TP16: Bridgespan VC 💰| Employee Stock Option Financing 🫴| Oracle Stock 📉 | Waymo Valuation 🏎️
Episode 16 of the TradingPlacesPod featuring Adrien Gautier of Bridgespan VC is out now!
This week: Oracle's debt crisis sends shockwaves through AI infrastructure stocks, the IPO market heats up for 2026 with SpaceX, OpenAI & Anthropic eyeing historic exits, and Adrien Gautier reveals how Bridgespan's unique employee stock option financing strategy gets them 30-70% discounts vs. preferred share pricing 💰
Welcome to Trading Places, the extremely terrible, very bad podcast on VC, secondaries, and all things tech. Hosts Dave McClure and Aman Verjee break down market volatility, the Fed's rate…
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