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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Oct 29, 2020 • 50min
E1131 Bringing barbershops into the digital age with Squire CEO Songe LaRon | Rising Stars of SaaS 3
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Oct 27, 2020 • 1h 13min
E1130: “Billion Dollar Loser” Author Reeves Wiedeman on WeWork’s epic rise & crazy collapse, Adam Neumann’s unique behavior, hypocrisy, red flags & more
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Oct 24, 2020 • 33min
Best of This Week in Startups: Week of October 19th, 2020
E1126 featuring Capital Allocators' Ted Seides: https://rb.gy/bsiinm
E1127 featuring Transcend's Ben Brook: https://rb.gy/txkmav
E1128 Emergency Pod - Quibi postmortem: https://rb.gy/boh8gv
E1129 featuring Ring's Jamie Siminoff: https://rb.gy/3okxvb
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Oct 23, 2020 • 1h 17min
E1129: Ring Founder Jamie Siminoff on launching the Always Home Cam – an autonomous indoor drone, taking his company from bad reviews to a billion-dollar acquisition by Amazon & more
Founder of Ring, Jamie Siminoff, discusses the journey from bad reviews to a billion-dollar acquisition by Amazon. Topics include the transformation of negative perception, the innovative Always Home Cam drone, navigating challenges in entrepreneurship, and balancing innovation with privacy in tech companies.
Oct 23, 2020 • 32min
E1128: Emergency Pod! A Quibi postmortem – Diving into the numbers, what went wrong, lessons learned & more!
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Referenced in this episode:
Wall Street Journal Article:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/quibi-weighs-shutting-down-as-problems-mount-11603301946
Quibi's website:
https://quibi.com
Tweets by David Sacks, Zach Coelius & John Henry:
https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1319011743708766212
https://twitter.com/zachcoelius/status/1319175661743865858
https://twitter.com/JohnHenryStyle/status/1319028755264921600
Jeffrey Katzenberg & Meg Whitman on CNBC from 10/22:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/22/quibi-co-founders-katzenberg-whitman-explain-what-went-wrong.html
Oct 22, 2020 • 1h 9min
E1127: Data privacy deep dive with Transcend CEO Ben Brook; tracking pixels, GDPR, privacy as a selling point & more | Rising Stars of SaaS 2
Check out Transcend: https://transcend.io
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Oct 20, 2020 • 1h 29min
E1126: Capital Allocators Host Ted Seides goes deep on endowments, LP turnover, public/private market insights, ESG investing & more
Check out Capital Allocators: https://capitalallocatorspodcast.com
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Oct 17, 2020 • 40min
Best of This Week in Startups: Week of October 12th, 2020
E1122 featuring Running Tide's Marty Odlin: https://rb.gy/fgg88x
E1123 Jason reacts to the iPhone 12: https://rb.gy/t8ztxz
E1124 featuring RapidDeploy CEO Steven Raucher: https://rb.gy/7ynjqn
E1125 featuring LAUNCH Accelerator 18's top 3 vote getting founders: https://rb.gy/ccglvt
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Oct 16, 2020 • 1h 1min
E1125: LAUNCH Accelerator Cohort 18 founders reflect on their journeys thru the program: Fluent Forever (language learning app), SupportPay (child support management solution) & v.one (no-code app building platform)
Check out Fluent Forever: https://fluent-forever.com
Check out SupportPay: https://supportpay.com
Check out v.one: https://www.yourvone.com
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Oct 16, 2020 • 38min
All-In E10: Twitter & Facebook botch censorship (again), the publisher vs. distributor debate & more
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