Angel funding. Those are the earliest and smallest rounds. You have series a, later funding of series b, and so on. Generally speaking, series a is still a small round, meant to fund a company for a year, possibly two. Ill give you some context. Zoom, a company we have had on the show, is worth 21 billion now. But its series a, the first round of venture funding, was 6 million. Six. Some kind of Silicon Valley record leading a series a round to a Company Called one pass for 200 million likely the biggest series a in history, the biggest investment the firm has made. One password seems like a promising country. It deals with password management and security. But 200 million . On the first round of Venture Capital . Arun joins the reporters this week. John schwartz of dow jones and katie roof who covers venture journal. One more bit of c this is seriet was 285 million. That was a series c. What are you doing investing 200 million, and you did it with some other investors as well, in a se
Economic update so professor the market has just kind of shrugged off this entire conflict between iran and the u. S. Its now hitting all time highs and essentially concluding that honor has been served in the middle east and everyone can move along now what do you think is this really over or is merely a teaser and the other shoe just hasnt dropped yet. You know its a complicated story on the one hand the markets are right of course this was see it or it was see it or on new years to assassinate a foreign general when he is leave it in his own country a person who has that an adversary for a long a person carrying a diplomatic passport which means you can give his car a ticket let alone kill him a very bizarre action and the world looks at this as a kind of roll Good Behavior which is the truth everywhere except in the media. Year on the other hand the iranians having to look like theyre doing something in response send missiles that dont get to the target theyre ostensibly aimed at s
A board on the ground to catch us up on the floor of the shield and just how far a i have were filled to the brim with some very important stories so lets dive right in. Following irans missile strike on the bases in iraq that house u. S. And u. K. Troops markets initially dropped while oil spite but quickly retraced back to even as details emerged the pentagon later confirmed that iran launch more than a dozen missiles against u. S. Military forces in iraq but so far there were no reports of casualties the attack did not target any Oil Infrastructure which was a major point of concern for Global Markets in fact the nasdaq rallied to new record highs wednesday following the attack as it was highly asian was less than feared while crude oil retreated down 2 percent President Trump addressed the spikes wednesday morning in washington our Great American forces are prepared for anything iran appears to be standing down. Which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing
Did not target any Oil Infrastructure which was a major point of concern for Global Markets in fact the nasdaq rallied to new record highs wednesday following the attack as a was highly asian was less than feared while crude oil retreated down 2 percent President Trump addressed the spikes wednesday morning in washington our Great American forces are prepared for anything iran appears to be standing down which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world as we continue to evaluate options in response to a rain in aggression the United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the iranian regime. Investors are relieved and many analysts interpret the strike as iran lashing out but not for escalating the situation tensions are likely to continue but Current Base Case scenario does not assume a broader military conflict so while the market has bounced back and the vix is low indicating that fear has subsided has the entire t
Its ceo Michael Wirth will join us exclusively this hour tesla shares set to hit a new record at the open as the electric carmaker delivers its first china made model 3 to customers. 24 hours ago looked like the selloff might continue on monday and reaction to those middle east tensions but stocks did erase earlier losses to finish yesterday in the green. Major indices saw their third positive session we watch gold, jim, are we betting this is short in duration and limited in scope . You used to work for zilian i keep thinking about that word over and over again thats the word that define this is market. Because yesterday when we were down very bad, ugly down 200 dow points, the dow is down that much, it did look like the beginning of something big, and you know what you saw . Shorts pressing, thinking this is it, this is the big one it wasnt the big one and i almost feel like that unless something happens thats completely out of left field, if you read what iran wants to target, peopl