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The Best One Yet

Google’s checking account, Nike’s breakup with Amazon, and Convoy is our “Unicorn of the Day”

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

Business, News, Finance, Pop Culture, Business News, Tech

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Google plans to launch a checking account, another sign that Big Tech wants to understand your daily spending. Nike decided it no longer wants to sell on Amazon, probably thanks to its new CEO (who is an eBay guy). And the Uber for freight, Convoy, just raised $400M to take on… Uber Freight.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Nick, this is Jack.

0:02.8

And this is Snacks daily, this Thursday, November 14th.

0:06.1

Nick, that means we're two weeks from Turkey.

0:07.9

Crossup, we do a week countdown, we do a two week countdown, we're waiting on this thing.

0:11.3

Happy, belated birthday to my buddy Mike, who used to raise his own turkeys for Thanksgiving.

0:15.5

Jack, as my first favorite history professor used to say, he's shot his own turkey last year.

0:20.6

Everyone at the grocery store is pretty freaked out.

0:22.5

Alright, we got three great stones.

0:24.0

Wonderful mix here. First story.

0:26.2

Well, a wise man once told me it's faster to UPS cash across the country than it is to wire it.

0:32.4

That wise man is a colleague named Brenna.

0:34.5

And that's why Google plants to launch its very own checking account.

0:38.4

Second story. Nike is de-amazoning itself, taking its products off Amazon.

0:43.4

The new CEO was the early hint, this kind of king could happen.

0:46.5

And by the way, this kind of thing doesn't happen that often.

0:48.9

Somebody broke up with Amazon.

0:50.8

We need to create a whole new verb for this thing.

0:53.0

Third and final story is the unicorn of the day named Convoy.

0:56.0

Nice name.

0:56.8

Just raised $400 billion so that I can get my Vermont farm table on time instead of a week late.

1:02.4

And the investors on this thing, they are a list caliber we're talking.

1:06.6

Now Snackers, before we jump into all that, Friday, tomorrow is the opening of a really big thing like physically.

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