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This Week in Startups

Turner Novak: Turning memes into a $10M VC fund | E1332

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Banana Capital's Turner Novak joins to discuss breaking into venture, starting his own fund (11:08), what it's like being an emerging manager, rising valuations, and crypto (45:10). Turner also makes the case for quick commerce, group grocery buying in Latin America (1:04:03) and more!

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0:00.0

Turn-to-no back is here and he is a VC if you're on Twitter and you're into VC Twitter, which is a full

0:08.9

0.7% of adult males in the United States. You're obviously no who he is and

0:16.3

He's spicy. Is your screen okay? It looks like you're jittering a little bit there. You're on an M1 Mac. Yes, of course

0:22.8

No, but I'm on a

0:24.5

ACIS Zenbook like after 50% off at Best Buy

0:28.4

All right, hold on a second. You're a VC. You're showing up to meetings with the Zenbook

0:33.6

Hey, it's all zooms and no one knows

0:36.3

They know when your machine crashes like every five minutes and your video goes

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1:33.5

Okay, if you're listening to the podcast and wondering what the heck's going on here with the format with the lack of formalities

1:39.2

Well, we're trying something new

1:41.2

I'm just asking people

1:42.7

You know what guests on the program if they we consider going on live

1:46.2

When we go live we use pieces of software for restream

1:49.0

It sends a video stream to youtube facebook twitter twitch linked in which is kind of cool facebook which

1:55.2

I guess we we don't get any viewers over there anymore

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