Wildcard: SPACs 102
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Back in July, Luis Sanchez joined the podcast to discuss the SPAC craze and why it was so hot. Since then, SPACs have become even more omnipresent in investing discussions. This week, Nick and Luis dive deeper into investing in SPACs, discuss SPAC companies backed by Bill Ackman and Chamath Palihapitiya, and Luis shares some of his favorite pre-deal and post-deal SPACs right now.
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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 Seyphill. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today |
| 0:16.0 | we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods. |
| 0:19.1 | Wildcar! Wednesday. And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. Let's dive in. |
| 0:27.1 | Welcome to Industry Focus. I'm Nick Saipel. |
| 0:29.1 | 2020 continues to be a record year for special purpose acquisition companies with |
| 0:34.2 | SPAC IPOs grabbing more headlines than seemingly ever before. |
| 0:37.7 | Molly full contributor Luis Sanchez returns to the podcast this week to take another |
| 0:41.6 | look at the SPAC craze. |
| 0:43.0 | Luis, thanks for joining me as always. |
| 0:45.0 | Thank you, Nick. |
| 0:46.0 | I hope you're having a spectacular day. |
| 0:48.0 | I am now. |
| 0:50.0 | That pun really just brought my day to the next level. |
| 0:53.3 | So I'm really excited to get into this topic |
| 0:56.5 | with you here today, Louise. |
| 0:58.3 | As I mentioned, we did a podcast back on July 8th |
| 1:02.1 | called What Our Spacks and Why are they so hot right now. |
| 1:04.8 | I'm gonna toss a link in the notes for this podcast back to that previous episode. |
| 1:09.3 | Maybe go a little deep into deeper into spacks on the podcast today if that first podcast was Spacks 101. |
| 1:15.6 | We're going to jump into Spacks 102 here today but high level just to remind folks |
| 1:20.5 | Louise what is a SPAC? |
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