Jack's Twitter take & employee reactions, Medical NFTs, Hopin's $200M founder secondary sale | E1444

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

All news. We break down, Jack chiming in on Twitter’s sale to Elon Musk and the employee reactions (2:21). Then, we talk about an NFT project where Doctor influencers on TikTok are selling access to medical advice (40:02). To wrap, we cover Hopin’s fundraising at a large valuation, its founder's $195M secondary sale and more (52:27).

(00:00) Jason and Molly tee up today’s news stories
(02:21) What did “Jack After Dark” have to say about Twitter deal?
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(16:05) Jack feels Elon and Parag want Twitter to be maximally trusted and broadly inclusive
(20:30) How are Twitter employees feeling about the Elon Twitter deal?
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(28:29) Twitter has locked down any changes related to their platform to keep employees from “going rogue”
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(36:15) People do their best work with Elon
(40:02) TikTok famous doctors are getting into NFT’s, and it’s a mess
(52:27) Hopin: virtual event startup struggles, their founder cashed out to $195M

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0:00.0	Okay, everybody, we have a great show for a Tuesday for you.
0:03.9	We do. We were all waiting to see what Jack Dorsey was going to have to say about Twitter
0:08.5	sale to Elon Musk, and he had some after dark thoughts, and we break him down.
0:13.1	We love Jack after dark, and then we're going to talk about the range of emotions from
0:19.5	Twitter employees, and you know, some users as well. Then finally, we're going to change
0:25.8	the topic, talking about an NFT project, where what could go wrong? Dr. Influencers on
0:33.0	TikTok are selling access to medical advice. We live in the nightmare.
0:37.6	Okay, and finally, there was a financial time story about Hoppins fundraising. The company
0:43.0	that went from $250 million valuation up to $8 billion in under two years, the founder
0:48.6	sold almost $200 million in shares in secondary, and is this company as bad as the financial
0:54.4	times is making it out to be they did a layoff? We actually do the math, and the answer might
0:59.0	in fact surprise you about Hoppin. You are going to want to stay tuned, and stay tuned
1:04.5	all week, because there are some big earnings calls coming up this week. We got Google
1:08.2	and Microsoft later today, as we're taping this, Meta and Spotify on Wednesday, Apple and
1:13.6	Amazon on Thursday. It's going to be great week. It's going to be a great show. So stick
1:18.5	with us. Stick with us for the whole week. Stick with us. Don't go anywhere. Don't touch
1:23.1	that dial. Don't touch that dial.
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