Twist News: Fusion, Rural Investment, and Applied AI | E2068
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show. (1:33) The new interactive live show docket (4:34) The Vail Resorts Epic Pass controversy
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U.S. State-by-State AI Regulation
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Salt Typhoon Hack (via Washington Post)
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| 0:00.0 | But most people don't have your skin. |
| 0:01.8 | And that's the thing. |
| 0:02.4 | That's why I'm glad you're being empathetic because we, yeah, the last show we were talking |
| 0:05.1 | about how you won't close your DMs. |
| 0:06.4 | And I'm like, close your DMs. |
| 0:07.5 | And you're like, no, I want to know. |
| 0:09.0 | I want to know who the anonymous accounts are who are saying this stuff. |
| 0:11.8 | You know, I have security protocols like anybody in my profile here. |
| 0:15.5 | I'll just tell a little story here. somebody docks me. Person is upset because of something I said on the show. |
| 0:22.1 | They decide to docks me. |
| 0:23.8 | They decide to put my primary residence is worth $10 million. |
| 0:27.6 | What do I know? |
| 0:28.3 | Blah, blah, blah. |
| 0:29.2 | You know how they got my photo? |
| 0:30.1 | They went back two years. |
| 0:31.3 | When I took a picture of the tree line in my backyard, they reversed and searched it, and they tweeted it. |
| 0:38.3 | This is on July 4th weekend. |
| 0:40.6 | I looked the guy up. |
| 0:42.0 | I Google search him because I have security protocols. |
| 0:45.0 | So now I've got to get the security company involved to find out if this person's going to jump my fence. |
| 0:49.5 | Right. |
| 0:50.1 | Right. |
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