Rivian Electric Vehicles, Duolingo, Gingko Bioworks, Moderna, Unicorn Valuations, Facebook, and More
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Youngme, Felix, and Mihir discuss the red hot IPO market, highlighting a few of the companies reflecting a “sign of the times” including: Rivian Automotive, Duolingo, and life science companies like Gingko Bioworks and Moderna. They also answer a few letters from listeners, including questions about the soaring valuations of private company unicorns, the latest Facebook scandal, and more.
Recent picks, and recommended reading/websites:
· Private Company Unicorns (Crunchbase)
· Run for Office (Snapchat Mini)
· Career and Family (Claudia Goldin)
· Journey Across a Century of Women (Claudia Goldin)
· How to Make Ppopgi (Honeycomb Candy, as featured in Squid Game)
We invite you to email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: afterhours@hbs.edu. You can also follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
| 0:06.7 | Are you looking for practical business education with real-world examples? |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Chris Lennane, host of Harvard Business School Online's new podcast, The Parler Room. |
| 0:16.4 | On each episode, I sit down with HBS professors to demystify vital business concepts in a way |
| 0:22.4 | that's entertaining and insightful, learn how to become a master negotiator, or the best |
| 0:27.7 | ways to build your personal brand. |
| 0:29.9 | Your business concepts come to life. |
| 0:32.0 | Listen to The Parler Room, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:45.8 | Hi everyone, you're listening to After Hours, I'm Young Me. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm Felix, and I'm Me here. |
| 0:50.4 | How are you guys doing tonight? |
| 0:51.4 | Doing well. |
| 0:52.2 | How are you spending time in a classroom? |
| 0:54.3 | Yes, I taught today. |
| 0:56.0 | So you know how it is when you walk into the classroom, |
| 0:58.9 | and you have one of those magical days where everything just goes exactly the way you wanted. |
| 1:04.9 | Yes, so that did not happen. |
| 1:06.9 | You know, you have good days and bad days for me to tell you. |
| 1:11.9 | You have good days and bad days totally. |
| 1:12.9 | And the beautiful thing about the way we teach is it almost doesn't matter because the participants bring so much insight. |
| 1:18.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.9 | But it's nice for me to feel like occasionally I had a little bit of value, but you know it doesn't happen all the time. |
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