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This Week in Startups

Apple’s WFH blowback, navigating current startup valuations PLUS Sugar’s Fatima Dicko | 1227

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Jason gives his take on the letter from a group of employees to Tim Cook about Apple's return to work (1:00), then Fatima Dicko the CEO and Founder of Sugar discusses pivoting in the pandemic (25:54), what amenities apartments will offer in the future (45:39), and more. Then Jason wraps with a "button" on investing when valuations are high, where there is value to be found, and more (58:44). http://bit.ly/e1227tnotes

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Hey everybody, it's another great episode of this weekend start-ups today.

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We've got a great interview with the founder of Sugar, which is a CRM enterprise software for landlords and tenants.

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And before we get into that great interview, I want to talk about a big issue that's going on here in Silicon Valley and probably in your city,

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or maybe even in your company, which is the return to work.

1:28.0

You may have seen a huge bruhaha this weekend with Apple employees in the news again after they wrote yet another letter to management.

1:36.0

This time demanding a more flexible work from home policy.

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Less Friday, this letter seems to have been leaked to the press, specifically the verge.

1:46.0

And this is the third time Apple employees have been challenging the management of Apple in the last three weeks.

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So every week with three weeks, we've had Apple employees being extremely vocal.

2:00.0

This is notable because Apple was known for being a very private company, perhaps the most private company in all of Silicon Valley.

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People signing NDAs, people in the company not knowing what was going on in the buildings next to them.

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