February 17, 2022· 54 min

Howard Lindzon on What’s Really Going on in the Tech Plunge

Howard Lindzon

Orality

Model

50%

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(2,040 words)

M:93%

HostTracy Alloway(916 words)

M:29%

GuestHoward Lindzon(7,021 words)

M:94%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic27%

literally, completely, obviously

Engagement79%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, now, so

Repetition100%

like (176x), know (110x), what (70x)

Parallelism96%

And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So, Tracy, there's obviously a..., But one thing that we've seen ...

Sound Patterns93%

100 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases6%

you know what, i mean, so to speak

Literate Indicators

Hedging6%

apparently, might, could

Passive Voice6%

were allowed, being written, are supposed

Abstract Nouns10%

investment, recommendation, weakness

Subordination6%

since, because, whereas

Sentence Length35%

Avg: 13.8 words/sentence

Word Complexity43%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers0%

Impersonal Style21%

852 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style62%

literally, completely, obviously

Description

It's been a terrible few months for growth stocks. Small, unprofitable tech companies have crashed. SPACs have gotten crushed. Recent IPOs got crushed. And even the FANGs are way off their old highs. Of course, we don't have very much visibility into what's happening in private markets, so we only have anecdotes and inferences. But what's the big story? And is this the start of a big change? On this episode, we speak to Howard Lindzon, a GP at Social Leverage and the co-founder of Stocktwits, to get a sense of what's really going on. Howard launched a SPAC last year, does public market stock investing, as well as private VC investing, so he really knows the whole space very well. He discusses multiple reasons why tech turned rapidly, and why it might be awhile before it all bounces back. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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