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This Week in Startups

Is Netflix over cancel culture? + Startup Checklist: Choosing a Business Model | E1304

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

First, Jason covers the blowback Netflix is facing from Dave Chappelle's new special "The Closer" and the masterful response from Co-CEO Ted Sarandos (2:09). Then, continuing our startup checklist series, Jason explains 10 items founders need to go through before choosing a business model (25:08).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, we have an amazing show for you today. I'm going to cover 10 more points on our 100 point

0:05.7

pounder checklist, which you can find very easily at thisweganstartups.com slash checklist in points

0:12.3

11 through 20 today. I'm going to cover choosing a business model, which is critically important.

0:18.0

If you pick the right business model, venture capitalists and angel investors and seed funds

0:22.8

will throw money at you. And if you get the wrong one, they will run from the hills. They'll tell you

0:28.3

how can I be helpful, but not a fit for our firm. So it's an important episode. Listen to

0:35.2

these points on the checklist and make sure you bring a pen in paper. Before we get to that,

0:40.1

however, I want to cover the massive blowback that is building against Netflix because of Dave

0:46.0

Chappelle's new special, The Closer. And I want to read to you the masterful response from Co-CEO

0:52.9

Cerandos. I think corporations might be fed up with cancel culture at this point. And they're

0:58.2

just going to say to everybody, if you don't like it, don't work at this company. And if you don't

1:02.3

like it as a customer, you can change the channel. We really might be at a tipping point. Let's get

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2:09.9

So everybody by now knows Dave Chappelle had a new special on Netflix called The Closer.

2:17.2

Some of you have seen it. Some of you haven't. I'll comment a little bit on it. But there is a

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