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E1013: Decade Wrap-Up Roundtable! Garry Tan, Initialized Capital & Zach Coelius, Coelius Capital on the biggest hits & misses of the past decade: Trump, Theranos, Streaming, Mindfulness, Crypto, Tesla, WeWork, Amazon Prime, Vaping & more!

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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0:29 Jason intros Garry & Zach
3:02 Jason goes over the bracket-style breakdown
3:15 Best of the decade: Ride-Sharing vs. AI/ML
8:32 Best: Amazon Prime vs. 4G LTE
10:07 Best: Tesla M3 vs. Disney buying Marvel + Star Wars IP
14:15 Best: Streaming vs. Mindfulness
17:01 Garry's Best: AI/ML vs. 4G LTE
20:20 Jason's Best: Model 3 vs. Mindfulness
24:05 Zach's Best: Ride-Sharing vs. Streaming
25:12 Jason & Guests pick their biggest win from the last decade
29:20 Jason tees up worst of the decade bracket
29:45 Worst of the decade: 2016 Election Fiasco vs. City San Francisco/Amazon Eating the World/Snowflake Culture
38:01 Worst: ICO Madness vs. Zuckerberg
40:34 Worst: WeWork vs. Vaping
44:13 Worst: Juicero vs. Theranos
44:48 Zach's Worst: 2016 Election vs. ICO Madness
45:09 Garry's Worst: Amazon Eating the World vs. ICO Madness
45:56 Jason's Worst: 2016 Election vs. Zuckerberg
49:52 Jason's Worst: WeWork vs. Theranos
51:56 Garry's Worst: Amazon Eating the World vs. Theranos
53:47 At what stage does Garry & Zach like to invest in companies?
55:52 Championship round
Jason: Mindfulness vs. Zuckerberg
Garry: Mindfulness vs. Theranos
Zach: Streaming vs. 2016 Election Fiasco
59:52 What topics will define the 2020's?

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0:29.1

Hey everybody, welcome to this weekend startups.

0:30.7

I'm your host Jason Callic, and we got an amazing episode.

0:33.2

For the first time, we're going to do brackets. What are we going to do brackets for? The 2010 through

0:37.7

2020 period. We are here in 2019, about to go into 2020, the third decade of the new century and the new millennium.

0:46.4

It's crazy with me to fill out our brackets of what were the most important trends and

0:51.9

stories of the teens not the aoths right that was

0:55.1

two thousand to two thousand ten this is the teens two thousand ten to two thousand twenty

0:59.4

gary ten is back on the program you are on episode episode 8. It's been a while. It's been a while.

1:05.2

About a thousand episodes. We had you back. Yeah. Which is typically what we do. We wait a

1:09.7

thousand episodes. So you'll be back on in 2029. Hopefully sooner, but.

1:13.4

But a lot has changed for you.

1:15.2

When I met you, you're doing posterists, which was my favorite social media service of the time.

1:18.9

Thanks for using it.

1:20.2

It was amazing.

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