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This Week in Startups

Stripe launches Plaid competitor, Cameo layoffs, Elon raises $7B + Streaming news with Lon Harris | E1452

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

First we chat with Lon Harris from Inside Streaming about the latest Netflix news, strategy, exciting upcoming shows and the proliferation of ads on streaming services (2:23). Then we cover Plaid CEO insinuating that a Stripe PM probed their company for information before making a copycat (39:40), Cameo's round of layoffs that included 4 execs (53:08) and the latest on Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition (1:06:25).


(00:00) Jason and Molly tee up today’s show
(02:23) This Week in Streaming with Lon Harris
(10:55) iTrust Capital - Visit https://itrust.capital/twist to create your Crypto IRA today
(12:11) The Hollywood Reporter published an article on the craziness inside Netflix that led up to them losing users and the stock collapsing
(17:57) Nerding out on the upcoming Obi-Wan series and Star Wars
(22:54) Masterworks - Skip the waitlist to invest in art using promo code TWIST at https://Masterworks.io/twist
(24:02) More thoughts on what Disney will do with Star Wars and Marvel/DC
(31:52) Peacock will introduce dynamically inserted in-scene ads
(36:07) Microacquire - Sell your business with no fees at https://try.microacquire.com/twist
(37:30) Wrapping up with Lon
(39:40) Startup news: the Stripe mafia
(52:08) Cameo lay-offs include execs
(1:06:25) CNBC reports Elon Musk will serve as temporary Twitter CEO following takeover
(1:11:25) The money behind Elon's Twitter purchase

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, it is Thursday and we have a great show today with a little bit of a chaser for the week's news.

0:06.6

Tuesday was a little rough. Wednesday we got a view of what's going on in the world and here we are Thursday sliding it to the weekend everybody.

0:13.2

So it's Thursday and Lawn Harris is back for this week in streaming. We're going to talk a little bit about why Netflix might have gone wrong with their

0:21.2

wall modification of content. Talk about the Obi-Wan series and in scene advertising plus we pick the new show that we're all going to including you start streaming this week and then we're going to recap next Thursday.

0:36.6

I mean is streaming club the new book club. Yes, it is. Yes, yes, it is. So stay tuned for that because you everybody better get on the jump you have work to do between now and then.

0:46.8

In the news we're covering the mafia because the mafia used to do its business and secret but now it's all on Twitter.

0:53.8

There was a Twitter spat between plaid CEO and a stripe executive yesterday that we are going to break down with some dramatic readings.

1:01.4

And then we'll talk about cameo laying off 25% of its staff and then you know maybe when Duncan goes too far.

1:11.4

And then finally we'll wrap with the news that Elon is going to be CEO of Twitter for a couple of months after the acquisition goes through.

1:18.8

And then he lined up some new funding for Twitter and rolled over some very big positions. It's going to be a great show Molly.

1:25.8

It really is stick with us.

1:28.0

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2:23.4

Hey everybody. It's Thursday. Welcome to this weekend startups with us again as always.

2:28.0

Lawn Harris the lawns on Twitter what's good lawn hey good to be here what's pop in.

2:34.5

Oh the same old stuff you know nothing new.

2:38.2

But I saw lawn I was like it's Thursday.

2:41.4

Yeah, yeah, we don't have any shows right now.

2:44.4

So we have a lot of shows but you are joining me on watching shows.

2:49.6

I want to come up with some new stuff which we can talk about new shots.

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