E1030: News Roundtable! Zapier CEO Wade Foster & Early-Stage Investor Monique Woodard on Tech Journalists vs. Founders/VCs, Twitter’s fake news detection, Kickstarter union, Blue Apron plummeting, Lambda School controversy & more!

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

0:36 Jason intros Monique & Wade
8:29 Tech Journalists vs. Founders/VCs
14:48 Is link-baiting press a systemic, societal issue?
19:21 Future of Founders/VCs controlling their own voice via podcasts, email newsletters, etc.
23:59 SpaceX sending passengers into space in late 2021, early 2022
28:02 Kickstarter employees vote to Unionize
41:28 Gray New World - how lucrative is the growing elderly demographic?
49:37 Twitter combatting fake/misleading news with potential new features
58:01 Blue Apron continues to plummet
1:04:13 Lambda School controversy
1:12:42 What is the path for Zapier? What is No-Code's impact on the startup industry?

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0:37.0	Hey everybody, welcome to this week and startups. It's what you always wanted.
0:40.0	It's what you demanded. You love a news roundtable. You love when I talk about the news with
0:43.8	really smart people. We've been doing so many great interviews. We've had these long-form
0:47.6	two-hour interviews. Dan Rose, George Zachary, the list goes on and on and so many great interviews coming up that you're going to love, including
0:56.0	Sarah Tavo from Benchmark, just amazing guests we've had on the pod.
1:01.9	Today, we're lucky to have a long time
1:04.6	reoccurring guest and friend of the pod and friend of launch our
1:08.0	investing company Monique Woodward. She's an early stage investor. Welcome
1:12.3	back to the pod.
1:13.0	Thank you. Thanks for having me.
1:15.0	Is this like your fifth or tenth?
1:16.0	It's only my second.
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