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Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchventure capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

This week was a corker. We had Alex Wilhelm in-studio with ourguest Minal Hasan, founder of K2 Global, and TechCrunchDanny Chriton jumped in from New York to help the crew dig through the biggest and best stuff from the last seven days.

Itbeen busy, to say the least. First, we took a look at the Elon-Musk-taking-Tesla-private-situation, which has kept Markets Twitter in suspense for days. We didn&t really get to talk about the Grimes-Azealia Banks stuff, but, hey, stay in your lane and what not. Don&t forget that the latest Tesla upheaval comes on the heels of the firmpretty good earnings report.

Next, we took a look at earnings. Not of public companies, mind, but two unicorns that have become so large as to require regular financial disclosure. So, we took a peek into what Uber and WeWork had cooking. In short:

• WeWork loses a lot of money, and despite its impressive growth we have some concerns;
• Uber loses a lot of money, but due to its impressive growth our group was (on average) not too worried.

Put into simple terms, WeWorklong-term lease situation has us worried, while Uberlosses compared to its net revenue seem kinda alright given other financial metrics. Place your own bets, of course.

Moving along we took a dig into the NIO IPO, which you probably haven&t heard about yet. Itanother electric car company, but this time from China. And itraising a lot after having essentially zero history as a revenue-generating company. What could go wrong!

And finally, crypto and all that has happened to your favorite coin recently. Hasan was on hand with a grip of good points on the matter. She was a pretty damn great guest.

Thatit for this week, hang tight and come see us at Disrupt.

Production note: Alexmic was a bit whack until the 16-minute mark. Please forgive the issue, we noticed and fixed it as fast as we could. Hugs and love!

We pretty much have the full picture of the upcoming Intel Coffee Lake Refresh, thanks to slides from leaked presentation.

The 9th generation Intel Coffee Lake Refresh processors will purportedly launch in October with three models, including the Core i9-9900K, Core i7-9700K and Core i5-9600K, according to documents submitted anonymously to Videocar

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