Hello, this is Alex, and you are listening to Equity Monday for October 5th, 2020. I am back.

A big thanks to Natasha and Danny for keeping everything running last week.

I missed a big one, but it is good to be back in the saddle aka the office chair.

Welcome to the fourth quarter of 2020.

If it is anything like the last three we are in for quite a ride so strap in

and of course a new quarter means that it is nearly time for yet another

earning cycle one that will include a number of new companies that just went

public names that you know already like Asana, J-Frog, Palantir and others. Stocks are also up this morning despite more political, economic, and health disruptions here in the U.S. where COVID infections remain high ahead of a contentious and critical election.

And of course, before we start, Equity is back on YouTube.

You can check that out over at YouTube.com slash Techrunge

and follow the show on Twitter at Equity Pod.

And with that, I think we can start. So turning to the weekend, well a couple of stories

stood out as important this morning,

one concerning the ridehailing market

that helps explain the risks still inherent in that space where many

players are still private, one discussing a recent boom in the crypto space that you should

hear about, and just a little nibble about Facebook that I swear matters.

Over the weekend and just six days after Uber won its appeal against London

Transportation regulators to continue operating in the city for another 18 months or a year

and a half, one of its bigger rivals has found itself in the hot

seat according to Tech Runch. Ola, the India-based ride hailing startup, is not getting its transport

for London, ride hailing license renewed, after failing to meet some of

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