Cartoon Avatars
By Logan Bartlett
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EP 42: Zach Weinberg Returns, His Take on FTX, Venture’s Culpability and the Possible Death of Twitter
01:08:26
(0:05) Intro (2:02) This week on Twitter (10:01) The FTC (13:41) What’s next? (21:37) Other social platforms (23:57) Welcome back Zach Weinberg (27:56) Zach’s take on FTX (43:17) Smart people don’t get rich quick (44:52) Venture’s culpability (51:35) Interest rates (54:48) Would DeFi have been better? (1:01:23) End of Web3? (1:07:43) Outro
Show Notes: https://milkyeggs.com/?p=175 https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xafpj3on76uRDoBja/the-ftx-future-fund-team-has-resigned-1?commentId=hpP8EjEt9zTmWKFRy Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-cartoon-avatars/id1606770839 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg
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About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Nov 19, 2022 |
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EP 41: FTX Part 2 and the Twitter Breakdown: Aztec’s Jon Wu joins to talk FTX then Former Twitter Director Ryan Sarver & Fintwit Poster Compound248 Break Down Elon’s Takeover, Paid Verification, Advertisers Fleeing and the FTC
01:49:32
(0:00) Intro (1:54) Welcome Rashad (4:12) “Verified” Twitter Accounts (7:36) FTX (10:08) Rashad’s new podcast (12:43) Welcome back Jon Wu (14:32) SBF, FTX, and Alameda (21:33) What was the fraud? (24:56) Malicious intent or the tipping point? (30:49) What was the sentiment of SBF by people in the ecosystem? (34:10) What’s upcoming to pay attention to? (36:23) CZ (38:10) Welcome Ryan Sarver and Compound248 (43:04) Recapping what’s happened since Elon bought Twitter (45:30) Blue checks (51:48) Why Twitter is a difficult business (1:00:30) Brand-based advertising to subscription (1:16:33) Who will pay for verification? (1:26:51) Why has Twitter been advertising-based? (1:32:12) How much was pseudonymity a feature? (1:34:49) What changes would you focus on? (1:41:22) Twitter’s FTC order (1:45:40) Elon shifting blame
Subscribe to No Agenda with @corporashid: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KHruq3qC0IKm5U9wOIjKZ?si=13bab75351d74c70 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBgv57GHyNgjhl3CBB3XtXp2JylaVKdNs
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-cartoon-avatars/id1606770839 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg
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About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Nov 12, 2022 |
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EP 41 - Bonus Episode: Mike Burgersburg, Twitter Poster Who Helped Discover FTX’s Issues, Breaks Down How It All Happened
00:47:27
Show Notes: https://dirtybubblemedia.substack.com/ https://dirtybubblemedia.substack.com/p/is-alameda-research-insolvent https://dirtybubblemedia.substack.com/p/ftxed-the-tangled-ties-of-celsius
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-cartoon-avatars/id1606770839 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/cartoonavatars 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/cartoonavatars 🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@cartoonavatars
About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Nov 09, 2022 |
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EP 40: Peter Fenton, VC and Founder Mindsets, Current Market State and Rashad’s New Podcast
01:32:39
(0:05) Intro/Rahul Ligma (04:56) Rashad’s new podcast “No Agenda” (9:28) Introducing Peter Fenton (17:06) Working at Excel (24:59) Mentorship (28:50) Benchmark (39:21) Entrepreneurial mindset (49:19) Successful founder characteristic (54:08) Estimating timelines (1:03:07) Everyone gets worse in venture over time (1:13:48) VC websites (1:19:18) Inflation (1:26:55) Robert Sapolsky (1:32:06) Outro
Show Notes: Subscribe to No Agenda: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KHruq3qC0IKm5U9wOIjKZ?si=13bab75351d74c70 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBgv57GHyNgjhl3CBB3XtXp2JylaVKdNs Rahul Ligma: https://twitter.com/Rezowan_/status/1586047782351441920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1586047782351441920%7Ctwgr%5Ef725476e02dc15cc5f19f20bc8c3527e61e44c4f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.com%2F2022%2F10%2F28%2F23428775%2Ftwitter-fake-employee-layoff-rahul-ligma-elon-musk Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-cartoon-avatars/id1606770839 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/cartoonavatars 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/cartoonavatars 🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@cartoonavatars
About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Nov 04, 2022 |
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EP 39: All-In’s Jason Calacanis Joins, Breaking Into Media, Tech in Journalism and the Kanye Controversy
01:24:04
(0:00) Welcome Rashad (2:25) Kanye Controversy (9:32) Elon buys twitter (13:58) Welcome Jason Calacanis (15:00) NYC and Silicon Alley (18:32) Getting into media (28:52) Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 (34:02) Tech and journalism (44:09) This week in startups (49:48) Palmer Luckey interview (56:56) Kanye on Lex Friedman (59:35) Responsibility as a public figure (1:02:53) All-In and Cartoon Avatars (1:09:23) Capturing lightning in a bottle (1:16:19) Being in the public spotlight (1:22:30) Wrap up
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson
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Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/cartoonavatars 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/cartoonavatars 🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@cartoonavatars About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Oct 28, 2022 |
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EP 38: Anchor CEO/Founder, Spotify’s Former Head of Talk and Lightspeed Partner Mike Mignano talks the History/Future of Podcasting, Clubhouse and Web3 for creators
01:30:00
(0:00) Intro (1:02) Tennessee vs Alabama (5:58) Ghostwriter backlash (10:15) Introducing Mike Mignano (11:57) How Mike and Logan met (14:09) Mike’s programming background (17:37) Advice for kids (21:37) Left Accenture for a startup (27:42) Beginning of Anchor (39:44) Selling to Spotify (46:03) RSS as an open protocol (53:11) The future of podcasting (59:42) Clubhouse (1:04:15) Apps capturing a moment (1:06:41) Recommendation media (1:19:39) Web3 creator economy and monetization (1:28:36) Wrap up
Show Notes: Dead Cat Podcast - VC Ghostwriters (w/ Logan Bartlett)
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-cartoon-avatars/id1606770839 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/cartoonavatars 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/cartoonavatars 🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@cartoonavatars
About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Oct 21, 2022 |
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EP 37: Mark Cuban Talks with Us About How He Succeeded, Advice for Young Entrepreneurs, Buying the Mavericks & Cost Plus Drugs
01:41:15
(0:00) Welcome Rashad (1:20) Ghostwriting tweets (16:18) Mark Cuban backstory (17:24) Introducing Mark Cuban (18:23) When Bill Gates stole Mark’s girl (19:24) Making his email public (20:49) Mark’s superpower (22:29) Advice for young entrepreneurs (25:52) Growing up in Pittsburgh (30:27) Owning the sales process (35:18) Mark’s journey (41:10) Retiring at 30 (44:00) Broadcast.com (47:50) Recognizing the internet bubble (50:25) Crypto and early Internet parallels (58:28) Buying the Mavericks (1:02:50) Create your own narrative (1:06:08) Fame (1:08:37) Cost Plus Drugs (1:26:30) Rapid fire questions (1:31:25) Problem with the SEC (1:40:24) Outro Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-cartoon-avatars/id1606770839 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg
Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/cartoonavatars 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/cartoonavatars 🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@cartoonavatars About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Oct 14, 2022 |
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EP 36: Fivetran CEO George Fraser and Young VCs Launching Funds
01:10:56
(0:00) Intro (0:53) Investors starting their own funds (10:05) Tiger (14:16) Choosing a VC firm (22:07) Facebook’s Yahoo offer (25:04) Welcome George Fraser (30:02) Plaid comparison (39:01) Salesforce data (42:32) Finding product/market fit (46:52) Era of iterating to success (51:55) What’s driving stack changes? (56:29) Mixing family and business (1:02:17) Academia to entrepreneurship (1:00:28) Lawrenceville Boarding School (1:05:56) Acquisition lessons learned (1:10:07) Closing Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb... Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0...
Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/cartoonavatars 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/cartoonavatars 🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@cartoonavatars About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Oct 07, 2022 |
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EP 35: NYT CEO Meredith Kopit Levien, Bankless’ David Hoffman and Zach Weinberg Crypto Debate, Live at Live at Primary's NYC Summit
01:19:56
(1:06) Rashad and pickleball (5:56) College football (9:03) Elon Andreessen leaked email (10:54) Cathie Wood’s ARK investment fund (19:25) Welcoming Zach, David and Sahil (20:04) David Hoffman’s view on Web3 (21:58) Zach Weinberg’s view on Web3 (24:29) Web3 vs existing tech (27:39) Why contracts are complicated (31:24) Layering a financial system (34:09) Crypto in unstable regimes (36:45) How brands use Web3 (41:12) Crypto broad scope (43:09) Why are VCs backing crypto? (47:06) SEC regulation (49:10) Introducing Meredith Kopit Levien (53:47) NYT’s online subscription model (58:32) Mile markers for achievements (1:02:25) Being product-led in journalism (1:05:22) The Daily (1:11:48) Is polarization good for business? (1:15:20) Setting long-term goals (1:17:25) Rapid fire questions (1:19:04) Outro
Show Notes: https://twitter.com/PrimaryVC https://www.primary.vc
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb... Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0... Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/cartoonavatars 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/cartoonavatars 🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@cartoonavatars About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Sep 30, 2022 |
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EP 34: Interview w/ Oculus & Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey + Jon Sakoda Predicts Record VC Investments
02:08:52
(0:00) Intro (1:02) Welcome Jon Sakoda (6:13) Jon’s charts (14:49) Internet Bubble (20:34) Public vs private market valuations (32:58) Other takeaways and predictions (35:45) Welcome Palmer Luckey (36:21) Journalism school (39:10) The Oculus story (41:41) Choosing VR over personal issues (45:26) Donating to pro-Trump group (50:44) Game studios “not” working with Oculus (57:19) Facebook leadership’s intent (1:05:29) The takeaway from Facebook controversy (1:12:16) Founding Oculus (1:15:11) Following talents vs passion (1:22:33) Selling Oculus (1:27:17) Founding Anduril (1:40:54) What Anduril does (1:46:40) Knowing a little about a lot (1:50:18) Morality in war (1:53:42) Building technology before war occurs (1:57:15) Going to Ukraine (2:00:51) Being a CEO (2:05:21) An executive’s actual job (2:07:51) Wrap up
Show Notes: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/opening-floodgates-290-billion-venture-capital-reserve-jon-sakoda/ https://twitter.com/jonsakoda/status/1572269690810159105?s=21&t=FLkGcKd2el-h38sX9AMsaw
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb... Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0... Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/cartoonavatars 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/cartoonavatars 🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@cartoonavatars About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Sep 23, 2022 |
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EP 33: Maven Founder Kate Ryder, Zach’s Documentary, Adobe's Figma Acquisition and the State of Healthcare
01:36:18
(1:44) Adobe's Figma Acquisition (14:39) Why would Figma do this? (25:47) Zach’s Chelsea experience (28:50) Street documentary (36:13) Most common response (40:46) Advocate for housing (44:08) Welcome Kate Ryder (48:39) Overview of Maven (53:32) Improving the care model with technology (1:00:43) What is Maven providing (1:04:38) Who decides what’s covered in healthcare (1:08:07) Most surprising thing healthcare doesn’t cover (1:13:05) Charging and pricing (1:19:05) How having kids informed decisions (1:22:35) Fundraising as a founder after being a VC (1:26:39) Kate’s take on this market (1:28:45) Leading Maven during societal shifts (1:35:47) Outro
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson
🎙 Listen to the show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb... Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0...
Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/cartoonavatars 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/cartoonavatars 🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@cartoonavatars About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Sep 16, 2022 |
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EP 32: Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Talks About His Time at Second City, Running Twitter, and Missing Out on Instagram
01:35:04
(0:58) Mark Cuban canceled (4:08) The editing room (6:07) Logan’s engagement (9:22) Welcome Dick Costolo (13:54) Dick’s time at Second City (28:16) After Second City (32:44) Why Twitter is a unique challenge (35:06) Treating all Twitter accounts equally (40:09) Social Media Regulation (42:06) Twitter monetization (44:06) Trying to buy Instagram (48:37) Social media platform Saturn (52:01) Expectation setting (57:10) Leading a company you didn’t found (59:53) Role vs identity (1:02:15) Bill Campbell’s mentorship (1:07:57) Letting people go (1:12:47) Successful managing (1:15:42) Marxist vs Darwinian management (1:19:13) Assume best intentions (1:24:40) Getting unfollowed by Elon Musk (1:30:31) Rapid fire (1:35:14) Outro Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb... Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0...
Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/cartoonavatars 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/cartoonavatars 🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@cartoonavatars About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Sep 09, 2022 |
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EP 31: Anonymous Fintwit Personality Compound248 Joins to Talk LP Allocation Strategy, the Yale Model, Spotify and Twitter
01:21:48
(0:00) Intro (0:52) Compound248’s Background (4:24) Why be anonymous (9:15) Responsibilities of asset allocation (14:53) Why endowments led the way (18:15) Science of asset allocation (23:11) More triaging and less manager (25:32) Venture is building, not buying (30:06) Hypothetical endowment (34:51) How much of your fund is tech (37:51) The generalist is the patsy (42:04) Spotify (45:07) Spotify vs TV streaming (50:30 Rap caviar (54:34) Cash flow margin (1:01:04) Twitter (1:06:18) Twitter monetization (1:15:45) Whistleblower (1:20:27) Wrap up
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson
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About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Aug 26, 2022 |
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EP 30: Conversation with Plaid & Column Founder William Hockey, Covering Adam Neumann with Author Maureen Farrell and Common Founder Brad Hargreaves
01:52:35
(1:55) Introducing William (4:48) Kids today (6:22) William’s first pitch to Zach (10:44) Data prioritization (12:21) Providing services others don’t want to do (21:29) Strategic decisions (25:48) Organizing a new UI (31:38) Selling Plaid to Visa (33:13) Fintech in current market conditions (38:27) William bought a bank (44:00) Running Column as a couple (52:03) Crypto’s role in finance (59:57) Funding (1:05:45) A changing path for entrepreneurs (1:11:21) Neumann and Flow (1:13:46) Introducing Maureen and Brad (1:15:30) WeWork recap (1:22:06) Common vs WeLive (1:27:23) Community Narrative (1:33:21) Flow’s potential use cases (1:36:36) Why Andreessen would back this (1:42:58) Does it help when founders are crazy? (1:47:38) What will Neumann need to do? (1:52:03) Outro
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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EP 29: Multicoin Capital’s Kyle Samani Joins the Crypto Debate and Chat Helium, Also Amazon-One Medical and Productivity at Big Tech
01:40:42
(0:00) Intro (1:06) Welcoming Rashad (4:34) Going viral (5:22) Changing the work culture (8:19) Perf cycles (14:31) Cash cow (19:59) Google investing in people (23:03) One Medical (29:50) Welcoming Kyle (34:26) Solana (37:54) Progression of different funds (39:08) What got you into crypto (42:43) Financial markets (51:25) Gas fees (56:24) Underlying crypto issues (1:04:55) Helium (1:14:52) Nova Labs (1:23:48) Equity and capital formation (1:26:49) Lessons about risk (1:30:10) Critique of the US system (1:36:06) Bitcoin is nonsense (1:40:01) Outro
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson
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About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Aug 12, 2022 |
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EP 28: Convo with Web3 is Going Just Great Creator Molly White, plus State of the Market, a Convo on Secondaries and Sam Lessin Recap
01:20:36
(0:00) Intro (0:38) Releasing the Sam Lessin Episode (6:39) The state of the market (18:58) DataRobot AI (21:22) Zach’s take (25:00) DataRobot distinctions (28:11) Tax code is founder-friendly, not employee-friendly (32:49) Not all employees are treated equally (34:03) The market determines what’s fair (38:47) Balance of the private markets (40:31) Winding down Web3 debates (42:27) Introducing Molly White (43:48) Starting Web3 is going just great (46:41) The recruiting process (51:48) Considering editorial content (57:31) Who to blame for crypto hype (1:05:57) “Believing” is a core part of the strategy (1:10:06) Split on issues (1:13:58) Most interesting story covered (1:15:37) Dealing with backlash (1:19:27) Outro
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb... Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0... Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/cartoonavatars 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/cartoonavatars 🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@cartoonavatars
About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Aug 05, 2022 |
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EP 27: Convo with Lux’s Josh Wolfe and Our Best/Worst Crypto Debate with Slow Venture’s Sam Lessin
02:23:39
(1:27) – Welcome Josh Wolfe (3:10) – Market updates (13:21) – Anti-bubble (16:28) – Consolidation (19:57) – Everything times pi (22:35) – Welcome Sam Lessin (25:43) – NY tech founders in ‘07 (30:44) – Slow Ventures (33:12) – The crypto debate begins (41:57) – On chain real estate (49:19) – Legal protections (1:03:10) – Does it hold up in court? (1:09:52) – Final walk through (1:14:42) – Bearer bonds (1:19:58) – Zach’s reasons against crypto (1:31:37) – Zach’s point (1:33:51) – Carta for your DAU (1:37:11) – Back to liquidity (1:41:24) – Why is it not awesome? (1:45:17) – Users (1:52:40) – Unsettled case law (2:00:29) – Final arguments (2:04:10) – The boiling point (2:06:59) – Maybe we can publish this part (2:12:15) – Zach ending (2:22:08) - Outro
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson
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About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Jul 29, 2022 |
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Bonus Episode: Logan Bartlett’s Guest Appearance on Ordinary Astronauts: Talking the Why Behind Cartoon Avatars and the State of VC
01:04:39
Listen to Ordinary Astronauts: https://t.co/6bVExMcSVF Time Stamps: (1:18) – Private vs public markets (4:31) – Finding your investor (7:47) – Valuations in the current market (12:52) – Few buyers at $1B valuation (14:12) – VC conspiracy theories (18:56) – Founder decisions (23:50) – Work/life balance (27:21) – Seeing through to the exit (30:04) – Origins of Cartoon Avatars (35:01) – The art of creating (38:26) – Assessing the numbers (42:39) – Infiniteness of content (47:04) – Lessons learned in podcasting (50:55) – The important opinions (52:37) – Why Cartoon Avatars changed formats (55:39) – Areas of uncertainty (58:27) – Maintaining the routine for publishing (1:01:03) – The biggest guests (1:03:58) – Wrapping up
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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EP 26: Chaos Monkey’s author Antonio García Martínez talks book, Facebook conspiracy theories, and a Web3 debate
01:36:46
(0:00) - Intro (1:27) – Welcoming Antonio García Martínez (AGM) (4:04) – AGM’s greatest hits (7:45) – Ad tech (10:04) – Why AGM wrote Chaos Monkey (14:50) – His character in Chaos Monkey (17:19) – Bringing your whole self to work (19:14) – Politics in social media (26:17) – Converting to Judaism (30:58) – Visiting Ukraine (35:19) – Current thing theory (43:25) – Chamath example (46:45) – What’s something everyone incorrectly believes is true? (51:16) – Facebook isn’t listening to your phone (56:09) – IG vs Twitter ad targeting (57:56) – AGM announces his Web3 company (1:04:28) – Zach agrees in a Web3 debate (1:06:41) – Fundamental business models in Web3 (1:11:44) – Web3 skepticism (1:15:44) – Acquisitions in Web2 vs Web3 (1:22:53) – Web3 macro analysis (1:25:00) – Farcaster (1:31:54) – Will Zach invest? (1:36:02) – Outro
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson
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About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Jul 22, 2022 |
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EP 25: Braze’s Bill Magnuson talks the “aha moment” and advice for entrepreneurs, plus Rashad Assir’s path to Redpoint TikTok
01:30:52
(0:00) Intro (0:22) Introducing Rashad (3:05) Rashad’s background (5:45) Redpoint’s TikTok (10:45) Introducing Bill Magnuson (16:27) How big is Braze? (17:36) Bill’s Background (20:48) Taking college classes as a high school freshman (25:11) Applying to MIT (29:32) Building Google android product (34:14) Bridgewater (39:42) Founding Appboy (44:46) Thesis behind Braze (48:29) The “aha moment” (52:05) Throughput vs Deliverability (55:57) Predicting the future of infrastructure (1:02:35) Advice for entrepreneurs (1:05:37) Being on the path of progress (1:10:31) Taking over as CEO (1:15:23) Recruiting your team (1:19:32) Going public (1:24:35) What keeps you motivated? (1:27:22) Bill’s bitcoin story (1:30:02) Outro
Links: https://www.tiktok.com/@redpoint?lang=en https://www.tiktok.com/@corporayshid?lang=en Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb... Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0... Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/cartoonavatars 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/cartoonavatars 🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@cartoonavatars
About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Jul 15, 2022 |
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Bonus Episode: The Elon Musk Twitter Saga w/ Axios' Dan Primack
00:53:13
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music Griff Lawson
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About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Jul 09, 2022 |
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EP 24: QED’s Frank Rotman Talks Crypto and Capital One Origins, Plus Redpoint’s Own TikTok Guy Revealed
01:42:23
(0:00) Intro (0:44) Introducing Rashad Assir (3:25) Introducing Frank Rotman (6:36) History of Capital One (14:40) Building the infrastructure (16:25) Starting QED (18:29) Frank’s Web3 journey (24:15) Where’s the substance? (28:37) What in crypto makes the most sense? (30:48) Lending vs Leverage (36:55) Crypto in different countries (45:14) Products are the hard part (50:24) Noisy data (52:40) To what extent is this interesting? (1:00:16) The oracle problem (1:07:47) Protections of a bank (1:12:45) Reversibility (1:17:52) Embedded features (1:23:13) Mercenaries vs missionaries (1:27:13) Web3 living up to its name (1:36:06) Immutable public database (1:39:09) Outro
Links: https://www.tiktok.com/@redpoint?lang=en https://www.tiktok.com/@corporayshid?lang=en
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb... Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0...
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About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Jul 08, 2022 |
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Bonus Episode: Logan and Zach on the "Best Business Show w/ Anthony Pompliano - Episode: 239"
01:14:04
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About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Jul 04, 2022 |
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EP 23: Non-Crypto Talk with Zach Weinberg plus Interview with Acquired Podcast’s Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
02:21:50
Time Stamps: (1:18) Introducing Zach Weinberg (2:44) Web2 celebrity status (7:22) Frozen tech market (10:33) Investor perspective (14:06) Current market state (25:07) Advising founders (34:24) Bill Magnuson Story (38:13) Founder characteristics) (42:37) Zach vs Keith Rabois (49:13) Acquired FM intro (50:09) Acquired FM history (1:04:43) The state of podcasts (1:08:48) Logan’s backstory (1:23:52) Creating episodes (1:33:55) Three priorities of Acquired (1:46:28) Acquired’s best moments (1:49:10) Production process (1:54:36) Increasing blast radius (2:00:29 State of venture (2:08:14) The Tiger/SoftBank approach (2:17:37) Parting thoughts
Links: Keith Rabois – Barrels and Ammunition clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75fyGOBy38c -Zach Weinberg vs Keith Rabois - https://medium.com/@KirbyAWallace/fact-checking-a-vcs-tweets-about-covid-19-clinical-trials-86cdef1b0ff4 -Acquired FM - https://www.acquired.fm/
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About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Jul 01, 2022 |
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EP 22: Crypto Debate with Shaun Maguire & Zach Weinberg + Interview with Papa Founder Andrew Parker
01:45:06
(00:00) Intro (02:57) Introducing Shaun Maguire (09:52) DARPA to cyber security (15:41) Paying in Bitcoin (17:27) Wife’s family fleeing their country for safety (27:27) Crypto in autocratic nations (31:20) Middlemen (35:30) Investing in equity (36:28) Blockchain video games (37:36) Uniswap (40:33) Future use cases (42:56) Following where young people are excited (49:27) Introducing Andrew Parker (51:15) How Logan and Andrew met (55:12) Andrew’s background (57:30) Telehealth – MD Live (58:52) The idea for Papa (1:02:19) State of health insurance (1:04:12) Pals (1:07:17) Papa members (1:11:54) Size of Papa (1:13:40) Justifying Papa to health plans (1:16:41) Impacting outcomes (1:19:23) Market of Medicare vs Medicare Advantage (1:21:49) Family care (1:24:07) Employer healthcare plans (1:29:00) Fundraising (1:35:31) Miami tech (1:38:27) Papa.com (1:42:13) Closing
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About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Jun 24, 2022 |
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EP 21: Aztec’s Jon Wu Joins Zach’s Crypto Debate, Plus the Celsius Disaster & Crypto as Bird Talons
01:22:28
(00:00) Intro (01:19) Introducing Jon Wu (04:40) What is Ethereum? (08:10) Present and future of crypto (12:53) How Jon got into crypto (17:48) The oracle problem (19:58) Real world crypto uses (23:07) Post speculation (29:15) Lack of sovereign money (35:00) What’s happening with Celsius? (37:30) Why does DeFi work? (42:00) Digital goods (48:06) Celsius state of play (55:40) Celsius’ impact on the crypto market (59:29) Crypto regulation (1:05:31) TAM analysis (1:10:08) Youth in crypto (1:12:21) VCs in crypto (1:19:52) Why should we care about crypto? (1:27:20) The jetpack example
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson
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About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Jun 18, 2022 |
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EP 20: Interview with Ramp’s Eric Glyman (+ explaining Cartoon Avatars’ origins) and a Crypto Debate with Mike Dudas and Zach Weinberg
02:29:38
(01:14) Introducing Zach Weinberg and Mike Dudas (06:06) Mike’s background (19:02) Exciting about crypto (24:18) Zach vs crypto (32:04) Inflation hedge (38:25) Does Zach own Crypto (41:00) Banking in foreign countries (53:59) Stablecoin vs wire transfer (59:00) KYC (1:03:57) Crypto insurance (1:09:24) Eric Glyman: Welcome (1:11:32) Eric Glyman: Background (1:16:57) Eric Glyman: Mandarin Debate video (1:20:28) Eric Glyman: Starting Paribus (1:24:51) Eric Glyman: Selling to Capital One (1:28:57) Eric Glyman: Fintech’s success (1:33:49) Eric Glyman: What is Ramp? (1:43:10) Eric Glyman: Learnings as a 2-time founder (1:48:13) Eric Glyman: Being purposeful (1:52:55) Eric Glyman: Delegating as a CEO (1:58:53) Eric Glyman: Building the inevitability of success (2:02:43) Eric Glyman: Thinking through your investor base (2:08:29) Eric Glyman: How do you determine your valuation? (2:13:15) Eric Glyman: Advice for executives (2:18:03) Eric Glyman: Craziest investor stories (2:20:40) Eric Glyman: The origin of Cartoon Avatars (2:21:54) Eric Glyman: Relationship between companies and media (2:28:58) Outro
Links: Eric Glyman debate video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxB5bb8xEDg
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson
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About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Jun 11, 2022 |
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EP 19: Matt Levine, Meme Stocks, Crypto Crash and Terrible Attempts at Crime
01:35:41
(00:00) Intro (00:13) Intro Zach and Packy (01:07) Solana (05:14) Crypto Ecosystem (13:00) Crypto Use Cases (18:02) Crypto Investments (21:45) Elon’s Ultimatum (27:43) Billionaire Senate Run (32:04) VC Firm’s Scam & Media War (37:39) Sheryl Sandberg Steps Down (48:03) Matt Levine Intro (49:39) Leaving Goldman Sachs (52:26) Joining Deal Breaker (55:04) Choosing Topics (1:01:08) Crypto as a Lab for Financial Institutions (1:02:08) Deal Breaker to Bloomberg (1:07:00) Finance Bro Groupies (1:08:14) r/WallStreetBets (1:12:31) Insider Trading (1:15:17) Crypto (1:22:13) Elon and Twitter (1:25:08) Elon and the SEC (1:29:01) Writing on Unexpected Topics (1:31:16) Impact of Meme Stocks (1:33:11) Future Writing (1:34:51) Outro
Links: VC threatened a media war against a start-up after unsolicited investment https://sifted.eu/articles/heroes-amazon-solid-capital/ Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Tesla Execs: Return to the Office or Get Out https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/musk-s-tesla-ultimatum-return-to-office-or-work-somewhere-else https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1531867103854317568?s=20&t=cKRzLoqnu1HMX-LPLCbZFQ Solana goes down for over 6 hours https://cryptopotato.com/solana-goes-down-for-over-6-hours-validators-prepare-for-restart/ Coinbase pauses new hiring and rescinds accepted offers https://blog.coinbase.com/update-on-hiring-plans-bcedfa634989 US Charges Ex-OpenSea Exec With NFT Insider Trading https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/06/01/us-charges-ex-opensea-exec-with-nft-insider-trading/
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson
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About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. |
Jun 04, 2022 |
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EP 18: Parker Conrad, Sequoia’s Leaked Deck, a Different Kind of Crisis and VCs vs. Hedge Funds
02:04:21
(00:08) Welcome Zach Weinberg (00:55) Andreessen Horowitz/Flow Carbon (10:41) Crypto Litigation Risk (16:27) Venture vs. Hedge Funds (22:25) Sequoia’s Leaked Deck (27:04) Different Kind of Crisis (28:20) Tech Companies Had It Easy (30:21) Uber vs. Lyft (34:16) Down Rounds (40:27) High Valuation Doesn’t Mean Good Employment (45:31) 2008 Work Force (49:50) Parker Conrad Intro (50:13) Working on Harvard’s Crimson (52:45) Left School for a Little Rock Newspaper (55:13) Cancer Diagnosis (57:16) Starting SigFig (58:52) Raising Money Pre-2013 (1:05:29) Challenges in Automating (1:08:36) The Public Narrative (1:10:36) Forced Out of Zenefits (1:19:50) VC’s Role in Narrative (1:22:59) What Do Founders Want From VCs? (1:25:46) Do VCs Increase Success? (1:30:09) Discussing Rippling (1:38:16) Building a Compound Company (1:46:56) Hiring People With a Chip On Their Shoulder (1:49:02) Most Important Job of a CEO (1:51:05) Raised the Next Round (1:54:47) Determining the Valuation (1:58:09) San Francisco Follow the show: https://twitter.com/cartoonavatars https://www.instagram.com/cartoonavatars/ https://www.tiktok.com/@cartoonavatars Follow the host: https://twitter.com/loganbartlett Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson Links: Sequoia’s Leaked Deck - https://fortune.com/2022/05/25/sequoia-capital-slide-dek-warning-to-founders-downturn/ Zack’s Twitter Battle - https://twitter.com/zachweinberg/status/1527107650911186944?s=20&t=DN_FdiP-WW6rDwmHNkJPTA Parker Conrad Discussing Chip on Their Shoulder - https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/18/parker-conrad-i-like-working-with-people-who-have-a-chip-on-their-shoulder/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAqlH6GlRJ8EA-ptL8cD-XPUGeoXNRqKe9l_Qegi--qyyHZQrMTJ8bwlg47vSJ9rkc2eaJlUKyMvb3wA-Rw2PjFYJl5gUwZfO0WPMLF-tRT_lVDYq_uoEnC29d6L45AlVFRTnPJqbCPEJM0_ICBeqES_kZ8t5gUQkVg7BwMKsGs7 Chesa Boudin and San Francisco - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/chesa-boudin-recall-san-francisco-crime/629907/ Andreessen Horowitz/Flow Carbon - https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2022/05/25/a16z-crypto-record-4th-fund-doubles-down-on-web3-amid-market-crash/?sh=7f704b7f34ff VCs Driving Down Valuation Narrative - https://twitter.com/bgurley/status/1528535418076995584 |
May 28, 2022 |
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EP 17: Benedict Evans on State of Tech, and Alexis Gay on the Risk in Leaving it All Behind for Comedy
01:59:31
0:30 – Traveling
2:51 – Welcome Ben Evans
11:07 – Past and Future of Tech
30:06 – Elon and Twitter
39:43 – What’s Really Regulated
57:52 – Welcome Alexis Gay
59:56 – From Tech to Comedy
1:02:58 – Twitter Experience
1:14:08 – Breaking Into YouTube
1:23:28 – Importance of Structure
1:29:12 – Starting Podcasting
1:33:04 – Redefining Success
1:37:34 – Figuring Out What Works
1:45:24 – Getting a Fund
1:49:23 – The Tech Ecosystem |
May 21, 2022 |
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EP 16: CEO of Box Aaron Levie gives founder advice, Founder of Flatiron Zach Weinberg returns as guest host, and crypto expert Eric Golden joins to discuss UST-Luna!
02:05:30
(00:00:00) Intro with Zach Weinberg (00:02:22) Public Market Bloodbath (00:07:10) Distribution of Risk (00:12:56) Update on SoftBank and Tiger (00:28:30) Eric Golden joins the pod to talk Luna (00:30:04) What happened in the market this week? (00:40:55) What is Luna? (00:53:21) Why is this pulling down Bitcoin as well? (01:02:04) Do Kwon sucks (01:13:43) Interview with Aaron Levie (01:36:08) The state of Web3 (01:38:37) Interesting use cases for Web3 (01:41:01) The rhetoric of crypto skepticism (01:48:02) Companies and politics
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Links: Coinbase Article: https://decrypt.co/100089/coinbase-share-price UST-Luna Article: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/09/ust-stablecoin-falls-below-dollar-peg-for-second-time-in-48-hours/ UST-Luna Article: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/11/terra-ust-stablecoin-dives-below-1-peg-luna-cryptocurrency-down-80percent.html Gavin Baker Thread: https://twitter.com/GavinSBaker/status/1524389193551687680 SoftBank: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/business/softbank-earnings-report-loss.html Tobi Lutke Tweet: https://thedeepdive.ca/shopify-ceo-tobi-lutke-wants-financial-analysts-to-be-held-accountable/ Do Kwon Tweets: https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1523075465384136704?s=20&t=rwEvRfBHtsIM-D9ILGTzxg https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1501552275919015941?s=20&t=rwEvRfBHtsIM-D9ILGTzxg https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1506411835934732293?s=20&t=rwEvRfBHtsIM-D9ILGTzxg https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1478192466629369859?s=20&t=rwEvRfBHtsIM-D9ILGTzxg https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1522420839244697600?s=20&t=rwEvRfBHtsIM-D9ILGTzxg https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1411466847166205952?s=20&t=rwEvRfBHtsIM-D9ILGTzxg https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1355131416527335426?s=20&t=rwEvRfBHtsIM-D9ILGTzxg https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1410491186196795398?s=20&t=rwEvRfBHtsIM-D9ILGTzxg https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1481540752056324098?s=20&t=rwEvRfBHtsIM-D9ILGTzxg |
May 14, 2022 |
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EP 15 Pt 1: VC Meme King @prayingforexits Comes on to Discuss a Host of Topics, Then a Group of Apes Talk BAYC
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(00:00:00) Intro (00:02:35) A Message From Zak (00:05:02) @prayingforexits (00:53:39) Bored Ape Yacht Club Experts (00:27:13) Tiger Global (00:35:44) Facebook's Hiring Freeze (00:41:26) Two Things About Elon (00:47:10) Neeraj Arora's Twitter Thread on Selling WhatsApp (00:53:39) Intro to Conversation with BAYC Experts (00:57:08) Bored Ape Land Sale (01:05:40) Democratizing NFT Access (01:16:38) Metaverse Bored Ape Game (01:20:25) BAYC Founders (01:31:39) Metaverse Game Skepticism (01:38:33) Final Thoughts
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Leaked Facebook Memo Details Hiring Freeze - https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-facebook-memo-details-hiring-freeze-negative-business-impacts-2022-5 Elon Musk’s Twitter Financing Deal - https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-gets-7-billion-in-fresh-financing-for-twitter-deal-11651748316 Elon Musk Expected to Serve as Temporary Twitter CEO after deal closes - https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/05/elon-musk-expected-to-serve-as-temporary-twitter-ceo-after-deal-closes.html Bored Ape Land Sale - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-01/bored-ape-metaverse-frenzy-raises-millions-disrupts-ethereum Tiger Global Sinks 15 In April - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-03/tiger-global-sinks-15-in-april-to-push-this-year-s-loss-to-44 |
May 07, 2022 |
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EP 15 Pt 2: Packy McCormick and Ben Thompson Talk About Their Own Start, Finding Your Audience and The Creative Process
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(00:00:00) Intro (00:02:28) Packy & Ben’s Businesses (00:23:08) Finding Your Audience (00:36:01) VC Hindsight (00:46:18) Creative Process (00:57:52) Web3 (01:05:57) Advice for Content Creators (01:14:59) All-In and Twitter (01:23:54) One Last Thing
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Not Boring - The Great Online Game - https://www.notboring.co/p/the-great-online-game?s=r Not Boring – Schumpeter’s Gale - https://www.notboring.co/p/schumpeters-gale?s=r Not Boring – Ramping Up - https://www.notboring.co/p/ramping-up?s=r Not Boring – Ramp’s Double Unicorn - https://www.notboring.co/p/ramps-double-unicorn-rounds-behind?s=r Stratechery – What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong - https://stratechery.com/2013/clayton-christensen-got-wrong/ Stratechery – Bubble Talk Revisited - https://stratechery.com/2020/bubble-talk-revisited-it-wasnt-1999-the-big-tech-basket/ |
May 07, 2022 |
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EP 14: Lux Capital’s Josh Wolfe Talks Musk, Adobe’s Scott Belsky Talks Twitter, Bolt and Breslow Again, and Entering The Golden Age of Fraud Lawyers
01:18:49
(00:00) Introducing Josh Wolfe (02:41) Elon Musk Buys Twitter Because No One Told Him He Can Buy Other Stuff (39:58) Bolt, Katara, and the World’s Greatest Time to be a Law Firm (56:53) Introducing Scott Belsky (57:18) Trying to Explain Twitter (67:55) Algorithms and Free Speech
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Musk buys Twitter: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/25/technology/twitter-employees-elon-musk.html Sam Lessin article: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/elon-musk-is-silicon-valleys-new-hero-for-better-or-worse Jack Dorsey’s tweet on Musk’s purchase: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1518772753460998145?s=20&t=njyqUGHJChL4oAQdEkkTCw Bolt Sued by Forever 21: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-26/forever-21-parent-authentic-brands-sues-bolt-startup Katera sues ex-CEO: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bankrupt-startup-that-blew-2-billion-from-softbank-sues-ex-ceo-board-directors-over-self-dealing Softbank cuts spending: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/softbank-cuts-back-spending-leaving-startups-desperate-for-cash |
Apr 30, 2022 |
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EP 13: An Interview with Keith Rabois on Why He Tweets and Miami Tech Week, Netflix Loses 200K Subscribers, and Even More Elon
01:23:33
(04:35) Miami Tech Week is just dangerous being so close to Coachella (08:18) Netflix somehow losing subscribers even though they raised prices and have 98 competitors (24:14) Elon Musk just buying stuff out of spite (29:57) A16Z’s new Accelerator (36:08) Keith Rabois interview and his hottest of takes
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Reference Links: Netflix stock loss: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/19/netflix-nflx-earnings-q1-2022.html Elon Musk twitter funding: https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/21/23033445/elon-musk-twitter-bank-debt-commitment-letter A16Z Accelerator program: https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/andreessen-horowitz-a16z-start-seed/ |
Apr 23, 2022 |
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EP 12: Dan Primack Talks Musk/Twitter, Zach Weinberg Explains Founding a $2.1B Co & Owning Nightclub
00:51:01
(01:35) Dan Primack Breaks Down Elon Musk’s Bid for Twitter but Not Why His Tweets Are So Bad (22:07) Zach Weinberg Debuts as a Cartoon Avatar (32:06) Crypto’s a Security but Shut Up About It
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Show Notes: Elon Poll: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1514698036760530945? Cuban Tweet: https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1514609934897336324?s=20&t=-p0_8TocoAHVt2mBCsVHJg Difference between BTC and ETH: https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1512728493670371329?s=20&t=-Hg2wh89zeiR41gd9i3UAg Newcomer on the leaked decks: https://www.newcomer.co/p/inside-3-crypto-funds-investor-decks |
Apr 15, 2022 |
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EP 11: Elon Musk Buys 9.2% of Twitter, A Deep Dive Into Twitter History, The End of Fast, and Nikita's Best Man Speech
00:54:17
(00:39) - Elon Musk buys 9.2% of Twitter and species he only wants “the good parts”
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Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson CNBC – Elon Musk joins twitter’s board https://www.piratewires.com/p/king-shit
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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EP 10: Interview with Ryan Breslow, The Silicon Valley Mob, Twilio Insider Trading and Why OnlyFans Can’t Find Investors
00:59:50
(00:20) NFT LA and Nikita’s parties
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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EP 9: Facebook Execs Go Extremely Remote, Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Gaming Era, Ethereum Regret and Nikita’s Back Once Again!
00:44:56
(01:26) Facebook executives flee but not in a super disconcerting way yet (09:34) Yuga Labs raised $450 million dollars to let Bored Ape Yacht Club try to do a thing (21:53) Democratizing NFTs for everybody as long as everybody has $250,000 (29:33) Why you’d mess with NFT success kinda just because it’s cool (35:43) How Vitalik Buterin just wanted his World of Warcraft stuff and now there are million dollar monkeys
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mark-zuckerberg-and-metas-leadership-take-remote-work-to-the-extreme-11648040580?mod=tech_lead_pos5 https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/22/22991272/yuga-labs-seed-funding-a16z-bored-ape-yacht-club-bayc-metaverse-other-side https://time.com/6158182/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-profile/
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Show Notes: Wall Street Journal - Facebook Executives: https://www.wsj.com/articles/mark-zuckerberg-and-metas-leadership-take-remote-work-to-the-extreme-11648040580 Leaked BAYC Deck: https://twitter.com/LeonidasNFT/status/1505058932758360064?s=20&t=AaGm3EcwEjQOheuHGSMPkQ Axie Infinity video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GFSDdt35xI Vitalik on the future of Crypto: https://time.com/6158182/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-profile/ Vitalik at ETH Denver: https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/ethereum-founder-vitalik-buterin-says-crypto-welcomes-another-winter-71645295910461.html
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Mar 26, 2022 |
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EP 8: AMC’s Gold Mine, The Business of Memes, Glossier Article, and We’re Joined by Packy McCormick and Roseanne Wincek
00:49:38
3:34 - AMC Invested in a Gold Mine, Unfortunately Literally 8:16 - Can You Build a Business on Memes 19:03 - Roseanne Wincek Joins 21:27 - Glossier Article and How Takedown Pieces Are Cattier Than What the Takedown is For 41:17 - Google Employees Aren’t Happy Despite Excessive Foosball Table Access 46:57 - Remote Work Makes it Too Easy to Send Me Angry DMs Bloomberg - AMC bought a Gold Mine: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-15/amc-bought-a-gold-mine Adam Aron Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Aron Marc Andresen tweet: https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1504548145643995142?s=20&t=kxCISRROo_mtX1kn21OOGQ Packy Shopify/Apple tweet: https://twitter.com/packyM/status/1407008886863826946?s=20&t=kxCISRROo_mtX1kn21OOGQ Logan passing no Doordash/Airbnb: https://twitter.com/loganbartlett/status/1337055925371342848?s=20&t=kxCISRROo_mtX1kn21OOGQ Logan autograph tweet: https://twitter.com/loganbartlett/status/1500917755016409088?s=20&t=kxCISRROo_mtX1kn21OOGQ New hire asking for board seat: https://twitter.com/MarkBeylin/status/1499169946907164676?s=20&t=kxCISRROo_mtX1kn21OOGQ |
Mar 19, 2022 |
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EP 7: Bain Capital Crypto, Bolt's Breslow back w/ Crypto Pharma, Alumni Ventures and Standard VC Fees, Tiger Partners Fund Seed Managers
00:44:03
(00:30) Nikita’s Family and first good use of Twitter (01:32) Bain Capital Crypto's self own (05:12) Ryan Breslow’s crypto pharma start-up will not feature psychedelics initially and that's a real sentence (07:50) Buying domains and trips to Oklahoma to meet website brokers (22:05) Alumni Ventures and the "standard" vc terms (32:32) Twitter’s podcast platform and the best social app creator (39:30) Tiger partners funding seed managers with $1b over next 3 years
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-09/bain-capital-s-stefan-cohen-is-sorry-for-men-only-tweet-on-women-s-day
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bolts-breslow-teams-with-psychedelics-founder-on-crypto-pharma-startup?rc=kulqhd
https://observer.com/2022/03/scoop-sec-fines-sketchy-ivy-league-vc-firm-what-took-so-long/
https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2022/ia-5975.pdf
https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/04/twitter-podcast-tab-spaces/?tpcc=tcplustwitter
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiger-global-partners-commit-1-billion-for-early-stage-tech-funds?rc=kulqhd |
Mar 12, 2022 |
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EP 6: Super Pumped, BitConnect’s Possible Ponzi Scheme, Homebrew and Randi Zuckerberg’s Music Video
00:51:42
(00:35) 3CA Team Meet in Real Life (04:01) Competing in VC Funds (09:54) SNL Live (13:54) Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber (29:22) Randi Zuckerberg and “We’re All Gonna Make It” music video (36:23) DBT Labs (42:31) BitConnect Ponzi Scheme (46:02) Homebrew Operating as an Evergreen Entity
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Mar 05, 2022 |
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EP 5: Coinbase Tweet Storm, Truth Social, Death of the Five Day Work Week and the ClearCo Breakup
00:49:32
(05:10) Coinbase Crypto Ad Tweets (12:23) Company Origin Stories (20:47) Truth Social (29:42) Death of the Five Day Work Week (41:20) ClearCo Cofounder Breakup
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Feb 26, 2022 |
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EP 4: State of Venture Market, Crypto Ads, ETHDenver, Razzlekhan Revisited and Nikita’s G-Wagon Disloyalty
00:41:02
(02:40) Razzlekhan Revisited - Still super uncool (04:10) State of Venture Market (20:00) Crypto Ads - Spending more on Larry David than Larry David would ever spend on crypto (28:29) ETHDenver - Band camp for tech wonks
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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EP 3: Razzlekhan and Crypto, Bored Ape Reveal, Binance and Forbes, and Peloton’s CEO
00:48:07
(04:02) Razzlekhan and Dutch Lichtenstein - stealing $4.5B in crypto. Surrealist rapper and husband facing 20 years in prison. (16:24) Bored Ape Yacht Club doxxing. Was it ok to reveal the team behind the phenomenon? (27:55) Brantley Milligan from ENS doubles down on old homophobic and transphobic Tweets and is ousted from DAO. (32:16) Shady crypto exchange invests $200M in Forbes ahead of planned SPAC. What’s the agenda here? (38:03) John Foley steps down as CEO of Peloton after a string of issues.
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Show notes:
Twitter: How to get away with crypto heist https://twitter.com/icebergy_/status/1491110412397715457 Buzzfeed doxxing of BAYC founders: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/bored-ape-nft-founder-identity Brantly Milligan Tweet: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK4USv8WUAEkN0z.jpg Bloomberg article on CZ's net worth: Amazon Films fueling Bezos' ego: https://logicmag.io/commons/inside-the-whale-an-interview-with-an-anonymous-amazonian/ Blackwells Capital teardown of Peloton: https://www.blackwellscap.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/BW_Peloton_Presentation_Feb072022.pdf |
Feb 12, 2022 |
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EP 2: Wordle, Wordcels & Shape Rotators, Miami Tech, and FB Earnings
00:41:20
(02:28) Last week updates (05:59) Wordle (14:27) Wordcels vs Shape Rotators (20:10) Miami Tech (30:58) Bolt/Ryan Breslow Update (36:00) Facebook earnings
Hosted by Logan Bartlett, Zak Kukoff, and Nikita Bier
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Mixed and edited by Justin Hrabovsky Produced by Meg Lewis and Andrew Nadeau Executive Producer Josh Machiz Music by Griff Clawson
Show Notes: NYT Acquires Wordle: https://www.nytco.com/press/wordle-new-york-times-games/ Roon’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/tszzl Rahul’s Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/BroductManager Roon’s breakdown of wordcels vs shape rotators: https://roonscape.substack.com/p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words Austin Reif/Morning Brew Bolt take: https://twitter.com/austin_rief/status/1488228915005042688 |
Feb 05, 2022 |
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EP 1: Bolt vs. Stripe, Calendly, Market Meltdown and Billionaires Tweeting
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(04:05) Bolt vs. Stripe Hosted by Logan Bartlett, Zak Kukoff, and Nikita Bier Follow on social:
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Three Cartoon Avatars: Promo
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Friends, partially known for their work as venture capitalists and entrepreneurs but more known for their shitposting on Twitter, get together every Saturday morning. Logan Bartlett, a Partner at Redpoint Ventures, Nikita Bier, Founder of tbh acquired by Facebook and CEO of a stealth new company, and Zak Kukoff, an early stage investor at General Catalyst take their group chat to podcast form. They’re going to cover the biggest stories in tech, but the parts you won’t hear anywhere else. We’re talking the stupid stuff - the memes, the Twitter beefs, the idiot billionaires and basically all the things in the tech world that they actually talk about in their group chat. Subscribe now because you won’t want to miss an episode! |
Jan 26, 2022 |
