This Week in Startups: Andy Jassy’s lobbying efforts, small US cities enticing remote workers, Phaidra Series A | E1511

Today, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is celebrating his one-year anniversary, and the NYT published an interesting profile that has a lot to do with regulatory scrutiny (3:01). Then we cover the boom of remote work incentive programs all over the US to attract remote tech workers (27:00). And, we get into an awesome new company called Phaidra in our Series A segment… some former DeepMind engineers started an awesome machine learning company (40:16). And we wrap with a great story about retail investors who have the same thesis as Jason (47:51).

(0:00) Jason and Molly tee up today’s show

(3:01) NYT published a profile of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on his one-year anniversary of becoming CEO, and it had some interesting tidbits

(12:28) LinkedIn Jobs - Post your first job for free at https://linkedIn.com/twist13:44 More on the legislation discussed in the NYT article

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(22:54) Bezos is running for president (prediction)

(27:00) WSJ reported 71 cities and towns in the US are now offering remote work incentive programs

(37:19) OpenPhone - Get an extra 20% off any plan for your first 6 months at https://openphone.com/twist

(38:33) Producer Nick chimes in on remote workers in Manhattan

(40:16) Series A: Phaidra s a startup selling machine learning software that regulates temperatures at power plants and industrial factories

(47:51) WSJ reported some amateur investors see the declining state of the stock market as a chance to double down 

(56:08) Over the weekend Jason tweeted, “Terrify your investors in 5 words.” These were the best replies