Podcast Episodes

E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more

0:00 Bestie intros!

1:36 Big tech starts making cuts, plus what this means for the broader economy and startups

31:09 Global debt numbers, Fed incomp…

3 years, 5 months ago

E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more

0:00 Bestie intros!

1:03 SPAC updates, state of the public/private markets

20:26 US VCs have $290B in dry powder and raised a record amount in H1 202…

3 years, 6 months ago

E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more

0:00 Bestie intro!

0:59 Adobe agrees to acquire Figma for $20B

19:21 How Adobe might bundle Figma, regulatory implications

38:59 Analyzing Google's "…

3 years, 6 months ago

E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more

0:00 Bestie intros: Luxury brand influencers, Birthday Party stories and more!

3:34 Jason reflects on the final Kara Swisher-hosted Code Conference, …

3 years, 6 months ago

E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security

(0:00) Bestie intros + Burning Man debate

(4:16) NFT trading volume plummets

(10:20) California's new fast food wages bill, government creating bad i…

3 years, 6 months ago

E93: Twitter whistleblower, cloud security vulnerabilities, student debt forgiveness & more

0:00 Bestie intros!

1:25 Twitter's former head of security makes allegations against the company

22:08 Foreign countries placing government agents in…

3 years, 6 months ago

E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more

0:00 Bestie intro plus a new moderator!

7:19 Adam Neumann raises $350M from a16z for his new residential real estate startup Flow

25:32 Housing polic…

3 years, 7 months ago

E91: SoftBank's $21B+ Vision Fund loss, signals of a bubble, macro picture, Trump raided by FBI

0:00 Bestie intros

3:02 Where Masa and SoftBank went wrong, why VC isn't scaleable, Vision Fund impact

27:59 Metrics that signify a bubble or the top…

3 years, 7 months ago

E90: Twitter subpoenas, market overview, Pelosi's Taiwan visit & more

0:00 Bestie intros

2:07 Twitter subpoenas the besties!

16:03 Markets overview: dead cat bounce or have we hit the bottom?

34:10 De-globalization tren…

3 years, 7 months ago

E89: GDP growth negative in Q2, $SHOP layoffs, Alzheimer's fraud, Ginkgo acquires Zymergen & more

0:00 Bestie intros!

2:19 GDP growth is negative for a second consecutive quarter, but is the US actually in a recession? How has the White House cont…

3 years, 7 months ago