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This Week in Startups

Reacting to Tether’s CNBC interview, Netflix earnings + Vincent’s Slava Rubin on alt assets | E1250

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In the news segment, Jason reacts to the Tether CTO & General Counsel's interview on CNBC (2:22) and digs in to Netflix's latest earnings report (37:35).
Then, Vincent founder Slava Rubin joins to discuss all things alternative assets (44:26), his work founding Indiegogo, Launch’s investment, trading cards (1:17:19) & more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, we got a great show for you today.

0:01.8

Vincent Slava Rubin is on the program.

0:04.0

You might remember him from his time at Indiegogo.

0:06.0

He was also the co-founder of that.

0:07.6

And he announces that their new round of funding

0:09.9

is happening today.

0:11.3

And guess who the lead investor is?

0:13.1

It's your boy, Jake, how yum, yum.

0:14.8

If you don't know what Vincent is,

0:16.3

it's a very cool site that's aggregating

0:18.3

all of the different alternative assets in the world,

0:20.3

including sports, memorabilia, cars, real estate,

0:23.9

startups, crypto, NFTs, all that good stuff.

0:27.0

I'm really excited about the investment

0:28.4

and we go deep into why we led the multimillion dollar round

0:32.1

in Vincent.

0:33.1

But before we talk about that,

0:35.1

I cover CMBC's exclusive interview

0:37.2

with Tether CTO and General Counsel.

0:39.1

And this was a train wreck of an interview.

0:41.9

They basically botched the whole interview.

0:45.5

Now things look even worse.

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