It's an emergency podcast. Microsoft is going to buy Discord for $10 billion. That's

right. Microsoft is in talks to buy ChatPap Discord for $10 billion. Let's get to it.

Do you ever wish you invested early in some of the best performing IPOs of 2019 and 2020?

Well, our crowd investors did invest early in many of those awesome IPOs. With our crowd,

accredited investors can invest directly and easily in startups early before they IPO or get

bought. Our crowd investors have benefited from companies IPO-ing like Beyond Meat and

Lemonade. Both have seen big returns since going public, obviously. And some of the companies

have been acquired by buyers like Nike, Microsoft Oracle, and Uber, Yum Yum team Uber.

The investment professionals that our crowd have already invested hundreds of millions

of dollars in over 200 companies with dozens of exits. So you can join our crowd's investment

in SHIELD, an AI-powered platform that helps global financial enterprises meet increasingly

complex compliance rules. According to the deal memo, SHIELD addresses an $89 billion

market with tools that automatically detect and alert on behaviors that lead to market abuse,

employing misconduct, and information sharing. You can get in early on SHIELD and other unique

opportunities at rcroud.com slash twist. I recently went my B and placed a small bet on

Syabra, a company that uses AI to uncover just information and expose fake news on social media.

The rcroud account is free. Just go to OURCROWD.com slash twist. Yes, everybody. It's an emergency

podcast. Microsoft has been in talks to buy discord for $10 billion. That is a big, big number.

And most people don't even know what discord is. So let's go through in this podcast why they

want to buy it. What discord is a little bit of the history here and what we think the downstream

second-order effects of this purchase might be. Discord, of course, is a text-based messaging app.

Most people would just compare it straight up to Slack. Slack is for enterprise discord.

...