Bezos goes to space, Robinhood IPO, USDC attestation + Flock Safety’s Garrett Langley | E1249
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Keith Rabois' OpenStore (47:11). Then for our Next Unicorns series, Jason interviews Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langely, about reducing crime in American cities and neighborhoods (50:18).
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| 0:00.0 | Today we have an amazing show for you for our next Unicorn series. I interview Fox Safety's CEO |
| 0:06.2 | Garrett Langley about his controversial startup, which records license plates into a database to help |
| 0:12.9 | reduce crime. Coincidentally, they just announced today a $150 million series day. So they're not |
| 0:20.7 | the next unicorn. They're today's unicorn. But before that, we've got rapid fire news for you. |
| 0:25.5 | You've been giving me great feedback on me talking about the news. Well, it's a packed news day. |
| 0:30.5 | Bezos has gone to space. Robin Hood is offering 35% of its IPO shares to retail investors and |
| 0:38.0 | circle the stablecoin that's going up against tether has done there at test station and it is night |
| 0:43.2 | and day compared to tether. As well, the Far East crypto crackdown has continued and why that's a good |
| 0:49.8 | thing for crypto. Finally, my boy Rowan Trollop has sold five nine, which he talked about in a |
| 0:55.8 | previous episode to zoom for almost 15 billion. Oh, yeah. And Keith Roboi's open-starling live. |
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