Election Security, Skift's Rafat Ali, and Anthropic Unleashes PC AI | E2030
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show
(4:10) Heritage Foundation's stance on election integrity and fraud
(11:18) Squarespace - Use offer code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain at https://www.Squarespace.com/TWIST
(12:48) Technological improvements for secure elections
(21:07) Hans von Spakovsky's perspective on the 2020 election
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(24:01) Election security and legal consequences of fraud
(30:06) Closing remarks on election security
(32:11) Reflecting on the election fraud discussion and transfer of power
(31:00) (28:22) Kalshi - Visit https://www.kalshi.com/twist today to see live election odds, place a trade, and get $20 dollars when you deposit $100.
(36:06) Introduction of Rafat Ali and discussion on Uber-Expedia rumors
(42:16) Evaluating the potential Uber-Expedia acquisition
(45:04) Challenges and consumer behavior in online travel industry
(48:33) Future of loyalty programs and travel industry partnerships
(52:17) Uber's strategic moves in the travel sector
(57:00) AI advancements in travel and media
(1:00:19) Media strategies and data monetization
(1:05:21) Skift's business model, LinkedIn's role, and remote work strategies
(1:11:24) Skift's growth and potential IPO discussion
(1:13:18) Uber's expansion into the airline industry
(1:15:41) Latest developments in AI with Anthropic's Claude 3.5 model
(1:20:07) Announcement of Angel University workshop
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| 0:00.0 | Last time we had this issue where Trump didn't want to concede and we had January 6th and a bunch of different things occur, |
| 0:06.8 | did the process work to your satisfaction, Hans, in 2020, and did we have a fair election in fact you know did Biden win. |
| 0:17.0 | Look all of us a lot of people in America still have questions about that election and the reason is that look what should have happened unfortunately didn't is most of the lawsuits that were filed |
| 0:28.0 | contesting the election outcome never got to the substantive hearing stage that would have been a good thing because then |
| 0:35.6 | what would have happened is the claims would have been examined, they would have |
| 0:39.0 | been cross-examined, the witnesses would have been examined and cross-examined and a court would have |
| 0:44.3 | concluded whether or not these claims were credible or not what happened in |
| 0:48.2 | too many of these cases was the judges you know they had a basically a political hot potato landing in their lap. |
| 0:55.6 | And so most of the cases, if you actually look at them, were dismissed on procedural ground. |
| 1:01.1 | Claims that the wrong parties had sued that they had sued too late they use |
| 1:05.6 | procedural rules to get rid of most of them that I think was a mistake I'm not saying |
| 1:11.6 | that the claims were legitimate. What I'm saying is is the court process |
| 1:16.2 | should have been worked to the end so that the questions would have been resolved. If that had happened, we wouldn't be talking about this today. |
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| 1:33.2 | Go to Squarespace.com slash Twist for a free trial. |
| 1:37.2 | When you're ready to launch, use offer code Twist to save 10% off your first purchase |
| 1:42.2 | of a website or domain. |
| 1:44.0 | LinkedIn Jobs. |
| 1:45.4 | A business is only as strong as its people and every hire matters. |
| 1:49.5 | Go to LinkedIn.com slash Twist to post your first job for free. |
| 1:53.7 | Terms and conditions apply. |
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