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This is Scott Becker with the Becker Business Podcast. Becker Private Equity Podcast Today we're going to talk about three companies, Alibaba, Opendoor Technologies and Khosla Ventures. So so here's the quick summary on these three Alibaba's the sort of what's always been thought of as the Chinese Amazon. It's jumping. It's up 8% yesterday. It's up 122% year to date. Founded by the crazily talented Jack Ma, it's more of a platform than just retail. It considers itself much deeper and broader than Amazon. Amazon of course has a much bigger market cap, but Yellow Grab is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and overall doing terrific. Second Open Door Technologies is a company, a real estate digital real estate company up 343% year to date, well funded by Khosla Ventures and others. It makes most of its money still through transactional fees, but also buys real estate and then resells it through their I purchase program. But but a fascinating company. Somebody turned beyond to it said we should be watching it. So we're starting to follow it and learn more about it. That's Open Door Technologies. We've talked about Alibaba and Open our Technologies. The third one is Khosla Ventures is one of the most renowned venture capital funds and seed investment firms funds in the world. It's funded companies like Instacart Square, Affirm, Impossible Foods and more. In the VC world I follow more closely Andreessen Horowitz where I'm an investor in General Catalyst, where I've got some co investments and or where I invest in a company that was bought by General Catalyst I should say and just fascinating to watch those in healthcare but generally Coastal Ventures also one of the great VC funds out there and firms out there and fascinating to watch. Thank you for listening to this version. The Becker Business Podcast the Becker Private Equity Podcast. We'll be back with you shortly with with more stories and notes and news. Thank you for listening.