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This Week in Startups

E1030: News Roundtable! Zapier CEO Wade Foster & Early-Stage Investor Monique Woodard on Tech Journalists vs. Founders/VCs, Twitter’s fake news detection, Kickstarter union, Blue Apron plummeting, Lambda School controversy & more!

Feb 22, 2020
01:26:08
0:36 Jason intros Monique & Wade
8:29 Tech Journalists vs. Founders/VCs
14:48 Is link-baiting press a systemic, societal issue?
19:21 Future of Founders/VCs controlling their own voice via podcasts, email newsletters, etc.
23:59 SpaceX sending passengers into space in late 2021, early 2022
28:02 Kickstarter employees vote to Unionize
41:28 Gray New World - how lucrative is the growing elderly demographic?
49:37 Twitter combatting fake/misleading news with potential new features
58:01 Blue Apron continues to plummet
1:04:13 Lambda School controversy
1:12:42 What is the path for Zapier? What is No-Code's impact on the startup industry?

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