Education’s war on excellence, AWS atrophy, France fines Google + AppHarvest’s Josh Lessing | E1245
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 98 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We got a great show for you today. We have app harvest CTO and former root AI CEO and founder |
| 0:04.9 | Josh, lessing on the show to discuss robotics and farming climate change as an accelerant for |
| 0:10.3 | sustainable solutions and raising money by my syndicate. We were able to invest in root AI in less |
| 0:15.5 | than a year. They got bought by app harvest, providing a multiple on our investment in a year. |
| 0:21.3 | Amazing. And now we have the shares in a public company. Absolutely fantastic. But first, |
| 0:26.0 | before we get to that interview, we have a we have a handful of great news stories. Public |
| 0:32.1 | education bureaucrats in California, Virginia are killing excellence in our schools, especially |
| 0:36.5 | in the STEM area, science, technology, engineering, and math. And AWS is dealing with bureaucracy issues |
| 0:44.0 | inside of their company like Apple has recently faced. And Google is just fired half a billion |
| 0:49.0 | dollars by France, due to not being able to negotiate with publishers for the rights to |
| 0:56.7 | indexing their new stories. Plus, I'm going to talk about some products and services that I am |
| 1:00.9 | interested in right now, including the license plate reader stick with us. This week in startups |
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| 2:04.8 | Okay, in our first news story, I want to talk about killing excellence in public schools. We've |
| 2:10.5 | seen the story come up a bunch. Now, what does this have to do with this week in startups? Well, |
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