TWiST News: Bitcoin, Saylor's Microsoft Pitch, and the Delaware-Tesla Fight | E2054
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Todays show:
Jason and Alex discuss Michael Saylor’s pitch for Microsoft to shift shareholder returns into Bitcoin, the Delaware court's ruling on Tesla pay, and more!
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(8:47) Michael Saylor's Bitcoin Pitch to Microsoft
(24:01) The Digital Transformation through Bitcoin
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(30:47) Bitcoin as an investment compared to traditional assets
(38:01) Michael Saylor’s take on Bitcoin's investment potential
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(41:19) Asset-heavy vs. asset-light business models
(57:46) Tesla compensation package and Delaware court ruling
(1:03:56) Delaware Judicial System and Corporate Governance
(1:19:00) Corporate incorporation trends
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| 0:00.0 | It makes sense for Microsoft to be powered by digital capital. |
| 0:04.6 | Bitcoin's the best asset you can own. |
| 0:07.6 | Now, wait, we have to stop there. |
| 0:09.1 | Jason, you said, you said it's correlated to the stock market. |
| 0:13.2 | And yet, here we have Michael Saylor saying that it is an uncorrelated asset. |
| 0:17.5 | Talk to me about that. |
| 0:18.6 | Remember, during COVID, we had this like spike. Everybody |
| 0:22.8 | got Stimmy checks. Everybody was buying NFTs. Everybody was buying stonks, game stop, you know, all this like |
| 0:28.9 | Coinbase Robin Hood, all these Stimmy checks, prize picks, you know, people doing betting online, |
| 0:36.8 | poker, whatever. |
| 0:37.9 | Everything boomed because there's a lot of cash in the system. |
| 0:40.8 | And then everything came back down. |
| 0:42.0 | So, you know, Chimot said this, says this over and over again. |
| 0:45.0 | Like he thought it was going to be an or correlated asset. |
| 0:47.0 | Turns out to be a correlated one. |
| 0:48.1 | Okay, fine, it's correlated. |
| 0:50.0 | So this is not true. |
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| 0:59.6 | smartphone or desktop. |
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| 1:06.5 | slash twist. |
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