Inflation cools, how Waymo handled a crash, and the next startups to go public | E1965
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 12 June 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Todays show:
Alex Wilhelm joins Jason to discuss Waymo crash implications (3:53), Apple's AI announcements post-WWDC (17:17), inflation cooldown (27:21), and more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show
(3:53) How Waymo handled a crash and self-driving car standards
(8:08) Eight Sleep - Head to https://www.eightsleep.com/twist and use code TWIST to get $350 off the Pod 4 Ultra.
(10:04) Car safety technology
(17:17) Apple's AI announcements and stock impact
(25:41) Zendesk - Get six months free at
(27:21) Inflation update: Recent CPI data and its implications
(33:34) High interest rate environment and venture capital
(40:48) CLA - Get started with CLA's CPAs, consultants, and wealth advisors now at https://claconnect.com/tech
(42:12) 10 companies most likely to IPO
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Mentioned on the show:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1cxo27o/waymo_car_crashes_into_pole/
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/12/24175489/waymo-recall-telephone-poll-crash-phoenix-software-map
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/waymo-recall-crash-software-self-driving-cars/
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/12/waymo-second-robotaxi-recall-autonomous-vehicle/
https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/AAPL?qsearchterm=aapl
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
https://x.com/ashugarg/status/1800658425040253309
https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/US2Y
https://kalshi.com/markets/ratecutcount/number-of-rate-cuts#ratecutcount-24dec31
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/12/fed-meeting-today-on-interest-rate.html
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/databricks
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gusto
https://archive.is/fGJav#selection-2217.0-2226.0
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shein-b79e
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/turo
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to launch a crypto project, maybe instead of a free market, if you want to be able to do it in the United States, |
| 0:07.0 | you have to state your position on the project's website. You have to disclose all the owners above 1%, how they're affiliated to |
| 0:16.2 | each other just like in an IPO you see like the major holders and then if they |
| 0:20.8 | want to sell their tokens or move them they have to file and say hey I'm going to be selling these just letting you know because obviously I have inside information because I'm writing the code. I'm writing the code. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm writing the code under which this token works. |
| 0:35.8 | I mean you want to talk about an advantage. |
| 0:37.7 | The advantage of somebody who's writing the code |
| 0:40.4 | of how the project works. |
| 0:43.0 | That's like being like I control how the money is printed, |
| 0:47.0 | how the diamond mine extracts diamonds and you're the buyer of the diamonds |
| 0:51.0 | or you're buying into the system, but you don't even know how the printing |
| 0:53.9 | machine works. |
| 0:55.2 | Maybe I can print a billion dollars, maybe I can print a million, you don't know. |
| 0:59.8 | So this is all about disclosures and I think a regulatory framework would be a really, really great step forward. |
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| 1:49.0 | CLA. Innovation takes balance. |
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