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23.05.2025
38 Minuten
On this week’s SPACInsider REPLAY, we revisit a 2022 conversation
with Harry Sloan of the Eagle SPACs.
At the time, Harry had already completed seven SPACs and was
closing in on his eighth. As markets cooled and the SPAC boom
waned, Harry offered a prescient take on where the market was
headed—and what a “post-boom” SPAC cycle might look like.
Two years later, his words still resonate. Tune in for a
thoughtful look back at a key inflection point in SPAC history.
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07.05.2025
28 Minuten
Tariffs, Trade Routes, and Tech: Freightos’ View from the Cargo
Frontlines
2025 is shaping up to be a wild year for global trade, and few
companies have a vantage point on the impacts of every-changing
tariff policy quite like digital cargo-booking platform Freightos
(NASDAQ:CRGO).
This week, we catch up with Freightos CEO Zvi Schreiber. He
shares how the shifting trade flows are showing up in Freightos’
numbers, and how companies are adjusting to meet the new
challenges.
Zvi also discusses why the shipping industry has long resisted
digitization and how Freightos has made headway since closing its
combination with Gesher I in January 2023.
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30.04.2025
38 Minuten
This week, we sit down with Rick Hendrix and Adam Fishman from
the Live Oak SPAC team.
Rick Hendrix is the Founder of Live Oak Merchant Partners, and
Chairman and CEO of Live Oak Acquisition Corp.
V (NASDAQ:LOKV). In addition, he is an operating executive
at Crestview Partners, a New York-based middle market focused
private equity firm.
Adam Fishman is a Managing Partner at Live Oak Merchant and
President and CFO of Live Oak V. Adam joined Live Oak right
before Live Oak II was launched and has been an executive on each
of the SPACs since.
Together they discuss how the SPAC climate has changed and how
they choose to position their team relative to the broader
market. Where are the big opportunities now, and what are some of
the transaction terms and structures they would and would not
consider?
Give it a listen
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17.04.2025
40 Minuten
This week, we return to another episode from 2021, when we spoke
with Will Marshall, Co-founder and CEO of Planet Labs(NYSE:PL).
Planet provides data services drawn from its fleet of about 200
satellites that generate a complete image of the earth's surface
every day.
It just celebrated its first quarter of EBITDA
profitability, but at the time, it was still working to close its
combination with dMY Technology Group IV. Niccolo de Masi,
who at the time steered dMY IV, also joined to explain the
investment case for Planet and the private space industry more
broadly.
Many of those space ventures that combined with SPACs are now
booming despite equity market headwinds. But, what did the
pathway to the stars look like four years ago, and what
challenges remain?
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03.04.2025
42 Minuten
In this SPACInsider Podcast Replay, we go back to 2021, when we
spoke with Chris Urmson, CEO and Chairman of autonomous truck
technology firm Aurora (NASDAQ:AUR).
At the time, Aurora was working to close its $10 billion business
combination with Reinvent Technology Y. Chris laid out how the
company planned to approach the commercialization of its
self-driving heavy truck business model and what challenges still
laid ahead for it and other developers of autonomous technology.
Now, Aurora is preparing to debut its driverless trucks along the
Dallas-to-Houston freight route later this month, with plans to
extend on to El Paso and Phoenix, Arizona before year’s end.
Now that this debut is finally at hand, take a listen to what the
road ahead for Aurora looked like four years ago and why it was
kicking off that journey with a SPAC.
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