“The anti-prenup” — Headspace gets in Snapchat. Fisker pulls an Apple. Google Maps gets Uber money.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

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

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

To take on its meditation rival, Headspace is partnering with Snapchat in the rare, elusive no-money deal. Electric car startup Fisker just went public, but it’s deciding to act more like Apple than every other car company (including Tesla). And Uber can’t do it all by itself, so its paying tens of millions of dollars to be dependent on Google Maps: It’s one the Silent Servers.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.
0:04.3	It is Tuesday July 21st.
0:06.2	The S&P 500 rose yesterday, making it positive for 2020.
0:10.6	Which isn't saying, Jack, I think that technically means 2020 didn't happen.
0:14.0	There seems to be no news that won't push the market higher right now.
0:17.6	No, the vaccines could turn against themselves, it would still apparently push market stuff.
0:21.4	The vaccines could start a mutiny, and this would still be a T-boy of a podcast.
0:25.7	The best one yet, Jack, what's our first story?
0:28.2	Who likes to act like it can do everything all by itself?
0:31.5	But it just spent millions of dollars for permission to use Google Maps, Mom.
0:35.6	Can we please have some dessert?
0:36.8	For our second story, headspace and calm are meditation apps that could probably use a session or two
0:42.0	on their own meditation apps.
0:43.6	Headspace just partnered up with Snapchat while calm's launching a Get This, a show on HBO Max.
0:49.6	There's no calm in that story.
0:51.2	There's nothing calm about that story.
0:53.0	Third and final story, Jack.
0:54.0	For our third and final story, Fisker, which just went public, is the latest electric car company
0:58.6	to break the rules of making cars.
1:01.0	Alright, so Fisker needs a factory.
1:02.8	Volkswagen has an extra factory.
1:04.5	We're looking classic Airbnb style win-win-share-this-share-that.
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