Oath Keepers indicted from Signal messages, U.S. House subpoenas tech platforms + Alex Masmej: selling a personal token | E1361

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

First, Jason covers the how Signal messages led to the Oath Keeper sedition indictments (1:47) and how Google, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter are being subpoenaed by the House committee investigating Jan 6th, 2021 (15:32). Then Producer Rachel has an "OK Boomer" segment where she talks with Alex Masmej a French entrepreneur about his experience raising $20K from selling a personal token, $ALEX (27:10).

(00:00) Jason intros the show
(01:47) The FBI arrested 11 members of the Oath Keepers on sedition charges
(09:25) Ourcrowd - Check out the deal of the week at https://ourcrowd.com/twist
(10:49) Jason's take on Jan 6th
(15:32) House Committee subpoenas YouTube, Meta, Reddit and Twitter
(19:59) Indochino - Get $50 off any purchase of $399 or more by using code TWIST at checkout https://indochino.com
(21:49) Jason introduces the OK Boomer Segment
(24:46) Interested in building a startup? Enroll at https://course.founder.university
(27:10) Rachel chats with Alex Masmej
(29:43) Bubble. Get one month free of a no-code plan at https://bubble.io/twist
(31:18) How Alex launched his social token
(35:32) How Alex shares his financial information with his token holders
(46:02) The future of NFTs

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, Molly is out again today. She got the Omicron, but she's doing great. Nothing to worry about there.
0:04.8	I'm going to break down on today's show. The Oathkeeper indictments from the January 6th
0:09.0	insurrection. They were caught by having their encrypted signal messages compromised. So I'm
0:13.7	going to explain how that happened because nobody seems to know. And is there a backdoor? I don't
0:18.9	think so. I'm going to explain to you my very end. I'm going to read some excerpts from the indictment,
0:22.9	which are read like a homeland reboot. They're insane. And then I'm going to talk about Google
0:27.2	Facebook Reddit and Twitter being subpoenaed by the House Committee investigating the capital
0:31.4	riots. And are they withholding information or is the House Committee being a little too broad
0:36.8	in their request? Are they responsible? We're going to go take a look at that and do a deep dive.
0:41.1	And then an awesome okay boomer segment stick with us. It's a great episode.
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1:47.6	All right everybody in our first story and there is a tech angle here.
1:51.6	On Thursday the FBI arrested 11 members of the oath keepers on sedition charges.
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