Twillio and Sengrid Start Up Programmes - We're Partnering With These Guys

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i'm really excited to welcome tuillio back to being partner here at this week end. They're obviously the cloud communication platform that's used by people like ober or araby and b shop f. You can do emal now that they've acquired sangred. Go to o start ups dot com slash twist twillyo t w i l i, o start up dot com, slash twist. It's thirty, five hundred dollars waiting there for your start up. And of course, you can also get access to web and ors made exclusively for startups with the full support of the tuillio start up team. This is unbelievable. I really am thankful for twillio...

1:02 Jason welcomes Alexis Ohanian to the show and asks about the Reddit sale & re-joining for the turnaround
3:39 Why was Reddit "the last website standing" from all of the Web 2.0 sales in the early 2000s?
6:05 History of Reddit Gold, future of micropayments & what will Reddit's Blockchain venture entail?
14:59 Future of creators being able to monetize using micropayments, policing speech on Reddit
19:45 Fatherhood, being a Girl Dad, balancing personal life & work life
29:12 What is Alexis' role at Initialized? How Initialized is turning Venture Capital into a team sport
36:10 Dealing with celebrity as a partner at a VC firm, building talent when starting Initialized
42:44 Why Initialized's small ownership percentage was an issue early on, and how they think about it now
47:59 Jason calls Reddit's crypto project: "The most credible thing I've ever seen in crypto.", parsing through legitimate and non-legitimate crypto businesses
54:33 What investor skills has Alexis improved and what still needs work?
1:00:52 Dealing with icon-level celebrity in his personal life
1:04:30 Jason reveals the winner from their 2013 bet during Alexis' last appearance on This Week in Startups