California
6 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 20, 2022 by Yaron Ben Nun · said 62 times in 33 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Sean Weisbrot (16), Dan Freckling (12), Cassidy Toles (6), Yaron Ben Nun (5), Tom Rutledge (4), Kevin Geary (3), Brittany Fairweather (3), Vladimir Gendelman (1)
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2025 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2024 13 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Accounting Is Not a Numbers Game - Tom Rutledge on Why
- Her 14-Year-Old Was Pitching Clients at a Conference Without Her
- She Hit $1M and Tried to Maintain It. Her Soul Would Not Allow It.
- He Lost 76% of His Traffic and Refused to Let a Single Person Go
- She Made 7 Figures Selling What She Calls an Unhealthy Addiction
- From $0 to Half a Million in 30 Days Without Running a Single Ad
- 4,000 Mistakes in Weeks Made It Look Like an Overnight Success
- Finland Aims for an 8, Not a 10, and That Changes Everything
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2023 18 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- How a Cookie Invented in 94 Became the Monster Behind Your Data
- Doctors Said She'd Never Have Kids. Diet Changed That.
- 5 Clients Drive 95% of His Revenue and He Never Chases a Close
- They Gave Her Responsibility Without Authority - She Saw It Coming
- 550 Million People, One Language, Zero Access to Venture Capital
- He Joined VC With No Plan to Stay - Here Is What He Was Really After
- 10,000 Investor Meetings Later, He Saw One Same-Day Commitment
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2022 9 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- He Froze Water in a Barn and Raised $30 Million
- Builders Are the Ticket Before Interoperability Ever Gets Solved
- Why Your Superstar Already Has One Foot Out the Door
- They Showed Up to Inspect a Factory That Did Not Exist Yet
- Psilocybin Made a Purely Logical Man Say I Love You to His Brother
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2021 15 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- The Phantom Stock Plan Founders Use Before Going Public
- Why a Gorgeous Website Can't Convert a Soul
- 30 Years of Surveillance Footage Later: Privacy Is Already Dead
- He Called It a State of Flow Multiplied by 100
- Every Startup Thinks Its Baby Is the Cutest in the Room
- The Hidden 95%: Why the EU Is Still an Untapped Market
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
Everything said about California, oldest first
Apr 20, 2022
Ben Nun: California's grid lost 17 gigawatts of solar over three hours
“And a few days ago, a new world record was broken in California. The ramp up for three hours was 16 A 1900 megawatt drop. 16,900 megawatts. This is almost 17 gigawatts of electricity was vanished from the four p.m. To nine p.m. Through three hours of ramp up.”
Apr 20, 2022
Jan 24, 2023 neutral
Jan 24, 2023 neutral
Freckling: Virginia mandates opt-in for sensitive data whereas California uses opt-out
“Sensitive data under Virginia law. You must opt into, you must affirmatively say, yes, I will share my data. Whereas in California, it's an opt out regime. Meaning if you don't say anything, the assumption is you're allowing your data to be shared. You need to…”
Jan 30, 2024 positive
Weisbrot: California Basic Income Pilot Boosted Housing and Employment by 15-20%
“There was a program that was done with homeless people, I think in California recently, and they gave them like 500 dollars, no questions asked per month for like a year. And at the end of the study, if they made the assumption, some people made an assumption …”
Apr 10, 2024 negative
Rutledge: High California labor costs break fixed pricing models of national franchises
“In California, that same exact model that that franchise built, you need six people to do this volume in this place would lose money due to our cost of labor. So I'd have to figure out the franchise or model, but with maybe four people where they say I need si…”