News Roundtable! Austen Allred & Katherine Boyle on Lambda School controversy, Techlash & more | E1033

Jason Calacanis talks with Austen Allred about the recent Lambda School controversy, and discusses PR strategies with Katherine Boyle. They delve into the state of journalism, the future of Twitter, and DoorDash's IPO. The episode also touches on the impact of coronavirus and the recent Robinhood outage.

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Jason Calacanis

Host • 60%

Austen Allred

Guest • 20%

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Katherine Boyle

Guest • 16%

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Chapters

0:00	Opening
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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