Sequoia’s new structure, $HOOD and $TWTR earnings + Bolt’s Ryan Breslow: 4-day work week | E1313
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, we've got an amazing show for you today and I don't mean that like I did the other thousand times |
| 0:05.0 | I said it today is actually the best show ever. I'm going to talk with Boltz CEO Ryan Breslow. |
| 0:10.7 | He sells some one-click checkout software, but he made some news a couple of weeks ago when he |
| 0:16.0 | announced that Bolt would implement a four-day work week. Like that interest you sounds pretty |
| 0:20.8 | interesting to me when we talk about his unique ideas about culture raising money for startups |
| 0:26.0 | and this four-day work week and how it's going. Do they get Fridays off? If it's a holiday week, |
| 0:30.5 | lots of questions. Do people get a 20% pay cut? I had a ton of questions. He had a ton of answers, |
| 0:35.5 | but first let's shop up the news. Sequoia announced a groundbreaking innovative new fun structure. |
| 0:41.8 | That's going to change Silicon Valley forever and I'll break down how that is working. It's |
| 0:47.0 | kind of technical but kind of important so you don't want to hear that one. And then we'll talk about |
| 0:51.2 | Robinhood and Twitter and their Q3 earnings and some of the products and trends that are impacting |
| 0:56.8 | those earnings. Stick with us. It's going to be a great show. |
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