YC brings on Garry Tan as President, Apple's AR plans, Bored Apes at the VMAs | E1547
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
First up, J+M break down YC announcing Garry Tan as its new President and CEO, and what this means for the industry. (11:44) Then, they break down Apple potentially showing its card for its AR goggles name (37:16), and they wrap with some commentary on Eminem and Snoop Dogg performing as their Bored Apes at the VMAs. (58:20)
(0:00) J+M tee up today's topics
(2:12) Catching up on the weekend
(10:18) LinkedIn Marketing - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at https://linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups
(11:44) Garry Tan is stepping back from Initialized to become YC's new CEO and President
(25:05) TripActions - Go to https://tripactions.com/twist and get a $500 Amazon gift card after making your first travel booking OR paying off your first $1000 of liquid spend
(26:34) Jason explains "no conflict, no interest"
(35:46) WorkOS - Go to https://workos.com to learn how to make your app enterprise-ready.
(37:16) Quick Jay Trading update, Apple files trademarks for potential AR goggles name
(58:20) Eminem and Snoop Dogg performed as their Bored Apes over the weekend at the MTV VMAs
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome back. It's Monday. We have big murder Monday energy today. |
| 0:05.5 | Wow. Big news coming out of why |
| 0:07.6 | combinator. I'm going to break down why Gary 10 is going to do great and initialize is going |
| 0:13.6 | to do great as he becomes the fourth, I believe CEO and president of why combinator and why maybe |
| 0:19.6 | some VCs hate on why combinator a bit and you know spoiler alerts because they're jelly. |
| 0:26.2 | As always, such a great. It's going to be a great breakdown though. |
| 0:29.0 | Like this is the insight you want about this news and what it actually means for the |
| 0:32.9 | Venturi industry and startups at large, super great conversation. Then we're going to talk about |
| 0:37.6 | some dishy Apple trade mark filings when things might get a little real |
| 0:44.7 | in the party. Yeah, make a J trade. Who knows? And we're going to wrap up some thoughts on |
| 0:58.0 | Eminem and Snoop grifting the board AB yacht club on the MTV VMAs. Absolutely gross. |
| 1:03.2 | I will break down for you. Oh my lord. We meant to have a five minute dunk session and I'm just saying |
| 1:08.4 | we got a little fired up about this one. It is going to be a great show. Stick with us. It's |
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| 1:48.8 | booking or paying off your first $1,000 of liquid spend. And work OS is a developer platform to |
| 1:56.7 | make your app enterprise ready. With a few simple APIs, you can immediately add common enterprise |
| 2:03.1 | features like single sign on, multifactor authentication and more. Go to work OS.com to learn how to make |
| 2:10.9 | your app enterprise ready. Hey Molly. Happy Monday. How are you? How are you? How was your weekend? |
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