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Bored Ape Madness with The Infatuation’s Andrew Steinthal + Breaking into VC with Nicole DeTommaso | E1275

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs have been going crazy in the secondary market, Jason brings on collector and co-founder of media site "The Infatuation" Andrew Steinthal (2:04) to chat about why he bought in, why he's not selling, and the overall mechanics of the community. Then, TWIST producer Rachel interviews the Nicole DeTommaso of Harlem VC (33:25) about how she broke into venture capital with a pitch deck!!!

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. We got an amazing show for you today. We talk about the board

0:04.5

ape yacht club. This is an NFT collection where you buy into it for a couple of Ethereum.

0:09.6

And then you get special features and club benefits while we talk to Andrew Steinthal,

0:15.3

who is a co-founder of a restaurant review site in New York called the infatuation,

0:19.6

which also purchased Zagab 2018, by the way. And he got in early on this craze, bought one of

0:24.7

these NFTs for $9,000. Now he's sitting on a couple of $100,000 in NFTs of monkeys, of these

0:30.2

board apes. And he explains to us the craze. And it's actually kind of fascinating. It's somewhere

0:35.3

between collecting and speculating and gambling. And Soho House, hard to explain, but we get into it.

0:42.3

And I think it's a really important subject that we all have to get educated on because

0:46.4

this company is producing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue already in the first year of

0:52.4

its existence from nothing, no investors. So, and then in the second half of the show,

0:58.4

our reporter Rachel interviews Nicole did Tomaso. And Nicole is somebody who broke into venture

1:05.1

capital recently working at Harlem VC. And she explained on Twitter how she did it with a pitch deck.

1:10.7

So I sent Rachel out to interview her. It's a great interview. You're going to love it,

1:14.3

especially if you're thinking, hey, how do I break into venture capital? So stick with us.

1:18.9

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1:25.2

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1:35.5

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1:41.3

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1:53.8

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