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This Week in Startups

E1120: Shift Co-CEO George Arison on going public via SPAC, lessons from building Uber’s predecessor & innovating in the massive used car market

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Check out Shift: https://shift.com

FOLLOW George: https://twitter.com/georgearison
FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

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Hey everybody, hey everybody, welcome to another episode of this week in startups.

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I'm super excited to have our next guest on

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because George Arison is the founder of shift.

0:59.3

Shift.com.

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We're gonna talk about that

1:00.9

and the company going public via a SPAC.

1:04.8

There's been a lot of spectacular companies going public and we're going to talk about the

1:10.0

whole SPAC movement which everybody's very interested in.

1:13.0

But in addition, George created Uber,

1:17.0

years before Uber existed or Lyft

1:19.2

with something called Taxi Magic.

1:21.2

So we're gonna get into the history of that and what it's like as a founder to create a game-changing company but not win the big prize. Welcome to the pod George Arison and I'm pronouncing correct it's Arison

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