Episode 31 - Nice Ponzi
When Uber and Airbnb Go Public, San Francisco Will Drown in Millionaires
The IPO Millionaires Are Coming!
‘We Know Them. We Trust Them.’ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave
Airbnb Signs Agreement to Acquire HotelTonight
Gaest.com Joins the Airbnb Family
SoftBank Bets Big on WeWork. Again.
“Venture capital money kills more businesses than it helps,” says Basecamp CEO Jason Fried
After an “identity crisis,” Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says he’s taught himself how to be happy again - a spicy quote from the episode: “Look, we’ve taken a couple billion dollars and we’ve compounded that money at between 30 and 40 percent a year. So to all the people that worked for me and whose money I took, you’re fucking welcome.
The rise of giant consumer startups that said no to investor money
Social Capital will no longer raise outside capital
Money Machines: An Interview with an Anonymous Algorithmic Trader - "Everything I’ve described to you in the field of quantitative investing, I would imagine [big tech] companies could do very quickly. The data, the analysis, the algorithms, the infrastructure. The only question is why they haven’t yet."
Goldman Sachs Allows Bankers to Trade Bespoke Suits for Khakis
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work - How the Basecamp founders run their company
Hang the DJ - the Black Mirror episode on dating
How Match got away with buying 25 dating sites
Loneliness - Kurzgesagt
The music played throughout this episode and others includes Home (feat. Herbi) by Ukiyo, How To Clean Your Room from JBPWAVE: A Jordan Peterson Lofi Hip Hop Mix by Akira The Don, Highwater Mark from HSTWAVE: A Hunter S Thompson Lofi Hip Hop Mix by Akira The Don, Canals by Joakim Karud, Happy Hours by L'Indecis, and Foreign Exchange by Globuldub. All are licensed under Creative Commons 3.0.