Slate Money - You’ve Got IPO
Slate News
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
🔗️ Recording | Apple Podcasts | RSS
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Summary
This week: The company buying up legacy brands like AOL, Evernote, and Vimeo had a huge IPO with shares immediately surging by 40%. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and guest host Stacy-Marie Ishmael discuss the Milan-based company’s strategy and unexpected success. Then, the hosts look at how prediction markets are booming during the World Cup. And later: why Bitcoin’s plummeting price is costing Eric Trump hundreds of million of dollars.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. I'm |
| 0:17.1 | Felix Salmon of Bloomberg. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times. |
| 0:21.1 | Hello. And guess what? Emily Peck has disappeared off onto a much needed and well-deserved |
| 0:26.9 | vacation and in her spot is the single greatest slate money host in the history of slate money. |
| 0:34.2 | Come back as a special guest. The one and only, the irreplaceable Stacey Marie Ishmael, |
| 0:41.0 | Stacey, welcome back. No pressure. Hi. Great to be back. It's so great to have you back, |
| 0:46.2 | but for the three people here who don't remember you, introduce yourself. Who are you? I'm Stacey |
| 0:51.3 | Marie Ishmael. I play video games and I work for Bloomberg News. |
| 0:55.0 | So we are going to talk to Stacey about, well, video games are going to come up at some point, but we are going to talk about bending spoons. |
| 1:04.0 | If you don't know what bending spoons are, stay tuned and you'll find out. |
| 1:07.0 | We are going to talk about prediction markets and the World Cup. |
| 1:10.0 | We are going to talk about strategy and Bitcoin and what on earth is going on with that. |
| 1:14.5 | We have a Slate Plus segment about strawberries and berries and even bananas. |
| 1:19.3 | It's a wide-ranging and, well, just awesome conversation because Stacey's part of it. |
| 1:23.8 | So stay tuned. |
| 1:25.6 | It's all coming up on Slate Money. |
| 1:36.0 | Okay, so let's start with bending spoons. Elizabeth, you're the media person. So what is a |
| 1:43.3 | bending spoon? A bending spoon in this context |
| 1:46.7 | is a Milan-based company that has been rolling up every internet property that you thought |
| 1:52.1 | was dead 10 years ago, including AOL, Eventbrite, Vimeo, Meetup, and Evernote. And they are |
| 2:00.1 | going public. And they are going public. |
| 2:01.3 | And they are going public at what kind of crazy insane value? |
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