Oscars recap, FTX investors don't hold board seats, Apple working on hardware subscriptions | E1420
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
All news show. First, we recap the Oscars, including "The Slap" and Apple winning Best Picture (02:17). Then, we discuss $32B crypto derivate exchange FTX not having investors on its Board of Directors (42:45), Apple's reported hardware subscription (01:02:12) and Jason's Hot Tub story (01:09:57).
(00:00) Jason and Molly intro the show
(02:17) Talking about the 2022 Oscars slap: initial thoughts, reactions, etc.
(11:47) LinkedIn - Post your first job for free at https://linkedIn.com/twist
(13:18) More thoughts on the 2022 Oscars slap
(23:47) Rocket - Go to http://getrocket.com/twist and use promo code TWIST for 20% off your first placement.
(24:58) “Coda” from Apple TV+ becomes first streaming movie to win best picture at Oscars
(37:28) OpenPhone - Get an extra 20% off any plan for your first 6 months at https://openphone.com/twist
(38:45) Toxic celebrity culture and how that ties into founders
(42:45) FTX, one of the fastest growing crypto exchanges in the world is worth $32B and no investors have board seats
(01:02:12) Bloomberg reported that Apple is working on a hardware subscription for iPhones and iPads
(01:09:57) The Hot Tub story
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, starting off the week's strong with an all news show and it's a thick boy. |
| 0:05.4 | It is. |
| 0:06.4 | Oh, it is. |
| 0:07.4 | It is. |
| 0:08.4 | And how do we not talk about what happened at the Oscars last night, a streaming platform, |
| 0:13.5 | feature one best picture for the first time? |
| 0:15.4 | Was it Netflix? |
| 0:17.1 | But there was another story that just, you know, what spoiler alert now so you can prepare |
| 0:24.1 | yourselves appropriately. |
| 0:25.1 | There's another brief story that we spent like 40 minutes on and that's the slap. |
| 0:29.2 | We did. |
| 0:30.2 | Just, it happened. |
| 0:31.2 | It happened. |
| 0:32.2 | We went through every single permutation in relation to tech, social media and celebrity |
| 0:38.2 | and media and feelings and our feelings on it and we all have to process this together |
| 0:44.6 | and we'll never going to talk about it again in 36 hours and then of course we're going |
| 0:49.7 | to talk about crypto continuing to boom. |
| 0:53.4 | There is a exchange called FTX that's backed by major VCs and apparently they have no investors |
| 0:58.7 | on their board and there were 32 billion what's the worst that could happen. |
| 1:04.1 | And reportedly Apple is working on a hardware subscription. |
| 1:07.2 | We break down what it could look like in a world where you just pay Apple for everything. |
| 1:12.6 | Brilliant. |
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