8/2/2024

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the market's mass sell-off following a weaker than expected job reports. Gregg argues that now is the time for long-term investors to choose their next "shopping list" of companies to buy and hold for an elongated period.

Gregg also explains that investors can expect volatility between now through the end of the election cycle.

6/26/2024

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, joins Varney to share his outlook on whether the market will continue to perform based on its rally over the first 100 days of the year. Additionally, Gregg shares his view on how Artificial Intelligence has and will continue to impact the market.

Lastly, Gregg shares his view on DraftKings following their acquisition of Jackpocket (an Evolution VC Portfolio Company).

5/3/2024

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the strength of Amazon's well diversified business model on Varney. He also shared his new price target of $250.

6/9/2023

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the market rebound and notes that we may be entering another bull market - citing a 20% increase in the S&P since its October lows and even a new IPO on the horizon.

Additionally, Gregg discusses Amazon’s stock price growth. On April 4th, Gregg predicted that Amazon’s stock would surpass $124. As of June 9th, Gregg’s prediction was proven correct with Amazon stock at $125+/ share. Gregg now predicts that Amazon will trade into the $140’s this summer.

5/22/2023

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the implications of the reduction in consumer spending on the market.

Despite the pullback in consumer spending, Gregg still believes Amazon's stock will continue to perform and predicts it will cross $130 per share.

4/4/2023

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses market performance following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. He shares cautious optimism about the current market rally, noting that the market has recovered from the SVB collapse but warns it may not continue to be an up and to the right chart.

He shares that he is investing in Goldman Sachs in anticipation of IPOs coming back and in Amazon, predicting 20% growth for each.

2/27/2023

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the current state of capital markets, sharing that investors are currently in capital preservation mode.

Gregg likens investors to salmon swimming upstream into the mouth of a bear, suggesting that investors are not seeing any movement or returns and are feeling the effects of being deep into the bear market.

11/21/2022

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the FTX implosion and its implications on the larger crypto/ Web3 market.

Additionally, Gregg Smith predicts that Tesla’s stock will dip below $100 as Elon Musk is distracted by other companies and energy/oil costs begin to fall.

11/4/2022

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the coming changes to Twitter’s business model and platform as Elon Musk takes over as owner.

Gregg has long held that Twitter should launch a subscription with priority access to Tweets and other features as a means to move away from ad-supported revenue.

10/18/2022

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the strength of financial stocks, arguing that they will continue to perform well even during a recession as they have good balance sheets and benefit from market volatility. Gregg notes that Bank of America has not had a single negative trading day to date in 2022 despite the erratic nature of the market and an ever-present threat of recession.

9/21/2022

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, shares his view on how the Federal Reserve will continue to impact the market. He shares that now is not the time to chase new stocks and to hold existing positions.

Additionally, Gregg shares his view on treasury yields as the market remains unpredictable.

Gregg also takes a moment to give a happy birthday shoutout to his father and girlfriend who both have birthdays during the week this segment originally aired.

8/11/2022

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, shares his view that the market hit its bottom in June, 2022. Gregg argues that though the market has began recovering, many investors still think there will be another bottom. Once those investors see the bottom already occurred, they will rush back into the market and push the market even further up.

Gregg also shares his prediction that Elon Musk will end up buying Twitter - citing his recent sales of Tesla stock totaling $7 Billion to suggest he may be compiling cash to complete the acquisition.

7/25/2022

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses TikTok’s meteoric rise to prominence, its position as the dominant social media platform for Gen-Z, and its impact on the next generation.

With more Monthly Active Users than Twitter, LinkedIn, and Snapchat combined, TikTok is the clear favorite among Gen-Z social media users. Overtime, Gregg believes this shift to short form content will have ripple effects across the way consumer attention spans work.

7/12/2022

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, joins Varney for a discussion about Elon Musk’s decision to back out of the Twitter acquisition. Earlier in the year, Gregg predicted that Musk would likely pull out of the Twitter acquisition. With no other buyers at the table, Varney predicts Musk will likely follow through on an acquisition at a significantly reduced price.

6/29/2022

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners shares his view on whether a recession is inevitable. Gregg points to Amazon as a strong indicator for both consumer and corporate spending behavior. Looking to earnings, Gregg believes the health of Amazon’s marketplace will provide insight into consumers and the performance of Amazon Web Services will do the same for corporates.

6/23/2022

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the bear market’s impact of retail investors. With the stock market, crypto, and NFTs all trading at record lows, retail investors are watching their gains from the last 2 years disappear.

Gregg also shares that he believes investment activity should slow until investors hear positive news from the Federal Reserve.

6/9/2022

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses Elon Musk’s pending Twitter acquisition as the company provides diligence to Musk’s team. Gregg believes that the deal is likely to go through but the price will be renegotiated after diligence.

Gregg believes if the diligence proves that Twitter’s user base is ~5% bots (Twitter’s estimate) then the acquisition will go through at the original $54.20 price. However, if there is a material different in the amount of bots, Gregg believes Musk will either walk away from the deal or renegotiate price.

5/27/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, shares his prediction that the market is reaching a bottom and will soon begin to bounce back - citing executive buybacks, the first period in which there are more buyers than sellers since the pandemic started, and the strong performance of the art/ alternatives markets.

Gregg also shares some of his stock picks including the financial stocks and Alibaba.

5/13/2022

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partner, calls out Elon Musk for pausing his bid on Twitter because of “spam accounts” as he believes the pause has more to do with the current state of equity markets and tech stocks.

Gregg shares a new prediction that Elon Musk will renegotiate his offer to $42 per share instead of $54.20 per share

4/15/2022

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution, shares his view on Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition offer. Earlier this year, Gregg predicted that Twitter would be bought this year.

While Gregg does not believe Elon Musk’s offer will go through, he does believe that the bidding war has now begun.

4/1/2022

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the market’s bounce-back from its bottom on February 24th following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Gregg also shares his view that, while the yield curve has inverted, he does not believe we will enter another recession.

2/23/2022

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the impact of the Russia/Ukraine invasion on the US Equity markets. Gregg encourages viewers to focus more on inflation and US-centric issues than foreign policy. Gregg also recommends staying away from small-cap growth stocks while inflation regulates.

2/10/2022

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses whether Peloton (PTON) should be acquired as the company comes back from its worst week on the market, trading below its 2019 IPO price. Gregg also pushes back on Varney’s assumption that the market is done with Peloton as the economy reopens and people stop working from home, arguing that users become addicted and make Peloton a central part of their routines.

1/22/2022

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, sits down with Stuart Varney to discuss the rising popularity of SPACs and shares his own investing strategy + favorite SPAC opportunities.

12/28/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, coins the term “Babe Ruth Market” as it hits record after record highs. He also signals an alarm bell as 2/3 of 2021 IPOs are trading below their IPO price and suggests a new structure to the IPO lockup period to regulate volatility. Gregg also reiterates his bullish price target of 5,400 for the S&P as the market continues to set new records.

12/13/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, continues to have a bullish outlook for equities which he has maintained since the depths of Covid in 2020. Smith believes we see 5,400 on the S&P 500 in 2022, and that inflation will begin to taper off by midyear. Wildcard predictions include that Amazon will spin-off AWS to shareholders and a possible Twitter acquisition.

12/2/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, shares his view on stocks for retail companies following Black Friday. As the economy reopens, people go back to work, and dating begins again - what we wear is going to once again become important. Gregg also discusses the performance of Apple's ($AAPL) stock.

10/25/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the performance of cryptocurrencies in the past week following the news of the Bitcoin ETF. Gregg argues the market is signaling that cryptocurrencies are here to stay as investors continue to pile in and new funds begin to pop up with specific focuses on crypto.

10/15/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses cryptocurrencies and crypto-assets with Ashley Webster on Varney. Gregg shares his insights from investment opportunities he has seen personally as well as larger market trends he is observing. Additionally, Gregg shares his outlook on Facebook following a tumultuous week for the company.

9/22/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, explains how the Chinese government’s clamp-down on their own technology/ startup ecosystem is impacting the US Stock Market. Gregg also shares his view on Archer Aviation’s ($ACHR) debut week after successfully de-SPACing from ACIC.

9/2/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, shares his outlook on the market as the S&P hits its 53rd record high of the year. Additionally, Gregg discusses Sweetgreen's upcoming IPO and the future of consumer product IPOs.

8/23/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the state of the SPAC market as more and more investors begin electing to redeem shares upon de-SPAC merger votes. Additionally, Gregg tells viewers to prepare for an upcoming market selloff by lightening up on their riskier equity assets.

8/13/2021

Evolution VCP recently hosted 30 kids in the EVCP headquarters for a venture capital bootcamp where they learned the ins and outs of venture capital and met with founders from the EVCP portfolio.

Additionally, Gregg shares his outlook for big tech stocks.

8/4/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, shares why he passed on an opportunity to invest in Robinhood before other's on IPO day and why he believes the application is enabling day-trading addiction in users.

7/23/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, shares his prediction that Wynn Resorts ($WYNN) will see a 50% upside from its current $106 stock price as the economy reopens and people begin to travel again.

Gregg also shares his views on Big Tech movement ahead of earnings week.

7/17/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, predicts inflation 'will subside' in the coming months now that students are going back to school and Americans return to the office as unemployment benefits will begin to taper.

Gregg also sounds the alarm on forward guidance from companies that did well during the pandemic entering into 2020, arguing they may have difficulty sustaining the breakout growth they experienced during the pandemic.

7/1/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, describes a shift in investor behavior as investors hold their positions and drive a bull market through the summer.

Gregg also shares his view on the Delta Variant’s potential market impact and checks in on Peloton ($PTON) which he first recommended in early 2020.

6/25/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses Sweetgreen’s confidential IPO filing and shares his insight into why he thinks the stock is poised to perform well.

6/14/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the unveiling of Archer Aviation's "Maker" flying taxi in Los Angeles. Archer is commercializing all-electric flying taxis for use in urban environments and short duration trips. Archer's "Maker" taxi will be available for use in Los Angeles and Miami beginning in 2024. Evolution has been an investor in Archer since the company was in stealth mode.

6/9/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the upcoming unveiling of Archer Aviation's Maker aircraft. Maker is a full-scale electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, capable of traveling 60 miles at 150 mph.

Gregg has been an early investor in Archer since the company was in stealth mode. Archer recently went public via

6/1/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the changing investment trends among retail investors as the economy begins to reopen and consumers begin spending on experiences again.

Gregg predicts a summer rally and "risk-on" environment as retail investors bounce back from Tax Day an have a better understanding of the money they have to invest.

5/26/2021

Gregg Smith, founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses consumer spending habits and which companies to watch as the economy reopens and people begin leaving their homes again. Gregg sees a resurgence in spending on experiences and business travel as consumers look to make the most out of their summers and professionals begin watching their competitors take in-person meetings

5/18/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the rise in investing in hard assets like sports memorabilia, collectibles, and more. With inflation looming, investors are looking for new assets that are not tied to the market. Gregg shares some information on Collectable - a new company building the platform for fractional ownership in hard assets - as a potential category-defining business for the change in investor behavior.

5/14/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the changing market characteristics as investors prepare for May 17th tax deadline and adjust to the reopening economy on Varney. Gregg is a frequent guest on Varney where he commentates on the public and private markets.

4/30/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, catches up on Amazon ($AMZN) as the stock moves closer to his price target of $4,000. Gregg also shares his insight into how he believes earnings will impact Big Tech stocks.

4/14/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the impact Coinbase’s IPO will have on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general. Gregg recalls the Beyond Meat IPOs positive impact on the plant-based food industry as a marker for what Coinbase’s IPO (if successful) will do to the crypto currency industry

4/8/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, speaks with Varney about the performance of Big Tech/ FAANG stocks. Gregg predicted an imminent rally back to Big Tech stocks in a previous segment as interest rates slow their ascent.

3/26/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the recent changes in the SPAC market including some SPACs trading below their original $10/ share IPO price.

Gregg also discusses how investors can navigate the SPAC bubble and find opportunity in the dip.

3/19/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses market shifts away from tech and towards financial companies as the economy begins to reopen.

As retail investors begin pulling back, tech stocks are taking massive hits even though the DOW is up as investors begin to chase value over growth.

3/10/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses Roblox going public via Direct Listing and Coupang's upcoming IPO with Stuart Varney. Gregg is a frequent guest on Fox Business's "Varney" where he provides market insights as well as news on his portfolio.

3/3/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, joins Varney to discuss the changing nature of the SPAC market. SPACs took a big hit in March, 2021 following the announcement of Lucid Motors' SPAC acquisition. Gregg believes that while the market is currently in a frenzy, competent and well-respected SPAC sponsors will go on to raise multiple SPACs.

2/23/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses market changes as the economy begins to reopen. Additionally, Gregg shares his updated price target for Snapchat ($SNAP) of $99 after it blows past his initial $67 price target.

2/18/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, joins David Asman on Varney to talk about the saturation of the SPAC market. With 330+ SPACs actively searching for a company to acquire and only so many good companies to go around, Gregg warns of lower-quality companies going public via SPAC over time.

2/12/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, talks about Archer Aviation's ($ACIC) recent SPAC acquisition and the future of the $1.5 Trillion urban air mobility market. Archer produced the first-ever commercially viable electric VTOL aircraft and they are bringing it to consumers to significantly reduce traffic and create a fully renewable transportation solution.

2/4/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the pending SPAC acquisitions of two Evolution portfolio companies - Proterra and Astra.

Proterra manufactures commercial-grade electric vehicles and charging solutions for mass transit and more. Astra democratizes space industrialization with smaller, more frequent satellite launches.

1/27/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the pending SPAC acquisitions of two Evolution portfolio companies - Proterra and Astra.

Proterra manufactures commercial-grade electric vehicles and charging solutions for mass transit and more. Astra democratizes space industrialization with smaller, more frequent satellite launches.

1/7/2021

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, joins Varney to share his excitement about New Wave Foods, a revolutionary plant-based shrimp and seafood company entering the market in 2021. New Wave Foods just closed an $18M Series A led by NEA. Evolution VC Partners co-led New Wave's Seed round alongside Tyson Ventures.

12/30/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, joins Varney to share his new top stock pick as we come out of COVID-19 and the economy opens back up - Groupon ($GRPN).

Gregg also discusses Apple's ($AAPL) continued growth as it makes new highs before the end of the year. Three weeks earlier (12/7/2020), Gregg predicted that Apple would make new highs before New Year's Eve.

12/21/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, shares his top stock pick in the Frontier-Tech space - Stable Road Acquisition Corp ($SRAC), the SPAC which just bought Momentus Space. Watch as $SRAC's stock jumps 5%+ within the 3 minutes Gregg recommends it.

12/14/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, makes the contrarian case for why big tech companies like FB and Amazon should be broken up on Varney and that this would be a tremendous boon for shareholders.

12/7/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses Apple AirPods and their continued exponential growth + predicts that AAPL and SNAP will make new highs soon.

Gregg maintains his $67 price target for SNAP after sharing with viewers on October 7, 2020, that he bought it at ~$26.

11/20/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, weighs in on a ‘buyer is higher’ period in the market during Varney.

Additionally, he speaks about his work to raise awareness and money to help the homelessness crisis including sleeping on the streets of New York City in nothing more than a sleeping bag in solidarity with the thousands of homeless children in the USA.

11/11/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, shares his outlook on the market following the finalized election results and news of a COVID-19 vaccine. Gregg also speaks about Snapchat's ($SNAP) continued growth and reiterates his price target of $67 within 18 months

11/3/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses the 2020 election and how it is affecting the markets. Gregg breaks down what issues are important to investors both in the context of the election and 2020 in general.

10/24/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, joins Varney to talk bout Peloton’s continued growth through 2020 and his new price target for the company at $150 per share. Additionally, Gregg talks about his position in Snapchat ($SNAP) and their explosive growth over the past two weeks.

Gregg first recommended Peloton in July, 2020 at $60.82 per share - Today (10/2020), the stock is at $122.53 per share

10/13/2020

Gregg Smith of Evolution VC Partners provides insight into what factors are impacting markets, including upcoming earnings, the Federal Reserve, the coronavirus vaccine race and the presidential election.

10/7/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, joins Varney to discuss his latest stock picks - Peloton ($PTON) and Snap ($SNAP)

Gregg has been an investor in technology companies for 20+ years and views PTON and SNAP as two of the most exciting companies to watch through Q4 and COVID.

10/2/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, joins Stuart Varney to discuss the rise in SPACs and how main street investors can now invest in a wider range of venture-backed companies. Gregg also speaks about some of his portfolio companies in the Frontier-tech space like Relativity Space, Archer, and more.

9/23/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, joins Varney & Co. to reiterate his bullish views on Peloton ($PTON). Amazon’s purported new and cheaper Echelon "Prime" Bike will only generate more consumer awareness and expand the total market, which remains a huge untapped opportunity.

“Peloton is the new cult stock.”

9/20/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, video chats with Varney to talk about the Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) IPO and what it means for tech IPOs in general. Gregg also discusses other portfolio companies and Unity's upcoming IPO.

9/10/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, speaks with Ashley Webster about his view of the market through a tumultuous early September.

8/26/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, video chats with Varney to discuss the best time to sell your shares and shares his strategies for investing his and his children's capital in this environment.

8/19/2020

Gregg catches up with Stuart Varney to talk about the upcoming election, the performance of his portfolio, Spotify and Peloton’s growth, and more.

Gregg is a regular on Fox’s “Varney” where he speaks about his portfolio (both public and private) as well as general market trends.

8/11/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, video chats with Stuart Varney to talk about his reaction to Casper's Q2 earnings announcement as an early investor in the business. Evolution VC Partners invested in Casper when the business was still private.

8/6/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, video chats with Stuart Varney for his second conversation about big tech this week. Gregg talks about: The ETF he buys for his children - TNA ($30.98 at the time of this recording), why breaking up Amazon can be great for the stock, and what is in store for Peloton's future.

8/3/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, sits down with Stuart Varney to discuss Amazon's continued growth and why they are likely to become a $4,000 stock.

7/28/2020

Gregg Smith gives Spotify a price target of $400 on Varney this week. Learn how Spotify's consistently high ratings, growing original content library, and data put it in the perfect position to change music the way Netflix changed movies and TV.

7/16/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, discusses how Spotify has the opportunity to become the next Netflix and how the stock should reflect its potential.

7/7/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, video chats with Ashley Webster to name his top stock picks for July, 2020.

Stock picks for July, 2020: Amazon (AMZN), Spotify (SPOT), and Peloton (PTON)

6/20/2020

Evolution VC Partners founder Gregg Smith discusses why he's bullish on music streaming app Spotify and reviews its uptick during coronavirus.

6/10/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, is invited back to Varney to share more of his top stock picks and his thoughts on how the market can provide guidance for the 2020 election.

5/27/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, video chats with Stuart Varney to discuss his top picks for stocks set to perform well through and after COVID.

5/13/2020

Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners, video chats with Fox Business's Stuart Varney to discuss consumer spending habits in a COVID environment and the performance of Casper's stock.

4/8/2020

Gregg Smith video chats with Ashley Webster on Varney to discuss Coronavirus’s effects on the public equity markets and the overall US economy.

3/10/2020

Gregg Smith joins Stuart Varney, Maria Bartiromo, HHS Secretary Alex Azar, Dr. Marc Siegel, and more for a discussion about Coronavirus and market volatility.

2/24/2020

Gregg Smith, founder of Evolution VC Partners, sits down with Varney on Fox Business to discuss how the market is reacting to Coronavirus and what the long term impact is going to look like for investors.

2/7/2020

Gregg Smith sits down with Varney to talk through Casper’s IPO and how successful offerings can catalyze consumer interest in a product.

11/19/2019

Gregg Smith of Evolution VC Partners discusses the future of smoking, Tobacco 21 and how e-cigarettes will save American lives and must be provided to current adult smokers. "No one in this country under the age of 21 should have access to nicotine but we know what we need to do to solve the problem."

10/29/2019

Gregg Smith of Evolution Partners, an early investor in Beyond Meat, discusses the company’s latest quarter, including reporting its first profit since going public, and why the stock may not be responding to that positive news.

10/28/2019

Evolution VC Founder Gregg Smith discusses Beyond Meat's Q3 2019 Earnings Report and his outlook on the company going forward.

10/28/2019

Evolution VC Partners CEO Gregg Smith on concerns over the potential health risks of vaping.

10/21/2019

Gregg Smith of Evolution VC Partners with Stuart Varney on Fox Business discussing JUUL and the requirement for stringent age verification technology at retailers to prevent underage access to tobacco products and Alibaba's decision to stop selling e-cigarettes online--a win since they had no age verification process in place and this allowed our kids to buy products they should not have been allowed to.

10/7/2019

Evolution VC Partners’ Gregg Smith discusses new marketplace Carta’s ability to allow investors to buy shares of private companies and the vaping industry.

10/5/2019

“We need to keep tobacco products away from kids and there are three things we can do immediately to solve that issue," says Gregg Smith of Evolution VC Partners to Stuart Varney on Fox Business. "The FDA has said if we could get every American smoker to switch to e-cigarettes then we would save 15 million lives."

10/5/2019

"A lot of the decisions that are being made by some of these states are actually going to do the opposite. They're going to push smokers back into the black market, or they're going to push them onto combustible cigarettes, both of which are not going to be good.”

9/25/2019

Vaping Crackdown: "We're at risk of knocking back the gains we've made in reducing the smoking rates to the lowest we have ever seen,” says Gregg Smith of Evolution VC Partners to Brian Sullivan on CNBC's Worldwide Exchange.

9/9/2019

“Cigarettes will kill you! I am against smoking and recent Illnesses are related to illegal, black-market THC pods,” says Gregg Smith of Evolution VC Partners to Stuart Varney on Fox Business.

7/29/2019

Evolution VC Partners CEO Gregg Smith on allegations JUUL’s marketing targeted teens and argues there is a public health benefit from the company’s products.

7/19/2019

Evolution VC Partners founder and early Beyond Meat and JUUL investor Gregg Smith coins Beyond Meat a "Cult Stock" and discusses San Francisco vape ban and Tobacco 21.

6/12/2019

Evolution VC Partners CEO and early Beyond Meat investor Gregg Smith argues that despite the volatility, Beyond Meat shares are not in bubble and the company is in a market with a strong growth potential.

6/11/2019

Evolution VC Partners Founder and CEO Gregg Smith says he disagrees with JPMorgan Chase downgrading Beyond Meat to a "neutral" rating and its view that the plant-based protein company's valuation is now beyond reason.

6/7/2019

Gregg Smith, an early venture capital investor in Beyond Meat, discusses the company’s earnings report and whether it can maintain the astronomical pace of returns since its IPO.

7/31/2018

Evolution VC Partners founder Gregg Smith on the growing investment opportunities in cannabis.

11/16/2018

Gregg Smith on the federal government taking on menthol cigarettes, e-cigarettes and the push toward the legalization of marijuana on a national level.

12/20/2018

Evolution VC Partners founder Gregg Smith on Budweiser's partnership with Tilray to create non-alcoholic drinks that contain cannabis and Altria's invest in Juul.

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