E1023: News Roundtable! Machine Zone CEO Kristen Dumont & The Register’s Iain Thomson on Bezos phone hack, Tesla valuation skyrocketing, DJ Elon, Coronavirus, Barstool Sports funding, unions, proposed Uber/DoorDash merger & more!

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2020

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

0:48 Jason intros Iain Thomson & Kristen Dumont
1:58 Iain on the grim state of his WeWork office
4:34 Bezos phone hack, Saudi interference
15:12 DJ Elon plays Jason out of the break
16:45 $TSLA vs. $TSLAQ, Elon haters & more
23:07 Airborne Tesla in LA
27:30 Coronavirus effects on business, are China's numbers legit?
35:27 How regulated are food markets in China?
47:46 Iain's thoughts on Brexit
50:19 Barstool Sports, unions, do modern unions disincentivize top performers?
1:06:37 Uber/DoorDash proposed merger, is SoftBank getting desperate?
1:17:15 Leaked Column deck, founder derangement
1:28:35 France/UK big-tech tax, should Amazon pay extra?
1:34:31 Who wins the 2020 Election?
1:41:36 Jason gets Ben Horowitz on the line to end the sho

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0:48.0	Hey everybody, welcome to this weekend startup.
0:51.0	It's your boy, Jason Calicadas.
0:52.0	And yes, I have a bit of a sore throat
0:53.9	but don't worry I've got two very talkative people with me for today's news roundtable
0:58.1	you guys have been complaining we haven't done a news roundtable in a while and you're
1:00.7	right we need to do more news round tables and that's one of
1:03.2	our big goals for 20-20 back on the program for his ninth appearance Ian Thompson
1:09.3	is with us he is with the register where he is a journalist and an editor and the register is an
1:17.3	antagonistic journalistic publication attack.
1:19.8	We call it like we see it the motto is biting the hand that feeds IT.
1:24.0	Right. But yeah, we generally when PR's asked me, you know, it's like, how do we get into the register?
1:30.0	The simple I was, well, just screw up really badly, we'll be there for you.
1:35.6	And Kristen Dumont is back with us.
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