Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & impact on VC + how Amazon can turn a profit on Rings of Power | E1555
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
First up, J+M discuss Kim Kardashian's new PE firm and break down what this means for the broader private investing industry (2:29). Then, Lon Harris joins the show to break down the controversy, history, and math around Amazon's Rings of Power series (25:58).
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(2:29) J+M break down SKKY Partners, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm!
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(25:58) Lon joins to break down Amazon's Rings of Power taking over online discourse, but first they talk about Twitter being a net negative for society
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(37:26) Lon explains controversy in Tolkien fandom, the trio gives quick reviews for Rings of Power and House of the Dragon
(54:50) Bezos's vanity play, how Amazon can turn a profit on Rings of Power
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. I'm exhausted. |
| 0:04.0 | Molly to the intro, please. He's just, he's just crawling to the finish. This guy, |
| 0:09.8 | a third party in this week. Sunday. Let me just drag me. You know what? |
| 0:16.8 | Peanut, you just sit back and relax and have a lashing. I got the intro. We're going to |
| 0:20.9 | break down Kim Kardashian's new private equity firm on the, on the show today. We're going to |
| 0:24.8 | talk about how, if it all, it might change private company investing, but even more than that, |
| 0:29.2 | how all the ways that this is absolutely within Kim Kardashian's core competency, |
| 0:36.0 | this family's core competency and how really there's no reason it's not going to absolutely |
| 0:40.7 | crush. Then it's Thursday. We have a guy like Harris back on for some stream and math. |
| 0:46.6 | We're going to, we're going to geek out about Tolkien and fantasy series. And then we're going to |
| 0:51.0 | talk about this ridiculous budget for rings of power and figure out exactly how many new prime |
| 0:55.7 | subscribers Amazon would need to be in the black. And I'm going to speculate a little on whether |
| 1:00.8 | Amazon has staying power around content. We'll see. I talked to one of my top seven media |
| 1:07.4 | moguls in history. The last two nights playing poker with them. And I won't say who it is. But |
| 1:13.0 | he gave me some insights that I'll share today. Yeah. It's a good, it's going to be a great show. |
| 1:18.0 | Stick with us. I'm here. I'm on three hours asleep for five nights. |
| 1:23.6 | Stick with us. Stick with us. Stick with us. It's going to be a great, it's going to be a |
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