Bob Iger joins VC firm as venture partner, Twitter whistleblower hearing, KKR tokenizes fund | E1559
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
First up, J+M discuss Bob Iger joining Thrive Capital as a venture partner (2:09), then they break down the most interesting moments from the Twitter whistleblower hearings (24:48). After that, they discuss KKR tokenizing part of its new healthcare fund (57:43), before wrapping on the Launch House allegations. (1:06:22)
(0:00) J+M tee up today's topics!
(2:09) Legendary former Disney CEO Bob Iger joins Thrive Capital as venture partner
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(13:45) How Iger linked up with Josh Kushner, false perceptions of VCs
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(24:48) J+M react to clips from Twitter whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko's congressional hearing today
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(34:33) More clips from the hearing and reflections on Twitter's security issues
(57:43) KKR tokenizes part of its new healthcare fund to allow QPs to invest more easily
(1:06:22) Launch House allegations
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. We thought Tuesday would slow down. We're wrong. |
| 0:04.6 | It's just chaos out there. But I got to talk to you about Disney by a vigour is becoming a venture |
| 0:09.0 | partner. But I just, what from? I know. So like, does this mean though, we're straight-up peers |
| 0:15.5 | with Bob Eiger right now? Pretty investors. I'm just saying straight-up peers. I got to zoom |
| 0:19.5 | with them later. Straight-up peers. We do have questions, however, about where he went, which we |
| 0:23.8 | will discuss. We will also talk about the Twitter whistleblower hearings featuring former head of |
| 0:29.1 | security, Peter Zatko, aka Mudge, just saying it all on behalf of security professionals everywhere. |
| 0:34.5 | This is explosive stuff, folks. And then we're going to talk about KKR, that big, huge financial firm. |
| 0:39.6 | I guess, you know, they saw what I was doing with publicly raising. And I guess they're going to |
| 0:44.2 | publicly raise from QPs, qualified purchasers, with some kind of token angle, which I don't understand, |
| 0:50.0 | we're going to double-click on that. And then we're going to, as quickly and efficiently as possible, |
| 0:54.2 | dispense with the gross story about the allegations regarding launch house. |
| 0:58.5 | Okay, it's going to be a great show. Stick with us. |
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