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This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show!
(2:11) Ai generated memes.
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(25:14) Circle’s pending IPO.
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(31:46) Alex breaks down some amazing details around stable-coins like Tether and crypto companies like CoinBase and Circle.
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| 0:00.0 | you know, Circle is doing it all right. There are, you know, major audits going on as opposed to attestations and that kind of stuff. |
| 0:06.8 | And so the devil's in the details. If you have, I think Teather got up to 70, was it 70 billion, 80 billion? |
| 0:13.0 | It was pretty large amount of money. |
| 0:15.0 | And people were really concerned that maybe their holdings |
| 0:17.5 | were in Chinese commercial paper |
| 0:20.0 | because that's where you used to be able to get a return. |
| 0:22.0 | So maybe they're getting 7-8% on that Chinese commercial paper, |
| 0:25.1 | loans essentially in China, but maybe it's not that stable. |
| 0:28.3 | Then all of a sudden we have inflation, interest rates go up. |
| 0:31.3 | Teather started bragging that they've got like billions of |
| 0:33.9 | dollars in revenue a year. So you're the sucker at the table, perhaps if you're |
| 0:38.1 | keeping your money in stable coins because you're not getting that interest that you |
| 0:41.5 | could get if you kept it in a money market. |
| 0:43.2 | So everything you're saying is dead on. |
| 0:44.9 | Couple of small quibbles though, I just pulled it up. |
| 0:47.2 | There's now a hundred and twelve point eight billion dollars with of tethers out there. |
| 0:51.6 | Wow. This weekend startups is brought to you by |
| 0:56.2 | LinkedIn Jobs. A business is only as strong as its people and every hire matters. |
| 1:02.2 | Go to LinkedIn.com slash twist to post your first job for free. |
| 1:07.0 | Terms and conditions apply. |
| 1:09.0 | Square space. |
| 1:10.0 | Turn your idea into a new website. |
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