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Vinod Khosla on Big Tech’s Dominance, Aurora CEO Takes Autonomous Vehicle Startup Public & the Latest in Crypto

TechCheck

CNBC

Disruptors, Tech, Technology, Cnbc, Management, Business, Faang, Investing

4.566 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

CNBC’s Mike Santoli joins our anchors this morning to outline where there may be fragility in the tech stock rally ahead of earnings. Then, CNBC’s Julia Boorstin is here with the stories on Netflix’s push into gaming and Facebook’s plans to pay content creators over a billion dollars by the end of next year. Next, Khosla Ventures Founder Vinod Khosla joins to discuss Big Tech’s dominance as companies like Apple make their way into new industries. Later, we have the details on Cathie Wood’s Ark Fund exiting positions in Chinese tech. Plus, CNBC’s Phil LeBeau is here to interview Aurora CEO Chris Urmson on the autonomous vehicle startup’s SPAC merger. Also, Castle Island Ventures Partner and Coin Metrics Co-Founder Nic Carter is here to talk all things crypto after the co-creator of Dogecoin tweeted his rationale for why he will not return to cryptocurrency.

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0:00.0

I'm Julia Borsden, and you're listening to CNBC's Tech Check.

0:03.5

Our show is live weekdays at 11 a.m. Welcome to Tech Check. I'm Carl Cantonia with John Ford, Dear Drubosa, and Julia Borsden.

0:37.0

Today, the fragility of the tech rally is a reset coming ahead of earnings.

0:41.9

Then Apple is eating everyone's lunch.

0:44.7

Legendary venture capitalist Vinod Kostla is going to join us and weigh in.

0:48.6

Later on, Netflix won't chill, planning and expansion into video games, Dee.

0:56.0

And we'll start on markets this morning, Carl Tech stocks. They continue to print record highs,

1:01.0

but some are calling this a fragile bull market. Let's bring in our Mike Santoli for more. Mike,

1:06.3

right as we're heading into earnings, some are arguing that these stocks are priced for perfection, and there's risk in that.

1:14.1

You know, Dee, I think it depends where you want to look in terms of whether we're talking

1:17.8

the very largest NASDAQ stocks, which have had this great run and have carried the market

1:22.3

for several weeks right now, in which you'd have to say, yes, they look like they've

1:27.2

kind of rebuilt that

1:28.2

big valuation premium, but they're not where they were late last summer in terms of dominating

1:32.6

the overall market move and really being aggressively valued, even relative to their earnings

1:37.1

contribution. So obviously case by case, the setup might be difficult because the stocks have

1:41.5

run like a Facebook or Alphabet and now Apple.

1:44.7

But I think that what's interesting is the segmentation of the unprofitable tech companies,

1:49.3

the really kind of, you know, earlier stage emerging growth type tech names that have suffered a lot

1:55.4

because there seems to be a little bit less of a risk appetite right at this moment.

1:59.4

Biotech's been weak.

2:00.6

A lot of the kind of up-and-coming

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