Affirm addresses Molly & Jason + is TikTok getting banned, and Pearpop’s CEO Cole Mason | E1637
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Molly and Jason react to a letter they received from Affirm after yesterday’s episode. (1:59) Then, Molly and Jason discuss Marco Rubio’s bipartisan legislation to ban TikTok (35:46), And finally, we cap off season 4 of The Next Unicorns with Co-Founder and CEO of Pearpop Cole Mason (59:28)
(0:00) M+J Kick off the show
(1:59) Molly and Jason respond to a letter from Affirm
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(15:55) Comparing the pros and cons of BNPL
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(29:06) Jason and Molly’s advice on debt
(35:46) Marcos Rubio’s bipartisan legislation to ban TikTok
(46:22) The battle with social media
(59:28)The Next Unicorns: Cole Mason, CEO of Pearpop
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, it's Wednesday and we have a whole I love a day like today because we have a |
| 0:05.7 | an arc, a bit of a story arc, if you will. It's a real social media heavy show multiple takes |
| 0:13.2 | on influencer culture. Yeah, there's a lot of how takes going on these days. But first, |
| 0:17.6 | we're going to break down a message we got from the senior director at the BNPL platform, |
| 0:23.6 | a firm because we talked about a firm with regards to Walmart offering by now pay later, |
| 0:28.8 | you need to do a layaway plan for your milk. Mm-hmm. So we're going to give equal time, |
| 0:34.5 | if you will, to that feedback. Yep. Then after that, we're going to talk about Senator Marco Rubio |
| 0:41.0 | announcing bipartisan legislation to ban TikTok. Your moment has arrived, Jacob. Finally, |
| 0:47.8 | some bipartisan actions for an important issue. And this is where the story arc part comes in. |
| 0:53.2 | It just so happens that our next unicorn interview today, because Wednesday, when we run |
| 0:57.6 | an next unicorn, is with Pear Pop CEO and founder Cole Mason, talking about how that team is making |
| 1:04.0 | the social media space more lucrative for creators and wanting to turn us all into creators using |
| 1:10.5 | this simple platform that is going to make them a ton of money. All right, it's going to be a great |
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| 2:01.3 | received, no, yesterday we covered by now pay later this morning, I received a spicy email from |
| 2:10.3 | the folks at a firm. I told them, okay, I'm happy to discuss your email on air and they said, |
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