This week in start ups is brought to you by rippling. Use offer code twist to save ten per cent off your first purchase of a web sight or domain. Game stop is hiring a bunch of amazon executives, and they've raised a ton of money. We're going to go into the quick tether up date for our tether investigation. streaming is seeing its first decline in the number of subscriptions that each person has.
Jason kicks off the episode with the news: an update on the Tether (02:02), how Gamestop poached Amazon talent (06:17), and the first-ever decline in the average number of streaming accounts per household (19:04). Then, Akash Nigam joins to discuss his company Genies, why everyone will have an avatar, the metaverse, NTFs & more (25:10).