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This Week in Startups

$TSLA earnings breakdown & 2022 IPOs to watch with TechCrunch's Alex Wilhelm | E1371

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Alex Wilhelm from TechCrunch joins Molly and Jason for a full episode. First, they breakdown Tesla's Q4 2021 earnings including its consistently increasing Model 3 production, profitability and charger network growth (3:08). Next up, they discuss why Alex thinks the IPO window is closed for most startups. We wrap with a review of some of 2022's most anticipated IPOs including Discord, Reddit, Stripe, Impossible Foods, Chime and Instacart (24:45).

(00:00) Jason & Molly intro the show
(01:49) Welcoming Alex to the pod
(03:08) Tesla's Q4 2021 earnings
(08:45) Eight Sleep - Go to https://eightsleep.com/twist to check out the Pod Pro Cover and get $150 off at checkout!
(10:14) Tesla's growing supercharger network
(14:34) Comparing valuations and EV offerings of automakers
(19:56) Odoo - Get your first app free and a $1000 credit at https://odoo.com/twist
(20:59) Long distance road trips in EVs
(24:45) Is the IPO window closed?
(30:41) Assure - To get 20% off your first Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) visit https://Assure.co/twist
(32:19) Do public market investors have the ability to stomach speculative companies?
(36:09) Stripe - Potential 2022 IPO
(40:49) Discord - Potential 2022 IPO
(47:46) Reddit - Potential 2022 IPO
(57:33) "Yes, No, IPO" Impossible foods, Instacart, Chime, Gopuff

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. We've got an amazing show for you today friend of the pod Alex Wilhelm is with us from TechCrunch in his six appearance

0:07.8

And we're going to cover Tessa's unbelievable Q4 earnings and the IPO window is a closing opening and then finally since we have Alex

0:15.9

We break down all of the most hotly anticipated IPOs of 2022

0:20.6

We talk about whether they're going to happen how they're going to go what our favorites are and what we think is going to be in the dumpster

0:27.9

And those specifically are

0:29.9

Well, we can't give it away now. No, no, we should tell them what companies we're going to we're going to go

0:33.8

Oh, yeah, totally. So we're going to talk about the IPO the potential IPOs of Stripe discord reddit impossible insta cart go puff and

0:43.0

Chime but we think it's going to win so I think it's going to lose who we think's just going to bail on IPO completely

0:49.0

It's going to be an amazing show stick with us

0:52.8

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1:03.8

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1:09.3

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1:17.8

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1:24.8

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1:31.9

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1:36.2

Administration with over 5,000 completed transactions and 2.5 billion dollars under administration

1:42.7

Twist listeners can get 20% off their first SPV at assure.co slash twist

1:49.5

All right everybody. We have Alex Wilhelm senior editor at tech crunch host of the equity podcast

1:55.3

And I would say not even just a friend of the pod more like a fave of the pod six appearance

2:01.8

On twist there is nobody better to break down the financials the man as an s1 wizard

2:08.0

And the master of IPO dissection. So we brought him on to talk about

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