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This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Todays show:
Alex Wilhelm joins Jason to discuss the weekend debate regarding MEI/DEI (12:12), Amazon buys Adept’s key talent (42:39), Chime buys Salt Labs (52:41), and more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show
(1:47) Weekend recap and political debate analysis
(10:50) Media's role in political coverage
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(16:12) The weekend debate regarding MEI/DEI and that TechCrunch article
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(29:20) Discussion on DEI vs MEI and meritocracy in Silicon Valley
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(42:39) Amazon buys Adept’s key talent
(52:20) Chime's acquisition of Salt Labs
(1:16:12) Challenges and strategies for EdTech companies
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Mentioned on the show:
https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/21/so-a-blogger-walks-into-a-bar
https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1801331034916851995
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/28/amazon-hires-founders-away-from-ai-startup-adept
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/microsoft-inflection-ai-investors-reid-hoffman-bill-gates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kna9E_3kFF0
https://www.chime.com/blog/chime-acquires-enterprise-employee-rewards-company-salt-labs
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right everybody welcome back to this week and startups. I'm Jason |
| 0:02.8 | kalacanis x.com slash jason he's Alex Wilhelm and we do news about three times a |
| 0:08.1 | week we're still doing the liquidity pod we're doing another episode of AI with Sundeep who's been very busy you know summer traveling |
| 0:15.2 | all that good stuff but we're dialed in now and you're gonna get the news from |
| 0:19.0 | us three times a week this week maybe twice because we have the holiday but how is your weekend |
| 0:24.9 | Alex I don't know that anything eventful occurred in the last couple of days as |
| 0:29.6 | we start July in the slow summer scene. No, I mean, I feel like the world is calm, trade is flowing, politics is normal, everyone's relaxed, |
| 0:40.2 | no one is up in arms at all. It's chill. Perfect. |
| 0:45.5 | This weekend startups is brought to you by |
| 0:49.0 | Lemon.io. hire pre-vetted remote developers. |
| 0:54.0 | Get 15% off your first four weeks of developer time at Lemon. |
| 0:58.0 | I.O. slash Twist. |
| 1:00.0 | 8 sleep. |
| 1:02.0 | Good sleep is the ultimate game changer. |
| 1:05.0 | The newest generation of the pod, the pod 4 Ultra, has arrived. |
| 1:10.0 | Head to 8 Sleep.com slash Twist and use code twist to get $350 off the Pod 4 Ultra. |
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| 1:31.5 | Name, address, mail service, phone, email, website, and domain. |
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