Weekly Link Roundup From Our Listener Community: 24 September

24 September 2020
by Rita Yang

Welcome back to the second week of our link roundup. Over this week and last, our community discussed the latest Apple launch event (hello, Series 6!), special purpose acquisition companies (also known as SPAC) and the rise of e-commerce live streaming. As always, you can join us here. Hot links shared this week? See below.

Billionaire Richard Branson wants to raise $460 million for a new blank check company
Private equity plays a starring role in 2020’s SPAC boom: “For most of their existence, special-purpose acquisition companies were mostly unknown. But this year, they’ve become some of the hottest investment vehicles on Wall Street, offering companies an alternative to a traditional IPO and opening up fertile new ground for dealmakers.”
A low-profile investor who bet on Snowflake eight years ago is up more than $12 billion after IPO pop
Gree’s E-Commerce ‘New Retail Strategy’ Goes From Strength to Strength as $175m Worth of Products Sold in Single Event: “Dong Mingzhu, chairwoman and president of leading Chinese home appliance maker Gree, has wrapped up her eighth e-commerce livestream continuing to illustrate the strength of her “new retail” strategy aimed at integrating online and offline channels.”