Markups & markdowns (VC School) + Coral Regeneration with Coral Vita Co-founder Sam Teicher (Climate) | E1476
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
First, in VC Sunday School Jason answers Molly’s questions about markups and markdowns (1:35), then in This Week in Climate startups, Molly talks with Coral Vita’s Sam Teicher about Coral Regeneration (33:37)
(00:00) Jason and Molly introduce today’s show!
(1:35) VCSS: Marking - what is it, who’s it for?
(11:20) Dell For Startups - Apply and get up to 45% off at http://dell.com/twist
(12:34) When do you mark down?
(21:11) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist
(22:29) “What cash they put in, what cash they get out”
(32:31) Swag.com - Visit https://swag.com/twist and use code TWIST for 10% off your order!
(33:37) TWiCS: Coral Vita co-founder + chief reef officer Sam Teicher (coral regeneration)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, it's Sunday, so we're going to talk about being a VC. |
| 0:04.6 | Molly has a question for me about marking investments. |
| 0:07.2 | It's very technical, but very important if you've ever thought about starting a fund |
| 0:11.1 | worth. |
| 0:12.1 | Maybe you're running a fund now, very important conversation, and we go into a lot of |
| 0:15.1 | details for about 20 minutes. |
| 0:16.6 | It's so great. |
| 0:17.6 | I really am. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm leveling up. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm leveling up. |
| 0:20.6 | I feel like it's been forever since we had BC Sunday school too, so it's great. |
| 0:23.0 | And then we have this week in climate startups. |
| 0:25.2 | I am talking with Sam Tyker, who is the CEO and chief reef officer at a company called |
| 0:31.3 | CoralBeta, which I'm super into. |
| 0:33.8 | They're doing coral regeneration. |
| 0:37.0 | That's like the word of the future, by the way, none of that is crazy. |
| 0:39.5 | We need to regenerate the stuff that we're losing. |
| 0:42.5 | I cannot wait to go to an even greater barrier for a great barrier reef off of Long Island. |
| 0:49.7 | Let's go. |
| 0:50.7 | Let's go. |
| 0:51.7 | Coral everywhere. |
| 0:52.7 | I love it. |
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