British pound crashes, Do Kwon's red notice, NASA's DART mission, TikTok nears US deal | E1570
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
J+M break down the British pound dropping below $1.04 (5:15), Interpol issuing a red notice for Do Kwon (27:07), NASA's DART mission (53:52), and TikTok discussing an agreement with the Biden administration! (59:44)
(0:00) J+M tee up today's topics!
(2:48) Importance of focus, avoiding the news cycle in the grand scheme of things
(5:15) British pound crashes to lowest level ever against the USD
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(14:38) Breaking housing and energy in the economy, income inequality's impact globally
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(27:07) Interpol issues red notice for Do Kwon on behalf of South Korea
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(36:54) Do Kwon tweeting on the lamb, more theories around where he might head to
(47:15) New decentralized crypto derivatives platform Nibiru raises a $7.5M seed at a $100M valuation
(53:52) WLITF: NASA's DART mission and planetary defense
(59:44) The Biden administration drafted a preliminary agreement with TikTok to try and resolve national security concerns
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome. It's Monday, Monday, Monday. We have a huge new show already. And we're |
| 0:07.3 | not even, we didn't even stockpile any news over the weekend. This is all just like breaking |
| 0:13.1 | today, maybe a little bit over the weekend, I guess. First up, we're going to talk about the |
| 0:17.6 | British pound crashing and possibility that could have parity with the US dollar, what that means |
| 0:22.4 | for startups and what it means just in terms of this macro monetary policy in relation to capital |
| 0:28.6 | allocation and just the economy writ large. Yeah, we're just going to dig into a little |
| 0:33.7 | fiscal and monetary policy and trickle down economics in the long, long history of what doesn't |
| 0:37.7 | does not cause inflation first thing on a Monday, no big. And then we're going into spy territory |
| 0:43.3 | with Interpol issuing a red notice for Dokewan. I'm sure he did nothing wrong. These are all |
| 0:51.1 | allegedly, but the South Korean government would like a work with Dokewan, who is |
| 0:57.1 | taunting them on Twitter, doesn't seem like a great strategy. And then we've got a crazy, |
| 1:03.5 | we live in the future story. I mean, this is like the most bananas show. Yeah, |
| 1:10.3 | for we live in the future, we're going to talk about this NASA asteroid defense mission where |
| 1:13.9 | they're going to crash a golf cart into an asteroid and try to knock it off of its trajectory |
| 1:18.7 | to make sure that should one be headed toward us and threatening an extinction level event, |
| 1:22.9 | we can just derail it. And I've been yelling at the moon for a year about TikTok. |
| 1:29.6 | Just throwing my fist in the air and nobody's listening and the Biden administration is asleep |
| 1:34.0 | at the wheel regarding TikTok and Chinese spyware. And sure enough, it turns out that our |
| 1:41.0 | government has been in deep negotiations trying to settle with Byte Dance and TikTok to make their |
| 1:48.0 | app maybe compliant and less spywish or maybe ban it. Anyway, it's going to be a great show. |
| 1:55.5 | It's going to be a great show, stick with us. This week in startups is brought to you by |
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