Portfolio construction, Sequoia's transition & Fast with Acquired.FM + The Dropout: This Week in Streaming with Lon Harris | E1429
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 8 April 2022
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
First, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal from Acquired join Jason to talk portfolio construction (13:41), Roelof Botha succeeding Doug Leone at Sequoia (30:58), and to debate the takeaway from Fast's demise (52:22). Then Lon Harris from Inside Streaming joins to discuss the final two episodes of The Dropout (1:24:16)!
(00:00) Jason intros today’s show
(1:31) Catching up w/ the http://acquired.fm guys: David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert
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(13:41) Ben on investing in tech
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(22:46) How David thinks about his capital allocation
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(30:58) Talking about Doug Leone’s retirement
(52:22) Talking about the elephant in the room: Fast.co shutdown
(1:24:16) Talking with Lon Harris about the finale of “The Dropout”
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, we have an awesome show for you today. I have the acquired boys joining me again |
| 0:04.8 | Ben and David are with us |
| 0:06.1 | We're going to talk about rule off taking the reins at Sequoia from Doug Leoni |
| 0:09.6 | And we'll talk about the fast dot co-implosion who's responsible who's most responsible for that train run |
| 0:17.2 | And my pal Juan Harris is with me again |
| 0:20.1 | This week no solo dolu today. I brought in reinforcements since Molly's still on vacation |
| 0:24.7 | Now she'll be back on Monday |
| 0:26.3 | brought in Lon Harris to do the final episode episode eight of the dropout |
| 0:29.9 | And what this means will be a second season and who deserves more jale time |
| 0:35.8 | Bawani or Elizabeth Homes we're going to answer all those today on this week and start up stick with us |
| 0:41.0 | It's going to be a great show |
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