Elon no longer joining $TWTR board, Breslow's Instacart case-study, NYT tells reporters to reduce time on Twitter | E1432

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

All news show. First, we discuss Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announcing that Elon has reversed his decision to join Twitter's board (04:10) and the NYT's Editor telling reporters to stop tweeting so much in an internal memo (31:29). Then, we discuss Ryan Breslow's latest series of threads, including one claiming that Instacart’s CEO was shadow-fired by Sequoia (44:35).

(00:00) Jason on meeting Harrison Ford
(01:42) Jason and Molly catching up
(04:10) Elon reverses decision to join Twitter board, according to CEO Parag Agrawal
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(13:44) Molly’s take on Elon’s deleted tweets and board seat story
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(22:04) Is Twitter dying and why?
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(31:29) NYT told its reporters to stop tweeting so much in an internal memo from executive editor Dean
(44:35) Ryan Breslow posted another series of threads over the weekend, including one claiming that Instacart’s CEO was shadow-fired by Sequoia

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0:04.2	about Blade Runner, which was the highlight of my evening slash life. And I was like,
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1:42.9	twist. Hey everybody. Welcome to another episode of this week in startups back from her triumphant
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2:03.7	named from the podcasting Hall of Fame. Yes, the queen of green Molly Wood. Welcome back to the
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