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                   While r/WallStreetBets has received untold hype, another subreddit -- as recently highlighted by the
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                    New York Times
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                   -- has been indispensable for people trying to navigate government stimulus: r/Unemployment.
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                   Somehow, Reddit is still only valued at $6B?
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                Meet Agora, the company powering Clubhouse
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                Clubhouse is scorching hot right now.
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                The invite-only social audio app -- which lets users conduct real-time conversations or eavesdrop on celebrities and investors -- is suddenly everywhere.
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                While the company is private, those looking to capitalize on its rise have been betting on
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                 Agora
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                , a software firm that has seen its market value more than double, rising to
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                 $10B+,
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                since the end of January.
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                 Agora makes tools for ‘real-time engagement’
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                Founded in 2012, the company offers APIs (application programming interfaces) for real-time voice and audio features in only a few lines of code.
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                It went public last summer with the very relevant ticker $API.
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                According to investor
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                 Justin Caldbeck
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                , Clubhouse was built in 1 week on Agora (Clubhouse does not speak publicly about its tech stack, but a recent
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                  Bloomberg
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                article highlights that the connection does exist).
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                In recent months, Clubhouse has grown to
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                 6m+
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                users, catalyzed by a Jan. 24 funding
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                (which valued the startup at
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                 $1B
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                ) and an appearance by
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                 Elon Musk
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                during the GameStop/Robinhood
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                .
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                And with this growth, Agora has seen its stock price surge.
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                 The tech isn’t just used by Clubhouse...
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                Per DFT Capital at
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                  Seeking Alpha
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                , it powers several billion-dollar firms:
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                  Bilibi:
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                 A $53B Chinese social video-sharing app
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                  New Oriental Education
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                 : A $33B Chinese ed-tech firm
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                  Yalla
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                 : A $5.6B app called the “Clubhouse of the Middle East”
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                Agora charges on a per-usage basis, which means that the more often people use these services, the more cheddar $API makes (it projects
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                 $125-$130m
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                for 2020).
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                 Agora’s founder Tony Zhao is a veteran of WebEx...
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                … Cisco’s video-chat business that counts Eric Yuan (the founder and CEO of Zoom) among its alumni.
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                Agora is based in Shanghai -- and some
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                 observers
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                have raised questions about Clubhouse’s vulnerability to government surveillance. The app has already been blocked in China.
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                But elsewhere, the hype machine continues.
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                Next up: a Clubhouse
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                between
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                Musk and Kanye West (and
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                 maybe
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                Vladimir Putin, too).
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                  “We need to inflict pain”
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                 is what Mark Zuckerberg reportedly
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                  Maryland is the first state to tax digital advertising
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                 ... with a levy of up to
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                 on revenue for firms making $100m+. Facebook and Google are a
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                  little bit
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                 above this threshold, with respective digital ad revenues of $84B and $147B last year.
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                  Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm
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                 have all raised concerns to global regulators about chip manufacturer Nvidia’s
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                  $40B
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                 acquisition of chip design firm Arm. The issue: a potential change in Arm’s licensing terms.
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                  The Amazon of South Korea (Coupang)
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                 has filed to go public at a potential
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                 valuation. It would continue Masayoshi Son’s recent win streak, after his fund notched an
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                  $11B
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                 profit in the latest quarter on DoorDash’s IPO.
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                  Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey
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                 put
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                 (~$24m) into an endowment to fund Bitcoin development in Africa and India.
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                Like many successful entrepreneurs, 36-year-old Keith Wasserman has a good college hustle story.
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                While studying at the University of Southern California, he operated one of eBay’s largest shops, Keith’s Bargain Center, which sold 200k items. The products ranged from DVDs to clothing.
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                After graduating in 2007 at the height of the housing bubble, Wasserman purchased a 4-unit building in Bakersfield, California. Today, that property has turned into
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                , a $1.6B real estate portfolio with 32 buildings (~15k units) across America.
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                 How will “superstar cities” (e.g., NYC, SF) do as people leave?
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                Wasserman thinks these cities will be fine in the long run.
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                “At the end of the day, single people want to live in proximity to dating [opportunities] and near big cities,” he says. “Rent drops [will attract] a different set of people who may otherwise have been priced out.”
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                 What cities he’s bullish on in the next 5 years
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                Here are 3 cities that Wasserman is investing in:
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                  Denver: “
                 </strong>
                 It’s our largest expansion area right now.”
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                 <strong>
                  Salt Lake City: “
                 </strong>
                 This is a high-quality city that is very business-friendly.”
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                 <strong>
                  Albuquerque: “
                 </strong>
                 We are seeing slow and steady rent growth here among a population of retirees.”
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                 What asset class he recommends for smaller investors
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                Manufactured home parks. Here’s why:
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                 <strong>
                  Minimal maintenance:
                 </strong>
                 You buy the land plots and rent them out to people who own (and maintain) manufactured homes themselves.
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                 <strong>
                  Sticky tenants:
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                 It’s inconvenient to move (the average tenancy is 10 years).
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                 <strong>
                  Recession-proof:
                 </strong>
                 It’s fairly low-income housing, so people aren’t leaving for cheaper options.
                </li>
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                “The thing I love about real estate vs. other industries is that it’s not winner-takes-all,” says Wasserman. “There are millions -- if not tens of millions -- of millionaires in real estate. There’s enough out there for a lot of people to get involved.”
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                Exactly why we’re raising a glass of Topo (if you know, you know) to Revtown’s new Lightweight Denim.
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                 All the soft-and-stretchy-as-sweatpants comfort of traditional Revtown jeans
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                 An
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                 A weight that’s 3 oz. less than their next-lightest product
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                Perfect for the office (
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                ), date night (
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                ), and the couch (
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                ).
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                Skeedaddle over to the Revtown site and
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                before they sell out.
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                (And they will, if my credit card limit has anything to say about it.)
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                “Going to college is so affordable,” said no one ever. Au contraire, we’ve got a problem on our hands:
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                 The average loan amount is
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                  $1.7T
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                Enter
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                . It’s a startup that’s helping students repay their debt in a novel way: A marketplace of brands compensates students by paying off part of their debt in return for user-generated content (“UGC”).
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                Its founder, Demetrius Curry, is currently looking to raise a $1m seed round to make it a reality.
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                 College costs keep rising...
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                more than they did 10 years ago.
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                Curry was moved to take action after realizing the cost of his own daughter’s future education. He’s even gone as far as to sell his own plasma to pay for web hosting fees to get his idea off the ground.
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                Per
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                  TechCrunch
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                , his startup allows brands to ask users to create photo and video content for their respective service or product.
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                Why UGC?
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                 It’s
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                 more influential than other types of media
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                  93%
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                 of customers appreciate UGC when making a purchase
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                 Where does College Cash go from here?
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                Short-term, the focus is on fundraising. Long-term, Curry envisions College Cash providing additional ways to fund college.
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                One idea: a tip integration within gig economy platforms (e.g., DoorDash) for workers paying for school.
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                So... no debt, no problem? Fingers crossed.
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