WallStreetBets founder on why he's suing Reddit; Andrew Hart of Hyper; and Ok Boomer | E1685
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
The Friday variety show is back! Jason kicks it off by interviewing WallStreetBets founder Jaime Rogozinski, who's currently suing Reddit (2:08). Then, Molly is joined by Hyper CEO Andrew Hart to discuss the augmented reality market and Hyper's store-mapping technology (30:16). Producer Rachel wraps the show with content creator Humphrey Yang breaking down his creative process, what he considers valuable metrics, and so much more (53:40).
(0:00) Molly kicks off the show
(2:08) WSB milestones and arbitrage
(12:07) Contra - Get $500 off your first hire at https://contra.com/twist
(13:36) How Reddit works + the WSB controversy
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(24:45) Jaime’s ideal solution
(30:16) Andrew Hart of Hyper
(33:57) Creating the ultimate user experience
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(40:43) Mapping store and onboarding customers
(45:55) Hyper’s development and future opportunities
(53:40) Ok Boomer with Humphrey Yang
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FOLLOW Andrew: https://twitter.com/AndrewHartAR
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Happy Friday. We have a Friday variety show for you. First up, Jason, |
| 0:05.6 | this is a dishy one is joined by the founder of the Wall Street Bet subreddit, |
| 0:10.0 | Jamie Rogozinski. Jamie is suing Reddit after being ousted from that subreddit, which he started |
| 0:17.6 | in 2020. Now that's the one, of course, that had all the meme stocks going. Jamie gives his take on |
| 0:23.4 | the lawsuit and this kind of core issue around who owns a community. Then I'm joined |
| 0:29.8 | by Andrew Hart, the founder of a company called Hyper AR, which is fascinating. Andrew breaks |
| 0:35.9 | down his longtime passion for AR and how Hyper AR is creating the ultimate user experience |
| 0:42.3 | indoor Google for retail. And finally, producer Rachel is back for another edition of Okay Boomer. |
| 0:48.8 | Rachel talks to Humphrey Yang, a content creator on YouTube and on TikTok, who makes videos about |
| 0:53.8 | personal finance and self-improvement, probably the two most popular topics in the world. |
| 0:59.1 | On the segment, he talks about how he went from running a shipping company to making content, |
| 1:04.0 | how he's been able to generate followers on YouTube by bringing them over from TikTok, |
| 1:08.8 | and what metrics he thinks are most important as a creator. This is a jam pack show, people. |
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