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E1033: News Roundtable! Lambda School CEO Austen Allred & General Catalyst Partner Katherine Boyle on Lambda School controversy, Techlash & late-stage journalism, Robinhood down as Dow jumps & more!

03.03.2020 - By Jason CalacanisPlay

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0:54 Want to see what it's like to be an Angel Investor in Jason's Syndicate? DM @thesyndicate415 to read Jason's last 3 deal memos

1:37 Jason intros Austen Allred & gets his side of the recent Lambda School controversy

6:22 Jason intros Katherine Boyle & gets her take on how she would have advised Austen on PR

7:58 Explaining Lambda School in simple terms

13:10 Setting up Lambda School as a counter to predatory loans

14:31 Jason explains late-stage journalism, Austen describes his board's response

16:20 Techlash, issues with journalism today, how Balaji-coronavirus story sparked response

24:52 Fixing journalism

28:00 New Twitter investors Elliot Management want Jack out as CEO, is Twitter broken?

30:00 Misconceptions of Lambda School rolling up ISAs, how privatizing education in SV causes techlash

40:33 Katherine explains her investments in the defense space

46:00 DoorDash files for IPO, did they miss their window?

47:30 Analyzing coronavirus, wet markets, the "Wuhan shake"

58:51 Robinhood outage as Dow jumps 1000 points

1:01:03 What does Katherine invest in?

1:04:41 Jason introduces his new soundboard

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