US chip industry update, fixing education, Amazon allegations + OK Boomer | E1580
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
First up, J+M discuss new developments in the US chip industry, including tighter restrictions on exports and a massive new investment in an upstate NY factory! (4:57) They also cover fixing US education (12:37) and a shocking lawsuit against Amazon. (27:58) Then, Producer Rachel is joined by Verci Co-Founders Ami and An on OK Boomer! (40:03)
(0:00) J+M tee up today's segments!
(1:57) Molly and Jason catch up on Friday!
(4:57) US clamps down on chip exports to China, Micron brings chip plant to Upstate NY
(11:22) LinkedIn Jobs - Post your first job for free at https://linkedin.com/twist
(12:37) Fixing US education
(24:26) Masterworks - Skip the waitlist to invest in fine art using at https://Masterworks.com/twist
(25:48) CHIPS positivity
(27:58) Amazon lawsuit with shocking allegations
(38:51) Odoo - Get your first app free and a $1000 credit at https://odoo.com/twist
(40:03) Producer Rachel is joined by Verci Co-Founders Ami and An to talk about their community group
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, it's Friday. It's Friday. |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, is it Friday? |
| 0:03.2 | Tons of news still happening, but we're making it through the week. |
| 0:06.6 | We are. And first up, we're talking about on-shoring, |
| 0:10.0 | on-shoring some chips, and stopping some exports of those chips. |
| 0:14.9 | The US is imposing some new restrictions on chip exports to China. |
| 0:19.7 | And then we make a detour, a little detour, and we talk about education, |
| 0:23.5 | and how broken education here is in this country, and possible solutions to adding some |
| 0:27.0 | competition or disruptiveness to that if we are going to build all these factories here, |
| 0:32.1 | and start doing manufacturing again in America in a big way. |
| 0:36.0 | Exactly. And then we're going to note some pretty shocking allegations against Amazon that |
| 0:41.6 | popped up on Twitter and are going viral, and we think we're going to become a bigger story. |
| 0:45.8 | Yes, and we'll get into that with some trigger warnings when we get to that segment. |
| 0:50.7 | And then finally, okay, boomer, it's Friday. So some good news about a third space where founders |
| 0:55.5 | can go, and maybe instead of going to college, they can go to this third space and hang out in |
| 1:01.2 | like a founder library with other aspirational founders. The whole story arc, it's going to be a |
| 1:06.0 | great show. Stick with us. This week in Startups is brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs. |
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