👯‍♂️👯‍♂️ “Zuckings everywhere” — Coursera’s IPO lesson. Microsoft’s Iron Man deal. Clubhouse’s zuck-tastrophe.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

Pop Culture, Business News, Finance, News, Business, Tech

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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EdTech icon Coursera jumped 25% after going public, but we noticed 1 word mysteriously missing in its IPO paperwork. Microsoft just snagged a $22B augmented reality deal with the US Army that we’re calling “Iron Man 3.” And so many companies just copied Clubhouse’s core business that we had to push the big red emergency button.$COUR $MSFT $WORK $SPOT $TWTRGot a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYorkWant a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form:https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9Got a SnackFact for the pod? We got a form for that too:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe64VKtvMNDPGSncHDRF07W34cPMDO3N8Y4DpmNP_kweC58tw/viewformLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. This is Snacks. Daily. Welcome back. It is Monday, April 5th.
0:06.4	Heading into the 3-day weekend, the S&P 500 passed 4,000 for the first time ever.
0:11.6	Yeah, God of love, a nice round number. That's what this comes down to.
0:14.6	Oh, by the way, day 21, we're still on fun.
0:17.1	Yeah, can't fun just, baby. Oh, and this podcast, this is our best one yet.
0:20.6	For our first story, Microsoft snagged a $22 billion augmented reality helmet deal with the US Army.
0:26.9	Microsoft, doing Excel spreadsheets and apparently Ironman helmets.
0:30.4	For our second story, Coursera Stock is up 25% after finally IPO-ing.
0:35.1	Jack, here's the lesson. When 100,000 people sign up for your class,
0:38.2	you quit teaching. You start a company. How much do I have to pay for that,
0:41.3	classic? Thank you. Actually, $9.99. Third story, what do we got?
0:44.5	A barrage of zuckings is currently assaulting one audio company.
0:48.4	Snackers, if you're a company, hasn't copied Clubhouse in the last week,
0:51.6	what are you even doing here? Just turn off the pod and go start it.
0:54.6	But, Sackers, before you hit those three stories, a lot of talk about infrastructure
0:58.4	after Joe Biden proposed a $2 trillion bill. You got roads, you got bridges, you got broadband,
1:03.1	clean energy, even Amtrak's getting some money. One crucial piece of US infrastructure.
1:07.1	Nobody is talking about bees. Bees! Two point eight million beehives exist in the USA right now,
1:13.4	and the sheltering America's most essential profitable pollinators.
1:17.2	Honestly, Jack and I saw this snack fact. We need to promote this thing to get into the intro of the pod.
1:21.3	Get this, honey bees. Yeah. Responsible for one of every three bites of food that we take.
1:27.1	Uh-huh. I didn't make this up. It's the US Department of Agriculture who said that.
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