“Codename: CIA IPO” — Palantir’s ironic leak. Luminar’s laser stock. Uber/Lyft’s politics.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

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

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The secretive tech icon Palantir’s IPO paperwork just un-secretly leaked. Luminar is yet another electric car startup going public through SPAC — except this one shoots laser beams and is run by a 25-year-old CEO. And we’re looking at how the shutdown of Uber and Lyft in California last week didn’t happen, but revealed their unique in-app policy power about the new battle, Prop 22.$UBER $LYFTWant a shoutout on the pod? We got the form for Snackers to fill out right here:https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Nick.
0:02.0	This is Jack.
0:03.0	And this is Snacks.
0:04.0	Daily, it is Tuesday, August 25th.
0:06.0	Nick, I assume, stocks at a record high yesterday?
0:09.0	Jack, you're right.
0:10.0	Just double-checking this thing, you're correct, yeah, they had record high.
0:12.0	Okay, not sure why, tough to tell why these days, but good news nonetheless.
0:16.0	And yet we made this our best Snacks daily at TBOY, Jack, what do we got today?
0:20.0	For our first story, Palantir is an intelligence company that profits on corporate and government secrets.
0:26.0	Funny thing about Palantir.
0:27.0	All their IPO paperwork just leaked, so we all became PFWTM.
0:31.0	That's right, we are all people familiar with the matter of Palantir's IPF.
0:36.0	Second story, Jack, what do we got?
0:38.0	A company that shoots laser beams is run by a 25-year-old CEO and is about to go public on the New York Stock Exchange.
0:44.0	Sounds like a video game.
0:46.0	LumenR is the kind of company that stands out in the summer of the electric car SPAC.
0:51.0	Not to be confused with a LumenR.
0:53.0	No.
0:54.0	For our third and final story, remember last week when Uber and Lyft warned all their California users that they were shutting down on Thursday.
1:02.0	We had our calendars marked and then a judge stopped that from happening last minute.
1:06.0	And this story reveals the policy power of a popular app's homepage.
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