Apple AR headset scoops with Mark Gurman + Campbell Baron: Gen Z startup content creator | E1366

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

First, Jason and Molly chat with on the top Apple reporters, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, about Apple's AR headset (2:02). They talk about Apple's strategy, timeline, competitive strengths and more. Then our Producer Rachel chats with Campbell Baron, a 19-year old who sold his TikTok to Workweek, a new startup-focused media company (1:00:25). Campbell created business content and accumulated millions of views before he turned 18! In the interim, the producers Jason & Molly have a chat about what they are working on, lessons from their early careers and more (35:25).

00:00 Jason & Molly introduce the show
02:02 Bloomberg News' Mark Gurman joins to discuss Apple's headset
06:37 Will Apple enter AR at the expense of iPhone sales?
11:48 Odoo - Get your first app free and a $1000 credit at https://odoo.com/twist
12:58 The next major platform battle
17:37 Expected initial target market for an Apple headset & design cues
21:41 Eight Sleep - Go to https://eightsleep.com/twist to check out the Pod Pro Cover and get $150 off at checkout!
23:11 Expected screen resolution and other features
26:37 Forecasting who will be in the lead in 10 years
33:39 OpenPhone - Get an extra 20% off any plan for your first 6 months at https://openphone.com/twist
35:25 Fun banter with Jason, Molly & the This Week in Startups producers
1:00:25 Producer Rachel introduces Campbell Baron
1:08:48 How Campbell sold his TikTok account
1:17:31 Building in public vs. private
1:24:52 Gen Z's way of networking

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. It's our Saturday show. Enjoy it. We have an amazing,
0:05.3	amazing conversation with Mark Herman, who has the inside skinny on Apple's new goggles,
0:12.3	their headset. And we talk about all the competition that the Apple vision or Apple reality
0:17.7	is going to have. He thinks those are the two possible names for this first set of smart VR,
0:22.4	XR goggles. And we make some predictions about how big tech and the AR competition will shake
0:29.8	out over the next decade. Yep. And how soon phones are going to go away. And then Rachel is
0:35.8	back with an okay boomer segment where she chats with Campbell Baron, who is just out of high school.
0:41.8	He's been making a podcast for two years. He's had guests, including Chris Saka, Jerry Tan from
0:47.0	initialized Stacy Brown Phil Pot from Taskrabbit. I'm going to say again, 18. So many guests,
0:53.2	lots of whom you would actually recognize from this show. So you don't want to miss that.
0:58.0	Let's get straight to though. First up, our chat with Mark Herman.
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1:13.0	Your first app is free forever. And right now Odo is offering $1,000 off your first
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1:40.2	And open phone. As a startup founder, a lot of mistakes are easy to roll back. But using
1:46.2	your personal cell phone number as your company number isn't one of them. Open phone makes it
1:50.8	easy to get business phone numbers for you and your team right on top of your existing devices.
1:56.4	Visit openphone.co slash twist to get 20% off your first six months.
2:02.4	We're so excited. We have Mark Herman who covers Apple and all kinds of Apple related tech for
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