The Independent Directors Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Felix Salmon of Fusion, emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss: - Uber CEO Travis Kalanick stepping down - Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods - Bancor and ICOs Check out other Panoply podcasts atmegaphone.fm. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @JHWeissmann Production by Daniel Schroeder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.2	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:34.0	Hello and welcome to the
0:40.0	Hello and welcome to the independent directors edition of Slate Money.
0:49.7	This is a huge one.
0:51.7	Brace yourselves, sit down, buckle in, this is going to be a
0:55.7	podcast for the ages because boy did we have business and finance news with this
1:01.0	week. We had Amazon buying Whole Foods. Of course we have to talk about that.
1:06.4	Thirteen billion dollars. We had companies you've never heard of raising $140 million in something called an I.
1:16.2	Which you've probably never heard of.
1:18.2	Hopefully.
1:21.2	Way to sell that one, if you're like, there's like massive, like we are going to do a little bit of delving down into the
1:29.5	wonderfully bizarre and nerdy world of ether and
1:34.3	cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings because if all you know
1:39.2	about cryptocourencies is a half-remembered medium post from four years ago about
1:44.0	Bitcoin. Things have moved on a bit since then and we're going to talk a little bit
1:48.6	about that. We are also and this is kind of exciting because we've heard your demands dear
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