Twitter ideas, Elizabeth Holmes trial update, universal USB-C + Ellevest's Sallie Krawcheck | E1578
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
J+M start the show by suggesting some Twitter product ideas (1:59), before ripping through a lightning round of news. (16:26) Then, Molly welcomes Ellevest CEO and Co-Founder Sallie Krawcheck to kick off another season of The Next Unicorns! (31:09)
(0:00) J+M tee up today's topics!
(1:59) Jason suggests some Twitter product ideas
(14:48) LinkedIn Marketing - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at LinkedIn.com/nextunicorn
(16:26) News lightning round: Elizabeth Holmes has sentencing postponed due to incident with a key witness, Europe votes in favor of universal USB-C charging
(28:55) OpenPhone - Get an extra 20% off any plan for your first 6 months at https://openphone.com/twist
(31:09) Ellevest CEO Sallie Krawcheck joins Molly to discuss her women-focused investing platform
(39:06) Helpware - Go to https://helpware.com/TWIST to get $1000 off your first invoice
(40:31) Ellevest total assets, launch story, COVID's harsher impact on women
(51:39) Sallie's background on Wall Street, turning haters into customers
(1:00:13) Sallie shares thoughts on the current macro environment
Check out Ellevest: https://www.ellevest.com
FOLLOW Sallie: https://twitter.com/salliekrawcheck
FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis
FOLLOW Molly: https://twitter.com/mollywood
Ellevest State of Women’s Financial Wellness in 2022: https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.assets.ellevest.com/documents/Ellevest-The-State-of-Womens-Financial-Wellness-in-2022.pdf
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. It is a Wednesday. Wednesday. Wednesday. We're just ignoring. We're just having fun. It's a fun Wednesday. |
| 0:07.0 | We have a fun Wednesday. Well, you know, I'd like to talk about some of my ideas. I have some ideas for Twitter. So some people have. |
| 0:13.3 | I don't know, but they've seen some of my communications around my ideas. You know, I'm an idea guy, a product guy, I think of ideas. |
| 0:22.0 | I wanted to unpack one of my ideas for the DM product and how Twitter might be more useful. |
| 0:29.7 | For marketers and brands and celebrities and content creators revenue revenue revenue. And then we got a curveball in the Elizabeth Holmes trial. |
| 0:40.1 | We're going to talk about Europe voting in favor of universal USB C. |
| 0:44.8 | And now I'm going to start my respond. Yes. And then I have one of my gadget picks thrown in there as well as the bonus. And then we start. |
| 0:52.5 | The next unicorn series is our series where we interview people. We think we'll be. |
| 0:57.2 | Creating potentially the next great unicorn company, a company worth over a billion dollars. And we have our first one in our latest 2022 series. |
| 1:06.6 | It's going to be a great show. Stick with us. |
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| 1:35.6 | Right on top of your existing devices. Visit openphone.com slash twist to get 20% off your first six months. |
| 1:43.6 | And helpware helps you outsource the tasks that slow your team down from data entry to world class customer support. |
| 1:51.7 | Helpware can help make you bionic. Go to helpware.com slash twist to get $1,000 off your first invoice. |
| 1:59.1 | All right. It is Wednesday. |
| 2:02.1 | It is Wednesday. Am I correct? |
| 2:04.3 | It is every day. It feels like a week right now. It's like that week in the world. I don't know what it's about. |
| 2:13.1 | But like yesterday was not acceptable as a day. Today is off to a middling start. And I'm not alone. |
| 2:20.4 | Like everybody was feeling the same way. Just I am used to podcasting. |
| 2:24.6 | You know, I'm involved in podcasting for a long time. I've never had a day or like a two or three day period. |
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