Shane and AJ are back at it after a few weeks of travel. The IPO market is still dry as the Mojave Desert in July so there are no new exciting S-1 to devour. We do have a synthetic diamond company poised to go public and try to disrupt the 80 billion dollar diamond industry by selling stones grown in a lab. In other news, we’ve got layoffs in tech, hedge funds getting wrecked, and some news about shopping malls. A little bit of good news out of the EU: by 2024 phone and tablet makers will be forced to use a universal charger. This one is sparkly.

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