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Emergency Pod! Quibi postmortem - Diving into the numbers, what went wrong & lessons learned | E1128

E1128 • Oct 22, 2020 • 32 mins

Jason Calacanis dissects the fall of Quibi, delving into its product, financial missteps, and lack of product-market fit. He reacts to industry insights, discusses alternatives for Quibi's direction, and differentiates it from typical Silicon Valley investments.

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Jason Calacanis

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0:00	Jason sets the stage - What is Quibi? What was their product & how did it fail?
6:17	Diving into the numbers, how could the money have been deployed more intelligently?
9:44	Jason reacts to David Sacks & Zach Coelius steps about Product-Market Fit & overcapitalization
11:46	LinkedIn Jobs - Get a $50 credit toward your first job post
13:29	Jason's live reaction to Jeffrey Katzenberg & Meg Whitman on CNBC talking about why they decided to shut down Quibi
23:53	What Jason would have done differently if he was in charge of Quibi, how to tell that Quibi's failure was not a venture capital creation
29:13	Differentiating Quibi from Silicon Valley investments

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