Square becomes Block, Spotify Wrapped’s genius, $GRAB debut + Founders of Fathom, Deft & Krepling | E1338

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.2 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

First, Jason covers Square's corporate renaming to Block to reflect their broader ambitions (2:11), breaks down the genius of Spotify wrapped (13:15), and gives a nod to Grab's public debut (16:41). Then, Jason is joined by 3 founders who went through the Launch Accelerator, to extract the lessons from the early days of running a company. First is Paul Bloch of Fathom, an AI-enabled podcast search platform (23:03), then Zach Hudson of Deft, a E-commerce search engine (41:58) and finally Liam Gerada of Krepling, a no-code e-commerce platform (54:19).

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. We have a great show for you today. I'm in Miami for NFT
0:05.3	Basel or whatever they're calling this thing. I just spoke at the pre-money event.
0:09.0	And today on the program, I'm interviewing three founders that went through our launch accelerator
0:13.0	that I've invested in, great companies, and one of them's in podcasting, one of them's doing an
0:18.2	e-commerce search engine, and one of them is doing a no-code e-commerce platform. You're going to
0:22.9	love all three companies. We talk about getting early product market fit and raising that first round
0:29.7	from investors when you're just a two or three person company with an MVP or a modest product.
0:36.4	And we're going to talk about securing the bag. But first, some news. Square is rebranding as block
0:41.6	and Jack Dorsey is back in the headlines. I love the stock. I own the stock. I'll never sell the stock
0:46.9	if Jack Dorsey is fronting the company. That's my belief is that he's a great entrepreneur and his
0:51.6	best days are ahead of him. And then Spotify's RAPT came out yesterday and it is absolutely flooding
0:57.0	social media. We'll talk about the genius of that growth hack. Finally, a friend of the all-in pod
1:03.6	and the this week in startups pod, Brad Gersoners, SPAC, Grab when public today. It's the largest
1:09.9	public debut of a South Asian company. So congratulations to him and the team at Grab. We'll talk about
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