SpaceX's Starship launch, Tiger Global's 20% markdown + Ask Jason! | E1726
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Jason recaps SpaceX's Starship rocket launch (2:06) and discusses BuzzFeed's 15% RIF and Fox News settling its Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit (9:11). He also covers Reddit's announcement to charge large AI companies for data and Tiger Global's $12.7B fund markdown (19:40). The show ends with another edition of Ask Jason (34:41).
(0:00) Jason kicks off the show
(2:06) Recapping Jason's experience at Space X's Starship launch
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(9:11) BuzzFeed's 15% RIF
(14:07) Fox News settled with Dominion Voting Systems
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(19:40) Reddit to charge AI companies for its data
(27:50) Tiger Global's 20% markdown
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(34:41) Ask Jason!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, it's Friday, and I'm doing a solo news show today. |
| 0:03.6 | I'm on the road. |
| 0:05.1 | I am actually in Texas, and I just got to watch the Starship launch on 420. |
| 0:11.3 | So I talk a little bit about that, and then we'll get into Buzzfeed shutting down |
| 0:15.4 | Buzzfeed news, cutting 15% of its employees, as well as Fox settling their |
| 0:20.0 | Dominion voting system, a libel case for $787 million. |
| 0:26.0 | And I'm going to take a little victory lap here. |
| 0:27.6 | Remember, I had said that Reddit and Cores should start charging for their |
| 0:30.8 | data sets. Well, Reddit CEO has come out and saying, and has said they're |
| 0:34.8 | going to start charging AI models to use their data and train it. |
| 0:38.4 | Finally, we'll talk about Tiger Global marking its huge $12.7 billion |
| 0:43.6 | fund down another 20% and perhaps a little hand-ranging and pain and |
| 0:51.2 | suffering in the late stage of venture capital and what that means for founders. |
| 0:54.8 | Also, I'm going to answer some of your questions. |
| 0:57.4 | I think I have three or four great questions from the audience today. |
| 1:00.1 | I'm going to answer at the end. |
| 1:00.9 | It's going to be a great episode. |
| 1:02.4 | Stick with us. |
| 1:03.5 | This week in Startups is brought to you by Pilot. |
| 1:07.0 | Grow your business sustainably and operate more effectively. |
| 1:10.4 | Pilot provides the most reliable accounting, CFO and tech services for |
| 1:14.9 | Startups and small businesses. |
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