Hello!

Welcome to the Boaty McBoatface edition of Slate Money or Guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here

with Emily Peck. Hello. And I'm here with Max Cho. Thank you for having me. Max, welcome. And who are you?

Introduce yourself. I am a product manager at Google. Previously, I worked at a quantitative hedge fund called 2 Sigma,

and I believe this is the point where I'm obliged to tell you.

Don't speak for my employer here.

I am just talking for myself.

We are very excited to have you because you're going to drop some science,

drop some knowledge in this episode about chip fabs

and why the shortage of chips in cars is

nothing to do with Taiwanese semiconductor shortages.

We are going to talk about obviously Botiya McBowface or Ever Given or whatever the hell is

going on in the Suez Canal and what that means about supply chains more generally. We're going to talk

about the latest media bloodbaths at Medium and Mel Magazine and places like that and the

whole idea of tech billionaires running news organizations. We are going to talk about WeWork,

which is amazingly going public. Yes, it is going public as part of us back

at a $9 billion valuation. And we're going to talk about what that means about the future of work

and whether people are going to start going back to the office. We have a Slate Plus on Bitcoin.

It's a great episode, and it's all coming up on Slate Money. So, Emily, I was trying to think to myself, what are the most famous boats?

There's like Booty McBoat phase.

But someone will say you never want to be a famous boat.

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