Elizabeth Holmes Theranos fraud trial kickoff + Blokable’s Aaron Holm: how to scale housing | E1274

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.2 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

First, Jason covers the kickoff of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' fraud trial (1:48). Then, Blokable Co-CEO & Co-Founder Aaron Holm joins (16:37) to discuss solving the housing crisis, the Phoenix Rising project (27:05), why vertical integration is the key to making modular affordable, green materials (40:53), why LA's homeless housing project went way over budget (46:46) & more.

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0:00.0	Okay, we got a great show for you today.
0:02.1	We're gonna talk about the Elizabeth Holmes trial,
0:04.6	jury selection has started today.
0:06.4	And she is once again manipulating the public
0:10.3	and apparently she's gonna try to manipulate the jury
0:13.4	with her lies and deceit that got her in trouble
0:16.2	in the first place, that's my opinion.
0:18.0	And I'll dive into it at the top of the show.
0:20.0	After that, Aaron Holmes with us,
0:22.1	he's working on blockable.
0:23.3	He's trying to solve for affordable housing
0:27.2	and market rate housing by building modular units
0:31.1	inside of factories.
0:32.3	He previously worked at Amazon.
0:33.8	It's a fascinating company.
0:34.8	I'm an investor and you're gonna love this interview
0:36.8	about the wider issues around.
0:39.2	Why can't we build more homes stick with us?
0:42.2	This week in startups is brought to you by Dell's
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0:49.8	with increased mobility and longer lasting battery life.
0:53.1	You can stay productive on the go.
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