The bill would make it harder for big companies to shut down start-ups. The penalty is ginormous, and could be billions of dollars. Facebook will get a pass on all this because they're a walled garden by design,. There is nobody else on their service that's going to target people or target the same demographic as them.
Today, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is celebrating his one-year anniversary, and the NYT published an interesting profile that has a lot to do with regulatory scrutiny (3:01). Then we cover the boom of remote work incentive programs all over the US to attract remote tech workers (27:00). And, we get into an awesome new company called Phaidra in our Series A segment… some former DeepMind engineers started an awesome machine learning company (40:16). And we wrap with a great story about retail investors who have the same thesis as Jason (47:51).
(0:00) Jason and Molly tee up today’s show
(3:01) NYT published a profile of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on his one-year anniversary of becoming CEO, and it had some interesting tidbits
(12:28) LinkedIn Jobs - Post your first job for free at https://linkedIn.com/twist 13:44 More on the legislation discussed in the NYT article
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(22:54) Bezos is running for president (prediction)
(27:00) WSJ reported 71 cities and towns in the US are now offering remote work incentive programs
(37:19) OpenPhone - Get an extra 20% off any plan for your first 6 months at https://openphone.com/twist
(38:33) Producer Nick chimes in on remote workers in Manhattan
(40:16) Series A: Phaidra s a startup selling machine learning software that regulates temperatures at power plants and industrial factories
(47:51) WSJ reported some amateur investors see the declining state of the stock market as a chance to double down
(56:08) Over the weekend Jason tweeted, “Terrify your investors in 5 words.” These were the best replies