News Roundtables

news roundtables

In the News Roundtables, Jason and his guests talks about the hottest updates in the world of entrepreneurship, from the newest unicorn round to the latest Apple Keynote.

August 28, 2020

E1101: News! Apple vs. Epic Games, TikTok CEO resigns, SPACs, Unicorn IPOs & more with Acquired’s Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal

July 9, 2020

E1083 News: Trump considers TikTok ban, Twitter leaks subscription platform, Clubhouse drama, Harvard price gouging & more with Morgan DeBaun & Alex Wilhelm

June 11, 2020

E1074 News: How VC can do better for underrepresented founders, Zoom shuts down Chinese pro-democracy accounts, Wall Street Bets, Reddit appoints YC CEO Michael Seibel to BoD & more with Lolita Taub & Tom Uebel

May 21, 2020

E1064: News Roundtable! Sam Parr & Zach Coelius on Barstool Sports vs. Call Her Daddy, SoftBank’s $17B loss, TikTok poaches former Disney exec as CEO, Facebook launches Shops & more!

May 20, 2020

E1062: News Roundtable! Acquired.FM Co-Hosts Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal on Clubhouse’s pre-launch $100M valuation, Joe Rogan to Spotify, Uber layoffs, food delivery wars, Facebook buys GIPHY & more!

April 16, 2020

E1046: News Roundtable! TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm & Slow Ventures’ Sam Lessin on COVID’s potential privacy risk, private/public investor outlooks, remote work challenges & at-risk early-stage investors

March 20, 2018

E804: News Roundtable! Antonio Garcia Martinez (“Chaos Monkeys,” original Facebook Ads PM) & Austin Smith (Inside.com) dissect the deepening Facebook data scandal & Cambridge Analytica’s Trump ties & info; also autonomous Uber fatality, full Theranos implosion

February 23, 2018

E798: News Roundtable! Antonio Garcia Martinez (author “Chaos Monkeys”) & Clara Brenner (Urban Innovation Fund) dissect Facebook’s Russia problem, targeted ads & dilemmas of unrestricted growth, crypto news, harassment in VC, gun control & Gen Z activism

February 2, 2018

E793: News Roundtable! Ari Levy, CNBC & Dave Mathews, NewAer: Crazy Crypto, Bitcoin rollercoaster & exploding ICOs, Q4 “Earningsaggedon” & what’s next for Amazon/Alphabet/Apple/Facebook, Trump Tax & influx of $, tech graveyard

December 18, 2017

E785: News Roundtable, Top Tech 2017! Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt & Adam Ludwin of Chain take on net neutrality & fallout, crypto craze & FOMO, hottest products & predictions for biggest stories of 2018

November 20, 2017

E780: News Roundtable! Peter Rojas (Betaworks, prev. Engadget), Iain Thomson (The Register): Tesla two-punch w/Roadster & Semi, Apple AR boom/VR bust, StitchFix & IPO cautions, backflipping robots & future of auto warfare

September 15, 2017

E764: News Roundtable! Molly Wood (Marketplace Tech) & Sarah Frier (Bloomberg): Facebook takes Russian money (& next bombshell predictions), divisive ads, Zuck run amok, $1000 Apple, AI predicts orientation, Bodega blow-up

April 7, 2017

E722: Bill Gurley of Benchmark, SV leader & legendary investor (Uber, Twitter, Snapchat) at LAUNCH Festival April 6 2017

March 31, 2017

E721: News Roundtable! Iain Thomson (The Register) & Austin Smith (Inside): ISP privacy shattered, Palmer Luckey leaves, FB rips off Snap (again), Elon’s Neuralink & SpaceX hits, Trolls & Idiots of the Week

December 16, 2016

E695: News Roundtable! Dave Mathews (NewAer) & Iain Thomson (The Register) on 2016 best & 2017 bets: Apple follies, drones rising, hacking everywhere, Putin in play, Trump’s tech, self-driving bets, fake Facebook

November 11, 2016

E689: News Roundtable! Molly Wood (Marketplace) & Eric Newcomer (Bloomberg) on Trump’s triumph, tech, Thiel, the flaws of polling & data journalism, the future of jobs, & the fate of Silicon Valley

October 4, 2016

E679: Internet Harassment & Free Speech: Quinn Norton & Kevin Marks join Jason to debate how trolling, human rights, and anonymity v. transparency play out online and in real life

August 9, 2016

E664: News Roundtable! Ari Levy (CNBC) & Rolfe Winkler (WSJ): Walmart snags Jet.com – Google, gov’t & anti-trust – U.S. debt crisis – Uber & the China market – Elon & future of energy – startups behaving badly

July 1, 2016

E656: News Roundtable! Robert Scoble (Upload VR) & Iain Thomson (The Register); Tesla’s fatal crash, useless jetpacks, VR craze, gun control, national security & more

June 17, 2016

E652: News Roundtable! Katie Benner, NYT & Eric Newcomer, Bloomberg: More Gawker-Thiel, 1st amendment, FB moral obligations, Microsoft buys Linkedin, Theranos slow-motion train wreck

June 7, 2016

E649: News Roundtable! Jessica Lessin (The Information) & Nellie Bowles (The Guardian) talk Thiel v. Gawker, the Trump effect on SV & the moral obligations of FB

May 10, 2016

E642: News Roundtable! Veronica Belmont & Dave Mathews talk Bots galore, best VR, Twitter security v. privacy, Facebook curation controversy

March 25, 2016

E633: News Roundtable! Ben Parr & Lon Harris dissect A.I. gone bad, robots taking over, Hulk Hogan, free speech, political scandal, low-paying jobs, & the future of cities

February 5, 2016

E619: News Roundtable! Marketplace’s Molly Wood & The Guardian’s Nellie Bowles: Theranos, LinkedIn, Yahoo!, what’s up w/YC, warped SF, & the land customer service forgot (hint: SV)

December 28, 2015

E608: News Roundtable: Best of 2015! The spectacular (and sometimes dangerous) year in drones, space, self-driving cars, Twitter, Elon, Amazon, IPOs, Theranos, & investigative journalism

December 15, 2015

E604: News Roundtable: Yahoo! (Yikes!), low IPOs, Zuck’s philanthropy, Alibaba buys media, Bitcoin plot thickens, fundraising landscape now & tomorrow

November 6, 2015

E593: News Roundtable! Twitter hearts, PropF fails, Google-Android antics, IPO dangers, unicorn obsession, smartwatch stalls, self-driving cars

October 23, 2015

E589: News Roundtable with Quentin Hardy, NYTimes & Jeff Bercovici, Inc.: Q3 earnings stunner, Theranos mess, Slack dominance, RedYouTube, journalism’s shifting landscape

September 29, 2015

E582: News Roundtable: Ryan Hoover (ProductHunt) & Carmel DeAmicis (Re/code) answer ad blocks, iPhone, Twitter polls, Uber, Slack, and Jason’s definitive millennial quiz

August 28, 2015

E573: News Roundtable! Google’s Alphabet, Amazon heat, Ashley Madison scorched earth, WTF Stock Market, ethics of watching real-life violent content

August 4, 2015

E566: News Roundtable! Twitter turbulence, Facebook-YouTube video wars, prez hopefuls courting/alienating Silicon Valley, cyberattacks, supercomputers

July 11, 2015

E558: News Roundtable! Reddit’s game of thrones, tech outages seemingly everywhere, hackers gone wild, sex scandals, equity crowdfunding, luxury pot on demand (finally!), Tinder verified

June 16, 2015

E551: News Roundtable w/Benedict Evans & Molly Wood: U.S. tech funding dissected, Apple plays for music & news, Twitter’s shake-up & platform puzzles, the biggest co’s greatest fears, whither VR, rating Mad Max

May 22, 2015

E544: News Roundtable – Secret’s bank heist, Google as Game of Thrones, Apple TV’s fate, Facebook’s about-face in revenue sharing, the combustible combo of venture+journalism, weed on demand

April 7, 2015

E531: News Roundtable! Ellen Pao vs. Kleiner Perkins: notes & lessons from the courtroom, gender bias in SV & VC culture, viva la mobile video live-streaming!, Jay Z’s Tidal polarizes

February 6, 2015

E514: News Roundtable: Product Hunt & Mattermark founders on what’s cool in content, Oculus rising, Glassless Google, Twitter trolling & totally crushing it

January 13, 2015

E507: News Roundtable: SONY hacked, the state & future of security, changing of CEO guard(s), challenges for the big co’s, & the great unbundling…of everything

November 21, 2014

E492: News Roundtable: The great Uber debate, ethics in business & journalism, virtual reality boggles, Firefox favors Yahoo!

November 11, 2014

E489: “Young Guns” News Roundtable! Startup scoops, data heat, IPO optimism & dangerous stunts for charity

October 31, 2014

E486: News Roundtable! Rounding up the giants (of tech): big announcements, mobile pay, pipeline products, troubling turnovers

October 16, 2014

E482: News Roundtable: Boon times for media streaming, cord cutters, and on-demand addicts

October 3, 2014

E478: News Roundtable: Ello explosion, Apple angst, Ebay-PayPal splitsville, and deconstructing employment

September 12, 2014

E472: News Roundtable: Apple deep dive & taking a bite out of crime

August 27, 2014

E467: News Roundtable: Amazon takes Twitch, Twitter brings Ferguson to the world, Secret is banned, and Uber is everywhere

May 23, 2014

E442: Why Twitter, AT&T and GoPro all want to be media companies and Bing Launch of the Week

January 21, 2014

E413: Google acquires Nest, Bing Launch of the Week and the best ever Kickstarter – TWiST News Roundtable

January 3, 2014

E409: Recode is the new All Things D, NYT backs Snowden and Bing Launch of the Week – TWiST News Roundtable

December 20, 2013

E407: The Bitcoin Show – TWiST News Roundtable

December 7, 2013

E403: Uber revenue leaked, Twitter after IPO, and Amazon drones on Bing Launch of the Week! – TWiST News Roundtable

November 23, 2013

E400: Drones galore with Chris Anderson and Charles Forman – TWiST News Roundtable

November 1, 2013

E395: Google wins everything, NSA hacks it, Bing Launch of the Week! TWiST News Roundtable

September 27, 2013

E385: Angellist syndicates, gadgets on planes and Launch of the Week! TWiST News Roundtable

September 20, 2013

E383: iOS 7 unveiled, Tesla’s self-driving car and Launch of the Week! TWiST News Roundtable

September 14, 2013

E381: Twitter to IPO, new iPhones released and Launch of the Week! TWiST News Roundtable

September 6, 2013

E379: Smart watch mania, Path goes premium, new Yahoo logo – TWiST News Roundtable

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healthcare

Discover the future. From genetics research to 3D printed prosthetics, from global telehealth to wearables. Learn from cutting-edge innovators, renegades, investors, and thought-leaders.

July 29, 2020

E1089 The Next Unicorns E11: insitro CEO Daphne Koller is revolutionizing drug discovery via machine learning & data, shares insights on remote education from time at Coursera & more

January 28, 2016

E617: WSJ’s John Carreyrou shares his investigative reporting on Theranos, including latest & breaking: CMS declares the co. an immediate public health threat & Walgreens suspends testing

November 13, 2015

E595: SF 49ers CEO Jed York on building the world’s most connected stadium; the Future of Wellness at LAUNCH Mobile Wearables & IoT

November 3, 2015

E592: Miles Beckett, “lonelygirl15” creator, returns to healthcare and builds Silversheet, a verification platform and community for doctors, nurses, and surgery centers

September 4, 2015

E575: Greg Sommer, Founder & CEO of Sandstone Diagnostics Inc., brings male fertility testing & tools to the at-home health diagnostics movement

June 2, 2015

E547: Jeff Dachis, former CEO/Founder Razorfish, is changing the way people manage diabetes with OneDrop

May 12, 2015

E541: “Future of Health” with Chamath Palihapitiya & innovators Athos (smart athletic apparel), e-NABLE (3D-printed prosthetic hands for children) & AcuPebble (breathing & cardiac sensors)

May 5, 2015

E539: Former Groupon CEO/Founder Andrew Mason innovates anew with Detour & “Future of Food” panel demos smart sustainability with Bitty Foods, Pantelligent & BeyondMeat

March 31, 2015

E529: Tumml CEO Clara Brenner, Highway1 CEO Brady Forrest & RockHealth CEO Halle Tecco share mission, strategy, diversity & what they look for in founders

March 6, 2015

E522: Innovative health apps: KurboHealth fights childhood obesity & HealthIQ increases health literacy

March 3, 2015

E521: Anne Wojcicki, CoFounder 23andMe, helps us access, understand & benefit from our DNA

February 27, 2015

E520: John Doerr, legendary VC & industry leader, on advising Obama, what’s broken in healthcare & how entrepreneurs can fix it

February 3, 2015

E513: Legendary journalist, investor & thought-leader Esther Dyson takes on health, science, space, A.I. & our world’s greatest puzzles

November 25, 2014

E493: Better bridges critical healthcare gaps by providing Personal Health Assistants to advocate, coordinate & optimize your care

October 10, 2014

E480: Jason & Chamath Palihapitiya at Hack the North: money, markets, motivation & mercenaries

October 7, 2014

E479: PulsePoint is saving lives by getting CPR-trained individuals to nearby emergencies faster than ambulances

August 19, 2014

E465: FutureAdvisor & FirstDerm: two innovators maximizing affordability & accessibility

August 6, 2014

E461: Not just a stylish wearable, the Basis watch tracks, analyzes & improves your health

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