Cathie Wood's new VC fund, Bill Gurley's best insights, Girls Who Code on banned books list | E1571
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
J+M break down Cathie Wood's new VC fund (1:53), Bill Gurley's best insights from his interview with McKinsey (26:13), and Girls Who Code making a banned books list in a Pennsylvania county
(0:00) J+M tee up today's venture-heavy topics!
(1:53) Cathie Wood's new VC fund: Ark Venture Fund
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(13:42) Opening up VC funds and early-stage investing for retail investors, signs of the start of a recession
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(26:13) Reacting to Bill Gurley's interview with McKinsey
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(34:54) More on Gurley's insights: short memories in VC, accepting reality, startups raising too much money, layoffs
(47:32) Girls Who Code made a banned books list in a Pennsylvania county
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody, big show today. |
| 0:02.9 | It's Tuesday. |
| 0:03.9 | Kathy Wood from ARC Investments has launched a VC fund. |
| 0:07.9 | It's a little different, Molly. |
| 0:09.5 | VCs in this case are allowing retail investors to participate in what's called an interval |
| 0:15.1 | fund. |
| 0:16.1 | We're going to explain what this is and how it could change venture. |
| 0:18.3 | Yep. |
| 0:19.3 | We're also going to cover Bill Gurley's insights from his interview with McKinsey, Uncle |
| 0:25.7 | Bill, Deliver in the Knowledge. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm just going to warn you now today that there's some chaos in today's show. |
| 0:31.3 | Just because he prepared for some impressions. |
| 0:34.2 | It's the gospel according to Bill Gurley, and we'll go through the gospel according |
| 0:38.1 | to Gurley in detail. |
| 0:39.6 | Lots of really great nuggets inside this interview. |
| 0:41.6 | And then finally, we're going to talk about banned books because the girls who code book |
| 0:46.6 | got banned by a bunch of macos. |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.8 | So just a quick reminder that we need a lot of people in STEM and technology, including |
| 0:55.8 | some girls. |
| 0:56.8 | And we don't have books. |
| 0:57.8 | Don't be horrible. |
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