Waymo’s robotaxis hit the app store — Otis Elevator spinoff — HipCamp could be Airbnb’s next acquisition

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

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🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Alphabet’s self-driving car company, Waymo, just took a big step towards real robotaxis — an app for the general public. Otis Elevators made skyscrapers possible, and now it’s getting spun-off into its own company. And a fresh profile on HipCamp (the Airbnb for camp sites) has us wondering if it’s simply an Airbnb acquisition target.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.
0:04.0	Daily welcome back, it is Monday, December 9th.
0:07.0	Snackers, Nick and I are exhausted for moving this weekend.
0:10.0	I moved to Christmas tree, and Nick moved everything he owns.
0:14.0	Jack, you gotta lift with your legs, not your back.
0:17.0	And that's why this is the best snack daily we've ever done.
0:19.0	Nick moved across the street, by the way.
0:21.0	The shortest move in the history of the world.
0:23.0	Yeah, my back actually does hurt.
0:24.0	We got three great stories today.
0:25.0	The first one is Otis Elevator.
0:27.0	It's getting spun off into its own publicly traded company.
0:29.0	This is the 166 year old company that made skyscrapers possible.
0:33.0	Second story, Waymo, which is Alphabet Self Driving Car Company.
0:37.0	It just put the Waymo app on the Apple App Store.
0:40.0	Snackers, RoboTax has been all talk.
0:42.0	This is their first big real step.
0:44.0	We're proud of them.
0:45.0	Third and final story is the not quite unicorn of the day.
0:48.0	It's called Hickloth.
0:49.0	This is the Airbnb for campsites, and the New Yorker magazine just did a deep dive.
0:55.0	So we're taking a look.
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