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In our season 2 finale, we review the 2020 trends we had identified in Season 1 finale. See the trends here.

You can find the Morgan Stanley report on Private Equity here. 

We will be back on January 14th, 2021 on biweekly basis. 

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! 

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We have a guest on the podcast this week, David Krieger, who is back with us after a year.  David and I discuss fundamentals of embedded systems and his experience in designing them. 

Useful links:

1. David Krieger on LinkedIn

2. Embedded Systems

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We discuss the recent S1 (a required document to be filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a private company to raise money in the public markets like NYSE or Nasdaq) filing by Airbnb to public in the US.

Useful link:

Airbnb S1

S1 definition 

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This week, we are delighted to  have a guest on the podcast, Joanna Jones, Founder & CEO of InterQ Research. Joanna and Chander discuss User Research and why the qualitative methods are necessary to complement quantitative methods.

Useful links:

1. Joanna's LinkedIn profile

2. InterQ Research 

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We discuss how the US elections have caused the tech stocks to go up. We get deeper into California Prop 22 (a ballot measure by ridesharing and food delivery companies to change the law about classifying their drivers as employees and stopping them from forming a union).

Useful links:

1. Prop 22

2. Direct Democracy

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We discuss the unique nature of Ant Group IPO which is going to be the world's largest IPO ever. Ant Group which has 700M+ users is raising >$34B in the IPO at a valuation of >$300B. Ant Group is a spinoff of Alibaba and has a special relationship with the Chinese government.

Useful Links:

1. Ant Group

2. Ant Group IPO filing documents 

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This week, Depart of Justice (DOJ) and 11 State Attorney Generals in the US filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google. We discuss the intricacies and history of these type of lawsuits.

Useful Links:

1. DOJ Workshop at Stanford 

2. DOJ Google Lawsuit press release 

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We discuss a new IPO market in Norway and other innovative IPO strategies. 2020 has turned out to be the most innovative year for finance. 

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We discuss Google's launch of new smartphones - Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5,  new video streaming device - Chromecast, and new smart speaker - Nest Audio. 

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We experiment with a shorter episode ( < 30 minutes). Spotify co-founder, Daniel Ek, made an announcement last week that he will invest ~$1.2B in deep tech in Europe. This prompted us to discuss what deep tech investing is and how it is different between the US and Europe.

Useful links:

1. Daniel Ek announcement at Slush