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Welcome to another episode of Marketing School. I'm Eric Sue and I'm Neil Patel. And today we are going to talk about the latest business trends that will guide your marketing. So it is the new year, it is 2020, and a lot of things have been happening recently. You know, there's a lot of things going on in the business world that we do want to call out because some of it, I mean, business is marketing at the end of the day and it does affect how how you

might do your marketing so what I would like to call out first is when we think about

when we think about these there's a lot of money going into these companies so

when we think about Soft Bank Soft Bank they raised this 100 billion dollar vision

fund and you know they back companies like We Work which at one point was one of the most

valuable startups in the world at 47 billion dollars now it's worth much

less than that because they had this botched IPO and you know they put they pumped 300 million

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