Hello!

Hello. Welcome to the What is Whoa episode of Sleep Money,

your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Hammond of Axios.

I'm here with Elizabeth Spires.

Hello and also while Emily Peck is still on vacation we have Eric Newcomer here

Eric welcome.

Thanks for having me.

If I may say so.

A new comment on the show, we have not had you here before,

but we're very happy to have you.

Introduce yourself, who are you?

I'm a former Bloomberg reporter.

I always wrote about sort of the rise and fall of Uber and a lot of Starps and

Venture Capital and then during the pandemic, I quit to start my own substack called Newcomer.

I also host a podcast called Deadcat.

And yeah, I'm the top startup and venture capital reporter

on substack right now.

Well done. Substack has had its own little like mini Bruhaha

this week which we won't talk about but we will talk about flow which is the new company from Adam Newman, the founder of We Work.

We're going to talk about the venture capital economy more broadly.

We're going to manage to talk about Bed Bart and Beyond because we have to and we were asked to by who was it who

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