This Week in Startups
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1:29:42 · 53K views · Oct 9, 2012
Part two of Jason Calacanis's long interview with investor Chris Sacca on This Week in Startups. Sacca discusses his investments in Facebook, Twitter and Uber, and how he hustled his way to the top.
HN calls it a favorite startup video because it is packed with candid stories about Facebook, Twitter and Google.
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My favorite, because it's so full of great stories, is the Chris Sacca interview with Jason Calacanis on This Week In Startups. Pt.1 [LINK] Pt.2 this video
Some good stories related to this via Chris Sacca on TWIS this video Essentially Zuckerberg treated the IPO process with contempt, was cavalier and unorthodox, offending many Wall Streeters. 'The Hoodie' legend exploded during this period, as did perception that Facebook was hopeless on mobile AND had poor leadership. Both turned out to be false, as FB post-2012 found a way to monetize mobile and Zuckerberg grew into his role as CEO, now telling jokes in Chinese and managing the press more effectively.
>For Google, it would be buying an enormous database of personal information, For armchair quarterbacks like us, it's hard for us to mindread Larry Page's ultimate plans. That said, Chris Sacca has an interesting theory on why Larry wouldn't be that interested in Twitter.[1] Chris isn't just a random talking head. He worked at Google to buy datacenters for Larry Page during its explosve growth stage and is also one of Twitter's biggest outside shareholders. He's now a billionaire angel investor. His comments are from 2012 but I believe it's still relevant 4 years later. The tl;dw: Twitter isn't an interesting "science problem" for Google to solve. I haven't studied the list of Google's acquisitions extensively but it doesn't seem like they have a pattern of acquiring companies for the databases of user accounts. [1] relevant excerpt is 4m45ss - 10m51s : this video [2] [LINK]