Spotify's saga continues, $FB warns of EU exit, GoFundMe's protest refund, Peloton's suitors | E1380

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Molly and Jason catch up on the big news stories from the weekend. First, we talk about the Joe Rogan & Spotify saga (1:51) and size up the odds of Rogan finishing out his contract with Spotify (15:41). Then, we cover Facebook warning about pulling Instagram and Facebook out of Europe due to privacy regulations (29:54). Next, we cover GoFundMe’s decision to pull funding for the “Freedom Convoy” protesters in Canada. We wrap with a discussion of the WSJ's reporting that Amazon is considering acquiring Peloton (57:26).

0:00 Jason and Molly intro today’s topics!
1:51 Daniel Ek’s comments on the newest Joe Rogan controversy: Is Spotify a publisher? Why or why not?
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15:41 Jason predicts the endgame for Joe Rogan and Spotify, Molly and Jason break down the odds of Rogan finishing out his contract with Spotify
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29:03 Wrapping on Rogan/Spotify
29:54 $FB warns the SEC and shareholders they could pull out of Europe pending new privacy laws, how Meta could win over public sentiment
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40:51 Meta’s need for a “coalition,” does $FB need new leadership? Plus, Jason fixes Meta’s PR mess
45:52 GoFundMe’s controversial decision re: Canadian truckers “Freedom Convoy”
57:26 Amazon rumored to be looking at a potential Peloton acquisition, Jason takes credit for a hot take

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0:00.0	All right, everybody. Welcome back to this weekend startups. It's another full news Monday,
0:04.1	because the weekend just keeps delivering. God, we are going to have to go seven days a week.
0:10.6	Well, the Sunday show is great.
0:12.1	Cap's coming. So it's a wrap-up show today. News wrap-up.
0:14.4	We're going to talk about the Joe Rogan Spotify fallout. It just continues.
0:19.7	And we basically set some odds. Will Joe Rogan finish his contract with Spotify? Molly and I
0:24.6	play some bets. Then we cover Facebook or, you know, meta warning about how they're going to have
0:30.7	to pull their services out of Europe due to privacy regulations, a threat that might not be as scary
0:36.4	as they think it is. And then we cover the GoFundMe decision to pull funding for the Canadian
0:44.2	truckers convoy and get a chance to do a 360 dunk with an incredibly perfectly timed layout
0:52.8	alley pass from Mollywood about Amazon buying peloton. It's going to be a great show. Stick with us.
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1:54.3	Heaven help us. We wish this were not the case, but it is the case. The Spotify story just keeps going.
2:01.8	Reports emerged over the weekend, a video in fact by the singer India Ari who has joined the
2:07.3	cavalcade of musicians asking for her music to be removed from Spotify. She posted a video essentially
2:13.4	a super cut of Joe Rogan repeatedly using the N word over the years in his podcast. Over the weekend,
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