{"id":13849,"date":"2020-12-18T21:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T21:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabricegrinda.com\/?p=13849"},"modified":"2022-03-20T08:59:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T08:59:35","slug":"episode-13-whats-the-deal-with-spacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/hi\/episode-13-whats-the-deal-with-spacs\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 13: What\u2019s the deal with SPACs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SPACs have been one of the hot topics of 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jeffreysweinstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jeff Weinstein<\/a>, who co-heads investing at FJ Labs, and our resident venture capital nerd, joins to talk about all things SPAC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He covers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What are SPACs?<\/li><li>How do they operate?<\/li><li>Why are they hot in 2020?<\/li><li>What\u2019s in it for sponsors, institutional investors, the companies merging into them and retail investors?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly he concludes that while we are in a bubble, SPACs are here to stay and will become a legitimate way to go public once the dust settles after the upcoming, inevitable crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Episode 13: What&#039;s the deal with SPACs\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o-ZCTrPldvw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For your reference I am including the slides Jeff used during the episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t<div class=\"wppdfemb-frame-container-1\" style=\"-webkit-overflow-scrolling:auto;\">\n\t\t\t<iframe class=\"pdfembed-iframe nonfullscreen wppdf-emb-iframe-1\"\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/grinda.org\/hi\/?pdfemb-data=eyJwZGZJRCI6MTM4NTEsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC9mYWJyaWNlZ3JpbmRhLmNvbVwvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyMFwvMTJcL1doYXRzLVRoZS1EZWFsLVdpdGgtU1BBQ3NfLnBkZiIsImluZGV4IjoxfQ\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-pdf-id=\"13851\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-pdf-index=\"1\"\n\t\t\t\tstyle=\"border:none;width:100%;max-width:100%;height:100vh;\"\n\t\t\t\tscrolling=\"yes\">\n\t\t\t<\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you prefer, you can listen to the episode in the embedded podcast player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/17249678\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" oallowfullscreen=\"\" msallowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the above Youtube video and embedded podcast player, you can also listen to the podcast on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>iTunes:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/whats-the-deal-with-spacs\/id1532336635?i=1000502850990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/whats-the-deal-with-spacs\/id1532336635?i=1000502850990<\/a><\/li><li>Spotify: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0OkZTZkb9MzsGt8RJ3dVD3\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0OkZTZkb9MzsGt8RJ3dVD3<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPACs have been one of the hot topics of 2020. Jeff Weinstein, who co-heads investing at FJ Labs, and our resident venture capital nerd, joins to talk about all things &hellip; <a href=\"\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playing-with-unicorns"],"acf":[],"contentUpdated":"Episode 13: What\u2019s the deal with SPACs?. Categories - Playing with Unicorns. Date-Posted - 2020-12-18T21:00:58 . \n SPACs have been one of the hot topics of 2020. Jeff Weinstein, who co-heads investing at FJ Labs, and our resident venture capital nerd, joins to talk about all things SPAC.\n He covers:\n What are SPACs?How do they operate?Why are they hot in 2020?What\u2019s in it for sponsors, institutional investors, the companies merging into them and retail investors?\n Interestingly he concludes that while we are in a bubble, SPACs are here to stay and will become a legitimate way to go public once the dust settles after the upcoming, inevitable crash.\n For your reference I am including the slides Jeff used during the episode.\n \t\t\n \t\t\t\n \t\t\t\n \t\t\n \t\t\n If you prefer, you can listen to the episode in the embedded podcast player.\n In addition to the above Youtube video and embedded podcast player, you can also listen to the podcast on:\n iTunes:&nbsp;https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/whats-the-deal-with-spacs\/id1532336635?i=1000502850990Spotify: https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0OkZTZkb9MzsGt8RJ3dVD3\n ","Category":["Playing with Unicorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13849"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18500,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13849\/revisions\/18500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}