Sheryl Sandberg leaves Meta + This Week in Streaming with Lon Harris: Obi-Wan Kenobi | E1474

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Today, we dive into Sheryl Sandberg leaving Meta (2:14), then Lon Harris joins for This Week in Streaming where we cover Kenobi episodes 1-3 (12:36). We talk about Disney’s response to racism (26:54), where the Star Wars sequels went wrong (36:00), and the Depp v. Heard trial coverage (51:00).

(00:00) Jason and Molly introduce today’s show!
(2:14) Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg leaving the company after 14 years
(11:25) Vanta - Get $1,000 off automating your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist
(12:36) This Week in Streaming w/Lon Harris: Obi-Wan Kenobi episodes 1-3
(25:37) Masterworks - Skip the waitlist to invest in art using promo code TWIST at https://Masterworks.io/twist
(26:54) Discussing Disney’s response to racism
(34:44) LinkedIn - Post your first job for free at https://linkedIn.com/twist
(36:00) More on Disney’s response to racism: where the sequels went wrong
(41:52) Filoni and Favreau filling in the holes for Star Wars
(45:40) Teasing next week: Star Trek Strange New Worlds, Amazon + 007?
(51:00) Depp v. Heard trial: fishing for views

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, it's Thursday and tonight, Molly and I will be going to the Warriors
0:05.8	game.
0:06.8	Yay.
0:07.8	Pretty good seats.
0:08.8	So if you are looking at the Warriors bench, look just to the right and we might have
0:12.2	pretty good seats tonight for game one, Go Dums, but a big show today.
0:16.3	What do we got on deck for today, Molly?
0:17.9	Big show today.
0:18.9	We're going to start with just a little bit of a news update that broke after we stopped
0:22.8	recording yesterday, which I hate it when that happens, but it allows us to have a slightly
0:26.7	more nuanced conversation about Cheryl Sandberg leaving meta after 14 years.
0:33.5	And then we're going to go on to talk to our friend, Lon Harris.
0:38.3	It is this week in training Thursdays.
0:40.8	And so we are going to go all in on Obi-Wan Kenobi and the first three episodes, lots of spoilers.
0:46.6	So if you haven't seen it yet, you don't want to save this episode until you catch up.
0:49.9	And episode three is a doozy.
0:51.4	We also talk about maybe the racism issue in the Star Wars community.
0:57.1	Is it representative of something bigger and then what happened in the sequels and in
1:01.8	this show?
1:02.8	It's a complicated discussion, but a good one.
1:05.2	And we'll also touch on the court TV, streaming success of, or there's the crazy numbers
1:12.4	for the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp trial, which is, thankfully, it's going to be a great
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