Today on the Brief:

• President Trump wants a cut of the TikTok deal
• Previewing this week’s COVID-19 vaccine trade 
• Dave Portnoy breaks into bitcoin

Our main conversation is with Bobby Goodlatte. 

Bobby is the founder of Form Capital, a new seed investment firm that focuses on supporting portfolio companies with value-add design. 

 

Bobby was an early employee at Facebook and has been an active angel investor since 2012, with investments that include Coinbase. 

 

In this conversation, he and NLW discuss:

• The early days of Facebook
• Why angel investors don’t like new angel investors to get involved
• How Silicon Valley reflects larger questions of equity valuations 
• How social media has changed over the last decade
• Why politics is now “downstream from algorithms” 
• Why there are still possibilities to build new social networks
• Why today’s social networks could make different decisions that would be better for the world. 

Find our guest online:

Website: Form Capital 

Twitter: @rsg