GETTR & social media moderation, NYT to acquire The Athletic + Axie Infinity's Jeff Zirlin on NFT gaming | E1354

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

00:00 Jason & Molly intro the show
02:25 GETTR get a bump in downloads after Joe Rogan joins
09:55 Dataiku - Create transparent, repeatable, and scalable AI and analytics programs. Visit https://dataiku.com to learn more.
11:00 The darker side of community on the internet
15:54 Jason's take on decentralized social media
18:38 Eight Sleep - Go to https://eightsleep.com/twist to check out the Pod Pro Cover and get $150 off at checkout!
20:11 The challenges of content moderation on social media
21:13 NYT reportedly buying The Athletic for $550M
30:30 Squarespace - Use offer code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain at https://Squarespace.com/TWIST
32:15 Interview - Jeff "Jiho" Zirlin from Axie Infinity
40:11 How "play to earn" games actually work
53:33 How do balance stakeholders in the in-game economy
58:05 Renting Axies and how "guilds" work
1:03:42 Buying digital land

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0:00.0	Okay, everybody, we've got a great episode of this week in startups for you. Today, we're
0:02.8	going to talk about free speech on social media, getter, the social news app for the right
0:08.5	wing folks, is getting hundreds of thousands of downloads this week because Joe Rogan joined
0:14.1	the platform and a bunch of his fans are over there. I created an account, Jason Calcana's
0:18.9	over there. If you want to follow me and it's the one year anniversary of the insurrection at
0:23.0	the Capitol. And we have a pretty wide raging discussion about the challenges of running
0:28.6	moderation on social media platforms at scale, including the decentralized ones that exist
0:33.6	in the crypto space. Plus Molly brings up ProPublica's investigation into Facebook's role in the
0:38.8	January 6th riots, attacks, insurrection, whatever term you like to refer to it as.
0:45.3	Because of course it is officially it is the one year anniversary of that event. Though
0:49.7	that is not our only topic of discussion. We also talk about the New York Times reportedly
0:54.7	buying the athletic for $550 million and whether Disney may have missed the boat on that one.
1:01.2	We also Jason has a great interview with Gio Zerlin from Axi Infinity, the largest NFT game I
1:07.6	for one was riveted by this conversation. They've had billions of dollars of NFT sales and just
1:15.8	trust me your jaw is going to drop when you hear how much people are paying just for one of the
1:20.3	basically the little like fighter characters. And now we say at the same time three two one it's
1:25.0	going to be a great episode. It's going to be a great episode three. It's going to be a great
1:28.7	episode. It's going to be a great episode. That's my side off. Let's stick with it. Let's see if it works.
1:34.1	We're going to work on that. That was amazing. This week in startups is brought to you by
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