Bing dodges $100B bullet & IVP's Tom Loverro on the looming startup collapse | E1678
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Molly is joined by Rachel as they discuss the news that some companies are selling data about their mental health patients. (1:33) Then they discuss how Bing’s AI chatbot was presenting false information during its reveal last week. (11:57) To wrap, Tom Loverro joins Jason to talk about his viral tweet thread about a “mass extinction event coming for early & mid-stage companies”. (24:36)
(0:00) Molly and Rachel kick off the show
(1:33) America’s mental health data is being sold
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(11:57) Bing dodges $100B bullet
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(21:51) Molly and Rachel’s AI predictions
(24:36) IVP’s Tom Loverro joins Jason
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(40:42) Tom’s prescriptions for founders
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Alright, it is Tuesday. Happy Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day. Happy |
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| 0:10.6 | love in the world, which you should celebrate because love is great. That's all right. |
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| 0:28.0 | are correct. Jason, you never know. You never know. Jason's got a speaking gig today, but Rachel |
| 0:35.3 | and I, Rachel reporting and I are going to do a little bit of news and then we have a great interview |
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| 1:33.8 | All right. So it turns out, let's go into a little bit of news here because there was a little |
| 1:38.9 | bit of a bombshell report from the Washington Post yesterday. Actually, I think this published |
| 1:44.4 | Monday, but we made, we definitely want to talk about it today about apps, sharing all kinds of |
| 1:50.4 | our data. Rachel, give us the, give us the overview here. If you want to mind. So it's, |
| 1:55.1 | it's pretty crazy. American's mental health data is being sold from telehealth and therapy apps, |
| 2:01.4 | and it's perfectly legal, even without the person's knowledge or consent. I think we all kind of |
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