Taking the leap on valuation, strategic retreats (VC School), + more | E1510

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode of VC Sunday School, Molly asks Jason about taking the leap on valuation (2:10) and best practices for strategic retreats (11:41). Then, Molly speaks with Meiling Gao and David Lu of Clarity Movement, to talk about their hardware for measuring air quality (33:25).

(0:00) Jason and Molly intro today’s show!

(2:10) VCSS: Taking the leap on valuation

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(11:41) VCSS: strategic retreats

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(29:01) VCSS Bonus Round: Does age matter in founders?

(32:15) Molly tees up This Week in Climate Startups

(33:25) TWiCS: David Lu + Meiling Gao of Clarity Movement

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(39:17) TWiCS: More on Clarity Movement’s air pollution measurement hardware

(57:49) Outro + Plugs

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right everybody, it is Sunday welcome to another edition of this week in startups
0:04.9	We don't leave you hanging over the weekend like some shows. No, no, no, no, six days a week here
0:08.7	Maybe some day seven
0:10.2	But we have a must listen to VC Sunday school today about the pain of raising money and
0:16.6	Keeping your company going in a down market. Yeah, this is hyper tactical pay attention and take some notes
0:23.6	I know I did and then Molly has an awesome awesome
0:27.3	Climate startup for this week in climate. It's called clarity.io and that tells a little bit about what they do
0:32.9	Yeah, it's a hardware as a service business that builds products to measure air quality
0:37.1	They actually call it sensing as a service for cities for municipalities. They yeah, I like it has it's a SaaS business
0:43.9	It's a house business. It's a house
0:46.0	But it's just you know on the theory that you can't manage what you don't measure
0:50.2	This is really really valuable because turns out air pollution direct
0:54.2	Result of emissions and kills a lot of people
0:57.1	Yeah, yeah, if we can measure it we can make better decisions, right?
1:00.6	So it's gonna be great show stick with us
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