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All right everybody welcome to this week in startups.

It has been a crazy week, month, and year obviously not only because of the pandemic in the election, but because we have

so many companies that are going public. And this is a complete 180 degree change from what we've seen over the past decade where

founders were taking the horrible advice to stay private longer so they didn't have to

deal with reality scrutiny and they

continue to receive just incredible amounts of funding with very little

governance and that can get you into trouble as we've seen with

We Work and Uber and other companies

that in some cases blew up like We Work,

in other cases had a rocky road to their IPO.

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