Bolt cancels $1.5B Wyre deal, $ROKU adds TikTok-style feature, Deere's self-driving tractors | E1558
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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J+M are back recapping this week's episode of All-In and how to stop brigading on Twitter (1:42). They also cover Bolt cancelling its $1.5B acquisition of crypto payments startup Wyre (19:46), Roku adding a TikTok-style feature (30:31), and two We Live in the Future stories! (39:48)
(0:00) J+M tee up today's topics!
(1:42) All-In recap, how Twitter can reduce brigading, and more
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(19:49) Bolt cancels $1.5B Wyre acquisition
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(30:34) Roku adds TikTok-style feature to its streaming software
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(39:51) We Live in the Future: John Deere's self-driving tractors
(49:48) We Live in the Future: $5B Moon-themed hotel might be coming to Dubai
(56:22) China is ramping up its moon operations due to discovering a new mineral
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Hey, everybody. It is Monday. Welcome back from your weekend, which if it was anything like mine last |
| 0:04.4 | had one nanosecond. And it's already brutal weekend for me to just catching up on sleep after being in |
| 0:09.6 | four different cities in a week and then getting brigade at all weekend because of my moderation on the |
| 0:15.2 | all-in pod episode 95. I'm going to start a reverse brigade, I think. Reverse brigade. It's a plan. |
| 0:20.8 | Our favorite startup bolt is back in the news this time for canceling a $1.5 billion deal to acquire |
| 0:26.0 | crypto payments. Start up wire crypto payments. Still not ready. Still ready. And then Roku is |
| 0:31.4 | integrating TikTok style promotions into the platform. We punch up their idea and talk about my |
| 0:36.6 | favorite TikTok account, Chef's reactions. He's coming around, just saying. And then we have a |
| 0:42.0 | couple we live in the future segments for you. One amazing one. Again, maybe need some punchups. |
| 0:48.4 | Couple edits. It's going to be a great thing. Stick with us. This week in startups is brought to you by |
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| 1:38.0 | slash twist to get 20% off your first six months. Hey everybody, it's Monday. I have no tolerance |
| 1:45.2 | for any bullshit today. Believe that out. I got a BS in the first five seconds. Molly, |
| 1:50.6 | how are we going to be? Please, I'm bad at Monday. No, this weekend is stupid. |
| 1:54.3 | And as we can barely didn't even happen because there was like a week's worth of chores all |
| 1:58.1 | backed up because of the heat wave. And then guess what happened on Saturday morning. Power out is |
| 2:01.3 | three hours. Boom. Don't forget California. I've done it. Look at the houses. I spent, you know, |
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