Art Basel recap (Beeple, JUUL, Cathie Wood) + reacting to Better.com’s leaked layoffs clip | E1341
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Forbes Article mentioned:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2021/12/03/investor-cathie-wood-on-bitcoin-why-she-sold-stocks-in-china-and-what-her-firm-is-buying-now/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. I am back from Art Basel in Miami and FT Basel. |
| 0:04.2 | And I have a ton of fun stories about meeting people interviewing Kathy Wood had a Larry |
| 0:09.6 | David moment with the CEO of Jewel, the vapor company. |
| 0:12.8 | I had to do an apology for that. |
| 0:14.3 | You're going to get to hear one of the first and only apologies here on this week and |
| 0:17.6 | startups. And then I'm going to break down how to lay people off and how not to and the |
| 0:25.1 | absolute dereliction of duty by what I'll say is the worst CEO of the year for 2021. |
| 0:33.0 | I hate to get my predictions now, but he's certainly in the running. |
| 0:36.1 | The CEO better.com lead of 900 people on it. |
| 0:39.0 | Absolutely deranged zoom call. And apparently he's got a track record of treating people horrible. |
| 0:45.9 | Today's show is me talking about leadership, what I've learned and how to treat people, |
| 0:50.6 | which hopefully I've gotten better and better out of my career and just what an absolute |
| 0:55.8 | terrible leader. The CEO of better is we're going to break it down in detail. |
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