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10/08/2020

☁️In 2018, Twilio did $650 million in revenue which represented 63% year-over-year growth from 2017. For 2019, Twilio did $1.13 billion in revenue which represented 75% year-over-year growth. During 2019, Twilio acquired a company called SendGrid which added to their 2019 revenue growth. In 2019, Twilio also doubled their 7 figure sales deals compared to the previous year. This shows they are growing more into Enterprise customers and larger deal sizes. For the first quarter of 2020, revenue was $364.9 million, up 57% year-over-year. Q2 of 2020 was also a great quarter with revenue of $400.8 million, up 46% year-over-year.

Twilio is leading the space in communication tools for developers. Their impressive revenue and customer growth over the last 3 years shows their ability to grow, scale, and expand. Keep in mind that they acquired SendGrid and that added to revenue and employee growth. Twilio is in a great position to acquire more startups in the communication / API space as they expand around the world. Twilio stock is under the symbol TWLO. I believe that Twilio is a top investment to consider and they are poised to deliver great results over the next few years.

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10/01/2020

🎶No matter the outcome of the struggle between China and the U.S. over video-sharing app TikTok, an unlikely winner will be a secretive trading firm based outside of Philadelphia.

Susquehanna International Group LLP, an options-trading giant, has largely avoided publicity during its three-decade history. Susquehanna’s core business is using quantitative models and computers to execute rapid-fire trades in various markets. Such firms tend to rake in profits by making thousands of small trades a day, often holding securities for fractions of a second.

But in the case of TikTok, the firm bet big and held on to its investment for years.

Susquehanna owns around 15% of TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd., according to people familiar with the matter. This makes Susquehanna the largest outside investor in the Beijing-based social-media company. Based on private trades of ByteDance shares earlier this year, Susquehanna is sitting on a stake that could be worth more than $15 billion on paper, according to data firm PitchBook.

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09/30/2020

📦Most people know Amazon for its namesake e-commerce platform, but the world’s most popular online retailer has expanded its business considerably over the past few years. Underlining its ambitions to become a broad-based tech company rather than a one trick pony, Amazon introduced a range of new hardware products along with its very own cloud gaming service at its fall event last Thursday.
While the event did fly under the radar a little bit, especially compared to Apple’s launch event a week earlier, it was jam-packed with announcements. Aside from updating its Echo line of smart speakers, Amazon also introduced new Fire TV streaming sticks, new wi-fi routers as well as several Ring-branded security products including an autonomous security drone for the home. Arguably the most exciting announcement was an AWS-powered cloud gaming service called Luna, along with a dedicated game controller, to compete directly with Google’s Stadia and Microsoft’s xCloud gaming services.
As the following chart shows, Amazon’s core “online stores” business, i.e. first-party e-commerce sales recognized on a gross basis, accounted for little more than half (51 percent) of Amazon’s total sales in the twelve months ended June 30, with commissions charged from third-party sellers, Amazon Web Services and subscription services accounting for the bulk of the remaining 49 percent of sales.

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09/29/2020

📉U.S. stocks were trading lower early Tuesday as investors awaited the first presidential debate ahead of the November elections, and digested economic data and comments from Federal Reserve officials.

After a positive start to kick off the past week of trading in September, major equity-index futures were drifting lower, with the global tally of COVID-19 deaths surpassing a milestone of one million.

The handling of the pandemic and plans for the U.S.’s economic recovery are likely to be some of the topics featured at the presidential debate between Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden in Cleveland late Tuesday. The U.S. has the highest case tally at 7.1 million, and highest death toll at 205,085 of any country.

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09/28/2020

📦Amazon.com Inc. has announced the dates for this year’s Prime Day: Oct. 13 and 14.

Prime Day, usually a summertime shopping event, was pushed back this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Media reports began circulating last week that Prime Day would take place on Oct. 13. Amazon AMZN did not confirm those reports.

Prime Day starts at Oct. 13 at midnight Pacific, though Amazon will begin offering deals on Monday, with Amazon devices and private labels among the items that will be discounted in the lead up. Through Oct. 12, Amazon will also offer a $10 credit to spend on purchases made from small businesses. Amazon said it will invest $100 million on promotional activities catering to small businesses.

Prime Day will also expand globally, with Turkey and Brazil participating for the first time. Other countries hosting Prime Day include the U.K., Spain, Singapore, the Netherlands, Japan, Germany and Australia.

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09/28/2020

🇪🇺Western European countries, which had successfully flattened the curve of COVID-19 infections, are experiencing a surge of new cases. According to numbers by Johns Hopkins University, cases are growing quite rapidly again in Spain and France, where total case numbers of 700,000 and 530,000, respectively, have been surpassed. The UK has also visibly departed from a flat trajectory.
Spain entered the top ten of the most-affected countries in the world once more and is currently in rank 8 for total cases and rank 10 for cases relative to population. France has the 11th most confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide, while the UK counted the fifth-most deaths. The U.S. is currently the country with most known infections as well as deaths and also has a curve of infections which is still pointing upwards. Infections have reached almost 7 million stateside.

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09/25/2020

💰Everyone approaches retirement differently, but there’s only one way they should really prepare for it: by investing, said Kevin O’Leary, a host of ABC’s DIS television series “Shark Tank.”

Some people plan for retirement over the course of their careers, while others wait to think about that next stage of their lives when it gets closer. Not all Americans save adequately for their old age, partially because they can’t afford to do so or because they have other, more present-day financial obligations, such as student loans, child care and high costs of living, to worry about.

Still, there’s a portion of the population, albeit small, that pursues retirement early — in some cases, by the time they’re in their 30s or 40s. They do so by living frugally and dedicating most of their income to the stock market. This movement is known as FIRE, short for “financial independence, retire early.” O’Leary, founder of the O’Leary Financial Group, originally spoke about the FIRE movement with Grant Sabatier, an early retiree and host of the Millennial Money podcast, where they also discussed the skills it takes to achieve such a feat.

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09/24/2020

⚡️Shares of SPI Energy on Wednesday were soaring an astonishing 3,100% on the session, following an announcement by the company that it was starting an electric-vehicle subsidiary. SPI Energy SPI, 15.71%, which is described as offering photovoltaic solutions for business, residential, government and utility customers and investors, saw its shares trade at $33.53 a share after closing on Tuesday at $1.05, according to FactSet data. The surge in the company's shares, has pushed its market value from roughly $15 million to around $460 million, the data show. The company on Wednesday said it launched its wholly owned subsidiary, EdisonFuture, which is intended to design and develop electric-vehicles and EV charging solutions. That would pit the company against the likes of Tesla Inc. TSLA, 3.35%, which is one of the most popular EV makers on the planet and a manufacturer of its own EV batteries. Xiaofeng Peng, CEO of SPI Energy, in a statement said: "As Tesla has demonstrated, an end-to-end business model in the renewable energy space can generate significant value. With the addition of EV and EV charging segments to our diverse solar business, we are positioning SPI Energy for the future of renewable energy."

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09/24/2020

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Would you consider buying an electric car if it were just as expensive as an equivalent model powered by a traditional internal combustion engine? I’m betting many people would, and so does Tesla CEO Elon Musk. At the company's annual shareholder meeting, fittingly called "Battery Day", Musk announced his company's plans to bring a $25,000 electric car to market within the next three years that would be "on par" or "slightly better than a comparable gasoline car." To achieve that, Tesla counts on its own ability to dramatically cut the costs of battery packs, which are still the main driver behind the relatively high prices for electric vehicles.
According to research conducted by BloombergNEF, the inflation-adjusted average price of battery packs for cars has dropped from $1,160 per kWh in 2010 to just $156 in the past year. How much of a difference does that make to the price of a car, you ask? A big one. Consider the Tesla Model 3 for example: The most popular electric car in the U.S. comes with a battery capacity between 50 and 75 kWh. If you decide on the model with 75 kWh, that car’s battery now costs around $11,700 instead of nearly $90,000 it would have cost ten years ago.
While price is not the only thing keeping people from making the switch to electric cars (range anxiety is another big one), it is still a key concern for many vehicle owners. Should battery prices continue to drop over the next few years, it would go a long way in helping electric vehicles reach broader adoption.

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09/23/2020

♻️Analysts at Goldman Sachs are bullish on the long-term prospects for so-called green hydrogen, which is when renewable energy powers the electrolysis of water.

Calling it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Goldman Sachs estimates the addressable market could be worth €10 trillion ($11.7 trillion) by 2050, split between Asia, the U.S. and Europe.

London-based analysts, led by Alberto Gandolfi, say what’s also called e-hydrogen could turn into the largest electricity consumer and double power demand in Europe, double its estimates on renewable energy capital expenditure, reconfigure the gas grid, solve the issue of seasonal power storage and provide a second life to conventional thermal power producers.

In July, the analysts note, the European Commission published its 2030 hydrogen strategy, which is the first concrete document to detail the role for it to play in the European economy. Against a current installed base of 0.1 gigawatts, the European Union is targeting 6 gigawatts by 2024, 40 gigawatts by 2030 and 500 gigawatts by 2050.

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09/23/2020

🔋It will take Tesla about three years to ‘fully realize’ advantages, CEO Elon Musk says.

Reduce cost / kW by 56% (!!!)
+Cell redesign 14%
+Factory enhancements 18%
+Silicon Anode 5%
+Nickel Cathodes 12%
+Battery/car structure 7%

54% ⬆️ range
69% ⬇️ investment

$25k car w/ fully autonomous in 3 years

20 MM cars/year goal

Model S Plaid 2021

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09/23/2020

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