$PTON & $SNOW earnings divergence + Streaming news with Lon Harris: HBO, MoviePass & more | E1544
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Big show! First up J+M break down two pandemic darlings on two totally different paths: $PTON and $SNOW (2:26). Then, Lon Harris joins to talk about HBO's record breaking House of the Dragon premiere (27:12), MoviePass returning (47:16), and more!
(0:00) J+M tee up today's segments!
(2:26) Peloton earnings breakdown: it's getting grim, so J+M brainstormed on where the company can go from here, stock was down over 20%
(16:26) Odoo - Get your first app free and a $1000 credit at https://odoo.com/twist
(17:53) Snowflake earnings breakdown: massive quarter, stock was up over 20%
(25:37) OpenPhone - Get an extra 20% off any plan for your first 6 months at https://openphone.com/twist
(27:12) Lon Harris joins to break down this week's streaming news! First up: HBO's House of the Dragon set a record for most-watched premiere with almost 10M viewers
(39:39) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist
(40:58) $WBD CEO David Zaslav continues to make cuts
(47:16) MoviePass is making a comeback and Lon gives some streaming picks
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Oh my God, so much to talk about, let's go. |
| 0:02.9 | This show is so great. |
| 0:04.2 | Okay, first up, we have a tale of two companies |
| 0:07.3 | big time, a tale of two pandemic darlings |
| 0:10.8 | with two very different quarterly outcomes. |
| 0:15.3 | Peloton is basically on the precipice of, |
| 0:20.8 | yeah, just being incinerated. |
| 0:22.8 | And then snowflake is firing on all cylinders. |
| 0:25.8 | Our guy, Sluteman, it's just an absolute beast. |
| 0:30.0 | Yeah, slew the flamethrower right now, a beast. |
| 0:33.4 | So he's like the Hulk of sass. |
| 0:35.7 | Hulk smash, that's his new nickname. |
| 0:39.8 | Really? |
| 0:40.7 | The Hulk, I want a t-shirt with Sluteman as the Hulk. |
| 0:44.1 | I think I'm a J-trade, some snow. |
| 0:47.6 | It's amazing. |
| 0:48.8 | I don't think that's a terrible idea. |
| 0:50.6 | But don't trade on emotion. |
| 0:52.0 | Take a deep breath. |
| 0:53.2 | My best trades count to 10. |
| 0:55.2 | Then we're going to have Lon and speaking of more drama, |
| 0:57.1 | we got our guy Lon Harris back on the show |
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