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Reese Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine CEO Talk Latest $900 Million Deal, ZoomInfo CEO on the Quarter & Substack CEO on Big Tech’s Ad-Supported Models

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CNBC

Disruptors, Tech, Technology, Cnbc, Management, Business, Faang, Investing

4.566 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Our anchors start off the show with moves lower in Chinese gaming stocks and Alibaba post-earnings. Then, Wall Street Journal Reporter Joanna Stern is here to talk about Google’s decision to ditch Qualcomm and build its own chip for its Pixel 6 phones. Next, ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck joins to break down the company’s latest earnings report. Plus, Reese Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine CEO Sarah Harden join our anchors to discuss the $900 million deal to sell Hello Sunshine to a Blackstone-backed media company. We also have the story on Marvell buying chip startup Innovium in the latest tech M&A deal of the summer. And later, Substack CEO Chris Best is here to speak about his company and share his criticism of ad-supported models.

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0:00.0

I'm Carl Kintanilla. You're listening to CNBC's Tech Check. Our show is live weekdays at 11 a.m. Eastern.

0:05.8

Listen in.

0:28.0

Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Tech Check. I'm Carl Kintanilla with John Fort and Dear Derbosa. Today, the team behind Hello Sunshine. Founder Reese Witherspoon, CEO Sarah Hardin,

0:33.9

will join us this hour on their new deal with Blackstone. Then is it game over for Chinese

0:38.4

gaming stocks? Why those names are cratering plus results missed from Alibaba. And then later we'll

0:43.9

talk Google's new Pixel 6 and what it means for the competition with the journal's Joanna Stern, D.

0:50.5

Carl, we start today with Chinese stocks this morning. First, Alibaba, a small miss on the top line,

0:57.7

driving that stock lower, although profit beat and it did boost its buyback program shares. So far,

1:03.4

you can see they're down more than one and a half percent. There's also 10 cent plummeting

1:07.5

in Hong Kong after a state-owned Chinese newspaper called online gaming, quote, opium

1:12.9

for the mind. Investors thinking that sector might be next in China's regulatory crackdown. And you can

1:18.5

see the effect that had on some of 10 cents competitors as well. Some contagion there. You see

1:23.8

netty's down more than 7%. It's another rough start to a month for some of China's biggest tech name.

1:31.4

Look at this performance in July alone.

1:33.3

Alibaba down 13%, 10 cent, down 15, Baidu, 20% with others like Didi, of course, and Pinduoduo, down almost 30%.

1:42.5

Just brutal charts here, guys, not to mention the education tech names that lost about half of their value.

1:48.7

Hong Kong's Hengsen index fell about 9% for the month, and that's not even saying anything about the K-Web ETF that trades over here.

1:56.8

Guys, we have been here before with Chinese gaming.

1:59.0

Tencent, the obvious target here, drives about a third of its revenue from gaming,

2:03.2

but perhaps less obvious, is that these U.S. companies that have been moving further into the Chinese gaming system

2:09.6

because of the opportunity there, like a Roblox.

2:12.3

Roblox, take a look, shares.

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