Reacting to SBF's ill-advised media tour + Disney's new in-house AI-based de-aging tool | E1625
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
First up, J+M go through a tale of two interviews: SBF at DealBook (3:14) and on Good Morning America (31:58). Then, Lon Harris joins to discuss Disney's new in-house automatic de-aging tool and more! (47:00)
(0:00) J+M tee up today's segments!
(3:14) Covering Sam Bankman-Fried's two recent interviews, reacting to clips from SBF at the NYT DealBook conference
(12:14) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist
(13:43) SBF chimes in on VC responsibility and drug usage at FTX
(27:31) Embroker - Use code TWIST to get an extra 10% off insurance at https://Embroker.com/twist
(28:46) Finish up with clips from DealBook: FTX US and a final round of applause
(31:58) SBF's Good Morning America interview with George Stephanopoulos
(37:54) Nutrisense - Use code TWIST and get $30 off at nutrisense.io/twist
(39:24) Finishing on SBF's GMA interview and comparing the two interview styles
(47:00) Lon Harris joins to discuss Disney's new in-house automated de-aging tool
(1:07:48) $WBD in talks to license animated content to Amazon, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's new artist-led venture, Lon's recommendations, Jason's nineties stories, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody. It's a huge show today. First up, we're going to break down the scam |
| 0:03.6 | bankrupt frauds tale of two interviews. I'm sorry, Sam Bankman freed. Sorry, Molly, |
| 0:08.8 | get that wrong. It just, you know, it just happens. You lose focus. |
| 0:12.4 | It's my dyslexia. I blame it like Sam Bankman fraud. I blame it on something other than me. |
| 0:17.6 | It's my dyslexia. Exactly. I never meant to screw up his name like that. Yes. So yesterday, |
| 0:22.9 | Andrew Rossorkin interviewed SBF at the New York Times Dealbook Summit. And then this morning, |
| 0:29.2 | good morning, America aired 10 minutes of a two-hour interview between George Stephanopoulos, |
| 0:34.4 | the goat and SBF. One interview was, I don't know, to just be blunt about it. One was a joke, |
| 0:40.0 | and one was amazing. And we're going to go through each of them and show you which is which. |
| 0:45.0 | I haven't seen so many softballs since, you know, somebody finished the joke for me. But |
| 0:49.6 | my lord, that was a lot of softballs. And then, man, it was raining on balls. It was raining on |
| 0:56.0 | balls at Dealbook. And then, Stephanopoulos, the Spartan comes in and just absolutely demolishes. |
| 1:02.4 | This is a clinic in how to conduct an interview with somebody accused of one of the largest |
| 1:08.8 | frauds in the history of humanity. Of course, then, it wouldn't be Thursday without this week |
| 1:12.8 | in streaming. Our guy, Lon Harris, joins us to talk about all things streaming, including Daging. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah. This is so fun. We have a fascinating conversation about Disney's new in-house AI based |
| 1:23.9 | Daging tool, what it means for the future of movies, franchises, and possibly humanity. |
| 1:29.9 | And then we were, we talk a little bit about Lon's great suggestions, things for you to watch |
| 1:36.4 | this weekend. It's some really good ones in there. And I've revealed two of the movies that I |
| 1:41.3 | had cameos in. I'm talking about narrative independent films when I was in my independent film |
| 1:45.8 | era in the turn of the millennium and people were putting me in movies. Amazing. And I give you some |
| 1:51.6 | IMDB all. You have an IMDB page. That's it. And the 90s were great. I'll give you some 90 stories |
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