Monetizing BeReal, Bogus accounts by US Military, iPhone 14 camera bug, Twilio layoffs | E1564
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Jason and Molly kick the week off by breaking down the team's favorite new social media app, BeReal, and its plans to add paid features (15:16). Then, they cover how platforms found fake accounts suspected of being run by the US military (31:12). After, they continue with more tech news, including Apple's iPhone 14 Pro bug (42:25) and Twilio's plans to make "anti-racist" layoffs (49:29). They end the show with a We Live in the Future segment, highlighting the startup TransPod (1:03:06).
0:00) J+M tee up today's segments!
(2:45) The hosts recap the weekend
(14:01) LinkedIn Jobs - Post your first job for free at https://linkedin.com/twist
(15:16) BeReal's plans to add paid features
(29:46) Notion - Sign up for free at https://notion.com/twist
(31:12) Platforms found fake accounts suspected of being run by the US military
(40:59) Odoo - Get your first app free and a $1000 credit at https://odoo.com/twist
(42:25) The iPhone 14 Pro camera has a camera bug
(49:29) Twilio's plans to make "anti-racist" layoffs
(1:03:06) WLITF: TransPod's affordable ultra-high-speed transportation
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, we're back. It's Monday. Oh my God. Big week on this weekend startups. |
| 0:05.0 | Happy Monday. We're going to start the show with some tech news. We're going to talk about |
| 0:09.4 | everybody's favorite social network. Be real. Makes me look like a troll. And apparently, |
| 0:13.2 | I don't care if I'm still using it every day. And now I'm even getting ready to pay for it. |
| 0:19.2 | Yeah, they're going to apparently they don't want to use ads. I have an idea for them to split |
| 0:22.6 | the difference and maybe have some subscriptions and some ads. We'll talk about my idea. |
| 0:26.0 | Molly will react to it and speaking of social media. It turns out the platforms |
| 0:30.2 | were finding the fake accounts that it may or may not turn out to be created by our intelligence |
| 0:37.1 | agencies and the US military. Yes, and possibly the biggest problem is how easy they were to |
| 0:42.6 | sniff out. Then we go into the latest with Apple. You always get penalized for being an Apple |
| 0:49.2 | early adopter. There's a little bit of a bug in the iPhone 14 pro camera. We'll break that down |
| 0:54.3 | a little bit for you. And then we'll cover Jeff Lawson, friend of the pod and founder CEO |
| 0:59.2 | Willio saying they are planning to make anti-racist layoffs, what that means, |
| 1:04.1 | and how we should think about layoffs in the era of diversity and inclusion. |
| 1:08.8 | And that is not all. We also have another great segment of we live in the future. We're talking |
| 1:16.1 | about maglev super fast, fully electric transportation, but never. |
| 1:22.8 | If it ever happens in Canada, they raise to have billion dollars. They want to go 600 miles |
| 1:27.0 | an hour. God, I hope this happens. We live in the future every Monday, and like every other |
| 1:32.0 | Monday, it's going to be a great show. This week in startups is brought to you by |
| 1:38.7 | LinkedIn jobs. A business is only as strong as its people and every higher matters. |
| 1:45.2 | Post your first job for free at LinkedIn.com slash twist. |
| 1:51.4 | Notion is one place for notes, docs, projects, and everyday work that goes way beyond a wakey. |
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