Next Unicorns evaluation + Ask Jason | E1590
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
New format! Jason evaluates some prior Next Unicorns company's performances since the CEO appeared on the podcast (2:06), and contextualizes the fundraising market throughout the past three years. Then, Jason wraps the show by answering listener questions! (48:18)
(0:00) Jason tees up today's new Next Unicorns format!
(2:06) Jason shares some thoughts on why he started The Next Unicorns series and tees up some of the most successful companies over the first three seasons
(5:32) E971: Checkr CEO Daniel Yanisse
(10:37) E987: Upgrade CEO Renaud Laplanche
(13:59) OpenPhone - Get an extra 20% off any plan for your first 6 months at https://openphone.com/twist
(15:29) E992: former Expanse CEO Tim Junio
(23:14) LinkedIn Marketing - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at LinkedIn.com/nextunicorn
(24:51) E998: Benchling CEO Saji Wickramasekara
(28:32) E1089: Insitro CEO Daphe Koller
(33:26) Kalshi - Sign up at https://kalshi.com/twist and receive $25 after trading your first 100 contracts
(34:57) E1098: Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball
(38:19) E1113: Loom CEO Joe Thomas
(43:02) E1246: Divvy Homes CEO Adena Hefets
(48:18) Ask Jason: 2023's "Why now?", Jason's favorite qualities in a founder and person, greatest acquisitions of all time
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, everybody, we have a bit of a new format. |
| 0:02.2 | I'm testing today on this week in startups. |
| 0:04.0 | You know, we've done three seasons of the next unicorns |
| 0:06.2 | and we had 30 amazing founders on. |
| 0:07.8 | This is a series where you say, |
| 0:08.6 | hey, this company's worth a couple of hundred million, |
| 0:10.6 | will they hit the billion dollar status? |
| 0:12.6 | Let's make a bet. |
| 0:13.8 | So we went through and we looked at the startups |
| 0:16.6 | who came on the program and which ones actually |
| 0:19.4 | became unicorns or didn't or got bought or got sold. |
| 0:22.8 | And you're gonna see a lot of throwback clips here. |
| 0:24.9 | A couple of them are from the pandemic era. |
| 0:27.3 | So that's super interesting, just as an aside. |
| 0:29.4 | You'll get some commentary from me on what's going on |
| 0:31.5 | in the industry with these specific companies |
| 0:33.8 | that raised money in that peak market in 2021 |
| 0:37.2 | and what that means for the founders. |
| 0:38.6 | Now that we've gone from a peak of 13 year bull run |
| 0:43.1 | down to what is inevitably going to be not only a recession |
| 0:47.1 | but it looks like a painful extended recession |
| 0:50.0 | that we're gonna go into, I think, |
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