This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
Jason Calacanis covers startups, tech, markets, media, and all the hottest topics in business and technology. He also interviews the world’s greatest founders, operators, investors, and innovators.
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Feb 5, 2021 • 23min
Five things you need to nail to scale with Scott Orn | Kruze Consulting Startup Finance Basics
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Feb 4, 2021 • 18min
Emergency Pod! Jeff Bezos steps down as Amazon CEO: Reasons, reactions & more | E1170
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Referenced in this Episode:
GeekWire - Amazon Web Services posts record $13.5B in *profits* for 2020 in Andy Jassy’s AWS swan song
https://rb.gy/k9m3ep
CNBC - Amazon reports first $100 billion quarter following holiday and pandemic shopping surge
https://rb.gy/v24lfb
Amazon Q4 2020 Earnings
https://rb.gy/653jmd
Feb 4, 2021 • 1h 16min
Elad Gil on his product-market driven thesis, importance of market pull, entering the “go public sooner” decade | Angel S5 E3
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Feb 3, 2021 • 1h 8min
Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on “going big” with $1B funding round, insights from scaling globally, lessons from the pandemic | E1169
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Jan 30, 2021 • 53min
No Rules Rules Co-Author Erin Meyer: Netflix’s “keeper test”, comparative turnover, navigating global business cultures – Part 2 | E1168
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Jan 29, 2021 • 28min
Startup taxes deep dive with Scott Orn | Kruze Consulting Startup Finance Basics
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Jan 28, 2021 • 30min
Emergency Pod! WallStreetBets vs. Suits, breaking down the GameStop fiasco & more | E1167
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Clips:
Andrew Ross Sorkin (CNBC)
https://twitter.com/squawkcnbc/status/1354386200157675521
Andrew Left (Citron)
https://youtu.be/yS4yPsmaDDQ
Chamath Interview with Scott Wapner (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/01/27/watch-cnbcs-full-interview-with-chamath-palihapitiya-on-gamestop-and-reddit-fueled-surge.html
Jan 28, 2021 • 1h 9min
Intercom’s Des Traynor on the importance of pricing, product-market fit metrics & more | Angel S5 E2
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Jan 27, 2021 • 52min
No Rules Rules Co-Author Erin Meyer on how Netflix cultivates outlier performance & re-aligns values towards innovation – Part 1 | E1166
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Jan 23, 2021 • 58min
Outer CEO Jiake Liu on standing out in DTC, go-to-market innovations, pitching at Remote Demo Day & more | E1165
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