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This Week in Startups

From the future of flight to brand building, insight from Liquidity Summit 2024 | E1969

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Todays show:

Alex leads us into two great talks from Liquidity Summit 2024. First we have Sky Dayton’s “Aviation Safety, Air Taxis and the Future of Flight” (3:28), followed by Mike Jones’ with “Lessons in Brand Building” (24:14)

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Teaser of both speakers.

(1:33) Alex kicks off the show.

(3:28) Sky Dayton’s talk “Aviation Safety, Air Taxis and the Future of Flight”.

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(24:14) Mike Jones’ talk “Lessons in Brand Building”

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(44:30) Wrap up with Alex.

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Great 2023 interviews: Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'll walk you guys through Science Ventures. We are a studio. When we think about brands, we think about fans.

0:05.8

We build entertainment companies that monetize their entertainment through products.

0:10.4

We want you to feel something. We want you to be offended. We want your brain to be like what is this tension?

0:16.0

So the story of liquid death, which is a story of even the name science, is there's a tension.

0:21.0

It's not a fantasy. This is a Jobe flying in Manhattan a few months ago.

0:26.3

We went to the downtown we need a lot of electricity.

0:33.6

Kind of like building a Tesla supercharger right there and here it is and it's it's real.

0:41.1

This weekend startups is brought to you by CODA. CODA Empower your startup by bringing words, tables, and teams together.

0:49.4

Strategize, plan, and track goals effectively with all your valuable data in one place.

0:55.8

Go to Coda.io slash Twist to get started for free and get six free months of the team plan. Open Phone. Create business phone numbers for you and your team that work through an app on your

1:07.3

smartphone or desktop.

1:08.7

Twist listeners can get an extra 20% off any plan for your first six months at openphone.com slash

1:15.6

twist and Vanta compliance and security shouldn't be a dealbreaker for

1:21.6

startups to win new business.

1:23.4

Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a sock to report fast.

1:28.0

Twist listeners can get a thousand dollars off for a limited time

1:31.6

at vanta.com slash twist.

1:34.0

Hey everybody welcome back to this week in startups.

1:37.0

My name is Alex. I am not Jason, but I am his co-host here on the show

1:41.0

and you may know that earlier this month we hosted an event in

1:44.2

Napa California called the liquidity summoned 2024. It brought together a lot of

1:49.7

general partners from venture capital funds and also LPs, the folks who actually invest into those

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