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Why SPACs are Popular InvestmentsNicola Motors, Draft Kings, and Virgin Galactic have a lot in common.For starters all these companies have recently gone public and are still not profitable and while that's common for many IPOs neither Nicola or virgin galactic have actually generated any revenue from their main service lines.For Nikola they haven't even sold any electric vehicles and for Virgin Galactic they have still yet to deliver on their space tourism services. Most people would consider these stocks to be early stage and incredibly risky for wall street bets though it's a great idea.Perhaps the most important thing to understand about these companies is how they went public and that's through a spec or a special purpose acquisition company.We're going to look at specs how they're structured and answer why they become so popular among investors.SPAC's are by no means anything incredibly new they've existed for a while now but have just recently become popular again.The general idea behind a SPAC is…

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Why SPACs are Popular Investments | How Money Works

Why SPACs are Popular InvestmentsNicola Motors, Draft Kings, and Virgin Galactic have a lot in common.For starters all these companies have recently gone public and are still not profitable and while that's common for many IPOs neither Nicola or virgin galactic have actually generated any revenue from their main service lines.For Nikola they haven't even sold any electric vehicles and for Virgin Galactic they have still yet to deliver on their space tourism services. Most people would consider these stocks to be early stage and incredibly risky for wall street bets though it's a great idea.Perhaps the most important thing to understand about these companies is how they went public and that's through a spec or a special purpose acquisition company.We're going to look at specs how they're structured and answer why they become so popular among investors.SPAC's are by no means anything incredibly new they've existed for a while now but have just recently become popular again.The general idea behind a SPAC is…

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Banking is Broken (And We May Not Be Able to Fix It) - How Money Works Sign up for my newsletter https://compoundeddaily.com 👈 Banking has become too complicated and too concentrated for it's own good and this could have serious impacts on us all. #Banking #Finance #HowMoneyWorks ___________________________________________________________________________ Support the channel on Patreon here - https://www.patreon.com/HowMoneyWorks ___________________________________________________________________________ Link To The Capitalists Discord where I hang out with other creators - https://discord.gg/8MeNJ7gfSR Music by Epidemic Sound ___________________________________________________________________________ Banking is an incredibly important industry which is based off a very simple concept. People with more money than they know what to do with can keep it in a safe secure institution which can then lend that money out to people who have big idea’s but not enough money to make them happen. They give a small…

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What Company Made Steve Jobs a Billionaire? - Hint: it Wasn't Apple! - How Money Works | How Money Works

What Company Made Steve Jobs a Billionaire? - Hint: it Wasn't Apple! - How Money WorksSign up for my newsletter https://compoundeddaily.com 👈Steve jobs was worth an estimated 10.2 billion dollars at the time of his tragic death in late 2011, making him one of the wealthiest people in the world at the time.This will not come as a huge surprise to most of you, because after all he was the founder and CEO of Apple Computers, which went on to be the most valuable company in history, with a market capitalization today of over 2.2 trillion dollars.The thing is though, apple had very little to do with the fortune amassed by this legendary businessman.Apple was famously founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in a Californian garage in 1976.The business found it’s initial seed capital from jobs selling his Volkswagen Bus, and Wozniak selling a high end pocket calculator.These funds were then use to develop the apple one and subsequent apple two desktop computers, which introduced the world to a new way…

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Was Any Of This Actually Legal? | How Money Works

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