And s p 500, nas in six weeks. Yeah. Well start with tech. More broadly, ipos and big tech valuations have been surging culture questions continue to brew in Silicon Valley as well i want to talk about that and a lot more with long time venture capitalist whose newest venture is a private and middle school with entrepreneurship baked into the curriculum Draper Associates founder tim draper joins us now. Tim, good to see you i want to start with your take on these markets i was talking just yesterday to the founder of rike. He said he isnt going public this year because he underestimated how well the ipo market was going to perform in a pandemic has that surprised you and what are you saying about it to your Portfolio Companies . Absolutely. I was blindsided i didnt realize that the government was going to print 13 trillion it has been strong for bitcoin and it sure has been good for the Public Markets particularly the tech stocks that have benefitted from that and i think people many p
Your humidity in august but this fear of my friends isnt coming from the thousands of protesters that have descended on the imaginal mall or Lafayette Square or the d. C. Residents navigating both the covert 19 pandemic and the black lives matter protests no no this tidal wave of fear is emanating from the marble halls of the Capitol Building and the old will shape rooms of the white house yes the corridors of power here in washington d. C. Are seeing a nation rise up in one voice and scream enough is enough black lives matter reform and justice are coming and the old ways of oppression and white power are ending how do you know they are as frightened as schoolchildren on report card day well because they are now turning us streets into war zones starting with the Nations Capital as d. C. Is reports the chief of the National Guard bureau confirmed tuesday that an additional 1500. 00 National Guardsmen would join the response to protests in d. C. After 1300. 00 were deployed on monday d
Some who are so great to have you with us in our number 3 years on the moscato im so if you think its merely to an obvious since i saw you last time. And we had quite a discussion and seen peters work on the International Economic forum that but wow now im trying to condense what its time to really rethink and reevaluate everything in life so im going to go straight in and ask you that the world right now is so divided over the code 19 condemning there are some that say that its just another condemning condemning this and current ones in every century for humanity to source purify itself and there are others who really believe that this pandemic is some sort of a lesson to teach. And to sort of make us reconsider our future. Where do you stand. If your neighbor and i say. Maybe youll think its beautification or a lesson to learn but if you die on your children i have somebody merely or dies i dont think you will think this is a lesson or beautification thats a very cruel way of looking
Hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered im Peter Lavelle the spiral downwards depending on who you believe in the media the civil unrest in america is the result of systematic racism this explains protests and rioting but does it the commanding heights controlling the Financial System the media and the Business World are loath to admit it its the economy stupid for them race always trumps class. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Jason Nichols in l. The cut city is a professor of africanamerican studies and in new york we cross to Margaret Kimberly she is the editor and senior columnist at the black gender report as well as the author of the book prejudicial black america and the president s all right cross up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok lets 1st go to margaret here in my introduction i said that race always trumps class and if you look at Mainstream Media particularly the liberal media tha
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