TSLA earnings + Streaming: WeCrashed & Severance review, CNN+ demise, Netflix’s future | 1440

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

First, Jason and Molly cover Tesla’s strong Q1 and gems from the earnings call (2:22), then Lon Harris joins (31:32) to discuss WeCrashed episode 7 (34:17), Severance episodes 1-3 (58:46), Netflix’s rough Q1 and quality drop off (1:13:35) and CNN+ shutting down (1:26:40).

(00:00) Jason and Molly intro today’s news topics and their chat with Lon Harris
(02:22) Tesla had a blowout quarter in Q1 earnings
(14:12) Rocket - Go to http://getrocket.com/twist and use promo code TWIST for 20% off your first placement.
(15:33) Thinking of ways Tesla’s robotaxis could work
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(22:52) The power of Optimus; OpenAI getting sentient?
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(31:32) Talking WeCrashed, Severance, Netflix, and CNN+ with Lon Harris
(34:17) WeCrashed ep. 7 (SPOILERS)
(58:46) Severance ep. 1-3 (SPOILERS)
(1:13:35) Lon on Netflix dropping subscribers for first time since 2011
(1:26:40) Lon on Warner Bros Discovery shutting down CNN+ April 30th

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0:00.0	All right everybody welcome to this weekend startups we have a jam packed awesome Thursday show for you today yes lawn Harris from inside streaming is back to talk about the 7th episode of we crashed and we'll talk about board governance as well so we're looking at the real world ramifications of this fictional depiction of we work and then we dive into the
0:21.0	Absolutely intriguing first three episodes of severance and what that says about work life balance. Yeah
0:28.1	Real that we're just straight up geeking out on but we also have streaming news of course all week long the Netflix story has been bubbling
0:35.1	We talked a lot specifically about the content problem and the breaking news that CNN plus is apparently getting taken out behind the woodshed
0:45.5	As of April 30th out
0:48.3	But first even more news. We're gonna talk about Tesla's below out earnings
0:54.2	Tesla delivered over
0:56.5	300,000 cars in the quarter over 68% over the same quarter last year, but
1:02.7	the Robo taxi and their robotics
1:06.5	Just basically robot project Optimus. I think are the things that are most intriguing about what's going on at Tesla
1:14.2	We're going to talk about how a non-steering wheel Robo taxi might work going down to Los Angeles and maybe being in like a train
1:22.2	Kind of format. We got a bunch of ideas and brainstorming we workshopped it a bit
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2:22.2	All right, welcome everybody to another episode this week in startups is Thursday and Tesla had breakout earnings last night Molly
2:30.6	Tell us
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