc in a hospital. There's no protocol, so I guess we're all just watching. Blue checks backfired again with the fake Eli Lilly account Tweeting "Insulin is free," shining a big light on two things: That the pay-to-be-verified-on-Twitter plan is trash and, most importantly, that price gouging insulin to the tune of 1,200 percent is ethically barren. Next on deck is a big nasty: The Wall Street Journal reports that a U.S. taxpayer is facing a fine of $2.72 million for failing to submit a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts--also known as FBAR. The stinger? The taxpayer in question didn't even OWE any taxes on those assets; this is literally just a penalty. Good luck, fella. Meanwhile, pay transparency laws are going into effect in NYC to help narrow the income gap across gender and ethnic lines. All together now: Equal work, equal pay! A solid win for decreasing income disparity. We also cover a crypto update, echoes of Enron at FTXA, and Meta/Facebook is about to lay off 10,000 employees.

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A Host of Tech Companies Announce Hiring Freezes and Job Cuts

The Truth About Tech Layoffs

What Amazon, Google and other top companies are paying in NYC

The IRS and the Eighth Amendment

Exclusive: At least $1 billion of client funds missing at FTXA

Twitter employee who's 8 months pregnant says she was locked out of her company laptop the night before mass layoffs were due to be announced

Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week

What Amazon, Google and other top companies are paying in NYC

4 million NYC workers will now see how much jobs pay before they apply—here's what to know

Michael Lewis Already Selling Movie Rights for Book on FTX's Meltdown

Fake Eli Lilly Twitter Account Claims Insulin Is Free, Stock Falls 4.37%

Crypto.com Withdrawals Rise After CEO Admits Transaction Problem

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Well, listeners, Elon's less than a week in and already making unpopular moves by gutting the employee base at Twitter by 50 percent, leaving 3,000 people without jobs. Lawsuits pending. Twitter's not alone in the tech recession, though. Stripe has also announced that it will lay off 14 percent of its employees, alongside a bevy of companies announcing hiring freezes, including Amazon and Lyft. We also talk about updates to SEC's Rule 10b5-1 around plans and declarations surrounding stock trades. Brace for the winter, dear listeners!

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Twitter sued by employees after mass layoffs begin

US Probes Insider Trading in Prearranged Executive Stock Sales

Digital payments firm Stripe to lay off 14% of workforce

The war for talent is over. Talent won, says PwC U.S. chairman Tim Ryan

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The slowest IPO month in over a decade is a hot topic in today's episode, dear listeners! Followed by an update on the Hong Kong stock exchange timed well in the year of the rabbit (that was a multiplication joke) and a revelation that artificial intelligence knows how much you are willing to pay for a plane ticket before you do! Also on deck are innovations from Rent the Runway and our upcoming Rent vs. Buy webinar (register at brooklynfi.com/events)!

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Hong Kong's Stock Exchange Proposes Waiving Revenue Requirement for Some Tech IPOs

AI Knows How Much You're Willing to Pay for Flights Before You Do

'Particularly Egregious': How Money-Losing Tech Firms Redefine Profits

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Happy Halloween, dear finance fans! This week, we have some scary cool tech topics to discuss, starting with Amazon's frightening freefall in talent retention. The en vogue expression for when someone is fired from a company? "We call that unregretted attrition," says Amazon via leaked documents. Read: Addition by subtraction. Pro-tip, Amazon: If you don't hire to nurture, employees are going to leave. Boom, solved Amazon's people problem! Speaking of problems, court challenges are hanging up student loan forgiveness a bit. Insiders say to still submit your relief application, though. In other news, Twitter's workforce is fed up with Elon Musk already. Will he drop his projected 5,600 jobs? Will a privately-owned Twitter become the digital badlands? We don't know! And freaking finally...an IPO we can get excited about. Mobileye slid into the market above its estimated trade price, which bodes well for market health. Will we be autonomous on the road by 2025? Probably not. Trick or treat: Home sales are down while interest rates soar. Scary. Last up is a scary moment for T-Swift fans when her new album broke Spotify last week. Listen... if you dare!

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Exclusive: Amazon's attrition costs $8 billion annually according to leaked documents. And it gets worse. | Engadget

Supreme Court rejects request to block Biden student loan debt forgiveness program

Elon Musk said to plan to reduce Twitter's workforce by 75% (NYSE:TWTR)

Existing home sales fall to a 10-year low in September, as mortgage rates soar

Taylor Swift's New Album 'Midnights' Crashes Spotify

The Mobileye IPO can't save Intel-in-distress

Today, we're hanging with Shane and Kurtis, one of Brooklyn FI's financial planning associates! This week, Texas Pete's hot sauce may be in hot water. A Californian is not loving that the product is manufactured in North Carolina. We're conflicted by our interest in this story. Intel is set to lay off thousands as PC sales lag, Amazon Prime Day 2.0 fails to impress, and first-time marriages are up for people in their 40s and 50s! The Wall Street Journal says more than 20 percent of federal employees trade stocks in the companies that. they. oversee. Gross! Next up, you'll hear all about YALL, y'all! That's the newest portfolio called the God Bless America ETF. After that, you'll hear about the bubbly, but non-alcoholic Liquid Death, the low-key way to hydrate on a pub crawl, being valued at an impressive $700 million. Finally, you'll hear what's up in European tech as Vodafone seeks to sell off Vantage and a quick rundown of a promising upcoming biotech IPO.

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Hot sauce brand in hot water? | LinkedIn

Intel Plans Thousands of Job Cuts in Face of PC Slowdown

Amazon Prime Day 2.0: Boom or bust?

The Wall Street Journal: First-Time Marriages Are on the Rise for People in Their 40s and 50s.

Lancaster, Pa. tops list of best small cities in America: Report

What to know about the application for Biden's student loan relief

White House unveils preview of student loan forgiveness form

Federal Officials Trade Stock in Companies Their Agencies Oversee

Anti ESG 'God Bless America ETF' has launched (NYSEARCA:YALL)

Liquid Death Water Startup Valued at $700 Million

Vodafone in advanced talks to finalise Vantage stake sale by Nov. 15 - sources

US IPO Week Ahead: Gene editing biotech plots the first $100+ million IPO of the 4Q

Join Shane and Veronica AJ as they cover the culture-shaking EU decision to adopt a universal charger requirement for smartphones, a recap of this week's XY Planning Network conference, and Lufthansa's new pseudo-ban on AirTags. Also on deck are the not-great Q3 IPO review, some hopeful prospects for Q4, and Warren Mason's definitely-happening Taco Hell SPAC. Parting thought is to look up and look forward to SkyNet and the inevitable fall of the semiconductor industry. Think happy thoughts, listeners!

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EU lawmakers impose single charger for all smartphones

Lufthansa "bans AirTags in luggage" after passengers publicly shame it with location of lost bags | Boing Boing

Micron Pledges Up to $100 Billion for Semiconductor Factory in New York

Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere

Be warned, dear listeners: Spooks abound in this episode where we talk about horror movie-induced insomnia, attempting to join Delta Airlines' secret society, and seedy casino crawls. Then, we hit Intel's IPO for Mobileye, their autonomous driving technologies company, as we ask ourselves "how soon will the car become the chauffeur?" Remember the ice bucket challenge for ALS research back in 2014? This week, the FDA approved a new drug to treat ALS because of that funding and, in doing so, warmed the hearts of everyone who believes in this cause. Political rhetoric abounds as politicians with deep pockets and even deeper fears of being audited vilify the IRS with disinformation. That's more scary than spooky. And finally, you didn't hear it from us, but DISCLOSURE is the name of the game when using your social media channels to promote the latest crypto. This week, Kim K learns a tough lesson from the SEC about disclosure. Hit play and hear our hot takes!

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The Ice Bucket Challenge wasn't just for social media. It helped fund a new ALS drug

Kim Kardashian to Pay $1.26 Million to Settle S.E.C. Charges Over Crypto Promotion

Gary Gensler: SEC Charges Kim Kardashian for Unlawfully Touting Crypto Security

Sense and Nonsense About the IRS' Funding Increase From Congress

What's up freaky finance podcast listeners. We've got a lot of gloom and doom baked into this episode's liquidity pie, but your hosts AJ and Shane take a good look at the silver linings. Who knows, maybe the Fed can achieve a soft landing and all this recession talk is nothing but spilled ink. We've got a profile of Zoho, a privately held $1B company that never took Sand Hill Road's money and a new fund that lets you get in on the VC game for only $500 from Cathie Wood. By the way, does biting another man's nose qualify you for the c-suite at Beyond Meat? You'll find out on this week's episode!

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US 2- to 30-Year Curve Reaches Most Inverted Level This Century

How to Survive the Downturn Without Losing Your Shirt-Or Your Sanity

How Zoho became a $1B company without a dime of external investment…

Cathie Wood's new fund gives small investors access to the VC market for just $500

Beyond Meat Executive Arrested After Allegedly Biting Man's Nose in Fight

U.S. Home Sales and Prices Fell in August as Mortgage Rates Rose

Meta and Google Are Cutting Staff. Just Don't Mention Layoffs.

The Luxury Home Market Posts Its Biggest Decline in a Decade. 'It's Like Crickets.'

Google CEO Pichai tells employees not to 'equate fun with money' in heated all-hands meeting

Welcome to another episode of everyone's favorite ramshackle financial podcast. Shane is out this week so we've got Mr. Kurtis in the hot seat. Big billionaire news this week as the founder of the puffy financial bro vest company Patagonia decides to give away his three billion dollar fortune. That's nice of him. Speaking of nice billionaires, we've got the Adobe acquisition of Figma for a cool $20 billion. AJ has some thoughts about the transaction and how it will impact employees who have stock options. This one is priceless.

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Ethereum switches to proof-of-stake consensus after completing The Merge

Ethereum completes the "Merge," which ends mining and cuts energy use by 99.95%

Bank of America to offer zero-down payment mortgages in certain Black and Hispanic communities | CNN Business

Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company

How about that $20B Figma-Adobe deal?

PayPal Mafia Lands Another Hit With Adobe's $20 Billion Figma Acquisition