Fully Vested

This week in what might be one of the most serious episodes of this otherwise lighthearted podcast, Jason and Graham discuss Clearview AI and, more generally, privacy and what a transparent future may or may not mean.

We discuss the Q4/EOY 2019 Global VC Report from Crunchbase written by Jason and his team.

This week after brief updates about Marijuana becoming recreationally legal in Illinois and Vaping flavors becoming illegal in the US as it relates to our VICE episode we discuss Snap’s acquisition of Ukranian based AI Factory and we discuss our views on several of Fred Wilson’s top 9 trends from the decade of the 2010’s and a couple of the trends of his views on the new decade of the 2020’s.

We explore venture debt funding as an alternative for startup funding and review AngelList’s data on diverse seed-stage investing being the best way to invest at the earliest stages.

We discuss Chicago’s Outcome Health’s ongoing issues.

We discuss the Tesla Cybertruck and our personal time-honored tradition of having shrimp boils with friends.

After quickly discussing the issues Graham has with the iOS 13 keyboard we explore Graham’s visit to Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal and then discuss SoftBank’s recent updates about it plans for a turnaround at WeWork and their plans to raise SoftBank Vision Fund II.

This week after quickly discussing the issues Graham has with the iOS 13 keyboard we explore Graham’s visit to Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal and then discuss SoftBank’s recent updates about it plans for a turnaround at WeWork and their plans to raise SoftBank Vision Fund II.

After yet another update about WeWork and discussing SoftBank’s overall strategy struggles with other portfolio companies we explore Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony about Libra and how better design can be achieved while considering people with visual disabilities when designing technology especially as it relates to Domino's lack of compliance with ADA standards for online ordering of pizza through their app or website.

We discuss Silicon Valley’s growing preference for investments with a path to pragmatic profitability, the Q3 2019 venture capital macro trends as reported by Crunchbase News and the reduction of Venture Capital deals in China, especially Supergiant Venture Capital deals.