E1074 News: How VC can do better for underrepresented founders, Zoom shuts down Chinese pro-democracy accounts, Wall Street Bets, Reddit appoints YC CEO Michael Seibel to BoD & more with Lolita Taub & Tom Uebel

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

0:01 Jason intros Tom Uebel & Lolita Taub
5:17 George Floyd/Black Lives Matter protests impacting Venture Capital, Angela Benton's tweets about her bad experience with Cowboy Ventures, how can VC move forward and be better towards underestimated founders?
17:37 Lolita & Jason reflect on some imperfect investor moments towards founders
23:55 How investor bias towards underrepresented founders manifests itself
28:23 Tom on focusing on diversity in hiring at the earliest stage of a companies life, how people with raw talent miss out on opportunities due to pattern-matching
39:23 Zoom's shuts down a Chinese pro-democracy account, importance of Data privacy at Command E, Jason's thoughts on Zoom only giving end-to-end encryption to paid accounts
52:36 Wall Street Bets, Meme stocks and a new generation of Robinhood traders
56:59 Reddit appoints YC CEO Michael Seibel to its board after Alexis Ohanian steps down, former interim CEO Ellen Pao has words for current CEO Steve Huffman
1:03:07 Issues of free speech & why relying solely on government organizations may be the wrong decision
1:05:45 Juneteenth observation, potential reparation ideas
1:10:27 Assessing COVID-19 recent death numbers & risk of getting back to work
1:23:03 Lolita shares her founder-investor matching tool
1:25:30 Tom demos Command E

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0:39.0	Hey everybody welcome to another episode of this week in startups it's our news roundtable and with us today Tom
0:46.5	We have two guests who haven't been on the program before we're trying to rotate in some new people for the news roundtable and
0:56.7	Tom Yubel is with us he is the CEO and co-founder of a startup called Command E which I put a little bet in, and my friend David Sachs invested in correct, Tom.
1:07.1	That's right.
1:08.8	He introduced us, and so tell everybody what Command E is, just so they know. tell everybody what Commandee is, just so they know.
1:15.0	Yeah, so Commandee is blazing fast, search and navigation across all your docks and records.
1:21.5	So we kind of spend our days jumping between all these systems
1:25.0	whether you're a salesperson moving between
1:28.0	Salesforce, LinkedIn, and Google Docs and Gmail whether you're a product manager in and out of
1:35.4	Jira Google Docs systems like that it's just a lot of friction moving between them
1:40.9	so we make it as fast as possible to move to the next thing in your day
1:45.1	regardless of what it is. And that's something that's something like Spotlight doesn't do.
1:49.4	Is that what they call the Apple search when you hit like the Apple space bar you type quick time or
1:54.3	something that universal search doesn't go deep into the cloud correct?
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