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E1064: News Roundtable! Sam Parr & Zach Coelius on Barstool Sports vs. Call Her Daddy, SoftBank’s $17B loss, TikTok poaches former Disney exec as CEO, Facebook launches Shops & more!

2020/5/21

0:51 Jason intros Zach Coelius & Sam Parr 2:28 Barstool Sports vs. Call Her Daddy 6:49 Penn National

All-In E3: Modern Cold War between US & China, economic recovery, potential mass migration out of San Francisco, pandemic politicization & more with David Sacks & David Friedberg

2020/5/21

Angel investor Jason Calacanis (Uber, Calm, Robinhood) interviews the world’s greatest founders, ope

E1063: The Power of Accelerators E5 Joshua Baer, CEO & Founder of Capital Factory shares lessons from investing in 400+ startups, best practices for transitioning accelerators to remote, insights on SXSW cancellation & more

2020/5/20

0:35 Jason intros Capital Factory CEO & Founder Josh Baer 1:47 What is Capital Factory in its curren

E1062: News Roundtable! Acquired.FM Co-Hosts Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal on Clubhouse’s pre-launch $100M valuation, Joe Rogan to Spotify, Uber layoffs, food delivery wars, Facebook buys GIPHY & more!

2020/5/20

0:31 Jason intros today's news roundtable guests Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal 6:54 Clubhouse raises

E1061 AMA: Hustle Fund's Elizabeth Yin answers 50 questions from founders!

2020/5/18

Hustle Fund Co-Founder & General Partner Elizabeth Yin answers 50 questions from founders!

E1060 AMA: Range CEO & Co-Founder Dan Pupius answers questions from founders: meeting & collaborating with Evan Williams, divvying up time while building a remote team, product development advice, benefits of co-founders & more

2020/5/14

Range CEO & Co-Founder Dan Pupius answers questions from founders: meeting & collaborating with Evan

E1059: The Power of Accelerators E4 Sean O’Sullivan, Managing General Partner of SOSV on running capital intensive accelerators in hardware, life sciences & food science, unique follow-on strategy, cell-based meat going mainstream, China-based vs. US-based accelerators

2020/5/13

0:42 Jason intros SOSV's Sean O'Sullivan 4:19 How is operating in China during COVID? 5:22 Origin of

E1058: Slice CEO & Founder Ilir Sela helps local pizzerias compete with chains by digitizing orders & small fees, shares insights on raising $40M+ Series C during pandemic, “reverse franchise model”, viral GrubHub invoice, helping front-line workers & local pizzerias with Pizza vs. Pandemic

2020/5/12

0:36 Jason shares thoughts on his portfolio activity, getting back to work, leadership & more 4:20 J

E1057: Founders Fund General Partner Keith Rabois on stock market bounce back, domain expertise being overrated, US/China issues, 2020 election, recipe for startups success, chaos making way for a new generation of entrepreneurs & much more!

2020/5/12

0:56 Jason intros Keith Rabois and checks in on his quarantine, Zoom's heightened exhaustion factor

E1056 AMA: StartX & Nexus Events Founder Cameron Teitelman answers questions from founders: how universities with no entrepreneurial culture can mimic Stanford, building flexible & sustainable culture during COVID, scaling Nexus Events rapidly & more!

2020/5/12

StartX & Nexus Events Founder Cameron Teitelman answers questions from founders: how universities wi

E1055: Hustle Fund Co-Founder & General Partner Elizabeth Yin on her unique portfolio strategy, attracting first-time LPs, optimism for post-COVID fundraising, dealing with pro rata as a smaller fund & more!

2020/5/8

0:50 Jason opens the show with some thoughts on livelihood, getting back to work as a lose-lose situ

AMA 2: All Turtles CEO Phil Libin answers questions from founders: should early-stage founders prioritize data or instincts, building global products, ML risks, thoughts on remote work

2020/5/8

All Turtles CEO Phil Libin answers questions from founders: should early-stage founders prioritize d

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2020/5/7

Hosted by Jason Calacanis & Michael Savino, Angel.University is a workshop for individuals intereste

E1054: The Power of Accelerators E3 Siobhan Dullea, CEO of MassChallenge on running a non-profit accelerator, accepting hundreds of companies per year, what makes a great application, why East Coast investors are more conservative & more!

2020/5/6

0:42 Jason intros MassChallenge CEO Siobhan Dullea 3:09 What is MassChallenge & how is it different

E1053: Ask Jason! Catching‌ ‌an‌ ‌investor’s‌ ‌eye‌ ‌with‌ ‌a‌ ‌cold‌ ‌email‌, what founders/investors often overlook during pitches, COVID’s impact on Jason’s deal flow, domain name hacks & more!

2020/5/5

0:01 Jason intros today's questions! 2:18 Kate asks what founders & investors often overlook while p

TEASER: Inside Transportation E3: Sandy Munro Talks Electric Vehicles, Tesla Model Y + More

2020/5/2

Subscribe: https://linktr.ee/transportationpodcast Featuring Sandy Munro (CEO of Munro & Associates

E1052: Range CEO & Co-Founder Dan Pupius shares best practices on building culture as a remote team, insights from working on Google+, importance of asynchronous communication on distributed teams, Holacracy & more!

2020/5/2

0:56 Jason intros the show & talks about the impact the TWiST Slack has had on him 4:47 Jason intros

AMA 1: freeCodeCamp’s Quincy Larson answers founder and developer questions

2020/4/30

freeCodeCamp Founder Quincy Larson answers questions from his exclusive AMA only on This Week in Sta

E1051: The Power of Accelerators E2 Cameron Teitelman, Founder & Chairman of StartX on optimizing Stanford’s entrepreneurial landscape, thesis on peer-support groups’ correlation to founder success, why growth-stage founders join StartX & more!

2020/4/29

1:00 Jason intros Power of Accelerators Episode 2! 3:07 Jason intros StartX Founder Cameron Teitelma

E1050: PlayVS CEO & Founder Delane Parnell shares his incredible journey from the projects to raising almost $100M to build the esports platform of the future, breaking through as an outsider in tech, using leverage & partnerships to create a moat, his top 5 entrepreneurs & more!

2020/4/28

0:42 Jason intros PlayVS CEO & Founder Delane Parnell 2:59 What is PlayVS, how do they make money &