Equity Monday 09/21

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🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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What a busy morning. We had to cover TikTok. We had to talk VC rounds. So, this is what we got up to: US tech stocks are poised to sell off further this morning. The Oracle-TikTok-Walmart-ByteDance deal is either coming into focus, or a period of even less clarity. It's hard to tell. Nikola founder Trevor Milton is leaving the board of his own company in the wake of fraud allegations. Shares of the company are sharply lower in pre-market trading. Turning to TikTok, this primer represents the best over-the-weekend roundup that we could find. But, of course, things are still breaking as we come to print. Since recording, Oracle has said that "upon creation of TikTok Global, Oracle/Walmart will make their investment and the TikTok Global shares will be distributed to their owners, Americans will be the majority and ByteDance will have no ownership in TikTok Global." And, President Trump said this morning that China has to give up control of TikTok or the deal is off. ByteDance has said that it will retain control. You figure that out. But there was some good stuff to chat about. Including the super-neat Mobile Premier League round worth $90 million, growth news from EU-based Babbel, a new London-based Seed fund that got raised, and a Swedish healthtech Series B. As you guessed from today's title, it was fun to see such a concentration of EU VC activity. Finally, will the Nikola mess discourage more SPACs from taking companies public? If the rest of the stock market wasn't selling off, we would have said no. But today? Is the answer maybe?

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1:15.2	As we get started today, U.S. tech stocks are selling off again, continuing last week's declines.
1:19.8	Perhaps the sell-off is now getting big enough to be worried about.
1:23.0	Also the Oracle, Tik-Tok, Walmart, bite-dance deal is slowly coming into focus,
1:27.0	though of course some tensions remain about the details.
1:29.0	More on that in just a second.
1:31.0	And Nikola founder Trevor Milton is going to step down to being a
1:33.9	member of the board of his company and also from his role as executive
1:37.0	chairman, according to you essentially every financial publication you can read
1:41.6	this morning. Nicola has come under pressure recently
1:44.3	from a short seller who published a report
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