. >>> good wednesday morning welcome to "techcheck" i'm carl quintanilla and deidre bosa. the sector closes out a tough 2021 we're going to break down how the disrupters themselves are being disrimupted and then tech biggest catalyst from google to netflix to amazon and the new products and announcements that could determine their fate in the new year and then, finally, that big pile of cash in silicon valley. we talked fund-raising and spacks and ipos. a deeper look at how capital is being used inside tech companies to lure employees, win customers and finance investments, d >> meantime, carl, the nasdaq higher and tech continues to underperform and sitting near all-time highs for the broader indices and we're keeping an eye on apple still just inches from that $3 trillion market cap and we're also waiting on a verdict for thernos founder elizabeth holmes as we head into day six of jury deliberations not far from here in san jose. first, a look at a sector that has severely underperformed in the last few weeks and that is fintech. this was supposed to be fin tech's year.

now it is an active part of the whole global investment discussion >> well, off camera i'll ask deidre bosat the chinese term for not smart would be, because some of the value investors certainly may be burned bob, deidre, matt, we will see you all on the pelotons. you can send me your peloton names after the show >>> coming up, forget living on tulsa time it has been tesla time once again. shares are surging, but does this mean the battery stocks are set to keep rising as well hexcng bk t "t ehae"acinwo ♪ >>> all right. welcome back ev stocks like tesla, you might have heard of them, and rivian seeing massive gains over the last week. to make an electric car you need batteries, a lot of them, and big ones rivian this morning announced it will prioritize deliveries next year for customers who ordered the trucks with the larger battery packs. could it be good news for battery makers mip au pippa stevens joining us with a look at this >> there's been so much hype around ev companies like tesla, rivian and losing, but we haven't seen it around batteries themselves that could be about to change

. >>> happy friday happy new year's eve and welcome to "techcheck" i'm deidre bosa and nilay putell joins us to help us close out the final trading session of the year. we are breaking down what was the biggest story of tech in 2021 they got bigger in growth names experienced a meltdown to end the year plus, 2021 was a banner year for spacs and ipos and direct listings and also some of its worst performing today the last spac of 2021 hits the street and, finally, wondering if it's too late to jump into semis with names like nvidia up nearly 130% year to date we'll tell you where you should put your money in the new year happy early new year's this is as much celebrating i'm doing because we're all in quarantine over here >> we have a lot of salutations, good ridens, 2021 was not at all like how we thought it would be and we'll go into 2022 and start the year fresh wild ride for tech stock we've seen this year names like apple, microsoft, google and tesla saw big gains driving their trillion dollar market caps. even higher as you mentioned apple now just a stone's throw away from $3 trilli

. >>> in the meantime she's on vacation, but you can't keep deidre bosa away with the scoop on breaking the return of the home studio the news i have to bring our audience is block ceo formally scare is joining the board of airbnb i talked to him in the past and what he looks for is someone that challenges him and his company and shameless in asking for advice, which could make her a particularly interesting choice square now block has gone all in on bitcoin and the block chain and personally advocated for it making the argument earlier this year that every major company should have some bitcoin in its war chest. when you look at airbnb reserves they have grown from $8 billion from $2.5 billion in the start of the pandemic. but beyond the potential of sort of crypto reserves, i talked to his thinking on crypto and made the argument that airbnb and crypto are not that dissimilar in that airbnb uses the distributed model to make the economics available for more people very inest thered in it and this move by adding the block cfo guys >> i think that's so fascinating, d i mean, you think a

. >>> good wednesday morning welcome to "techcheck" i'm carl quintanilla and deidre bosa.021 we're going to break down how the disrupters

. >>> happy friday happy new year's eve and welcome to "techcheck" i'm deidre bosa