Twitter deal called off, Uber leaks, + Apple Car setbacks | E1505

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Today we talk about the Elon Musk & Twitter deal-or-no-deal (2:14). Then we get into two big pieces of Uber news today: first, over a hundred thousand leaked documents about Uber’s aggressive expansion efforts back in the early days (20:47), and second, present-day Uber under Dara is testing out geo-located ads (33:18). Finally, we’ve also got some insider dirt from Apple’s autonomous car efforts (49:20).

(0:00) Jason and Molly intro today’s show

(2:14) Elon Musk calls off the Twitter deal

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(13:58) Is Twitter a niche product?

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(20:47) The Guardian obtained 124,000 leaked internal documents from Uber’s global expansion phase under Travis

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(33:18) Uber is testing its ad business

(49:20) Apple Car project has faced repeated setbacks

(58:39) Outro + Plugs

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Monday. It is going to be a huge Monday and it's going to be
0:04.8	huge week on this weekend startups because the news keeps coming. It's a big week. There was
0:08.6	a big news dump on Friday, tons of stuff over the weekend and some great interviews coming this
0:12.4	week. I'm going to interview one of the commissioners at the FCC about them wanting to ban TikTok.
0:16.6	Before that, though, we'll do the Monday news dump. The Friday news dump was huge too. So before we
0:22.5	get into the new news, we're going to talk a little bit about the Twitter deal or no deal situation
0:27.5	still evolving even as we're talking about it. Yeah, and there's big news in the Uber world.
0:33.2	There has been a document dump by a former Uber executive in Europe and then also Uber launched
0:40.2	over the weekend. I noticed ads, which could be geo located. I think that's going to become a billion
0:44.5	dollar business. And then of course, we're going to talk a little bit about the information as
0:50.2	usual getting the inside dirt on drama at Apple over its self-driving car project. It is a bit
0:57.5	of a hot mess. Hot mess. It's going to be a great show. Sit with us.
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