Investors in La La Land & Another Reason to Fear the Bank Runs 3/17/23
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🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, David, you and I were just talking about this earlier this week. |
| 0:03.5 | So as you well know, private valuations, they like public ones. |
| 0:06.9 | So there's a lot of discretion that venture and hedge funds can use when marking the |
| 0:10.2 | valuations of their public and private portfolios, private, |
| 0:14.0 | excuse me, but we are getting some numbers from some of the largest |
| 0:17.4 | most active investors of the last few years. |
| 0:19.5 | Tiger Global being one of them, of course. |
| 0:21.5 | The journal reports that the fund marked down the value |
| 0:24.0 | of its investments and startups by about 33% across its VC funds in 2022. Soft Bank |
| 0:29.6 | marked down its Vision Fund 2 by similar amount last year. Now those were the two most prolific |
| 0:35.4 | startup investors in 2021 that was the peak of unicorn valuations companies |
| 0:40.4 | valued at a billion dollars or more. The next three take a look, |
| 0:43.0 | Kothu, Tansant, and Sequoia, China. Tansant is an interesting one here |
| 0:47.6 | because it has quietly become this investment powerhouse in Chinese and |
| 0:51.0 | overseas startups including American ones like Epic Games and |
| 0:54.7 | discord. All five of these names by the way they're investors in Tik-Tok Barrett |
| 0:59.7 | bite dance. So a lot of money at stake there as the government decides or tries to figure out what to do. |
| 1:04.8 | David, as you well know, Tiger Global was the poster child of the tech boom, a crossover fund that did both public and private investing. |
| 1:11.6 | It was hit, of of course extremely hard during the |
| 1:14.1 | tech route last year, but as you have been talking about all morning it may be |
| 1:18.3 | enjoying a little bit of a renaissance this year, especially over the last week or so the |
| 1:22.0 | NASDAQ and Tech have been |
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