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Crypto’s Comeback, Jam City CEO and Myspace Co-Founder Chris DeWolfe & Robinhood Allowing Investors to Buy IPOs

TechCheck

CNBC

Disruptors, Tech, Technology, Cnbc, Management, Business, Faang, Investing

4.566 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm Julia Borsden, and you're listening to CNBC's Tech Check. Our show is live weekdays at 11 a.m. Eastern, listen in.

0:08.4

Welcome to Tech Check on this Thursday morning. I'm Carl Kintanilla with John Fort and Dear Drabosa.

0:12.7

What an hour coming up. The crypto comeback, the fierce fall and rise. Is it a bubble or a blister, as our next guest is calling it.

0:20.6

Plus, while some high growth names have bounced back, Tesla, still two-thirds of what it was earlier this year.

0:26.3

We're going to dive into Musk, the Bitcoin Effect and EV competition with Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas.

0:31.9

And Krista Wolf founded Myspace.

0:34.2

Now he has a video game company going public via SPAC worth more than a billion dollars.

0:38.6

Nice second act there, John, and he'll join us a little bit later, Dee.

0:43.9

The NASDAQ back in the green this morning, trying to avoid a fourth straight day of losses

0:48.3

and its longest losing streak since 2012. Dow Lager this morning is Cisco shares falling there after weak guidance

0:55.4

and watch Coinbase. Wedbush takes it to outperform after yesterday's drop, says the current

1:01.2

level is an attractive entry point as crypto rebounds today. And we're going to get more into

1:06.7

that in a moment, John. Absolutely. Yeah, we're going to begin with a double-take trade.

1:11.2

Crypto and growth tech surged together early this year, but in the past week as Bitcoin

1:15.0

tanked, they headed in different directions. Names like Virgin Galactic, App Lovin, Snowflake,

1:20.9

and C3 AI surging all up 20% or more in the past week as traders reconsider the recent

1:26.8

sell-offs.

1:33.4

And it's not just those names, Asana, DoorDash, MongoDB, Twilio, Lyft, Stitch Fix, all up about 10% or more.

1:35.8

The point here, we were wondering here whether the week's crypto drop, which culminated yesterday,

1:41.7

would also take down meme stocks and high valuation tax.

1:46.3

Deirdre, not necessarily.

1:49.0

Yeah, it hasn't been super clear cut this year.

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