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The Best One Yet

“Spotify’s not a tech company” — Pfizer’s $2B Operation Warp Speed. Misfit’s ugly veggie $85M. Spotify’s new record label deal.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

Business News, Tech, News, Finance, Business, Pop Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Pfizer snags a $2B contract to produce 100M COVID-19 vaccines for the US government as part of Operation Warp Speed. Spotify has so many marginal costs, so it just added a new revenue stream to try to offset that. And Misfit just bagged $85M in fresh funding to scale its subscription food box for ugly fruits and veggies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Nick, this is Jack, and this is Snacks Daily, it is Thursday, July 23rd.

0:06.6

I'll tell you, Wall Street must be on vacation or something.

0:09.2

Easy, this feels like August 2019, Jack.

0:12.3

It's a pretty slow week.

0:13.8

Markets barely budged against me yesterday.

0:15.6

This time last year, half of Wall Street was in the Hamptons.

0:18.1

This time, this year, 100% of Wall Street is in the Hamptons.

0:21.1

Let's get right to our story, though, because this is the best one, Jack.

0:23.9

T-B-O-Y, first story, Jack, when we got it.

0:26.1

The Trump administration just made a reservation for 100 million COVID vaccine doses.

0:31.2

It's an Uber Eats pre-order that went to Pfizer and cost us a cool $1.95 billion with a B-Dollars.

0:37.0

For our second story, Spotify is sick of being in a one-sided relationship with the three

0:42.4

giant record labels.

0:43.6

So it just launched a two-sided market finally making the labels pay them.

0:48.3

I had a dream that the hamburgers were in me!

0:51.4

Third and final story we got.

0:53.2

This fits just raised $85 million as the latest startup, finding buyers of mis-shape-in

0:58.9

and ugly, but perfectly healthy fruits and vegetables.

1:03.0

It's the good kind of fat.

1:04.2

We all love a Charlie Brown Christmas tree.

1:06.5

Miss Fitz loves a Charlie Brown peach.

1:08.4

But before we hit those stories, Snackers, we have an update on the sharing economy.

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