Episode Details

This week we give our hot takes on GameStop, Clubhouse and Calendly. Plus, is Austin really a bad place to move?

Rundown

• Matt Ray finds a snake…?
• The Battle of GameStop
• VC
  • Clubhouse Gets Investment Interest at $1 Billion Valuation
  • How Atlanta’s Calendly turned a scheduling nightmare into a $3B startup
• Bitcoin Follow up
  • Graham says we were close to getting Crypto but missed it.
  • Nathan from Slack says: “The problem with Bitcoin is that people treat it as an investment rather than a currency. “
  • Central bank digital currency
  • Bitcoin | Acquired Podcast
• Earnings
  • IBM revenue slide continues in Q4 2020
  • Microsoft reports 17% revenue growth as cloud business accelerates

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