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TP7: Turner Novak 🍌🧢 | Prediction Market 📈 | Gold Rush💰 | OpenAI's $500B Valuation 🙀

Episode 7 of the Trading Places Podcast featuring Turner Novak from The Peel Pod and Banana Capital is out now.

This week we cover a range of news highlights from a very boisterous week in tech and fundings (Polymarket, Kalshi, Navan IPO, Bitcoin shorts, gold price boom) plus a jam packed [valuation corner] hosted by Practical Venture Capital's GPs Dave McClure and Aman Verjee on OpenAI's latest $500B valuation.

[ tech news + IPOs ]

00:44 - Navan IPO

03:38 - ⁠Reflection AI, Base Power

04:33 - ⁠prediction markets on fire

08:18 - China / Trump crypto crash

11:36 - Gold: gonna be gonna be Golden…

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