Weekly Recap 7/19 - 7/23
Jason Calacanis
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This week's episodes were:
Garrett Langley, Founder & CEO of Flock Safety
For our Next Unicorns series, Jason interviews Garrett?about reducing crime in American cities and neighborhoods. His mission is to eliminate crime, and believes the best way to reduce crime is by solving more of it.
The main way Flock works is by operating a distributed set of cameras that identify stolen cars by their license plates. The discussion spans from how Flock keeps data secure?and prevents abuse, to how they work with police departments.
In news segment, Jason covers Bezos reaching space, breaks down Robinhood's S-1/A , Circle's new USDC attestation, crypto crackdown in Asia, Zoom buying Five9 for almost $15B and the launch of Keith Rabois' new company OpenStore, which provides instant liquidity for Shopify stores.
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Slava Rubin, Founder of?Vincent
Before founding Vincent, Slava founded Indiegogo?and ran the crowdfunding platform as CEO.?He was excited to share his new company?Vincent, which searches across 75+ alternative asset investing platforms.
In?the episode, he?discusses?all things alternative assets from the regulatory changes shaping the industry to why he lives the trading card space.
For news, Jason reacts to the Tether CTO & General Counsel's interview on CNBC?and digs in to Netflix's latest earnings report.
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Do Kwon, Founder & CEO of Terraform Labs
We've been trying to make sense of the stable coin sector of the crypto industry.?Do came recommended as a credible voice to explain what's going on. We discuss?current stable coin use-cases,?his stable coin project TerraUSD, as well as LUNA the underlying cryptocurrency used to stabilize?the price of Terra. Of course, Jason had to ask about Tether and... Do gave a diplomatic answer you will have to interpret for yourself.In the news segment Jason covers China's increasing penalties for Didi, Twitter's test of a downvote feature, and how the UAE was able to induce rain with electricity.?
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In this rapid fire news episode, Jason covers a16z-backed Dfinity's crypto class action complaint, Snapchat and Twitter's massive second Q2 earnings, the CCP considering turning it's ed-tech sector non-profit, Alphabet's new company focused?on industrial robots, and San Francisco's 17M sq. ft. of vacant office space.
At the end Jason?reflects on some old predictions about?Disney+ that he made 4 years ago on CNBC.
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