Amazon’s epic carbon neutrality pledge, Alphabet’s drone deliver goes live ASAP, and Stripe hits $35B

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

Business, News, Finance, Pop Culture, Business News, Tech

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Bezos kicked things up a notch by announcing a carbon neutrality pledge for Amazon that shockingly even beats the Paris Climate Accords. Alphabet’s drone division, Wing, just partnered up with Walgreens, FedEx, and a local gift store to make drone delivery happen next month in Virginia. And Stripe just passed Airbnb with a $35B valuation that earns it our “Unicorn of the Day.”Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Nick, this is Jack, and this is Snacks, Daily It Is Friday, September 20th.
0:07.3	This podcast is a real treat today.
0:09.7	This is the best one yet.
0:11.0	In fact, I was so excited I called my mom to let her know what we were covering today.
0:15.0	Okay, first story.
0:16.3	Nick, you know the United States is the only country not in the Paris Agreement for climate
0:21.2	change?
0:22.2	Jack, I heard Nicaragua and Syria sign this thing.
0:24.3	They both joined after we withdrew it.
0:26.1	Well guess what?
0:27.1	Amazon's in anyway, in fact it's going to get there 10 years ahead of the deadline.
0:31.4	And this is a huge win for one specific electric car startup we're going to do.
0:35.4	Second story is Google parent company Alphabet is starting drone delivery with FedEx and
0:39.9	Walgreens starting next month.
0:41.6	This is like a smorgasbord of names.
0:43.5	We jumped into its snack style.
0:45.0	The transportation revolution is happening with all of them.
0:47.4	Third and final story is the biggest unicorn of the day.
0:51.0	Freak-acorn.
0:52.0	We're talking about Stripe, the payment process which just hit a $35 billion valuation.
0:57.1	That puts it ahead of Airbnb.
0:58.5	Let me repeat a freak-acorn.
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