Episode Ten: Scaling Your Startup, "Culture": Jason Calacanis & LAUNCH Managing Directors Jacqui Deegan Ashley Whitehurst go through creating your culture, hiring, diversity & inclusion, high performance, scaling culture, work environment & tools

3:15 Creating your culture

18:00 Hiring

26:18 Diversity, inclusion & non-harassment

40:27 High performance

50:04 Scaling culture

58:33 Work environment

1:04:45 Tools

2:50 Kim from Buddee Fitness

13:40 Pete from Ayvri

30:10 Sean from TimeChi

46:40 Frances from GoodGivs

4:20 Why Gentry built Mailbox

16:25 Optimizing email for mobile

24:36 Best aesthetic designs in tech today

45:15 Origins of Navigator

48:52 Gentry demos Navigator

1:03:54 Importance of seating arrangements in board meetings

4:03 What is Neyborly?

12:12 Ben's experience at Founder.University

15:00 Understanding numbers for founders seeking $

19:34 Building connections through the LAUNCH Accelerator

28:34 Creating market-networks

34:27 Raising through Jason's Syndicate

45:27 Neyborly's rollout plans

48:45 Meeting with David Sacks and securing his investment

57:57 Solving the problems with modern retail

4:32 Why Jason passed on investing in MasterClass & landing Dustin Hoffman as 1st instructor

8:53 Bridging the gap between professional entertainment and online education

13:18 Ideal target customer & company mission

26:00 Why Steph Curry was the perfect MasterClass instructor for basketball

33:31 How David negotiated masterclass.com domain name

46:32 David's shares how his grandmother, who fled Poland from the Nazis, gave him the gift of appreciating education

Facebook content moderation (2:36)

Is Facebook responsible for the sensitivity of its employees?

Jony Ive leaving Apple (16:12)

Is Chrome OS coming catching up to Apple?

Libra / @Libra_ (19:45)

Audacity is the currency, Zuckerberg still has guts, Jason is meta-trolling Zuck

Libra use cases (33:18)

Content micropayments

Incoming Cultural/Societal Changes (41:48)

End of physical labor, 100% immersive VR, sensory enhancement implants

Is China using TikTok to spy on US citizens? (1:07:20)

Jason gives a message to Trump

E31: "Angel" podcast: Samantha Wong, Partner at Blackbird Ventures (Canva, Culture Amp), shares insights on the growth of Australia's startup ecosystem, valuations outside of SV & benefits for investors, focusing on deep tech & "science nonfiction," backing founders with an unstoppable force, & how immigration laws impact entrepreneurship

Ethos Co-founder & CEO Peter Colis makes life insurance accessible to everyone, leverages data to eliminate friction & simplify the traditional complications, enables 99% of customers to obtain an affordable policy in 10 minutes with no medical exam or blood test

Pony.ai co-founder & CEO James Peng shares insights from scaling his global self-driving unicorn, developing Level 4 & 5 autonomous tech to make any car operate safely in all conditions without human intervention, visions for trucking & ride-hailing, creating collaboration between U.S. & China, how the cultures compare, & other lessons innovating in our driverless future

"Angel" podcast: Part 2. Dave Morin of Slow Ventures (250+ investments inc. Slack, Pinterest, Twitter), shares insights on favorite business models & products, backing founders with a tangible sense of inevitability, the rise of two internets, democratization of passion, & an optimistic future with the advancement of self-care tech