There was, during the panademic, an enormous boom in savings and investing activity amongst consumers. Drove robin hood. It drove e toro around the world. I mean, coin base got an enormous lift from this. People just had a lot of cash. Like jason, you didn't leave your house for a while? I didn't, and i spent no money. And so people put that to work. Think about all the money we saved not going on vacation or business trips or conferences. All that's business class travel. The deal has been announced and agreed on, but hasn't yet closed. Now, its still vorizes in metia group until the ap...
Alex Wilhelm from TechCrunch joins Jason to chop up this week's news. They cover Robinhood & Duolingo's IPOs (3:40), consumer subscription businesses (25:09), Google's growth (28:25), the startup funding landscape (38:51), Amazon (42:46), China's actions against tech (47:35), Apple (1:04:19) & more!