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This Week in Startups

Head of Instagram comments on teen impact, Jay-Z’s NFT lawsuit + Sourcegraph’s Quinn Slack | E1285

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

First, Jason reacts to comments from Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri on the impact of Instagram on teen girls and comparing the risks of social media to the automobile industry (1:50). Then, Jason breaks down OpenSea's update on their front-running employee (11:55), and Jay-Z's NFT lawsuit (15:40). Finally, Sourcegraph CEO Quinn Slack joins to discuss growing his universal code search engine, selling a high-ticket SaaS product and more (21:48)!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, got a great show for you today,

0:01.8

Source Graph CEO, Quinn Slack, who is building Google

0:05.2

for Code Search, is on the program.

0:07.1

What a great company.

0:08.4

They've become a unicorn and raised money

0:10.1

from the best investors in Silicon Valley.

0:11.8

It's a great story.

0:12.5

We talk about SaaS pricing and a bunch of other interesting topics.

0:15.7

There's a good guest.

0:17.0

But first, I want to follow up on some stories

0:18.5

we covered earlier in the week.

0:20.2

Ahead of Instagram, Adam Osari made some comments

0:22.2

comparing social media to the car industry

0:24.4

in terms of harm done and the value of cars

0:27.4

and recent podcast appearance.

0:28.6

So I'm going to break that in comparison.

0:30.5

I think it's actually not a bad one.

0:32.0

And turns more drama in the NFT space.

0:35.0

Jay-Z is suing his Rockefeller records co-founder,

0:37.3

Dame Dash, who's trying to sell NFTs, Jay-Z,

0:39.9

or he sold his NFTs, Yada Yada.

0:42.6

And we talk a little bit about OpenSea

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