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This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Todays show:
Alex Wilhelm joins Jason to discuss the arrest of Pavel Durov (2:10), national security concerns (13:54), and encryption debates (20:02). They also dive into G Squared raising $1B for it’s latest fund, IBM's activities in China, iPhone production shifts, more (55:50)!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show
(2:10) Breaking news: Arrest of Pavel Durov, implications, and legal issues
(13:02) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://www.vanta.com/twist
(13:54) National security concerns and French president's statement on Durov's arrest
(20:02) U.S. stance on encryption and the encryption debate
(30:27) OpenPhone - Get 20% off your first six months at https://www.openphone.com/twist
(31:53) Global perspectives on encryption, privacy, and tech platform power
(38:41) Lemon.IO - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist
(40:02) U.S. law enforcement, encrypted services, and social media censorship
(55:50) Lightning round: G Squared raising $1.1B for its latest fund and IBM in China
(1:11:06) Audience questions
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Mentioned on the show:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-michel-bernigaud-426a181a8/recent-activity/all
https://cointelegraph.com/news/telegram-issues-official-statement-on-pavel-durov-detention
https://x.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1828077245606342672
https://x.com/Jason/status/1827488958512820448
https://www.apple.com/customer-letter
https://www.ft.com/content/b7bac796-c194-442a-95c8-204425435309
https://www.secondariesinvestor.com/secondaries-fundraising-more-than-doubles-to-hit-all-time-high
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXO3OsYCS0g&t=218s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWLjgs2CEyE
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| 0:00.0 | I think as Americans we should be very proud of the fact that technology companies and the |
| 0:06.1 | citizenry and by and large our representatives are in alignment that privacy does matter. |
| 0:12.3 | I think we can take that win despite Saxe's tweet and the pile on |
| 0:16.6 | that I experience this weekend. |
| 0:18.1 | The fact is, we are nowhere near what is going on in the three buckets. You have dictatorships on one side, you have |
| 0:26.4 | free countries on the other, and then there's a little bit of gray in the middle. |
| 0:30.8 | You got France clearly is going to be in that middle. You have the monarchies in the Middle East. |
| 0:36.0 | They believe in some amount of, you know, encryption, some places don't. |
| 0:41.0 | You know, and it's just going to be a jurisdiction thing. |
| 0:46.0 | This weekend startups is brought to you by |
| 0:49.2 | Vanta. Compliance and security shouldn't be a dealbreaker for startups to win new business. |
| 0:55.0 | Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a sock to report fast. |
| 1:00.0 | Twist listeners can get $1,000 off for a limited time at vanta.com slash twist. |
| 1:07.0 | Open phone. Create business phone numbers for you and your team that work through an app on your smartphone or desktop. |
| 1:14.0 | Twist listeners can get an extra 20% off any plan for your first six months at openphone.com slash twist. |
| 1:22.0 | And Lemon. |
| 1:24.0 | dot I.O hire pre-vetted remote developers. |
| 1:27.0 | Get 15% off your first four weeks of developer time at Lemon. |
| 1:32.0 | dot I.o slash twist |
| 1:34.0 | everybody welcome back to this week in startups |
| 1:37.1 | I'm your host Jason Kocanas uh... we're about to hit two thousand |
| 1:40.4 | episodes of this podcast in 14 years and |
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