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CG: Want to Invest in Smart Speakers? Say Hello to Sonos

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4.6854 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

With its IPO expected to price later this summer, Sonos will be the rare, pure-play option for investors eyeing the fast-growing smart speaker market. Can this $1 billion business go head to head with some of the world’s largest companies?

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0:27.6

Welcome to History Focus, the podcast it dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

0:34.0

I'm your host Fitz and Shen. It's Tuesday, July 10th, which means we're talking consumer and retail.

0:38.0

Feels good to be back in the studio after some vacation time and the holiday last week,

0:42.0

and we have a great show lined up for you but

0:44.3

first let me introduce my guest the one and only a Czarma Hay said thanks for joining us.

0:48.8

Thanks very much.

0:49.8

Hello listeners I also am excited to be back I had this I was telling Vince a little bit of water heater problems that got quickly

0:56.0

resolved but sometimes he just wanted to go back to work so I'm glad to be with

1:00.1

you. Nice I actually wanted to ask you this random question, kind of related to the holiday, but at this point we're about a week out from the fourth.

1:08.0

I'm still hearing fireworks just about every night in my neighborhood, And I'm curious if you are experiencing anything

1:14.8

like that in your neck of the woods.

1:16.9

Sort of.

1:17.5

We have a youngish neighborhood with a growing number of teams.

1:22.4

So I think it's going to go on for a couple of weeks more,

1:25.6

but I enjoy it, you know.

1:27.8

Yeah, well, correct me if I'm wrong,

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