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🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Molly and Jason cover Peter Thiel stepping down from FB’s board and look back at the board's evolution over time (2:07). Next, we cover Joe Lonsdale’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, where he argues AWS should be split off from Amazon (27:41). We debate if valuations would increase if separated. Then, Peloton Founder & CEO John Foley is stepping down as the firm lays off 2800 people (40:30). We debate if they angling for an acquisition or making a turnaround attempt. To wrap, we discuss our startup of the day, Island, which is a browser for enterprise with a big valuation for a pre-product company (50:11).
00:00 Jason and Molly tee up today’s topics
02:07 Peter Thiel is stepping down from Meta’s board after almost 17 years of service
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13:12 Thiel maximizing political influence, Marc Andreessen’s shadow advice to Zuckerberg, other $FB board squabbles
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25:47 Reed Hastings testy email to Peter Thiel in 2016 (while they were both $FB board members)
27:41 Joe Lonsdale’s case for splitting AWS away from Amazon’s retail business
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40:30 Peloton CEO John Foley steps down as the company lays off ~2800 employees (20% of its corporate workforce)
50:11 Startup of the Day: Island.io — enterprise browsers in the cloud: valuation vs. traction, founder, market, and more
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. We have a jam packed all new show for you today. |
0:05.2 | We're gonna talk about Peter teal stepping down from Facebook's board. Does it mean that Facebook is even weaker? |
0:10.7 | And what is Peter gonna do next? And speaking of Facebook's board, we look at an exchange from 2016. |
0:17.4 | And apparently everybody forgot about between Mark Andreessen and Mark Zuckerberg then. We covered Joe Launstale's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal where he claims |
0:25.2 | AWS should be split off from Amazon store. Would you like these two entities more if they were split up? Would that be better for competition? |
0:33.0 | We're gonna double click on that and we've got some interesting takes on it. And then obviously it wouldn't be a day in 2022. |
0:40.6 | If we weren't talking about either Peloton or Spotify, in this case, it's Peloton, the continued chaos, the CEO stepping down. |
0:46.2 | They let off 2800 people, which is about 20% of these surprisingly large workforce. |
0:52.9 | And it's just me and they're angling for an acquisition or just cleaning up the balance sheet and so turn around attempt. We'll get into that. |
1:00.3 | And of course, it is this weekend's start-up. So we have a start-up of the day, a very interesting browser software with a very big valuation for a pre-revenue company. |
1:09.0 | We're gonna cover it all and more today. It's gonna be a great show. |
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2:07.2 | Peter Tiel is stepping down from Meta's board. That's also the company formerly known as Facebook after almost 17 years of service yesterday met a published a press release announcing Tiel will be retiring from Meta's board at their 2022 annual shareholder meeting. |
2:24.4 | He's been on the board since April 2000. I'm gonna guess he was the first board member who obviously was the first investor. Meta stock was down another 2% in early trading. |
2:34.7 | I don't think related to this at all. Tiel gave the following quote in the release. |
2:38.2 | It has been a privilege to work with one of the great entrepreneurs of our time, Mark Zuckerberg's intelligence, energy, and conscientiousness. |
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