The Thinx Twice Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and Huffington Post senior reporter Emily Peck discuss:Thinx founder Miki Agrawal’s sexual harassment allegationsHow venture capital placed massive strains on the promising digital healthcare startup SherpaaHow venture capitalist J.D. Vance is looking to invest in startups in Ohio Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @felixsalmon, @JHWeissmann, @EmilyRPeck Production by Zachary Dinerstein. Slate Money is brought to you by Rocket Mortgage from Quicken Loans. When it comes to the big decision of choosing a mortgage lender, work with one that has your best interests in mind. Use Rocket Mortgage for a transparent, trustworthy home loan process that’s completely online at QuickenLoans.com/SLATEMONEY. And by ZipRecruiter. Post your job listing to all the top job sites with a single click. Try it for free by going to ZipRecruiter.com/MONEY. And by CIT. From transportation to healthcare to manufacturing, CIT offers commercial lending, leasing, and treasury management services for small and middle market businesses. Learn more at cit.com. Put knowledge to work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:33.4	Hello!
0:39.4	And welcome to the Th's Twice Edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance
0:47.5	News of the Week.
0:49.8	I'm Felix Hammond and Fusion.
0:51.6	I have with me, Jordan Weisman of Slate.
0:55.0	Hello. We are joined by the one and only Emily Peck of the Huffington Post.
1:01.0	Hello. She's a senior reporter, she tells me.
1:04.0	Accurate.
1:05.0	Which is impressive.
1:06.4	And we are going to be talking about all manner of VC blunders. This is how I'm thinking about this show anyway is that venture
1:18.5	capital is famously one of those industries where you fund like 10 different things and one of them works
1:25.9	and we're going to start talking about some of the other nine and we are going to
1:30.3	start talking actually about a company Emily which you're telling me isn't that much
1:36.6	in the way of VC funding. It's more kind of even pre-VC, sort of angels and crowdfunding and
1:42.4	kickstartery and that kind of stuff,
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