This Week in Startups: Jack's Twitter take & employee reactions, Medical NFTs, Hopin's $200M founder secondary sale | E1444
Jason Calacanis 4/26/22 - Episode Page
All news. We break down, Jack chiming in on Twitter’s sale to Elon Musk and the employee reactions (2:21). Then, we talk about an NFT project where Doctor influencers on TikTok are selling access to medical advice (40:02). To wrap, we cover Hopin’s fundraising at a large valuation, its founder's $195M secondary sale and more (52:27).
(00:00) Jason and Molly tee up today’s news stories
(02:21) What did “Jack After Dark” have to say about Twitter deal?
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(16:05) Jack feels Elon and Parag want Twitter to be maximally trusted and broadly inclusive
(20:30) How are Twitter employees feeling about the Elon Twitter deal?
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(28:29) Twitter has locked down any changes related to their platform to keep employees from “going rogue”
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(36:15) People do their best work with Elon
(40:02) TikTok famous doctors are getting into NFT’s, and it’s a mess
(52:27) Hopin: virtual event startup struggles, their founder cashed out to $195M
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