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"Founder Mode," DOJ alleges Russian podcast op, Kamala flips proposals, Tech loses Section 230?
- ▶ 40:59 Jason Calacanis Well, I mean, if Adam Newman had listened to a lot of the smart people he had hired at WeWork, he might not have signed leases that were so high priced and gotten away from the playbook that worked when they started that business, which…
Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
- ▶ 0:40 Jason Calacanis And from a WeWork in the home office in Pasadena is, uh, our friend, the Sultan of Science.
E162: Live from Davos! Milei goes viral, Adam Neumann's headwinds, streaming's broken model & more
- ▶ 35:15 Jason Calacanis In other news, Adam Neumann, you remember from WeWork infamy slash fame. 6 times in the scene
E152: Real estate chaos, WeWork bankruptcy, Biden regulates AI, Ukraine's “Cronkite Moment” & more
- ▶ 41:40 David Friedberg Let's, let's move on to WeWork. 10 times in the scene
E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 1:07:48 Jason Calacanis And then we've seen, ah, WeWork has an existential crisis.
E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
- ▶ 12:20 Jason Calacanis WeWork was going against, like, long-term real estate leases.
E128: Google enters AI wars, Druck’s warning, Trump crushes CNN & more
- ▶ 16:04 David Sacks But then it says he's also the co-founder of WeWork.
E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more
- ▶ 7:42 David Friedberg You know, in the same sort of vibe, quality, and attention to experience as maybe was intended with WeWork. 10 times in the scene
E91: SoftBank's $21B+ Vision Fund loss, signals of a bubble, macro picture, Trump raided by FBI
- ▶ 5:52 Jason Calacanis You remember, of course, and he complained a little bit in the in this whole thing about how there was a giant bubble without ever recognizing that he kind of created the bubble with a four billion dollar check to WeWork at a forty seven… 3 times in the scene
E86: Macro outlook: jobs, housing, inflation + Dutch farmers protests & EU climate missteps
- ▶ 13:27 David Sacks And this is why it turns out that WeWork was a pretty bad business model is because if you're, if all your leases are month to month, and you hit a recession, your revenue gets whammied.
E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- ▶ 55:27 Jason Calacanis We work.
#AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders
- ▶ 22:46 Mar Hershenson Even the wife of the founder of WeWork is more famous in some circles.
E81: All-In Summit: Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner on markets, downturns & investment cycles
- ▶ 30:44 Jason Calacanis Well, I mean, and then also we, we have the issue of selling and secondary when those opportunities arise, and we all just watched the We Crashed documentary, which one of your partners, um, plays a role in, I don't know, obviously it's… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:53 Chamath Palihapitiya I remember you telling me, this was, I don't know, in the height of WeWork,
E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- ▶ 32:11 David Friedberg But on the other hand, the whole pro founder model led to the, the WeWork and Ubers of the world that, you know, I think.
E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- ▶ 1:02:48 Jason Calacanis I'll say there was a 3.5 in there, which is you saw a little bit of lack of governance or superpowers on the part of like some incompetent founders or bad founders, just, you know, whether it's, we work there in us, whatever, too much…
E63: Insurrection indictments, human rights in the US and abroad, groundbreaking MS study and more
- ▶ 1:17:16 Jason Calacanis I mean, I think this is like a Theranos or WeWork overreaction, which is like,
E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- ▶ 58:51 David Friedberg Well, I went from who was in the worst shape, and, you know, came back from that, and I, I put WeWork on here, um, which is an obvious and easy choice. 4 times in the scene
E45: Theranos & VC fraud risks, China bans video games, Texas SB8, Apple app store, CA fires, Rogan
- ▶ 15:08 David Friedberg Now, the public, the general public that doesn't operate within Silicon Valley with as much breadth as we do, I think they hear the stories of the Adam Neumanns, and WeWork, and the Collapse, and Elizabeth Holmes, and this Trevor Milton…
E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- ▶ 42:35 Chamath Palihapitiya Look at WeWork. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:25 David Friedberg You could have looked at the business metrics of WeWork,
- ▶ 52:00 David Friedberg People join WeWork.
E35: Biogen's controversial Alzheimer's drug approval, the billionaire space race, Bitcoin & more
- ▶ 48:07 Chamath Palihapitiya So like things like we work do better, um, because then you use that for overflow space or that's how you, how you actually have a primary outfit.
E30: Ramifications of Biden's proposed capital gains tax hike, founder psychology & more
- ▶ 50:11 Jason Calacanis You did watch the Hulu documentary on WeWork? 3 times in the scene