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🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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It’s not easy being a public company. Zendesk looks to go private, while acquisition battles continue to heat up. (:21) Deidre Woollard and Jason Moser discuss: - Stocks that could be prime acquisition targets. - JetBlue’s offer for Spirit Airlines. - Venture capital drying up, and what that means for technology innovation. Plus, (14:46) Alison Southwick and Robert Brokamp continue their series on past market declines with Morgan Housel, this time covering the dot-com bubble, and the lessons investors can pull two decades later. Stocks mentioned: ZEN, SAVE, JBLU, ULCC, CSCO, OTLY, PTON, MSFT, IBM Host: Deidre Woollard Guests: Jason Moser, Alison Southwick, Robert Brokamp, Morgan Housel Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's not easy being a public company.
0:06.9	A major software company goes private while airlines battle for acquisitions.
0:10.5	Plus, Morgan Howes will look back at the dot com bubble.
0:12.9	You're listening to Motley Fool Money.
0:21.6	I'm Dejra Woolard sitting in for Chris Hill and I'm joined by Motley Fool's Senior
0:25.1	Analyst Jason Moser.
0:26.1	Hey Jason, great to be with you today.
0:28.1	Hey Dejra, thanks for having me.
0:30.4	Well I'm excited to talk to you because you've seen cycles in the overall market and
0:34.4	we are in this kind of like let's make a deal environment right now.
0:37.8	There's so many acquisitions, there are rumored acquisitions.
0:42.0	It's just all spinning.
0:43.0	Now some of it's kind of small like eBay buying an NFT platform called Known Origin.
0:48.7	But then last week you had that larger deal like Zendass going private for 10.2 billion.
0:54.4	We've got the frontier battle, we've got rumors coming out like PepsiCo and sales see
0:59.6	us fitness drinks and FTX and Robinhood.
1:02.2	Well, let's start with Zendass for a minute.
1:06.2	We had a flood of IPOs and SPACs in last year to that flood turn to a trickle and some
1:12.8	companies are now going private.
1:14.9	What is this Zendass deal signal to you?
1:18.0	Well it signals a couple of things.
1:19.8	I think on one hand it does feel like clearly the market's appetite for those high flyers
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