TWiST News: The Startup Redefining Sonos, Influencers, Elections and Google's next AI push | E2034
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Todays show:
Sonos director Mattias Scheek joins Jason & Alex to discuss his journey in audio technology and Sonos acquisition (). Then, Jason and Alex dive into election security (34:57), influencer marketing, Google’s upcoming AI release (1:10:42), and more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show
(3:18) Earnings week predictions & discussion on national debt
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(10:24) Mattias Scheek from Sonos joins the show
(11:23) Mattias Scheek's journey in audio technology and Sonos acquisition
(17:49) Challenges for hardware startups in venture capital
(20:25) Getting acquired: The process, strategy, and life after
(22:04) Cloud Devs - Visit https://www.clouddevs.com/twist for an unbeatable offer on hiring elite Latam talent today.
(23:11) Sonos' hi-fi strategy and industry issues in audio clarity
(33:08) Kalshi - Visit https://www.kalshi.com/twist today to see live election odds, place a trade, and get $20 dollars when you deposit $100. (34:57) Voting irregularities, election security, and influencer marketing
(45:14) Trump Rogan YouTube search issues and search engine comparison
(53:06) Monetization experiments on YouTube and Launch Cloud Kitchens Incubator
(1:10:42) Google's upcoming AI model for PC browsers and cybersecurity risks
(1:15:52) Apple's app permissions approach and AI
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| 0:00.0 | The next one that was incredible in this like buzz arrow was hey Alex Wilhelm's new book |
| 0:06.8 | Cautious optimism the book has come out and you call all the bookstores and say, |
| 0:13.3 | hey, do you have any copies of cautious optimism? |
| 0:15.4 | I gotta get this book. |
| 0:16.4 | And they'd be like, let me check. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, we have two copies. |
| 0:19.2 | Hey, could you put one aside for me? |
| 0:20.8 | I'm gonna come pick it up tomorrow. |
| 0:22.0 | You never show up. But you do that a thousand times, |
| 0:26.4 | once a week, twice a week to all the bookstores. What are the bookstores do? |
| 0:30.0 | They order more copies. Now they got more copies. They're stuck with them. They put them in the mirror and they just created buzz that you go into the store and they were sending agents into stores saying, hey, do you have this book? |
| 0:43.0 | Because my friend told me it's the greatest book ever |
| 0:45.7 | to influence the people at bookstores who are the reps. |
| 0:49.1 | Wow, I mean, this is creative thinking, |
| 0:51.4 | but it's sinister and it's against the |
| 0:53.1 | FTC rules and they came out with rules you have to disclose that's why you see |
| 0:56.9 | paid partnership hashtag in a lot of paid partnerships. This weekend startups is brought to you by Digital Ocean. |
| 1:07.0 | Whether you're just getting started with AI or seeing your project take off, |
| 1:11.0 | Digital Ocean is the cloud platform that lets you focus on what matters, |
| 1:15.6 | building killer apps. |
| 1:18.0 | Right now, get up to 100K in free credits at DO.co slash Twist. Terms and conditions apply. Cloud Devs. Building the best |
| 1:27.4 | remote team is tough, but you don't have to do it alone. Visit cloud-devs.com |
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