Special Episode: TechCheck – The Coinbase Hangover, Bezos Speaks on the Amazon Union Vote, the AppLovin’ IPO, Where in the World is Jack Ma? And much more.

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4 • 494 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Lots to cover in tech today. We’ve got a packed show. We hit the biggest news of the day in tech with Kanyi Maqubela of Kindred Ventures. He gives us his take on Bezos’ comments to shareholders on the Alabama union vote defeat and the record-breaking Coinbase market debut yesterday. On the Coinbase front, the OG investor in the crypto platform Garry Tan joins on why he got in early and his initial belief in the company. Plus, we’ve got AppLovin CEO Adam Foroughi ahead of the IPO shaping up to be one of the largest this year. Finally, we’re tracking Jack Ma as he resurfaces for the first time since October with Financial Times reporter Ryan McMorrow.

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0:00.0	Hey it's C. NBC producer Katie Kramer here and I want to tell you about a new
0:04.4	cnbicciancass called Tech.
0:06.8	C. NBC's John Fort, Carl Quintanilla, and dear Drabosa are going coast to
0:10.8	coast to bring you the must have market insight
0:13.6	into new technology and trends
0:15.4	from the most iconic companies.
0:17.1	Listen in to today's episode of Tech Check
0:19.1	and subscribe to the podcast today. Good Thursday morning welcome to Tech Check I'm Carl Cantonier with John Ford
0:41.5	and Deirdre Bosa.
0:42.8	Big show on deck today, the coin-based hangover on Wall Street,
0:46.8	day two is a public company, Kathy Wood buys in.
0:49.8	Stocks higher again.
0:51.1	It's not just coin, though.
0:52.3	Got another massive IPO at the
0:54.0	NASDAQ today, a $30 billion video game company backed by KKR making its
0:58.8	debut. And Bezos addresses his shareholders in what could become a significant change in
1:04.7	Amazon strategy.
1:06.2	We're going to dig in on that.
1:09.4	It's also a big day for tech stocks.
1:11.0	Nasdaq out performing the broader indices, S&P hitting an all-time high,
1:15.6	along with the XLK led again by chip names like NVIDIA, AmD, and Xylinx.
1:21.6	The Fang Plus Index Up better than 1% Tesla though in the red and
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