WeCrashed & Severance finales w/ Lon Harris + Twitter follower changes w/ The Verge's Corin Faife | E1446

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

First up, Lon Harris joins to break down the finales of WeCrashed (1:52) and Severance (34:50), then The Verge's Corin Faife joins to discuss his research on the sharp changes in Twitter follower counts for right-leaning and left-leaning accounts. (1:07:39)

0:00 Jason & Molly intro today’s show with some Don Julio 1942
1:52 Jason and Molly catch up with Lon Harris
5:10 Toasting to the WeCrashed finale
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11:23 Jason’s Jim Brooks wine story
16:50 “If you’re successful be generous”
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21:26 Was the WeCrashed ending satisfying?
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33:48 Final thoughts on WeCrashed’s pacing
34:50 Breaking down Severance
42:54 Similarities between Severance and WeCrashed, general thoughts on their social commentary
1:05:42 Wrapping up with Lon
1:07:39 Twitter confirmed organic fluctuations in follower counts after the Elon Musk deal was announced, and Corin Faife joins to break down the numbers
1:32:22 Jason and Molly’s thoughts on Twitter follower fluctuations

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0:00.0	All right, everybody. It is a very special tequila Thursday on this week in startups. That's right. That's right.
0:08.0	An honor of Adam Newman and we crash Molly and I pop some Don Julio in 1942 with Lon Harris. Yeah, yeah, we do.
0:16.1	And then Lon joins in to wrap up the last five episodes, six episodes of Severance. We get super deep on that spoiler alert galore.
0:24.3	And then we have the Verge's core in fight, joining us to talk about his breakdown. He did a little math of who actually lost followers and who gained followers.
0:36.2	And maybe we speculate a little bit as to why after the Elon Musk takeover bit was accepted.
0:43.7	Yeah, a little tequila fuel data science like you do on every good podcast. It is going to be the episode of the year, I think.
0:52.0	So crack open a Don Julio in 1942, whatever your bag is. And stick with us.
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1:52.3	Hey, everybody. Welcome to Thursday Thursday your favorite day of the week for this week in startups with the exception of Sunday school, boomer on Friday, five for five Fridays.
2:02.4	Tuesday we live in the public's other than the other days of the week here.
2:06.4	We know Thursday's your favorite day because Lawn Harris L.O.N.S on Twitter is here.
2:13.2	Lawns is here and we started Lawns is here. Lawn Harris of course.
2:18.8	People famously know my failed startup Mahalo which then pivoted to my very successful startup inside which I extended Lawns options on.
2:26.0	So hopefully I can get Lawn his options make good on his options there.
2:31.1	Inside is doing good.
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