FTX's leaked financials, $AMZN ramps up healthcare interest + Swayed Founder Arjun Shokeen | E1541
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Back with a big Monday news show: Jason and Molly recap last week's All-In (2:09), before covering FTX's leaked financials (17:19), Amazon potentially going further into healthcare (40:34), and more M&A in the e-commerce space. (58:55) Then, Molly wraps the show by interviewing LAUNCH portfolio founder Arjun Shokeen, Founder and CEO of Swayed (1:11:27).
(0:00) J+M tee up today's topics!
(2:09) All-In recap, Climate Syndicate, and more
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(17:19) FTX had its 2020 and 2021 audited financial results leaked to CNBC
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(29:26) How to frame crypto going forward, what is crypto's main product? Did the SEC miss the boat on crypto regulation?
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(40:34) Amazon is reportedly bidding to acquire Signify Health
(58:55) M&A: eBay acquires trading card e-commerce platform TCGplayer for $295M
(1:11:27) Molly interviews Swayed Founder and CEO Arjun Shokeen
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. It is Monday. Welcome back to this weekend. Startups. We got a lot of news to talk about today. |
| 0:06.3 | Yeah. We'll do a little recap of all in episode nine to two. A lot of great feedback on that. |
| 0:10.2 | And then we're going to talk about crypto currency. Yes. Because FTX had some leaked documents. |
| 0:17.0 | Massive growth from 2020 to 2021. Massive growth. So, you know, we're going to speculate that |
| 0:21.6 | perhaps when you financialize a product before it actually has any value, that might be |
| 0:26.0 | backwards development. We'll see. We'll see. Interesting discussion. Then we're going to talk |
| 0:29.7 | about Amazon's reported bid to buy signify health and what Amazon might do to the healthcare system |
| 0:35.6 | and spoiler alert. We just hope they freaking fix it. I'm super excited about competition |
| 0:39.5 | coming to healthcare and innovation. And then we'll touch on eBay buying a trading card marketplace |
| 0:45.2 | in our M&A segment and what you can learn as a founder or capital allocator from a niche marketplace |
| 0:52.7 | forcing eBay to buy them because they kicked eBay's ass. Yep. It's just that simple. And then |
| 0:58.8 | I'm excited. I'm going to be interviewing another launch accelerator founder at about a business |
| 1:03.2 | that is just really, really close to our customer service, Deba Hearts. All right. It's going to be |
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| 2:09.1 | Hey, everybody. Welcome. It's Monday. How's your weekend, Molly? Monday, Monday. I had a |
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