David Bianculli: I was called vitriolic, which is essentially bitch in another language. He says David Saks has been trying to distinguish himself more than from behind the scenes. And so anyway, so he's gotten very opinionated about things and so during the banking thing, he and Jason Calicanis were using all caps on their podcast All In. Bianco: They may have been too, but they spent a lot of time on Twitter, scaring people and making people nervous.
After a quick rundown of Kara’s Twitter feud with SVB-enthusiast David Sacks, we turn to an interview with a former Silicon Valley Bank customer: Kevin Systrom. When you found one of the most successful social media apps at 27, it’s tough to figure out where to go with Act Two. But after leaving Facebook (now Meta) in 2018, Systrom is back with an AI-powered news-reader called Artifact which has been dubbed a “Tiktok for Text.” Onstage at SXSW this weekend, as the SVB crisis was playing out, Kara and Kevin discuss his regrets about Instagram, his plans to crack the news business and what’s wrong with tech bros.
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