Student Roy Lee Hacks Amazon, SBF's Jailhouse Chat + more! | E2095

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Roy Lee's hack and Amazon's reaction

(3:03) MicroStrategy's Bitcoin strategy(4:29) Market reactions to Trump's policies(6:33) Creating value in current market conditions(8:00) South by Southwest highlights

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(12:03) The $20,000 electric car concept(16:18) Electric unicycles as a startup category

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(20:31) Electric unicycles trend discussion(21:31) Guest introduction: Roy Lee(23:32) Roy Lee's background and startup idea(25:41) Technical coding tests and InterviewCoder

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(32:01) Amazon's reaction to InterviewCoder and Columbia's actions(37:03) Roy Lee's future and startup funding discussion(41:19) Hiring, revenue, and fundraising strategies(44:37) Venture capital dynamics and maintaining company control(47:52) Capturing audience before investment and SBF's legal issues(57:57) ServiceNow acquires Moveworks(1:00:00) Impact of Tiger's peak valuations on LPs and IRR calculations*

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0:00.0	I have all the offers from Capital One, TikTok meta, but those are all like practice for the big one, which I knew was going to be Amazon because that's like the thing that everybody knows.
0:09.0	The technology is really not rocket science here.
0:11.7	Like I'm putting together two concepts that have existed before in the past.
0:15.9	It's just LOMs kind of make like everything hackable.
0:18.3	So you ended up using this service called IntroupCoder and got an offer from Amazon. And then instead of make it like everything hackable. So you ended up using this service called IntrubuCoder and got an offer from Amazon.
0:23.6	And then instead of accepting it, you posted a video on YouTube of the actual process of using your tool.
0:29.7	Oh, yeah.
0:30.4	To hoodwink the Amazon guys.
0:32.1	And then someone snitched and then everything kind of exploded.
0:34.5	Did you leak it yourself or did you get snitched on?
0:36.5	Someone saw the video when it was at about like 20,000 views. Some Amazon executive saw the video.
0:41.7	And then they reported it to Columbia. And all they did was post the letter that they sent to
0:45.6	Columbia. So they, wait a second. Amazon's a rat? Amazon's a cheese eater? They ate cheese on you?
0:52.7	They ratted you out to the university.
0:55.1	That's exactly what happened.
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