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E1097: Understanding the travel collapse & how media can thrive going forward with Skift CEO & Founder Rafat Ali
18 augustus 2020 · 1 uur 23 min
Check out Skift: https://skift.com Follow Rafat: https://twitter.com/rafat Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis Thanks to our partners... LinkedIn Jobs - Get a $50 credit toward your first job post at https://www.linkedin.com/twist Squarespace - save 10% by using code TWIST at https://www.squarespace.com Lees meer
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Best of This Week in Startups: August 10th-August 14th, 2020
15 augustus 2020 · 16 min
E1094 featuring Thrasio's Josh Silberstein: https://rb.gy/otvxnh E1095 featuring Roofstock's Gary Beasley: https://rb.gy/3sdgon E1096 featuring Overcast's Marco Arment & Oxford Road's Dan Granger: https://rb.gy/yqlfwh Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis Lees meer
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E1096: Podcasting State of the Union featuring Overcast's Marco Arment & Oxford Road's Dan Granger
14 augustus 2020 · 1 uur 27 min
Follow Marco: https://twitter.com/marcoarment Download Overcast: https://overcast.fm Follow Oxford Road: https://twitter.com/Oxford_Road Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis Thanks to our partners... SendPro Online from Pitney Bowes - Try it free for 30 days and get a free 10-pound scale at https://pb.com/twist LinkedIn Marketing - Get $100 off your first advertising campaign at https://linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups Vanta - $1k off your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist Lees meer
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E1095 The Next Unicorns E13: Roofstock CEO Gary Beasley is creating the real estate cloud, opening residential investing to millennials & more
12 augustus 2020 · 58 min
Check out Roofstock: https://www.roofstock.com Follow Gary: https://twitter.com/garybeas2013 Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis Thanks to our partners... LinkedIn Jobs - Get $50 off your first job post at https://linkedin.com/unicorn Zendesk - 6 months free at https://www.zendesk.com/twist Lees meer
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E1094: Thrasio Co-CEO Josh Silberstein acquires & operates 60+ Amazon brands, shares insights on mastering the marketplace, competing with AmazonBasics & more
11 augustus 2020 · 1 uur 9 min
Check out Thrasio: https://www.thras.io Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis Thanks to our partners... Fiverr - use code TWiST for 10% off your first order at https://www.fiverr.com Coors Light - get Coors Light delivered to your door at https://get.coorslight.com Masterclass - 15% off an annual subscription at https://www.masterclass.com/startups Lees meer
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E1093: Keith Rabois on China's grand plan, TikTok, Taiwan, Big Tech & more
7 augustus 2020 · 1 uur 49 min
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E1092 The Next Unicorns E12: Homebound CEO & Co-Founder Nikki Pechet is solving the home building process by increasing customer experience, helping victims of natural disasters rebuild efficiently
5 augustus 2020 · 1 uur 4 min
Check out Homebound: https://www.homebound.com Follow Nikki: https://twitter.com/NikkiPechet Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis Thanks to our partners: Zendesk - 6 months free at https://www.zendesk.com/twist LinkedIn Jobs - Get $50 off your first job post at https://linkedIn.com/unicorn Lees meer
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E1091: LAUNCH Accelerator Cohort 17 founders reflect on their journeys throughout the program: Nude Barre (DTC hosiery made for women of all shades), Techmate (On-demand tech support for remote & satellite employees) & Solo (Trucking-as-a-Service)
4 augustus 2020 · 1 uur 18 min
Check out Nude Barre: https://nudebarre.com Check out Techmate: https://www.techmate.com Check out Solo: https://solotrucking.com Thanks to our partners: Squarespace - save 10% by using code TWIST at checkout https://www.squarespace.com Trends, by The Hustle - start your two-week trial for $1 at https://trends.co/twist Modloft - 15% off and free shipping at https://www.modloft.com/twist Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis Lees meer
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All-In E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
1 augustus 2020 · 41 min
Follow the crew: https://twitter.com/chamath https://linktr.ee/calacanis https://twitter.com/DavidSacks https://twitter.com/friedberg Follow the pod: https://twitter.com/theallinpod https://bio.fm/theallinpod
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E1090: Nikola Founder Trevor Milton on competing with Tesla, hydrogen over battery, going public as a pre-revenue company & more
31 juli 2020 · 1 uur 16 min
Check out Nikola: https://nikolamotor.com Follow Trevor: https://twitter.com/nikolatrevor Follow Jason: https://twitter.com/jason Follow This Week in Startups: https://twitter.com/TWiStartups
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Emergency Pod! Jason Calacanis reacts to Big Tech hearings: Grades for Bezos, Cook, Pichai & Zuckerberg
30 juli 2020 · 43 min
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E1089 The Next Unicorns E11: insitro CEO Daphne Koller is revolutionizing drug discovery via machine learning & data, shares insights on remote education from time at Coursera & more
29 juli 2020 · 1 uur 10 min
Follow Daphne: https://twitter.com/DaphneKoller Check out insitro: https://insitro.com/ Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis
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E1088: Building Zero Fasting with Kevin Rose, properly pricing consumer apps, benefits of fasting & more with Big Sky Health CEO Mike Maser
28 juli 2020 · 1 uur 15 min
Follow Mike: https://twitter.com/mmaser Get Zero Fasting: https://www.zerofasting.com/ Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis
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E1087: Democratizing art as an asset class, indicators of a rapidly appreciating piece of art & more with Masterworks CEO & Founder Scott Lynn
24 juli 2020 · 1 uur 7 min
Signup for Masterworks: bit.ly/32T19Si Disclaimer: bit.ly/3hCG2aD Follow Scott: https://twitter.com/scottlynn Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis
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E1086: Supporting founder mental health at Freestyle Capital with Josh Felser, Caren Maio & Mani Kulasooriya
22 juli 2020 · 1 uur 27 min
Josh's Medium post on founder mental health: https://medium.com/@joshmedia/for-the-love-of-founders-d50b405f42a3 Hoffman Institute: https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/ Meru Health: https://www.meruhealth.com/ Check out Freestyle Capital: https://freestyle.vc/ Check out Funnel Leasing: https://funnelleasing.com/ Check out Codify: https://codify.ai/ Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis Lees meer
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E1085: Chris Atoki shares his inspiring story: from homeless to homeowner in 4 years through grit, technology & hustle
18 juli 2020 · 1 uur 6 min
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E1084: David Sacks on "The Cadence": an operating philosophy he developed at PayPal which helped him lead Yammer to a billion-dollar exit without a COO
14 juli 2020 · 1 uur 8 min
David Sacks' recent Medium post: https://medium.com/craft-ventures/the-cadence-how-to-operate-a-saas-startup-436aa8099e8 Follow David: https://twitter.com/DavidSacks Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis
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All-In E5: WHO's incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China's grand plan, 100X'ing America's efficiency
11 juli 2020 · 52 min
Follow the crew: https://twitter.com/chamath https://linktr.ee/calacanis https://twitter.com/DavidSacks https://twitter.com/friedberg Follow the pod: https://twitter.com/theallinpod https://bio.fm/theallinpod
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Founders: Pitch Thousands of Angel Investors over Zoom at Remote Demo Day!
10 juli 2020 · 4 min
Submit your application at https://remotedemoday.com/ Jason Calacanis & TheSyndicate.com will select seven startups to pitch thousands of angel investors on July 28th. We held our first Remote Demo Day in June, where 5 of the 7 companies that pitched received over $200K in commitments from Jason's Syndicate. Lees meer
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E1083 News: Trump considers TikTok ban, Twitter leaks subscription platform, Clubhouse drama, Harvard price gouging & more with Morgan DeBaun & Alex Wilhelm
9 juli 2020 · 1 uur 28 min
Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alex Follow Morgan: https://twitter.com/morgandebaun Check out Blavity: https://blavity.com/ Follow Jason: https://twitter.com/Jason https://linktr.ee/calacanis
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E1082: OfferUp CEO & Co-Founder Nick Huzar on creating liquidity in a marketplace, acquiring their largest competitor in Letgo, location-based pay & more!
8 juli 2020 · 1 uur 8 min
Follow Nick: https://twitter.com/nickhuzar Check out OfferUp: https://twitter.com/offerup https://offerup.com/ Follow Jason: https://twitter.com/Jason https://linktr.ee/calacanis
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E1081: SevenRooms CEO & Co-Founder Joel Montaniel on raising $50M Series B during COVID, taking on large incumbents, helping restaurants leverage data to maximize customer experience
30 juni 2020 · 1 uur 9 min
Check out SevenRooms: https://twitter.com/sevenrooms https://sevenrooms.com/ Follow Jason: https://twitter.com/Jason https://linktr.ee/calacanis
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Learn how to be an Angel Investor from Jason Calacanis at Angel.University Online!
30 juni 2020 · 3 min
Register: https://www.angel.university/online In this workshop, I share my lessons from deploying over 70 million dollars of capital in over 200 startups, including Uber, Robinhood, Calm, Wealthfront, and others. You'll learn how to source and negotiate deals, evaluate startups, and manage your portfolio. If you're an accredited investor, visit https://www.angel.university/online to learn more and register today. Lees meer
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E1080: Arlan Hamilton on launching Backstage Crowd, disrupting VC with syndicates, how the tech industry can be better for underrepresented founders & more
26 juni 2020 · 1 uur 9 min
Follow Arlan: https://twitter.com/ArlanWasHere Join Backstage Crowd: http://backstagecrowd.com Follow Jason: https://twitter.com/Jason https://linktr.ee/calacanis
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E1079: The Power of Accelerators E10 Daniel Gross, Founder of Pioneer on gamifying the startup process, importance of mentorship in tech & more!
24 juni 2020 · 1 uur 15 min
Follow Daniel: https://twitter.com/danielgross Check out Pioneer: https://pioneer.app/ Follow Jason: https://twitter.com/Jason https://linktr.ee/calacanis
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E1078 Pomp Podcast Crossover: Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano on most exciting crypto projects, Hey vs. Apple, Robinhood/Barstool traders, Zuck vs. Bezos, Jason's Bitcoin position & more!
23 juni 2020 · 2 uur 17 min
Pomp Podcast x TWiST crossover Follow Pomp: https://twitter.com/APompliano Follow Jason: https://twitter.com/Jason https://linktr.ee/calacanis
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All-In E4: Politicizing the pandemic, Police reform, Biden's ideal VP, Twitter vs. Facebook on free speech & more with David Sacks & David Friedberg
21 juni 2020 · 45 min
Follow @chamath: https://twitter.com/chamath Follow @jason: https://twitter.com/Jason https://linktr.ee/calacanis 0:01 Jason checks in on Chamath, Sacks & Friedberg, opening up their social circles, outdoor activities & more 9:31 Issues with politicizing matters of public health, deaths decreasing while new cases spike, masks, lockdowns & more 20:56 Viral videos, doxxing bad behavior & cancel culture 25:39 Reforming law enforcement, separating police from the military, changing police incentives 36:42 Are public unions too powerful? How a lack of leadership has led us here 41:49 Facebook vs. Twitter on free speech, Zuckerberg's relationship with Peter Thiel, valuing comfort over freedom of expression Lees meer
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E1077: "Alchemy" Author Rory Sutherland on the Darwinian approach to business, analyzing outliers, why eccentric CEOs have a psychological advantage with customers & more!
19 juni 2020 · 2 uur 20 min
1:00 Jason intros "Alchemy" author Rory Sutherland 3:45 Architecture is the cheapest way to buy art 6:01 How Rory is dealing with quarantine, why he prefers working from home, and will businesses be more efficient post-COVID? 14:12 What is Rory's job, why you should strive to create your own job title, treating the free market as Galapagos Island, using the Darwinian approach to business & analyzing outliers 19:47 Why some business successes are due to psychological discoveries: Red Bull, Dyson & Nespresso 27:25 Jason's theory on why Dyson succeeded, Kano theory on product development, why eccentric CEOs have a psychological advantage with customers, how Uber's arrival map was the key feature of the product 33:48 Why the actual value of products are typically not the proposed value of products 39:40 How new products hold value as a conversation starter, how context, setting & framing is essential to innovation 43:21 Two ways to create economic value: find something people want and figure out how to make it OR figure out what you can make and make people want it & examples: Lionfish, Fish That Ate The Whale, Royal Potatoes 50:13 Why are Americans resistant to behavioral economics? Is there still a hangover from McCarthyism? How this relates to COVID and wearing masks 1:02:08 Daily news is 95% noise, why political news coverage doesn't reflect political reality 1:11:40 Why modern politics is dumb since far left and far right are much closer than they've ever been, issues with referrals & nepotism 1:21:06 How Rory got his first job in advertising "as a weirdo" and the wildcard since he was hired as part of a group, individual hiring vs. group hiring 1:23:20 TWiST Book Club Questions - Casey: Favorite behavioral study experiment or one that he found the results to be surprising? (ie. Milgram experiment or Stanford Prison Study) 1:32:12 Catherine: What's Rory's favorite alchemist moment of his own from work? Has he had to advocate for an illogical idea, and how did he p… Lees meer
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E1076: The Power of Accelerators E9 Sunny Madra, Head of Ford X on innovating mobility for a post-COVID world, going from idea to product at a large corporation & more
18 juni 2020 · 1 uur 3 min
0:52 Jason intros Ford X's Sunny Madra 4:39 How Sunny got his start in Accelerators working on Tinder with Hatch Labs at IAC 11:47 What is Ford X's thesis on mobility and how do they decide whether to buy or build a company? 16:18 How does Ford X evaluate new ideas & how do they source talent? Sunny speaks about his personal investment in Cabana 22:56 Going from idea to product at a large corporation like Ford 29:29 Assessing risk-taking in early-stage ventures at a major company 35:02 How COVID has impacted Ford's stance on mobility & micro-mobility 42:10 Thoughts on bikes, car subscriptions, Ford's resilient commercial business 50:36 Ford's movement in the EV & autonomous vehicle space Lees meer
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E1075: Cendana Capital's Michael Kim on investing in Seed funds as a serial LP, Robinhood as an acquisition target, greatest Seed funds of all time & more
17 juni 2020 · 1 uur 14 min
0:38 Jason talks about the now fully-virtual LAUNCH Accelerator and intros Cendana Capital's Michael Kim 2:47 What is a fund of funds & why do they exist? History of raising Cendana's first fund 6:06 Portfolio construction of fund of funds 10:19 Why ownership percentage is paramount, ideal ownership % for Seed funds, what makes a great Seed fund manager 17:04 How do fund of funds make money? 18:51 Hedging bets by selling secondary shares to generate liquid cash for LPs 24:33 Michael on Call of Duty, using secondary shares to win a deal 30:46 What was the greatest Seed fund ever raised? 32:42 What is the ideal number of managers in a Seed fund? 36:38 What has the last 90 days been like for Cendana? Influx of new fund managers into the market 41:50 How fast is Cendana in making decisions compared to institutional LPs? 44:47 Will there be a wave of white-collar layoffs, and how will COVID change large tech companies? 52:29 Writing small "pilot" checks over Zoom, venture/growth fund deployment, which companies in non-obvious markets will come out of COVID in great shape? 1:03:37 Robinhood as an acquisition target (Should Facebook buy it?), Dropbox/Slack merger 1:06:17 Why right now is the best time to invest in the early-stage Lees meer
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E1074 News: How VC can do better for underrepresented founders, Zoom shuts down Chinese pro-democracy accounts, Wall Street Bets, Reddit appoints YC CEO Michael Seibel to BoD & more with Lolita Taub & Tom Uebel
12 juni 2020 · 1 uur 29 min
0:01 Jason intros Tom Uebel & Lolita Taub 5:17 George Floyd/Black Lives Matter protests impacting Venture Capital, Angela Benton's tweets about her bad experience with Cowboy Ventures, how can VC move forward and be better towards underestimated founders? 17:37 Lolita & Jason reflect on some imperfect investor moments towards founders 23:55 How investor bias towards underrepresented founders manifests itself 28:23 Tom on focusing on diversity in hiring at the earliest stage of a companies life, how people with raw talent miss out on opportunities due to pattern-matching 39:23 Zoom's shuts down a Chinese pro-democracy account, importance of Data privacy at Command E, Jason's thoughts on Zoom only giving end-to-end encryption to paid accounts 52:36 Wall Street Bets, Meme stocks and a new generation of Robinhood traders 56:59 Reddit appoints YC CEO Michael Seibel to its board after Alexis Ohanian steps down, former interim CEO Ellen Pao has words for current CEO Steve Huffman 1:03:07 Issues of free speech & why relying solely on government organizations may be the wrong decision 1:05:45 Juneteenth observation, potential reparation ideas 1:10:27 Assessing COVID-19 recent death numbers & risk of getting back to work 1:23:03 Lolita shares her founder-investor matching tool 1:25:30 Tom demos Command E Lees meer
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E1073: The Power of Accelerators E8 Mike Jones, CEO of Science shares insights on what makes a great Direct-to-Consumer Founder, investing early in Dollar Shave Club, economics of a venture-studio & more!
10 juni 2020 · 1 uur 13 min
0:32 Jason speaks on current events and intros Science CEO Mike Jones, how they met after selling their companies to AOL 6:02 What is Science and how has it evolved since being started in 2011? Why did they pivot away from the startup studio model? 12:43 What are the economics of a venture-studio? 15:25 Defining the 3 scenarios of a "lifestyle-business" 18:41 Founders sharpening their skills through hardship, how Mike experienced that at MySpace 25:48 Investing in Dollar Shave Club, insights on what makes a great DTC founder 38:25 Short-term/Mid-term/Long-term impact of COVID 48:37 What is gained and lost in fully-remote work? 57:28 Thoughts on eventually going back to work? Lees meer
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E1072 Ask Jason: Growing as a leader, managing more experienced employees as a young CEO, Consumer SaaS pricing tips, bull markets post-COVID & more
9 juni 2020 · 43 min
0:01 Jason teases today's questions 2:09 Luai: Is Uber still a hyper-growth company? 5:25 Weston: Advice on getting in front of/selling to startups/enterprises outside of our immediate VC network? 8:13 Martin: Do you have any resources, insights, or methods about how to get to the right price for a consumer subscription service? 12:58 Topher: What is a good shipping cadence for new code? How often should I be pushing code to production and releasing new updated versions of my app? 15:42 Delane: When you started your first business, what were your strengths/weaknesses as a manager/leader? What was young Jason like as a CEO, and how has he evolved into your current self? 19:28 Mary: In your early days, what was your leadership style towards people who were older/more experienced than you? What advice would you give a young founder for hiring older/experienced people? 20:57 Emily: If the worst of COVID has passed, what markets are you most bullish on Post-COVID? Where do you think we will see the most innovation going forward? 26:43 Danielle: What are some insights gained since taking your team fully remote? 35:15 Matt: Could you ever see an Uber/Lyft merger? What would need to take place for that to happen? 36:29 Chris: Would you rather invest in a high-growth, high-burn startup OR a moderate-growth, minimal-burn startup? 38:57 James: What software stack does LAUNCH use? Which apps are integral to your team's success and why? Lees meer
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Announcement: Learn how to become a professional angel investor at Angel.University Online
9 juni 2020 · 2 min
Angel.University Online is a 3-hour course for individuals interested in becoming professional angel investors. Hosted by Jason Calacanis & Mike Savino, the course focuses on five key topics: sourcing deals, evaluating startups, negotiating deals, portfolio and bankroll management, and post-deal efforts. Register: https://www.angel.university/events Lees meer
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E1071 Ask Jason: Black Lives Matter, Post-COVID tech hubs, Founder/VC disputes, bringing manufacturing back to the US, pre-selling SaaS products & more
6 juni 2020 · 41 min
Jason on CNBC: https://youtu.be/V6oqvDnuAgI 0:01 Jason intros today's questions 1:51 Aaron: Thoughts on Black Lives Matter? 9:06 Joe: How can startups play a role in bringing manufacturing back to the US? 14:46 Alex: Any tips on pre-selling a SaaS product? 17:38 Arthur: How should I prepare to be a great Syndicate member in the future? In a perfect world, what does the Syndicate become? 21:13 Matthew: You often talk about founders needing to be in SV in order to be close to the action. Post-COVID, how does this change? Do places like Sydney, Vancouver, or Beijing become "big-game" cities? 28:37 Charlie: Love when you mention on your blog post a pressing need with "Someone should build this!" What's your latest "someone should build this?" right now? 30:04 Sergey: In "Angel", you suggest to invest about $5000 per deal to minimize the risk in the beginning. Will founders care to spend an hour to pitch such a small investor? 31:26 Ruud: How common are founder/VC disputes? Is there a ranking of VCs by how founder-friendly they are? Curious if this has gotten better or worse over time? 34:48 Alex: Is it advisable to look up competitors' investors and avoid them to prevent someone at the firm from sharing critical info with your competitor? Has that happened before, or is that too paranoid? 36:35 Kirk: What is your succession plan with Launch/TWiST and why? Also, what other syndicates do you admire and why? Lees meer
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E1070: The Power of Accelerators E7 Ravi Belani, Managing Director of Alchemist Accelerator on why the best entrepreneurs love the process, risk-taking, sourcing & investing in Justin.tv at DFJ & more
4 juni 2020 · 1 uur 5 min
0:20 Jason intros Alchemist's Ravi Belani 3:41 Why is Alchemist named after Paulo Coelho book? What is the biggest benefit of Accelerators? 5:47 Ravi's background at DFJ, sourcing the Justin.tv investment 15:02 Why Ravi left DFJ to start Alchemist 21:52 How many companies have gone through Alchemist and what is their standard deal? 28:21 Why accelerators take more risk than VC firms 35:07 The best entrepreneurs love the process 38:35 How are Alchemist's programs structured? Did they have trouble transitioning to remote? 44:38 Have virtual meetings been resulting in checks from investors? Dealing with investing in competitive companies 49:59 What is Alchemist's diligence process like? 55:01 What does venture capital funding look like in the medium-term Lees meer
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E1069: Alexis Ohanian on Reddit's crypto origins, turning VC into a team sport at Initialized, improving as an investor, fatherhood & more
3 juni 2020 · 1 uur 7 min
1:02 Jason welcomes Alexis Ohanian to the show and asks about the Reddit sale & re-joining for the turnaround 3:39 Why was Reddit "the last website standing" from all of the Web 2.0 sales in the early 2000s? 6:05 History of Reddit Gold, future of micropayments & what will Reddit's Blockchain venture entail? 14:59 Future of creators being able to monetize using micropayments, policing speech on Reddit 19:45 Fatherhood, being a Girl Dad, balancing personal life & work life 29:12 What is Alexis' role at Initialized? How Initialized is turning Venture Capital into a team sport 36:10 Dealing with celebrity as a partner at a VC firm, building talent when starting Initialized 42:44 Why Initialized's small ownership percentage was an issue early on, and how they think about it now 47:59 Jason calls Reddit's crypto project: "The most credible thing I've ever seen in crypto.", parsing through legitimate and non-legitimate crypto businesses 54:33 What investor skills has Alexis improved and what still needs work? 1:00:52 Dealing with icon-level celebrity in his personal life 1:04:30 Jason reveals the winner from their 2013 bet during Alexis' last appearance on This Week in Startups Lees meer
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E1068 AMA: NEA's Ben Narasin takes questions from founders: most important content in a pitch deck, COVID's impact on dealmaking, traits he looks for in founders & more!
30 mei 2020 · 49 min
NEA's Ben Narasin takes questions from founders: most important content in a pitch deck, COVID's impact on dealmaking, traits he looks for in founders & more! Join the TWiST Slack: https://launchevents.typeform.com/to/kLq5Bi Follow Ben: https://twitter.com/bnarasin 1:13 Paul: Has the current crisis changed your investment thesis? If so, how? 2:40 Ash/Christopher: How to overcome the money raised vs revenue generated in enterprise SaaS that requires heavy product work to reach product-market fit? 4:13 Emberlynn/Srinivas: What is the most important content in a pitch deck? 7:26 Guilherme: What will the VC funding landscape look like after the crisis passes? 8:37 Mary: What is the best way to present a newly launched startup that has been severely impacted by COVID-19 to investors? 10:48 Daniel: What advice would you offer college students passionate about venture capital so that they can also become investors? 12:22 Mark: What immediate skepticism do you have when you look at early-stage startups? 15:54 Len: What factor(s) would most set an early-stage (i.e. seed funding, launch-ready, pre-revenue) company apart from others seeking similar funding? 18:15 Aneesh: My startup sells multiple SaaS products for restaurant digitization. We don't have the bandwidth to handle sales and marketing of all products at once. What should be our strategy to prioritize? 19:49 Linards: At what level of product traction will investors start to be interested? How does it differ across verticals? 22:40 Avidan: What role (if any) will equity crowdfunding play in the venture capital ecosystem at large? 23:43 Adam: What are you seeing related to startup valuations and VC terms post-COVID? 25:18 Emin: What kind of marketplaces would you like to see in the next 5 years? 26:34 Tammy: Do you think people will need a college degree for the jobs of the future? 28:48 Ellie: Post-WeWork, how should a tech startup with profit margins on the smaller side think about building a scalable and ultimately… Lees meer
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E1067: Garry Tan, Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Initialized Capital, on dealing with downstream investors as a Seed-stage firm, software companies acting as governments, possibility of building IPO-level companies while fully-distributed & much more!
29 mei 2020 · 1 uur 38 min
1:03 Jason intros Garry Tan and checks in on how his quarantine has been going 4:39 How does Garry look at Initialized's portfolio companies? What are his 3 groups of companies dealing with COVID? 8:04 How will VCs react to the crisis? Why does Initialized specifically focus on Seed-stage companies? 11:13 How does Initialized contact downstream investors about their companies, and how has that changed during COVID? 14:12 Thoughts on Posterous, data-storage singularity & more 18:04 Losing thousands of photos after getting banned from Flickr and how that plays into software as the new government, becoming a super-router 22:32 How Spotify's access to public capital gives them an acquisition advantage, collab concepts 24:51 How does Initialized size their follow-on investments? 29:11 For how long is Initialized planning on operating fully remote? Thoughts on going back to work 35:56 What skills has Garry had to improve during his investing career? 43:33 How downstream investors try and take advantage of early-stage investors 47:51 Thoughts on Clubhouse investment, how/if they can scale their exclusivity 56:27 Thoughts on founders selling secondary shares, and how Chris Sacca helped Garry Tan at Posterous 1:02:09 Structural inequality leading to rich-bashing, how Fiat currency impacts welfare inequality 1:07:09 Thoughts on UBI, Instacart, potential profitability of food-delivery companies 1:11:31 Perception of Tech in the Bay Area, commercial real-estate in SF, Facebook's game-theory remote pay scale 1:18:27 Could today's tech giants (Google, Facebook, Uber) have grown to the heights they did as fully remote companies? Can IPO-level companies be consistently built while remote? 1:24:49 Do the best founders appear ageless? New Twitter features: good or bad? Lees meer
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E1066: The Power of Accelerators E6 David Brown, CEO & Co-Founder of TechStars on leading the virtual accelerator trend, benefits of going global, sustained vs. temporary changes from COVID & more!
28 mei 2020 · 1 uur 7 min
0:43 Jason intros TechStars CEO David Brown 4:47 TechStars leading the virtual accelerator trend 10:21 Will TechStars go with a hybrid model going forward and what key points should remote accelerators focus on? 15:27 How did TechStars settle on the number of 10 companies per cohort? 17:28 What has TechStars seen across their portfolio since COVID started? 21:21 Sustained changes vs. temporary changes due to COVID, will COVID lead to more entrepreneurs? 31:58 How to explain edge-case funding scenarios to founders who have real businesses that are having troubling raising capital, taking a long-term view on accelerator engagement, why B2B is easier than B2C 36:22 Why angels invest in one company over the other? Do metrics matter as much as personal relationships? What are ideal founder characteristics that David looks for? 40:25 How TechStars selects mentors by surveying their mentees, comparison against Y Combinator 51:45 Opportunity for going global, David's relationship with Co-Founder David Cohen 1:00:30 Would TechStars ever go public? Lees meer
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E1065 AMA: Slice CEO Ilir Sela answers questions from founders: tips on selling into scattered markets (like Mom & Pop shops), COVID's impact on the restaurant industry, scaling Slice's $43M Series C & more!
22 mei 2020 · 49 min
Slice CEO Ilir Sela answers questions from founders: tips on selling into scattered markets (like Mom & Pop shops), COVID's impact on the restaurant industry, scaling Slice's $43M Series C & more! Join the TWiST Slack: https://launchevents.typeform.com/to/kLq5Bi Check out Slice: https://slicelife.com/ Follow Ilir: https://twitter.com/IlirSela 1:05 Knyck: You mentioned Slice being a platform to provide the technology and buying power of scaled companies to small pizza businesses. Do you think that mom and pop stores in other industries like retail or services could use a similar platform, or is this type of structure specifically fitted for the economics of the pizza industry? 3:32 Michael: How do you see the restaurant industry changing in NYC post-COVID, and where do you see the growth opportunities to create a new type of offering? 5:17 Chris: I'm building a loyalty program startup for restaurants. We're specifically targeting non-chain ethnic restaurants and customers who may have ethnic nostalgia for cultural foods. What do you think the opportunity looks like nationwide for this demographic? Are most restaurants using mainstream food ordering apps already, or is there a large segment of ethnic restaurants who are off-grid? 9:01 Graham: Mom & pops are such a scattered customer base. Can you shed some light on how you started to get momentum in the early days as a small business yourself? Did early customers have any trust issues with something as important as payment? 14:22 Laura: What is the biggest point of friction you have with adding new pizzerias to Slice? Do you experience many/any pizzerias that don't see the benefit of joining the Slice community? If so, how do you handle these? 18:50 Henry: Have you thought of doing the same for other ethnic food restaurants like Chinese, Indian, Thai etc. and what challenges do you foresee? What would be your approach to tackle? 22:04 Matt: With all the vacant retail that's about to become available, have you thought… Lees meer
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E1064: News Roundtable! Sam Parr & Zach Coelius on Barstool Sports vs. Call Her Daddy, SoftBank's $17B loss, TikTok poaches former Disney exec as CEO, Facebook launches Shops & more!
21 mei 2020 · 1 uur 3 min
0:51 Jason intros Zach Coelius & Sam Parr 2:28 Barstool Sports vs. Call Her Daddy 6:49 Penn National Gaming stock soaring, Dave Portnoy winning this controversy 13:17 SoftBank reports $17.7B annual loss, worst figures in 39-year history 17:19 Does SoftBank's involvement typically include a loss of focus for the founder? 21:43 TikTok's parent co. Bytedance trades at a $140B valuation, poaches Disney's former Head of Streaming as new CEO of TikTok 25:08 Was Kevin Mayer wrong to take this role? Are TikTok's recommendation algorithms the best in the world? 28:52 How do Chinese companies grow so rapidly? 32:06 Facebook launches Shops, is Zuck trying to kill e-commerce giants? Zach on his experience with Facebook slowly killing his business 40:06 How does Facebook's product organization work? 47:13 Jason on the future of social networks 49:56 Amazon potentially acquiring AMC Theatres, could this be an Amazon Prime upsell? 53:52 Everyone gives their best idea for Amazon's first move after buying AMC 59:59 Zach on his quarantine deal flow Lees meer
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All-In E3: Modern Cold War between US & China, economic recovery, potential mass migration out of San Francisco, pandemic politicization & more with David Sacks & David Friedberg
21 mei 2020 · 50 min
Angel investor Jason Calacanis (Uber, Calm, Robinhood) interviews the world's greatest founders, operators, investors and innovators. Get an insider's look into venture capital, learn how to start and scale your own startup, and ride the cutting edge of technology in today's headlines and beyond. Lees meer
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E1063: The Power of Accelerators E5 Joshua Baer, CEO & Founder of Capital Factory shares lessons from investing in 400+ startups, best practices for transitioning accelerators to remote, insights on SXSW cancellation & more
20 mei 2020 · 1 uur 12 min
0:35 Jason intros Capital Factory CEO & Founder Josh Baer 1:47 What is Capital Factory in its current iteration? How are they transitioning to remote? Loss of serendipity of random in-person connections 5:38 Josh takes Jason through the SXSW cancellation 10:29 Issues conceptualizing COVID's impact 15:35 Transitioning to rolling cohorts & optimizing their Slack community 21:36 Capital Factory's standard deal terms, why founders join, how returns are divvied up 27:30 Starting Capital Factory during the last economic downturn, how millennials will react to this crisis 30:45 Josh describes his 5 buckets of how companies are weathering the COVID storm 35:09 Remote work's effect on startup collaboration 41:01 COVID's effect on children, getting back to work 47:37 What investing mistakes has Josh made, and how has he learned from them? 56:00 What founder traits does Josh look for? 59:14 Moving to Austin, SXSW history Lees meer
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E1062: News Roundtable! Acquired.FM Co-Hosts Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal on Clubhouse's pre-launch $100M valuation, Joe Rogan to Spotify, Uber layoffs, food delivery wars, Facebook buys GIPHY & more!
20 mei 2020 · 1 uur 57 min
0:31 Jason intros today's news roundtable guests Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal 6:54 Clubhouse raises Series A from a16z at a $100M valuation pre-launch 11:12 How do $2M in secondary shares play into Clubhouse's situation? 14:08 How Clubhouse achieved "VC-Market Fit" 18:49 Was this investment worth it considering massive former outliers in the consumer social space (Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat)? Or did a16z pay too high of a price? 26:08 Bull/bear cases for founders selling secondary shares pre-launch 33:29 What impact did raising $100M for Mahalo pre-launch have on Jason? 37:18 Joe Rogan to Spotify, guess the acquisition price & macro-impact on the podcast industry 46:09 How massive is this for Spotify's position in the podcast industry? Did Apple drop the ball? 51:28 Jason to Dara: Uber should buy Dominos 52:16 How much podcast market share will Spotify have in the coming years? Will this be viewed as the landmark deal? 57:03 Uber layoffs, potential GrubHub acquisition, does the food delivery business model work? 1:04:57 Why the on-demand food delivery industry has a product-market-price fit issue, should life-long bureaucrats impact capitalist policy? 1:12:03 Who emerges victorious from the food delivery dog fight? 1:15:28 How being too reliant on one revenue stream could kill many ad-based media publications 1:24:38 Facebook's GIPHY acquisition 1:25:55 Twitter thread by GIPHY crowdfunding investor who never received their return, why Syndicate/Crowdfunding leads need to stand up for their investors to downstream firms THREAD: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1262574661239312384.html 1:37:20 How GIPHY's weak relationship with their DAUs led to little negotiating leverage 1:39:05 Predictions for Clubhouse's eventual business model Lees meer
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E1061 AMA: Hustle Fund's Elizabeth Yin answers 50 questions from founders!
18 mei 2020 · 1 uur 14 min
Hustle Fund Co-Founder & General Partner Elizabeth Yin answers 50 questions from founders!
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E1060 AMA: Range CEO & Co-Founder Dan Pupius answers questions from founders: meeting & collaborating with Evan Williams, divvying up time while building a remote team, product development advice, benefits of co-founders & more
14 mei 2020 · 38 min
Range CEO & Co-Founder Dan Pupius answers questions from founders: meeting & collaborating with Evan Williams, divvying up time while building a remote team, product development advice, benefits of co-founders & more Join the TWiST Slack: https://launchevents.typeform.com/to/kLq5Bi Check out Range: https://www.range.co/ Questions: 0:50 Laura: Interested in learning more about what made you want to build a company that focused on remote work? Do you personally find it challenging not to be in the same physical space as your team/the companies you work for? 2:46 Knyck: What advice would you give around developing and sticking to a product development roadmap as a first-time founder? What's a good way to establish and calibrate sprint lengths when looking at various aspects of the build? 5:48 Henry: What are best practices around building a tight mission-driven culture when working remotely given people are not interacting face to face physically on a daily basis and focus may be impaired? 8:10 Kevin: Have you received any downstream investor interest since the start of mass quarantine across the US? Do investors see this as an opportunity? 8:57 Ciara: Can you share a little about where you want to be in 18-24 months with Range? How are you planning on scaling and what does your product roadmap look like? 10:51 Nick/Presh: How did you meet Evan Williams, what's the story of you leaving Google for Medium, and what are some amazing insights/lessons you learned from working with him? What makes him stand out as a founder? 13:41 James: Really like the use of daily check-ins and achievement tracking within Range to keep people on track. How can we encourage these actions in important areas outside of work, where people aren't directly incentivized/forced to do so (fitness, eating, learning)? 15:52 Charles: What do you look for in a co-founder and what advice would you give to founders looking for one? Do they even need to? Also, Marmite, love it or hate it? 18:23 Lizette: … Lees meer
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E1059: The Power of Accelerators E4 Sean O'Sullivan, Managing General Partner of SOSV on running capital intensive accelerators in hardware, life sciences & food science, unique follow-on strategy, cell-based meat going mainstream, China-based vs. US-ba
14 mei 2020 · 1 uur 5 min
0:42 Jason intros SOSV's Sean O'Sullivan 4:19 How is operating in China during COVID? 5:22 Origin of SOSV, thoughts on in-person accelerators over remote accelerators, why hardware/life-science accelerators need in-person cohorts 9:02 Sean describes SOSV's typical deal terms, unique follow-on strategy & cohort size 14:27 What stage company are SOSV accelerators looking for? Does it vary by industry? 17:58 Sean describes SOSV portfolio company Memphis Meats & how they utilize bioreactors to create cell-based meats 23:06 When will we see plant/cell-based meat being cheaper than the real thing? 29:25 Will the issue of food-availability will be solved in our lifetime? 33:16 Will modern food science revolutionize taste & what is the holy-grail food that will be produced? 42:15 What is being done in the ingredients space? 48:58 How is running an accelerator in China different than running one in the US? 53:39 Embracing hardware, thoughts on Hardware-as-a-Service 1:00:44 Micro-terraforming Lees meer
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E1058: Slice CEO & Founder Ilir Sela helps local pizzerias compete with chains by digitizing orders & small fees, shares insights on raising $40M+ Series C during pandemic, "reverse franchise model", viral GrubHub invoice, helping front-line workers &
13 mei 2020 · 1 uur 18 min
0:36 Jason shares thoughts on his portfolio activity, getting back to work, leadership & more 4:20 Jason intros Slice Founder Ilir Sela 7:14 How has Slice been helping local pizzerias and front-line workers during the pandemic? https://sliceouthunger.org/pandemicpizza 9:12 What are the economics of an average privately-owned local pizzeria? How are the majority fairing during COVID-19? 13:24 What is Ilir building at Slice? What is their "reverse-franchise model" that helps local pizzerias compete with Dominos & other large chains? 15:32 What is the user-experience on Slice? 18:49 Who is Slice's average customer & how are their pizzerias handling the virus in 3 segments 29:10 Raising a $40M+ Series C during COVID pandemic & leaning on long-term relationships 32:49 Viral GrubHub invoice response - valid or overblown? Unit economics of delivery apps & how Slice's fees compare to GrubHub, DoorDash, UberEats & more 40:12 Huge delivery fees creating the need for two different menus (with higher prices on third-party platforms), how Dominos digitizing their order volume created maximum efficiency & allowed them to keep the same prices for over a decade 45:28 What is Ilir planning on doing with Slice's excess office space, how will the pandemic effect in-person work going forward? 50:10 Which groups of employees perform better under isolation? How is Slice helping employees deal with working remotely? How is New York responding to the crisis, and what will reopening look like (hybrid offices)? 1:06:53 Do business leaders have a responsibility to go through the testing process to understand how to help employees get tested efficiently? Lees meer
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E1057: Founders Fund General Partner Keith Rabois on stock market bounce back, domain expertise being overrated, US/China issues, 2020 election, recipe for startups success, chaos making way for a new generation of entrepreneurs & much more!
12 mei 2020 · 1 uur 25 min
0:56 Jason intros Keith Rabois and checks in on his quarantine, Zoom's heightened exhaustion factor & more 5:46 What will the lasting impact of COVID be on Silicon Valley & the startup funding landscape? 8:18 How the early 2000's dot-com bust paved way for a generation of new founders & why the PayPal mafia of outsiders thrived in chaos & became the establishment 14:23 What has happened to intellectual debate during COVID-19? What are first principle thinkers and why are they important to problem-solving? 20:53 Is domain expertise overrated? 22:39 Keith's on his pinned tweet about his perceived recipe for startup success 26:50 In which verticals did Keith find outliers using his low-NPS/fragmented/vertical solution strategy? 32:15 History on US relationship with China, has Trump been right on China threat, should US try and bring manufacturing back from China? 44:41 China's involvement with whistleblowers, benefits of litigation knowledge as a VC, world's reaction to China mishandling COVID info 50:40 Has Biden been soft on China? How will that play into the 2020 election? 1:00:51 Why is the stock market bouncing back so quickly with record-setting unemployment numbers? Will there be another correction? 1:03:59 What is Keith seeing across his portfolio? M&A opportunity for companies like Lyft? 1:09:34 Keith shares thoughts on the right time to go public 1:13:50 Impact of 20% unemployment on startups over the next year, mental impact of lockdown & social isolation 1:20:40 Keith's most positive outlook going forward Lees meer