Facebook’s “GlobalCoin” launching 2020, Kontoor is the new jeans IPO, and SpaceX’s 60-satellite week

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🗓️ 28 May 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Zuck’s launching a Bitcoin-ish cryptocurrency called GlobalCoin in 2020 so that paying for anything is as easy as messaging. Kontoor is the newly IPO’d company created after Vans-owner VF Brands spun-off its denim icons Wrangler and Lee’s — And it fell on Day #1 of trading. And Snackers asked us to cover Elon Musk’s SpaceX’s big week, so we did. And we loved it.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Nick, this is Jack, and this is Snacks Daily, it's Tuesday, May 28th.
0:06.3	Welcome back to the 3-day weekend because this is the best Snacks daily we've ever whipped up after 3-day weekend.
0:11.8	Post Memorial Day weekend, I blew out a flip flop, summer starting, good things.
0:16.5	Kind of tan, kind of bearded, it's like a weird combination we got going on in this day.
0:20.3	Let's break down the three stories we got for you.
0:22.7	First, global coin is coming in 2020.
0:25.9	It's like Bitcoin, but it's brought to you by Facebook.
0:28.7	We're going to call it Zuckcoin and just see if that takes off.
0:32.1	I hope that catches on.
0:33.6	Second story is also strangely named, Comtor.
0:37.1	Or is it Cantor?
0:38.1	I don't know.
0:38.7	That's the denim company that just IPO'd, and it's really Lee and Wrangler Jeans.
0:43.7	It's a one, unpronounceable, terribly spelled name they've been combined.
0:47.7	We'll cover their IPO.
0:48.8	Our third story is brought to you by Robin Hood Snacks Democracy.
0:54.0	We weren't sure which private company to cover on today's pod.
0:57.8	We put it out there on Twitter and you decided SpaceX.
1:02.0	This is Elon Musk's other baby.
1:04.0	It just launched 60 satellites into space and it's trying to make Wi-Fi as reliable as
1:07.9	I don't know, like the sun.
1:09.5	Except the clouds won't interrupt this Wi-Fi.
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