Apple pauses RU sales, Ford splits-off EVs + How Facebook killed Joe Speiser's $100M business | E1398

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

First, we talk about Apple pausing all sales in Russia and other actions they’re taking (1:47). Then, we cover Ford splitting its EV business off from its ICE business (15:57). Then, Joe Speiser from Hampton VC joins to talk about how being too reliant on Facebook killed his media company Little Things with an algorithm change (25:42). We wrap with a quick WLITF segment on humanoid robots (42:05).

(00:00) Molly intros today’s topics: Tim Cook’s response to Russia, WeWork can’t read the room, Interview with Joe Speiser of LittleThings, We Live in the Future with Molly
(01:47) Tim Cook and Apple’s response to Russia
(05:40) WeWork’s new CEO says WeWork will not leave the Russia
(14:41) Vanta - Get $1,000 off automating your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist
(15:57) Ford separating EV business from main ICE business
(24:34) Odoo - Get your first app free and a $1000 credit at https://odoo.com/twist
(25:42) How facebook’s algorithm change ruined Joe Speiser’s company
(34:03) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist
(35:22) The dangers of having your business rely on a platform
(42:05) We Live in the Future: Sanctuary

FOLLOW Joe: https://twitter.com/jspeiser
Check out Hampton VC: https://www.hamptonvc.com/

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Jason's internet died, so I have to do the intro solo, but we did get him for
0:06.0	long enough for a very fun show today. We're gonna talk about Apple pausing all sales in Russia
0:10.9	and the other actions that they're taking in response to Putin's aggression, which by the way,
0:15.4	Jason fully predicted on the show yesterday. Then we cover Ford splitting its EV business off from
0:22.8	its ice business, which is either a smart move to kill dealerships or a terrible move that
0:30.5	keeps the ice business alive and puts these two businesses in competition when EVs are the future.
0:35.3	Then Joe Spiser joins us to talk about how being too reliant on Facebook killed his media company
0:41.1	and finally, quickly, we live in the future segment on humanoid robots. Yes, all of that in this
0:47.9	one show and it's all for free. It's gonna be a great one. Let's stick with this.
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1:43.7	get 15% off for the first four weeks. All right, it's a big news day and we've got a great guest
1:49.6	coming on to talk about the dependencies that startups can sometimes build on other platforms and
1:55.1	we're going to go into a lot of detail on that because I have learned that lesson as
1:58.8	have countless creators and entrepreneurs. But before that, Molly, we have a lot of news to get to.
2:04.6	Let's start the show. Yeah, we are going to speed around some of this news. So following up,
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