OZY Media’s deception, VC retirement, Clubhouse’s monetization problem with The Verge’s Ashley Carman & more | E1292
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, we have got a jam pack news program for you today. I'm going to talk about a crazy, |
| 0:06.4 | crazy fraud that is going on allegedly with a company called Aussie Media, OZY Media. |
| 0:12.5 | Additionally, we're going to talk a little bit about Clubhouse and their monetization issues |
| 0:17.6 | around creators. We've got the reporter from the Virg from Hot Pod News who broke the story. |
| 0:23.4 | I think it's a really interesting discussion as well. We're going to talk a little bit about why |
| 0:28.4 | so many VCs are retiring at 50-ish and basically deciding, I don't want to go through another |
| 0:35.0 | cycle of this madness. Finally, we talk a little bit about Star Wars Visions, that Disney Plus |
| 0:41.1 | series that I had talked about in August. I really have some strong feelings about cultural |
| 0:47.6 | appreciation, which is the opposite of cultural appropriation. Stick with us. It's going to be a great |
| 0:52.7 | episode. This week in Startups is brought to you by Belay. Get back to doing what only you can do. |
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| 1:48.9 | Okay, a media company called Ozzy Media that you probably haven't heard of had their COO, |
| 1:55.6 | I kid you not, impersonate a YouTube executive while trying to close a $40 million |
| 2:01.0 | investment from Goldman Sachs. Feels like we're got another huge giant fraud here that we'll |
| 2:08.0 | be tracking. Remember, we tracked Theranos. We've been tracking Tether. Feels like there's |
| 2:12.8 | something fougaisy going on over there. And we've been just tracking all of these weird things |
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