
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…
The skinny
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