Slate Money - Seamless Is a Verb
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski talk about the possibility of a merger between Uber and Grubhub, the potential collapse of the child care industry, and they get to some of the questions they missed on their Wednesday night Facebook Live Q&A.
In the Slate Plus segment: Questions from the live Q&A
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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the seamless is a verb edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm here with Anna Shamansky of Breaking Views. |
| 0:24.7 | Hello. |
| 0:25.4 | I'm here with Emily Peck of Huffpost. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello. |
| 0:29.3 | Emily, have you been seamlesslying? |
| 0:31.4 | Well, where I live, there are only two restaurants on Seamless, so no. |
| 0:37.6 | So no. |
| 0:38.7 | Anna, have you been Seamelessing? |
| 0:40.4 | I have. |
| 0:41.2 | Yep. |
| 0:41.8 | There are more than two restaurants in Brooklyn. |
| 0:44.2 | Really? |
| 0:44.8 | We're going to be talking about seamlesslying, or as the rest of the world knows it, ordering food online for delivery, which is a big business these days for obvious reasons, |
| 0:55.7 | and it could be consolidating. |
| 0:58.2 | We are going to talk about short people and what to do with them when we go to work |
| 1:04.6 | and the whole economics of childcare. |
| 1:07.7 | We are going to answer even more questions. |
| 1:10.8 | Some of you may know we did a Facebook |
| 1:13.6 | live for Slate on Wednesday evening. It is still up on Facebook. And if you want to watch it, |
| 1:19.5 | you can. And there's a link in the notes where we answered a bunch of questions of people |
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