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Speaker 2: There's another company.

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Speaker 3: Have you heard of?

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Speaker 2: Bending Spoons?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: All right, well, Bending Spoons has also filed for USIPO.

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Speaker 2: Billy Lipschultz has heard about it, and he has reported

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Speaker 2: on it and he joins us out. He's our senior

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Speaker 2: equities reporter, Billy Bending Spoons. What is this company? And

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Speaker 2: it's a reference to the Matrix, isn't it.

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Speaker 5: It's a reference to the Matrix formed in twenty thirteen.

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Speaker 5: And kind of the whole pitch is from the movie

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Speaker 5: that it's kind of like the world is Illusion. But

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Speaker 5: you don't know Bending Spoons. I don't think anyone really

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Speaker 5: knows what Bending Spoons is there at Milan based company.

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Speaker 5: The things that you do know them for, they do

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Speaker 5: own Vimeo, they do own AOL, they own a number

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Speaker 5: of these other companies. And kind of their whole pitches

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Speaker 5: broader portfolio, maybe layoff some people, cut some costs, and

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Speaker 5: really build out that way. I was talking to an

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Speaker 5: investor this morning on the on the the IPO flip,

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Speaker 5: because that'll mean it kind of kicks off the process.

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Speaker 5: I was kind of like, walk me through your quick

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Speaker 5: thoughts on this company, and he was like, it's similar

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Speaker 5: to IAC, the Barry Diller company which got renamed to people.

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Speaker 5: And he was like, again, we haven't quite done the work.

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Speaker 5: We're all focused on SpaceX right now, but the broader

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Speaker 5: pitches it's a portfolio company to an extent. In what

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Speaker 5: that could or could not mean.

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Speaker 3: I covered IC since it's beginning through. It's because I

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Speaker 3: followed Barry Diller for forty years.

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Speaker 6: At no point in time that I know what IAC did,

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Speaker 6: at no point in time that I know how to

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Speaker 6: value it.

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Speaker 3: But it was a bet on Barry Diller. What are

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Speaker 5: I think it's the strategy really is just their ability

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Speaker 5: to grow. To your point, Barry Diller is a name,

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Speaker 5: and I don't think when you look at kind of

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Speaker 5: just the notion that they've grown monthly active users across

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Speaker 5: the platform of portfolios to about half a billion people

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Speaker 5: back in December twenty twenty three. Obviously a big part

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Speaker 5: of that is acquiring more platforms, but the broader vision

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Speaker 5: I've heard initially from investors again everyone's focused on SpaceX

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Speaker 5: when they look at Benning Spoons without having really dug

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Speaker 5: artificial intelligence? Or is it a company when you say,

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Speaker 5: all right, well, what am I really using Aol or

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Speaker 3: At the end of the day, Aol still exists.

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Speaker 5: I thought the same thing.

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Speaker 2: wondering who I mean. I guess some people still have

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Speaker 2: Aol email addresses. Yeah, absolutely, including our next gus, which

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Speaker 3: All right, Billy SpaceX, what's there? On two of the

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Speaker 5: It seems to be humming along again. We had put

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Speaker 5: mark is capex if. As we reported they're going to

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Speaker 5: Is seventy five billion dollar an IPO just the tip

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Speaker 3: This is a big week for IPOs.

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Speaker 2: We talked earlier about Bending Spoons, a company that owns

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Speaker 2: We're of course awaiting details on SpaceX, which Paul is

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Speaker 2: But SpaceX's IPO has renewed all kinds of enthusiasm for

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Speaker 2: all things space related, the whole space economy, rocket companies,

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Speaker 2: Greg Pendi. He is a director and equity analyst over

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Speaker 2: at Clearstreet. And Greg, it feels like there is a

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Speaker 3: What is it now?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for having me. I think what investors are

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Speaker 6: Getting back to earnings, Campbell's Soup Camden, New Jersey based

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Speaker 6: The top one percent reap most from tax loophole costing

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Speaker 3: How does it work? In Layman's terms? I am the

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Speaker 6: So I mean, again, all we read about it for

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Speaker 8: profile issue, and it's one that you know, Republicans generally

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Speaker 8: aren't looking for ways to raise people's taxes, right and

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Speaker 8: so you know, they're in charge right now. So if

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Speaker 8: you know, if different Congress, maybe if they had something

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Speaker 8: they wanted to spend money on, they might they might

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Speaker 8: look at this again.

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