San Francisco Accelerator

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San francisco's eternal autumn, and san diego's eternal spring. Get ticabo in 15 minutes on the like a san diego bus number seven or something. So many great things about it. The weather has got to be the most perfect weather in the country. I think that doing the acceller remotely was fantastic for us. It allowed things to be just incredibly nimble.

First, Jason covers Square's corporate renaming to Block to reflect their broader ambitions (2:11), breaks down the genius of Spotify wrapped (13:15), and gives a nod to Grab's public debut (16:41). Then, Jason is joined by 3 founders who went through the Launch Accelerator, to extract the lessons from the early days of running a company. First is Paul Bloch of Fathom, an AI-enabled podcast search platform (23:03), then Zach Hudson of Deft, a E-commerce search engine (41:58) and finally Liam Gerada of Krepling, a no-code e-commerce platform (54:19).