Melania Trump’s NFT, Reddit to go public + Twitter’s Tony Haile: news & product evolution | E1347
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, everybody, strong show for you today, Melania Trump is dropping her own NFT platform. |
| 0:06.3 | I kid you not. |
| 0:07.3 | We are at a peak. |
| 0:08.4 | It's a peak. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm going to talk a little bit about our Griff of the day, a little bit about Trump, a little |
| 0:12.5 | bit about the Obama's. |
| 0:13.5 | I think actually her NFT platform, I might be a contrarian here, it's got a dope. |
| 0:17.5 | And Reddit just followed to go public, I'm going to break down their metrics revenue |
| 0:20.5 | price to sales, revenue for employee, and what is the genius of Reddit and how it got |
| 0:25.4 | here, and how just masterful Alexis and Steve, the co-founders are as co-founders, but |
| 0:31.0 | also community builders. |
| 0:32.0 | They really are savants at that, just total impressarios. |
| 0:35.8 | Then, I'm going to interview my friend, Tony Hal. |
| 0:38.4 | I invested in his first company, Charpeed, his second company, Scroll, Scroll was bought |
| 0:42.7 | by Twitter. |
| 0:43.7 | Scroll was a big part of Twitter blue. |
| 0:44.7 | It's got a lot of ideas on micro-payments for and subscriptions for news. |
| 0:49.9 | We had a really open discourse about Twitter's product and what it's like to be a founder |
| 0:55.3 | and go into a big company. |
| 0:57.8 | He was pretty honest, and we went a little double-click on Twitter's roadmap and what they're |
| 1:01.8 | doing over there. |
| 1:02.8 | He even talked a little bit about the unexpected CEO change, so it was super honest. |
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