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This Week in Startups

A DAO bids $40M on the Constitution, Startup Checklist: Operational best practices, Gen Z VCs | E1330

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

First, Jason covers ConstitutionDAO attempt to buy one of the remaining 13 copies of the constitution at Sotheby's (01:56). Then, he does 10 points from the Startup Checklist on operational excellence (34:54). To close out the show, Producer Rachel speaks with Meagan Loyst, a VC at Lerer Hippeau who leads a group called Gen Z VCs (01:04:00).

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0:00.0

Okay, everybody. We've got a great show for you today. We're going to talk first about the

0:03.6

Constitution Dow. We watched the live auction last night. It was super exciting and I went live

0:08.9

and what you're going to see today is me going live thinking that the Dow had won. In other words,

0:13.7

the internet had won the Constitution and CoinDest had published an article that they had won and then

0:20.4

the official Constitution Dow Twitter announced that they had in fact lost. So you're going to see

0:24.5

me react live to those clips. But more importantly, I talk about all of the

0:29.5

interesting things that we've learned about Dow's and capital formation and how great this is

0:35.2

for the world. I'm all in on Dow's. I think they're brilliant. I want to do one. I don't know what

0:39.6

for, but I think this could change the world in a very positive way, especially with capital

0:43.9

formation. Then I'm going to get into our startup checklist. We got another 10 bullet points for you

0:48.8

this time around operations best practices for you to run your startup correctly. And then finally

0:54.0

it's Friday. So you're going to get another okay Boomer segment from Rachel reporting stick with us.

0:59.3

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1:59.8

Dow has raised over $46 million to buy one of the 13 copies of the Constitution that are still

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