Are There Any Companies That Came Public Through Spacks?

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Criscel: Are there businesses that came public by way of spack that you still think people should be paying a to and shouldn't be writing off just because the category has had a hard time? At the top of the list is actually lucid, which is an electric vehicle company. They've just come out with their first, with their first ultra luxury cars. A quantum scape is another one. And yes, because i don't want us to be superd r at this point, i do think that it really is important to mention again that spacks are just a method to go public. It's not so much that they are illegal immoral or fattening or bad to

Hey, what happened to all of those SPACs going public? Dylan Lewis and Bill Mann look back on the great SPAC boom, when more than $240 billion flowed into blank check companies between 2020 and 2021, and discuss: - The incentives that both created the boom and bust - Rare SPACs that may have a bright future ahead - A potential arbitrage opportunity for investors watching SPACs

Stocks mentioned: NKLA, DKNG, LCID, QS, UTZ

Additional resource: What Are SPACs in Finance? - https://www.fool.com/investing/how-to-invest/stocks/spac/

Host: Dylan Lewis Guest: Bill Mann, Chamath Palihapitiya Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl

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