Wildcard: Butterfly-ing into the Markets
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
As one of the newest companies looking to go public via a special purpose acquisition corporation, or SPAC, Butterfly Network [SPAC parent, Longview Acquisition Corp (NYSE: LGVW)] is reinventing the way we conduct ultrasounds. By replacing bulky and expensive machines with portable semiconductor based handheld devices, Butterfly Networks is looking to serve the 2/3rds of the world’s population that doesn't have access to ultrasound technology. But can this concept walk the walk? Join Brian Feroldi and Emily Flippen as they discuss if this SPAC is worth your cash.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seidful. I'm |
| 0:14.7 | Dylan Lewis. And today we're talking financials. Today we're talking |
| 0:18.2 | consumer goods. Wild-Carp! Wednesday. And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. Let's dive in. |
| 0:27.4 | Welcome to Industry Focus. Today is Wednesday, December 9th and I'm your host for this |
| 0:32.0 | wild card episode, Emily Flippin. |
| 0:34.5 | Today we are joined by Fool.com's most meticulous man of muck-breaking make-believe |
| 0:39.6 | medical malarkey. |
| 0:41.8 | Brian Feroldy, who takes no pity on me having to read that for the first time just now. |
| 0:48.8 | I feel like I really came close to messing you up there because you were laughing towards the end. I'm guessing it was malarkey that pushed you over the edge, Emily. |
| 0:55.6 | It was malarkey that pushed me over the edge. A little bit of an inside joke there for frequent listeners of industry focus. But Mr Feraldi, who I will not try to |
| 1:06.5 | repeat that wonderful title, is joining to discuss a company that is going public via a SPAC butterfly network. |
| 1:14.8 | Brian, thanks for joining. |
| 1:16.8 | Emily, I'm always happy to be back talking with you. |
| 1:19.6 | This is a company that is very extremely interesting very exciting to tease if you are a fan of |
| 1:27.3 | Nanox. This is that kind of writing to it except for less risky. |
| 1:32.8 | Still very risky, but less risky. |
| 1:35.6 | And I've never invested in or looked at a SPAC before. |
| 1:40.8 | This one I think is worth the deep dive because I think this company could become something special. |
| 1:46.0 | And before we get into the clarification of how going public via a special purpose acquisition corporation a SPAC is different than going public via a traditional |
| 1:57.3 | IPO. First I want to make a formal apology to our listeners, you Brian and to everybody out there in |
| 2:06.0 | fool-dom when you came to me it must have been at least a few weeks ago with this |
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