News! Fireproof homes, Amazon’s college plan, Facebook copies Snap, Notion Acquires Automate.io & more | E1280

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.2 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Rapid fire news episode. First, Jason covers how a fire proofed home survived the Caldor fire, Amazon's plan to provide college for all its employees, Facebook copying Snap's glasses, Notion acquiring Automate.io & more. At the end, Jason takes a few questions from listeners and shares a story from when he ran Silicon Alley Reporter.

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0:00.0	Okay, we've got an amazing all news program for you today and I take some very emotional
0:04.7	deep questions at the end of the podcast talking about motivation and feeling like you're
0:10.8	not part of the inside crew and my journey.
0:13.6	Just great, great questions I took live from the YouTube and live streaming audience.
0:18.6	But on today's podcast, Facebook is coming out with smart glasses copying Snapchat once
0:23.5	again, the board of auction closed at 24 million and Amazon is including educational
0:30.0	benefits to their part-time workers to get them their bachelor's degree.
0:34.1	Great job Jeff Bezos there, terrible job suing Elon and trying to slot progress through
0:38.7	lawsuits.
0:39.9	And I want to talk about our foil wrapped homes that blanket idea I've had for a couple
0:44.2	of years.
0:45.2	What people are doing at an actual home was saved in the Caldorf wildfires by somebody
0:50.2	putting a kid you not fire resistant blankets on top or some kind of material on top of
0:57.9	a home.
0:58.9	And I think there's a great startup idea and there I want to flesh out with you.
1:02.1	Finally, Evergrande is China's second largest week by revenue and their stock is falling
1:07.4	and their credit is going down.
1:09.0	Stick with us.
1:10.0	It's an amazing episode.
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