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This Week in Startups

How Apple can win podcasting, Bezos' leadership, MBAs raising search funds & FDNY robodogs | E1415

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Tuesday news day! Jason and Molly break down the following stories: Apple's "new" creator tools, and brainstorming on how they could dominate podcasting again (2:23), Jeff Bezos' letter to shareholders from 2000, when Amazon's share price was down ~80% from its dot-com bubble peak (16:02), understanding search funds and why elite MBA grads are raising them (38:23). Finally, they wrap with a WLiTF segment about the FDNY purchasing a couple of Boston Dynamics "robodogs" to help with search and rescue missions. (47:15)

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, everybody. It's Tuesday and we have a good-sized new show for you today.

0:04.9

It's a really brainstorming type episode. We get into a lot of interesting topics.

0:09.2

And first up, we talk about Apple's new podcast features that they're finally rolling out.

0:14.0

But I started brainstorming, why doesn't Apple make podcasting hardware?

0:20.3

Seriously, though. Why don't they?

0:21.6

Seriously, though.

0:22.5

So we're going to talk about that. Then we talk about leadership and how to navigate

0:26.8

choppy waters as a CEO. Specifically, in this case, we're calling back to Jeff Bezos'

0:31.5

letter to shareholders from 2000 when Amazon stock was down 80% from its .com.

0:38.4

Bubblebee, which is a position some other companies are in right now.

0:42.4

Ouchi Pu.

0:44.4

And then we talk about something that's been going on since the 80s that we were not aware of.

0:49.8

These are called search funds. They're a device where MBA elite MBAs

0:54.6

from Harvard or Stanford do a search fund where they raise money to acquire a company

1:01.5

and then operate this private company and then flip it a couple of years later.

1:04.9

Really interesting device that I'd never heard about and we'll give you a little education

1:09.4

on that. It might be interesting for some of you to think about.

1:11.7

And then finally, yes, we do live in the future. And this falls into the category of a future

1:17.0

that is finally here. The FDNY, the fire to a New York Fire Department,

1:21.5

has purchased a couple of those robots from Boston Dynamics that used to only watch on YouTube.

1:26.6

Now they are in fact going to be running into dangerous situations and doing search and rescue.

1:31.6

And Molly and I brainstorm a half dozen other robots that could save lives and we'd like your

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