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David Gil discusses what he thinks Facebook's true intentions are with Libra Coin and their plans to hijack the crypto space. He also talks about Intel's 5G modem chip disaster that led to the entire division being acquired by Apple for pennies on the dollar.

David Gil speaks with Joshua Browder (@jbrowder1). He's been featured on a Forbe's '30 under 30' list, received a Thiel Fellowship, and is the founder and CEO of DoNotPay, an app that started as a robo-lawyer and has expanded into being an AI assistant that takes care of many annoying tasks like dealing with customer service problems, making appointments at the DMV, filing insurance claims, and much more. They discuss many things, including the how Joshua has cracked the viral marketing code and got millions of users without paid ads, his plans to put lawyers out of business, how to create a 'viral product', and more.

David Gil speaks with KarenHowland (@KarenHowland2). She is a Managing Director and General Partner at CircleUp, a $125M fund focused on investing in emerging consumer brands. They discuss many things, including the most common traits of successful startup CPGs , why big CPGs are failing and what they can do to turn it around, why the opportunity for new consumer brands has never been greater, and how CircleUp uses incredible amounts of data to identify high growth sectors and emerging companies.

Shopify made a huge new announcement that is going to level the playing field between individual brands and eCommerce giants like Amazon and Walmart. Plus, the Paris Air Show had some promising new developments.

Creating the perfect listing can be difficult and there is a lot of debate on what is best. In this episode David Gil gives away MGR's method for optimizing and maximizing listings for the best performance.

Google's antitrust problems are getting worse while YouTube is getting out of control. Apple pulled some smart moves at WWDC. TimeWarner's new streaming service is just sad.