Silicon Valley Bank collapse recap + Wist CEO on capturing XR memories | E1697

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.2 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Jason kicks off Monday by recapping this weekend’s chaos caused by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (1:45). Then, he advises founders on preventing a scare like this from happening again before interviewing Andrew R McHugh of Wist Labs, who is building a platform to capture and relive memories in AR and VR (13:40).

(0:00) Jason kicks off the show

(1:45) The past weekend’s chaos and triaging startups

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(13:40) The government’s response and advice for founders

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(25:39) Andrew R McHugh of Wist Labs

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(38:56) Reliving past experiences and Generative AI applications

(57:00) Raising capital in the weeks to come

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0:00.0	Three, two, hey everybody, everybody, welcome back to this week and starters, we have a jam packed episode for you today first
0:05.8	We're gonna chop it up. We're gonna do a post-mortem on the weekend. That was the bank failure weekend
0:13.3	Silicon Valley bank going out of business and the Fed backstopping everything on Sunday
0:18.0	This all happened in 48 hours. I'm gonna explain some of my tweets for those of you who are wondering why I was in caps mode and then we have a great interview with
0:25.0	Andrew R. McHugh is the co-founder and CEO with slabs, which is creating a VR technology that lets you
0:32.6	Record and then relive in 3D your memories record on your phone and then relive your memories in VR
0:39.4	It's an amazing conversation and we're gonna talking about not just reliving your memories and all the ethical interesting concerns
0:45.9	I can come up from that but the why now all the camera upgrades in the new iPhone that enabled with
0:52.0	technologies and
0:54.0	Start-up advice on how to raise money and the ideal customers and some with slabs use cases and features
1:00.0	It's gonna be a great show so stick with us
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1:42.0	Hey, everybody. It's March 13th
1:47.2	2023 and it has been a long weekend for those of you looking back on this episode as a historical document
1:54.1	This is the weekend the Monday after the weekend where Silicon Valley Bank went out of business was taken over by the FDIC
2:03.0	And we had complete chaos for startups investors and that chaos started to tip over into
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