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This Week in Startups

Downtown Josh Brown & Michael Batnick on Disney+, Peloton, Knicks, podcasting, markets, & more | E1496

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Today, Jason is joined by the hosts of “What are your thoughts?” Downtown Josh Brown (CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management) and Michael Batnick (Managing Partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management). They discuss the Knicks (1:22), Podcasting (14:25), markets (26:20), Disney (37:52), and more. Finally, Jason takes some audience questions (44:50).

(0:00) Cold Open
(1:22) Downtown Josh Brown & Michael Batnick join Jason: catching up and talking basketball
(13:10) Coda - The All-in-one doc for teams, get a $1,000 credit at https://coda.io/twist
(14:25) Audio as a media business
(18:50) Why can’t the Knicks get great young talent to want to come?
(20:35) ActiveCampaign - Get 10% off your ActiveCampaign subscription today at https://activecampaign.com/promo/twist
(21:46) What’s it like being involved with the Warriors?
(26:20) Market dynamics
(36:25) LinkedIn Marketing - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at https://linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups
(37:52) Building a Disney position
(44:50) Questions from the audience: Jason’s thoughts on RobinHood
(59:12) Most exciting recent investment for Jason
(1:06:30) Last question
(1:07:30) Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0

Whenever finance gets super complicated, it's probably there are some things that are complicated, of course.

0:06.0

But whenever it gets super complicated, it's probably because somebody's running a grift or a scam.

0:10.0

When people started to explain to me,

0:12.0

oh, you can get 15% 20% by loaning at your Bitcoin? I was like, okay, what's explained to me this scam?

0:18.0

What's the grift? And they're like, not a grift. I'm like, okay, who's paying the 15% interest?

0:22.0

What's the risk that I'm not seeing?

0:25.0

Exactly.

0:26.0

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1:17.0

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1:22.0

All right, everybody.

1:23.0

I've quit this week in startups and all-in.

1:25.0

And I'm now working for Downtown Josh Brown.

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