FB Whistleblower’s Senate testimony + Scorpion Capital shorts Ginkgo Bioworks, claims fraud | E1298
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, everybody, we've got an amazing show for you today. |
| 0:02.6 | It's a big news day and we are, of course, |
| 0:05.4 | going to get into the Facebook whistleblower hearing, |
| 0:08.6 | Facebook's PR team's dirty tactic response |
| 0:11.8 | and Zuckerberg's response to all of this bruhaha |
| 0:15.6 | and the Donnie Brook that has ensued. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm gonna opine a little bit on what is the reasonableness |
| 0:23.0 | of the whistleblower's outcome that she's looking for. |
| 0:27.8 | And I think she's quite credible, quite moderate |
| 0:30.7 | and I think her suggestions are pretty obvious and banal. |
| 0:35.4 | They're not very controversial at all |
| 0:37.0 | and then we probably are all gonna agree on them. |
| 0:39.3 | But it's a really interesting set of clips |
| 0:41.8 | that we're gonna play for you today. |
| 0:43.4 | Then we're gonna get into a bombshell that dropped |
| 0:45.8 | this morning, Scorpion Capital has done a short-seller report |
| 0:49.2 | on Ginkgo Bioworks. |
| 0:50.3 | You may remember the CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks |
| 0:52.4 | was on this week in startups, episode 1239 |
| 0:55.6 | and we got into his business model, |
| 0:58.1 | which I thought at the time sounded really clever. |
| 1:00.4 | However, Scorpion Capital is claiming |
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