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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

2020 in Review: Best CEOs, Surprising Stocks, and Dumbest Investments

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Teladoc and Livongo join forces in a mega-merger. Airbnb, DoorDash, and Snowflake headline a red-hot IPO market. Jose Andres and Jack Dorsey set a high bar for benevolence. Medtronic shares its design for ventilators with the world. Disney makes a successful pivot to streaming video. And DraftKings and Rollins score big returns for investors. Host Chris Hill and Motley Fool analysts Ron Gross and Jason Moser discuss some of the year’s top stories and explain why Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson, and Zoom CEO Eric Yuan get their votes for CEOs of the year. We talk about some of the year’s more questionable investments, including Lululemon’s purchase of Mirror and Viagogo’s purchase of StubHub.  We reflect on two of the year’s big surprises: Bed Bath & Beyond and Cloudflare. And Jason and Ron share two stocks on their radar: Alarm.com and Editas Medicine. Plus, Motley Fool cofounder and CEO Tom Gardner talks with Appian founder and CEO Matt Calkins about the big business of low-code software.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.

0:07.0

From full global headquarters, this is Motley Full Money.

0:19.0

It's the Motley Full Money radio show. I'm Chris Hill joining me this week.

0:22.0

Senior Analyst Jason Moser and Ron Gross. Good to see you.

0:25.0

It was always gentleman. Addy, you're doing Chris.

0:28.0

This is our year in review special. In two weeks, we're going to have our investing preview for 2021.

0:34.0

But this week, we're going to tie a bow on 2020.

0:38.0

And when I say tie a bow on 2020, I mean, kick it out the door.

0:43.0

Jason Moser. There'll be no gift for us coming.

0:46.0

I don't think so.

0:47.0

Don't not this bow. I don't want this thing coming back open Chris.

0:51.0

Exactly. Jason, let me start with you.

0:54.0

What is your, a lot of what we're going to talk about this week ties into the pandemic.

1:00.0

But let's kick things off with your non-pandemic investing or business headline for 2020.

1:07.0

Well, you know, I was mulling this over a breakfast taco.

1:11.0

As I was sprinkling some chalula on that breakfast taco.

1:15.0

Maybe McCormick buying chalula really is the headline of the year.

1:18.0

But nope, it's not Chris. I'm actually going to go with something else.

1:21.0

I'm going to go with a bigger deal. I honestly, the Teladoc health and

1:27.0

LeVongo merger to me was just, that was a massive, massive deal.

1:32.0

I mean, that was an $18.5 billion quote, unquote acquisition really more like a merger of equals.

1:39.0

But just a really, really big deal. And you know what?

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