SPEAKER_00: Hey, everybody, it is a Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, we're just

David Friedberg: ignoring. We're just having fun today. It's a fun Wednesday. We have a fun Wednesday. Well, you know, I'd like to talk about some of my ideas. I have

SPEAKER_02: some ideas for Twitter. So some people have, I don't know, but they've they've seen some of my communications around my ideas. You know, I'm an idea guy, product, I think of ideas. And I

SPEAKER_03: wanted to unpack one of my ideas for the DM product and how Twitter might be more useful for marketers and brands and

SPEAKER_06: celebrities and content creators.

SPEAKER_08: Revenue, revenue, revenue. And then we got a curveball in the

SPEAKER_09: Elizabeth Holmes trial. We're gonna talk about Europe voting in favor of universal USB C. And now we're gonna start might respond.

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SPEAKER_18: All right, it is Wednesday. It is Wednesday. Am I correct? Molly, is it?

SPEAKER_19: It is. Every day feels like a week. Hang in there boss. I know

SPEAKER_09: you're living every day twice right now. It's like that week in the world. I don't know what it's about. But like yesterday was not acceptable as a day. Today is off to a middling start. And I'm not

David Friedberg: alone. Like everybody was feeling the same way. It's just that I am used to podcasting. You know, I'm involved in podcasting for a

SPEAKER_25: long time. I've never had a day or like a two or three day period where my entire podcast feed is me. And you know, like you had a

SPEAKER_26: weird cast of like everybody commenting on my text messages.

SPEAKER_28: Uh, yeah, it was very weird. Like two or three days. I was like, I don't want to skip this episode. It's boring. Like I don't like this show. God, this is podcast. Like I just want to

SPEAKER_32: read the recaps. I don't want to. You're like me with all the Game of Thrones programs. Like I don't want to have to engage here. The good news is you don't have to. The bad news is

SPEAKER_38: there it is every day. Twitter break. Like I said, let's take this week. Twitter break. Actually, no, I have a lot of

SPEAKER_40: ideas for Twitter. I should be I've suddenly I am feeling a lot

SPEAKER_27: of idea juices flowing. Um, I just want to talk about one idea

SPEAKER_40: I have here at the top of the show. Okay. Um, there are people who, uh, you know, you sign up and you follow an account, right? So do some people have a rule? I don't follow any

SPEAKER_46: businesses on Twitter. Other people are like, I love United. Like that's my jam or I'm into Amon hotels and you know, I just

SPEAKER_40: really love this brand. So I love when they tweet something, right? Yeah. Um, do you have any brands like that, that you're have like an affinity tours? You can't get enough. Follow any

SPEAKER_49: brands on Twitter. I don't. Okay. I may be like, I think I

SPEAKER_09: probably started following Verizon once cause I had to DM them to yell at them about my service or, you know, like if they're still

SPEAKER_40: there, it's not on purpose. So one of the big use cases for Twitter is to complain to brands, right? So brands have a Twitter account and they are somewhat, um, what's the word like reticent to even have it. It's like annoying. It's like a customer support channel. In some cases they're like, oh my God, I have to deal with these people complaining on Twitter all the time about my brand. And they do it publicly. Oh my God. You know, like if you're an airline, Delta is the worst airline ever. United's worst airline ever. Like whoever's late that day is the worst airline in history. Okay. Let's put that aside. That's what how a lot of brands experienced Twitter, but then there's a small number of brands who see it as like, oh, this is an incredible way to build a community. It's just, it's hard to get there. Right. Um, so here's an idea for you. DM is probably the most underutilized feature of Twitter. It kind of sucks, right? You can't search it very well. There's no quick keys. It doesn't work like a modern day messaging app. If you were to look at Twitter DMS versus say I message, which is not a super advanced

SPEAKER_57: messaging platform versus signal and WhatsApp, where would you put

SPEAKER_61: that on the DM scale? I mean, DM is like proto. It's like the, it's

SPEAKER_62: like the man of messaging. Yeah, it's like a 10 year old app. It

SPEAKER_40: looks like a 10 year old app. Okay. So here's an idea for you. And what if that was a modern texting app that could do a lot of modern things. And then people who have very large followings could do modern things like, I don't know, reach their fans or reach their reach their customers. So it's opt in now. But you don't have the ability, like an email list to contact everybody who follows you. If you were a brand, and you paid for this, you know, you had a professional account. Imagine if this week in startups could know, we have 30 40 50,000 followers on our account. Imagine if we were going to be in New York. And if we had a professional account, they said, Hey, you got 30,000 followers, 50,000, let's say 50,000 followers, whatever it is, you pay 500 bucks a month for that account. And you can dm all your folks in France, for when Molly's, you know, doing a fireside chat or a keynote there, or, you know, Jake house gonna be raising launch fund for and there's a webinar and you could carve out your followers who are, I don't know, like accredited investors or in tech or who are capital allocators, LPS, whatever it is, high net worth individuals, you know, all that data kind of exists, right? Or I could say, take my list of this week in startups, folks, and then anybody who's following pitch book in the Wall Street Journal, give me them. Imagine slicing that list, right? So you got the overlap, give me everybody who follows Molly, and marketplace or Molly, you know, former place you worked. Now imagine you could DM those, right? How much would that be worth to brands?

SPEAKER_09: Yeah, I mean, a lot because you have basically disintermediated the collection and the newsletter, like subscription tool that they already pay for like, they're already paying for MailChimp, say, or they want to do an invite, and they have to pay a bunch for paperless post. And you disintermediate all of that. And you say that's already available through this channel, where people are already following you, you've built a community, you have a following, they have opted into these communications that are more than just a tweet from you. So you enable like a richer communication suite, and people should pay at least as much as they

SPEAKER_78: pay for MailChimp, which people, you know, the average company

SPEAKER_57: probably being companies, right companies spend, you know, a couple of thousand dollars a month on MailChimp, an average customer on MailChimp probably spends 25 to $100,000 for a corporate account. So now imagine the DMS were just nicely displayed. Here's DMS from corporate entities. Here's DMS from everything else. So even those corporate ones would be separated. So if you didn't want to deal with them right now, you just want to deal with your friends DMS, and you know, whatever, you don't have to. So, you know, me as somebody who loves specific

SPEAKER_82: brands like anchor or whatever, I would love to be able to get some brands on Instagram. And I was just thinking to myself, like,

SPEAKER_09: honestly, if Frank and Eileen was like, girl, we're having a huge sale, but I didn't see I wouldn't see it because the algorithm is already manipulating the posts, you know, and then I

SPEAKER_00: wouldn't have to be stressed about that. It would just be like, I got a DM about it. Okay, so what's the name of this brand? Frank and Eileen.

SPEAKER_40: So if Frank and Eileen tweeted, imagine they tweeted one Friday, we're having our follower sale. So he's got Black Friday as a sale, we have our follower Friday sales. If you follow our account every Friday, we put out three items just to our followers and check your DMS. Now your brand would pay $25,000 a year to be on $50,000 a year beyond Twitter, incredible revenue stream. And you could charge, you know, you could limit the number of tweets, you know, you can keep it from getting spammy, let's say. Yeah, absolutely. And you limit the consumer can opt it, you

SPEAKER_09: know, there. I mean, we have 100% either opted in or out. Like, it's not abusive. It's not like, you know, it's not like you sneakily got my phone number. So you could, you know, with the 10% off, and now you're texting me like,

SPEAKER_92: Now imagine you're Justin Bieber. You've heard of him.

SPEAKER_40: Bieber heard of the other one. Just kidding. Yes. All right. Now you imagine Justin Bieber, you don't even use Twitter. It's like, whatever, I gotta take time. Now imagine he's going on tour around the world. I'm someone like him probably sells everything out who cares. But let's say he just wants to know who his super fans are. So he could say anybody who's been following my account for greater than five years, any of it and

SPEAKER_57: has retweeted me more than five times and has liked me retweeted or liked me more than 25 times. And he skims the cream of the

SPEAKER_40: million people around the world who have been following him for more than five years have liked and retweeted his stuff. In

SPEAKER_57: other words, he knows his super fans, says the super fans. Hey, I'm going on tour. If you want to buy the super fan tickets, they're here. So imagine God, I just saw Gaga, right? She's gonna sell out whatever. Um, my Lord, can you imagine the power of being able to reach just the most important of your

SPEAKER_40: followers? This does not exist in media today. Yeah. Now some people might hear this. You know, if I didn't explain it in my voice, like if I were to write this in fragments of sentences at one in the morning, because I had a great idea, you might not understand the thoughtfulness of this idea. But if I explain it, like I'm explaining it now, does it seem like a thoughtful, considered potential idea? You might want to test if you were running something like Twitter?

SPEAKER_09: Mm hmm. If you leave us to become the CEO of Twitter, you better make me partner. I'm just, you know what, I'm just

SPEAKER_105: like, I'm just planting that flag. I'm just this is me. Yes, my flag.

SPEAKER_28: Double and I'm planting emojis. Do not want the job. Joking. Joking, joking, joking, joking. That's a great idea. That's what the

SPEAKER_00: love. But anyway, that is a great idea. One idea, you know, but it's a great idea only to clarify its brand engagement, like it's a correct legit revenue stream. It's great.

David Friedberg: I mean, Facebook had something called like, um, custom

SPEAKER_40: audiences, right? You upload your email list, and it kind of tries to find people, this would be like a better version of that. And if you think of Twitter as a platform for elite influential people, it has a smaller audience. So how do you take that audience and allow that smaller audience to be super

SPEAKER_57: valuable? Yeah, it's a really super valuable audience. So give people the tools who are brands to understand their follower work out. Now, if you were a journalist, let's say you were a journalist, you had a sub stack. Mm hmm. You could say like, can I know, you know, upload your email list of your sub stack. So

SPEAKER_06: you're Casey, um, Casey, uh, from platformer. What's his last name? Newton. Newton. Thank you. Every time, you know, or, uh, you

David Friedberg: know, Matt Damon here today, but we gotta go. So you got Casey Newton. Can you imagine if Casey Newton could put his list in

SPEAKER_57: there and say, here are all of Casey Newton's. So he could make a sub list on Twitter, uh, these are Casey Newton's sub stack subscribers and he could DM just them. Yeah. Or now imagine I just gave you

SPEAKER_40: the DM, which is like a direct mail kind of thing. If you take the DM direct message and you say direct mail. Now imagine he could tweet to only those folks. Right? Exactly. I was gonna say,

SPEAKER_09: potentially you don't even need, uh, don't let Casey or you or me hear this. But if you're Twitter, you don't even need to pass email

Jason Calacanis: addresses. No, you know, just messaging, right? It like, that's the easiest thing. You're just like, I've got the messaging platform taken care of. Yes. I'll own this for you, you know,

SPEAKER_57: right. But it could be either be in your DMS waiting for you or, you know, that brand we talked about that does like the follower Fridays, they could pay to put that tweet just for the people follow them, just for people who follow them for over three years, just for people who liked it over 25 times, it could be in their feed. And it could be prioritized in their feed as a priority tweet. So if you pay 50,000 as a year as a brand, this would be a priority tweet. So you know, you don't want to spam

SPEAKER_40: love it. But if people do opt into it, and you could slice and dice your follower list, and really understand who they are,

SPEAKER_57: right? Okay, give me my top, give me the 10% most active in my list. Now there are tools to do this third party tools that you

SPEAKER_03: can buy, but you know, in a cat or mouse game kind of get turned on and off. But boy, this would be amazing. You know, so anyway, so in

SPEAKER_09: By the way, in house, the tools, everybody wants the analytics. Exactly. You don't even have to like, you don't even have to build out a feature as fully thought out and fully fleshed as

SPEAKER_30: you have just delivered. If you just gave brands analytics, they would be more

SPEAKER_25: I mean, they have very light analytics. Now, very, I mean, how much would you pay to know? Who unfollowed you? Right? Totally.

SPEAKER_46: They don't tell you that, or, you know, could be interesting, like LinkedIn will tell you who visited your profile that I find a little creepy, I'll be honest. But knowing like your

SPEAKER_57: flows unfollowing you and following you, there are people who are in the professional circles, like we use Twitter professionally have tools for that. Third party tools, they pay 10s of 1000s of dollars a year just to know who's unfollowing me, or who should I engage with next? There's like tools for, hey, these are really important people who follow you that you're not engaging with. Like, you know, there's probably 100 people who follow the show who are super important that we don't even know, following the show or how often they're engaging with it. And they would tell you like, hey, you might want to engage with these customers more. Okay, that's it. It's an idea. I thought I would unpack an idea. Since people were talking about my ideas. That's one of the ideas. And that was one

SPEAKER_46: of the ideas that one if I fully flesh it out, you might think differently about it. So if you are the press have been asking me to comment, you just take this clip. And you can hear me explain an idea in its full fullness richness of the idea. And maybe it's a terrible name. Here's a great idea. I would test it. If I own Twitter, I would test that idea. I like it.

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SPEAKER_154: apply because they're giving you a hundy. What else is in the news?

SPEAKER_09: Elsewhere, we're gonna be we're gonna lightning round some news today. Elizabeth Holmes did get at least a postponement of her sentencing date. As a result of that witness that we talked about the allegedly distraught Adam Rosendorf, who had been the former Theranos lab director who the one who we talked about, he showed up at her house. And

SPEAKER_159: his shirt was always me knocking. I was looking at the notes and I was

SPEAKER_161: like, did someone was a door? I didn't mean it. I never meant to hurt you. I just told them what happened. But I didn't know they'd use it against me like that. And I'm so sorry. And we're all here for you. And we

SPEAKER_30: believe in the mission. And then Elizabeth Holmes apparently did not come to the door herself, but then turned around, called her lawyers and was

SPEAKER_25: like, get me a new trial. She should have, I'm not saying she's not guilty,

SPEAKER_57: but oh my Lord. You know, if you have this incredible gift, I mean, this is mana from the legal gods, key witness decides to go a wall decides to lose his mind and go to the guilty party and show up on their doorstep after calling on the phone. This person's having a manic episode. Now I could see people and people have manic episodes, right? Uh, people have a cry. It's either a manic episode or a crisis of conscience, or it could be both. So, I mean, what, what

SPEAKER_165: do you think the chances are that he was manipulated as a witness and she deserves a new trial? It's not zero.

SPEAKER_09: I don't know. I would say, I guess, isn't every witness manipulated on some level. Like what he said was, I just told them the truth. And then if, you know, and then the lawyer made it sound really bad. Okay. Okay. What lawyers do? I have no idea. They framed it. Right. Like if he stood on the trial or if he stood on the stage on the stand and said, whatever, I can't remember what he said, but it was something along the lines of like, yeah, everybody wanted to make this work. Everybody felt a lot of pressure to make it work. It would be very easy to take that. If you were the prosecuting lawyer with a preponderance of other evidence. Sure. And say this, this environment existed. Um, he might also have felt phenomenally guilty after the fact and after she was convicted because what he meant when he sat on the, you know, because she created an extremely cult like environment. Yeah. So of course he sat on the stand. He said, yeah, we all felt a lot of pressure to me. Anybody who works for you would sit on the sand and be like, we all feel a lot of pressure to perform. Yeah. To the best of our abilities and slightly beyond, because that's the expectation at our firm. Yeah. If you, if you were on the verge of being convicted for something, then a lawyer could make that sound really terrible. And then we would all feel really bad because we'd be like, wait, wait, we signed up for that. Like we

SPEAKER_40: cared, whatever. Right. And if I was to embezzle $10 million and take it to Vegas and double it playing blackjack and then came back and was like, we have

SPEAKER_02: more money to invest. This is like, I worked hard. I had a system and blackjack.

SPEAKER_184: Exactly. Turned out to be not real companies or, you know, he doubled the

SPEAKER_02: amount we could invest by playing blackjack. Yeah. I mean, at the time I

SPEAKER_09: said, this is another life that she ruined and I still stand by that. I mean, I think this poor guy is unbelievably distraught. Who knows what kind of mental health issues he's having as a result of all that he went through. It's pressure. It's a lot of pressure. And he went to her house and was like, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to like, take you down.

SPEAKER_03: He never opted to be in the public eye to this degree to be under this scrutiny. So I think 85% chance. It's exactly what you're saying. And you know, he, his claim that they painted everybody in a bad light. It's like,

SPEAKER_31: um, I think you all painted yourself in a pretty bad light based on like fudging

SPEAKER_189: the results of blood tests. So, uh, I mean, what lawyers do in a case, right?

SPEAKER_160: Is take all the evidence that they can prove. Yep. Then they take the witnesses who

SPEAKER_09: testified to the exact thing that they experienced. And then the lawyers tell a story about that. But that story is backed up by the evidence and the witnesses and all of that. And am I saying lawyers never do a bad thing? No prosecutors do sketchy stuff all the time. Um, but I would imagine that this could be a short hearing, I guess would be my guess. I feel like it doesn't sound like she's getting a new trial. She might be getting a new hearing just to, you know, to

SPEAKER_198: discuss this one incident. Yeah. So I don't, that's what's happening here. I

SPEAKER_199: don't totally see this like watch it. Yeah. We're keeping an eye on it though, but

SPEAKER_06: there are sentences coming between November and January. So new hearing scheduled for October 17th. So they're moving, uh, quickly to make sure that she's held accountable, I guess, or what else is in the news? Good news that we didn't

SPEAKER_09: even get to from yesterday. Cause yesterday was such a bonkers situation, but this, but we wanted to make sure we talked about it. Cause this is incredible. The European parliament has voted in favor of enforcing USBC as the common freaking charging port across most devices by the end of 2024 and laptops by the end of 2026. Take that apple. Normally

SPEAKER_57: I'm not for overreaching. Uh, I'm usually for the free market, figuring things out until such time as like apple. Well, you know, if we're doing something that's really in the, not in the best interest of the environment, I think a society can say, you know what? We're, we're not going to have these plastic bags anymore because there's other options and it's killing turtles

SPEAKER_03: and dolphins and it's just not sustainable or, you know, plastic straws, you know, uh, single use plastic straws or S you know, whatever it is, we're just going to have some basic, um,

SPEAKER_57: regulation around keeping the planet and making things slightly more sustainable. So, you know, you have to have a car with a certain emission standard. So I put this under like emission standards. Like you wouldn't want people to have a truck in today's day and age without, you know, a muffler or a carburet, whatever the, you know, uh, cleaning elements are in a car, in a modern car today. Uh, and you wouldn't want cars that get five miles to the gallon, right? You just be wasteful. You don't want things polluting. I, I put this under the polluting. If you look at this under a polluting framing, we're polluting the environment by making twice as many chargers for each human. Yes. Everybody carry every anybody in the iOS ecosystem,

SPEAKER_46: the 50, 30 to 50%, depending on which country you live, has to carry lightning cables by lightning

SPEAKER_03: cables every year or two. When they wear out, they break inevitably. Um, and just like putting them in

SPEAKER_46: the phone. Like, why are we putting, we should not, we should also take out of this, giving people free charging cables. They should always be separate from the device. You should have to, yeah, I'm dead serious about this. I don't, this is another crazy idea and it maybe seems

SPEAKER_09: overreaching, but why do we include a truck? I think it's a little regressive is actually what I think. Because somebody is always going to buy a phone for the first time and if you make them pay extra for the cable, I think that's a little regressive. But if they don't have to buy the cable

SPEAKER_217: from you and the cables now cost $3, how, you know, like the reality is it might not be regressive because they're only $3, like a USB C cable, right? Two or $3. So it's kind of like buying.

SPEAKER_09: Well, I don't know. Then you have to, you have to assume and potentially mandate that apple doesn't create some special version of a USB cable, which honestly, I mean, if they might, I mean, right now it's to the point where like, you can't buy, like I bought an external USB to lightning cable to use in my car so that I could enable car play that way. And I don't know, 10% of the time, it's like, oh, it doesn't work because it's not an Apple cable. Yeah, they'll find a way. Yeah, actually, there was a really funny tweet to that effect. Can I pull this up? Sure. That my brother sent me from angry it guy on Twitter. Okay. And he said, okay, Apple will do one of three things. One, just put a lightning to USB dongle in the box, a dongle, not a cable. Okay, that's an option. Two, Apple could remove the port altogether and go wireless only. Or three, Apple could claim they invented USB C in 2024. All of these three things are things

SPEAKER_231: that Apple would 100% do. They're definitely doing number three. No, I dongle idea is the antithesis of what Steve Jobs would want, because it's ugly aesthetically. Yes. However,

SPEAKER_18: it is what I've chosen to do. So I tweeted this the other day. Well, we have to do. Yes. I have been

SPEAKER_03: looking for these and I find them once in a while, like on the Alibaba or eBay. But they're from like some Shenzhen or Akihabara, you know, unknown manufacturer like this one, but they never work. And they don't do data very well. But what you're seeing here is a USB C female to male lightning connector. So you can put this little adapter is the word on the tip of your USB C. And now you have a lightning cable. So at bedside, you know, in my room and the guest bedroom, I have put one of these there, I tie these to the end of the cable, I have a guest over and they they you know, my parents come and they got a lightning cable, they got an iPad, they can just change the the dongle, right. So yeah, I think these cost like $2 each, you buy them in like two packs for four or five bucks. Amazing. And you don't have to buy cables. They come with a little wrapper that you put at the

SPEAKER_57: end. So you can kind of start this process now of never buying a lightning cable again, of course, data. I don't think these things work for data consistently, Apple may break them, but for charging, they work consistently. And that's all that you have to worry about, you know, and then

David Friedberg: the the key charging standard, I think queen is how you pronounce it. It's just so awesome as well. Yeah, the qi. Yeah, the wireless charging key or key queen. I don't know.

SPEAKER_09: Key and quick. That is why like, even though number two, by the way, all three of these are joke suggestions, we should clarify from hilarious angry it guy. However, it would not shock me if Apple was like, Okay, we're just taking out the port. It would not surprise me at all. And it will be a freaking nightmare. Because for example, CarPlay still only where you know, you wouldn't be able to charge externally like it. Yeah, they're not gonna do that. Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I don't have

SPEAKER_104: that faith. Let me say.

SPEAKER_247: I mean, they did remove almost all buttons to usability. Exactly. They're like, if they have to

SPEAKER_248: choose between making that phone thinner, like thinner and thinner, like Kate Moss, and putting

SPEAKER_09: in a USB C, they will 100% make these stupid things wireless only.

SPEAKER_154: Uh, nothing tastes as good words. Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels. Uh, just so we're clear

SPEAKER_252: here. A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips. I mean, I literally, um, with Kate Moss on this,

SPEAKER_03: having lost some weight, and I'm just trying to get in shape for skee season. But I played tennis again yesterday. Man, that just kicks your, that's hurting my body a little bit, but I like it.

SPEAKER_57: Like it. Four days in a row I've been working out. I'm just, I'm working out every day now. I feel great. Great. I feel great. Awesome. Yeah, get a little healthy. Maybe just replace thin with healthy,

SPEAKER_82: and then nobody will ever yell at you. Toss. Thin, no, I'm into thin. I want to be thin. I want to be

SPEAKER_03: felt thin. If you're fat, like I was, uh, I went to the doctor and I was like, my BMI broke 30. I was maybe 33 at the peak. I mean, that's just obesity. It's fat. You know, like I think, I'm not saying I'm pro fat shaming, but I wish people had fat shamed me. When I, we pull out,

SPEAKER_260: I can't even pull up clips of my own podcast because I'm just, it's too hard to look at.

SPEAKER_160: There was only, there was that, there was one the other day where I was like, wow,

SPEAKER_262: you got healthy, bro. Hmm. Yeah. Cause it's all doable people. It's all doable. It's just have to, you know, the thing is you can't just want to be thin. Yeah. You have to decide to be thin.

SPEAKER_200: Yeah. Why don't you make the decision? It's different. Okay. It's fricking work.

SPEAKER_267: Yeah. Yeah. On the program today is Darina Kouya. She is the founder of open phone. Welcome to the

SPEAKER_269: show Darina. Thank you so much, Jason. Great to be here. You know, I've read the ads a couple of

SPEAKER_267: times here. It seems like you're charging too little for this product. It's 10 bucks a month per number.

Chamath Palihapitiya: How are you able to do this? So affordably 120 bucks a year, 150 bucks a year per person is nothing.

SPEAKER_271: So we are a very self-serve product, which is why many of our competitors offer much more expensive tiers is that they rely on like a customer success rep or someone help you out to set things up. Uh, we are very self-serve. Now we do have customer success managers who are amazing.

SPEAKER_273: A lot of our customers are founders and startups. They like things to just work without instructions,

SPEAKER_267: without, they'll read the manual. They'll watch the videos. They don't want to talk to a human. They just want to set it up and go. And you made the product so simple. Absolutely. That's where the cost savings comes in. You don't have to have a sales team going out there selling it.

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SPEAKER_38: That's all the news for today because we have a super great interview next.

SPEAKER_09: Yes. We're doing the first interview in 2022's edition of the next unicorns. I'm super excited. I get to talk to Sally Krawcheck, Wall Street legend about this women focused investing app, Ellevest. I've been wanting to talk to her for a while. And then this is like the perfect opportunity to sort of interrogate this idea of like, why just women? Is that a big enough market?

SPEAKER_03: Does that make you an ex unicorn? It's on its way so far. Yeah, we go. And if you have suggestions for the next unicorns companies, you think that are destined to become worth a billion dollars, which means they probably have a hundred million in revenue at some point, you know what to do producers at this week in startups.com. Enjoy the interview.

Jason Calacanis: Our first guest this season, I could not be more excited on this season of the next unicorns is Sally Krawcheck, co founder and CEO of Ellevest. Thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate it. My pleasure. I'm very happy to be. So I'm going to ask you about some of your history in the financial

SPEAKER_74: industry. But I want to start with the important thing, which is the app. Tell us about Ellevest

SPEAKER_285: and what you've been building. Yeah, so Ellevest is the only wealth tech

SPEAKER_287: that was built for women. And it was built by women as well. And so when you look at the world of wealth tech, fintech, financial services, wealth management, all of the financial fintech, they typically were built centered on men and men's needs, not that anybody meant to, but in a world in which 98% of mutual fund dollars are managed by men and 86% of financial advisors are men and the majority of senior tech folks are men. They tend to build things for themselves. And we recognize that women don't invest as much as men do. It's a huge deal. Given that women's number one source of stress is money. Given the fact that the gender wealth gap, how much money women have in relation to how much men have is 30, 32 cents. For a black woman, it's a penny. So this is a huge macro issue, micro issue. And when we looked, we didn't see a lot of folks were working to solve it. And so pulled together a team, 80% plus women, 50% plus people of color and said, you know, okay, maybe it's women's fault. Maybe when everybody told us that they're risk averse, et cetera, is true, but let's build something centered on women. And so Ellevest helps women invest and take care of their money from that first investing dollar through to private wealth management, doing it by having built something that meets her needs goals based. So not about outperforming the market, but achieving her goals, a heavy emphasis on impact investing, and heavy emphasis as well in making the app that works best for her and what we found that gender

SPEAKER_74: differences can be. Tell me a little bit more about that because it's, you know, when I think about how

Jason Calacanis: seatbelts or airbags are clearly designed for men, right? That's just, I get it. That's a height thing. It could kill us. When I think about the research in the medical industry being centered on men, all of that makes perfect sense to me. They have no idea that COVID makes our periods weird,

SPEAKER_294: for example, but it's less obvious. It's less obvious, right? Exactly. It sort of feels like,

SPEAKER_297: if you just invest, it'll all be the same product. Well, of course, except Molly that women, you know,

SPEAKER_287: as we're thinking about preparing for retirement, which can be the biggest investment, you know, the biggest goal and investing goal anyone has, it makes a difference. If you say, live longer, if say you earn less, if your salary peaks sooner, if you take more career breaks, and that's what happens with women, that we have less money along the way, and therefore less money to invest, but we're living longer. And some 80% of women die single. And so my big aha for Ellevest was when I realized the retirement crisis, if we have a shortfall in the assets that are needed for retirement, it's actually a woman's crisis. So that's number one. Yeah, the living longer was a huge

SPEAKER_300: unlock. Just as a side note, I know that and my friends and I joke about it all the time about

Jason Calacanis: creating like a women's commune because they die first. But I hadn't really internalized it so much

SPEAKER_303: as a financial issue. That's a it's a financial issue. And here's the here's the part of it too.

SPEAKER_287: You know, you can get loans to go to college. Not a lot of folks want to give you a loan because you ran out of money and you're old. That doesn't happen. And so you do need that commune with your golden girlfriends, if that happens. So we'll be left with that. But we found there are other pretty significant differences between men and women. One of which is that women tend to be focused on their goals. And so, so much of what the apps with that have majority men downloads are about trading and Bitcoin and, you know, the fun of it and the process of it and watching CNBC and talking about it with their friends and all that stuff. Women are like, not, I mean, not every woman, but women, you know, I sort of think of it, you know, in the old, in the fifties of the sixties and the seventies, dad would fix the car and fiddle around with the car and rework the engine and loved all the stuff that made the car go. Mom wants to get in the car and get there. And so what we found with women is I don't care about not only when the thousands of women we spoke to exactly one told us her goal in investing was to outperform the market. And by the way, only a handful even said, I just want more money. But we heard Molly again and again, I want to retire. Well, I want to buy a house. I want to have a kid. I want to start a business. And so what Ellevest does is not just invest, although we do that, but it's how much house can you afford? How much house can you afford in five years? If you invest with us, you know, and you want a home in, you know, my hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, this is how much you're going to need over what period of time. And that's what we invest towards. And then Molly, I could give you a thousand other differences. If you ask a gentleman, his risk tolerance, and he's not sure he will make an educated guess and keep on motoring through the sign on process. You ask a woman and she says, that seems like a pretty important question. And I'm not sure. I'm going to log out. I'm going to go see if I can go figure this out. You know, in the old days, she would have bought a book. Now I'll look at the internet. But life takes over. And so she doesn't come back or she doesn't come back for some period of time. So how do you solve that problem? So what we found is the gender differences weren't the ones that Wall Street traditionally tells us that she's risk averse, right? Wall Street's risk averse. How do you know? Well, she's not buying what

SPEAKER_304: we're selling. Ellevest was the first and said, maybe what you're selling is not what she wants to

SPEAKER_287: buy. Okay. And so we found other gender differences. And the biggest of which is, you know, this issue of just different financial circumstances. And how do you help solve for that?

SPEAKER_163: So how do you help solve for that? What happens in the app? Once, once I complete my signup process,

Jason Calacanis: which I started before our interview, what will I be able to do?

SPEAKER_287: High degree of personalization. So take, you know, using the power of technology to build investment portfolios that are completely bespoke to you. And so your retirement portfolio will be different from your buy a house portfolio will be different from your start a business portfolio will be different from my start a business portfolio. And the differences are based on gender. But it also takes into account your age, your level of education, what industry you're in. So you get a unique salary curve for yourself. And then we really customize those portfolios. Another big one for us is women are very interested in investing for positive impact. Women seem to recognize implicitly, intuitively, that everything they do with their money has an impact. Even if you don't know it, you have an impact. And so women tell us, let's, let's, let's reveal that what is my impact? Am I investing for a better climate? Or am I investing in other women? And so having that for the 50% plus of women who are looking to make a positive impact with their money is another difference.

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SPEAKER_163: tell me about the launch. So the so Ellevest launched in 2016. And then just in April,

Jason Calacanis: it sounds like raised a series B $53 million. Congratulations out of $363 million valuation. How many total assets are on the platform? How's the how's the update?

SPEAKER_287: We're about $1.5 billion of assets under management today. By the way, we launched in 2016. We should add the day before the election because of course, we thought, oh, woman president, here we go. And didn't fully recognize at the time we knew Ellevest was needed. But given the economic and financial impact that women have taken, negative impact in the years since we're needed even more. I think what we're doing, particularly because we are the only one doing it, you know, is needed even more. So we're at $1.5 billion of assets under management. These are about record levels, which given that the market this year is down, you know, depends on the day and the hour, 25%,

SPEAKER_306: 30%, etc. And we've continued to grow. And we've seen positive net flows every week,

Jason Calacanis: I think is is chalked up as is pretty good. Yeah. And then, you know, here you launched into this particular election, we are only starting to reap the consequences in some ways in terms of policy and Roe v. Wade and things like that. And then, a pandemic happened that disproportionately impacted working women. I mean, how are you feeling about your timing?

SPEAKER_306: Okay, about my timing, I feel an enormous amount of responsibility. Because, as you said,

SPEAKER_287: you know, the pandemic disproportionately impacted women negatively. More women lost their jobs than men. Women got fewer promotions. Women who were fortunate enough, Molly, to work in the home were promoted, or from the home, were promoted at lower rates than men were. So it's been tough for women all around. And then, as women were recovering and getting back into the workforce, we're hit by inflation, which hurts everyone, and hurts women more. Why does it hurt women more? Because if you have less money, it hurts you more, right? You have more of the spending, which is non-discretionary. And then Roe v. Wade. The repeal of Roe v. Wade is a negative economic issue for women. And so, we recently put together the Ellevest Women's Financial Health Index that shows it's as bad as it's been for the past five years, that the forces that are buffeting women are as tough as they've been. The slight good news, is women are making the right moves. They continue to, they're not pulling money out of their retirement accounts. They continue with their recurring deposits. They're instead cutting their spending. They're making the right moves, but the world has really moved against them. And the responsibility, I feel, is that the gender investing gap cost women hundreds of thousands, some women millions of dollars over the course of their lives. These are life-changing numbers. And, you know, our responsibility, my responsibility, I feel, given the career I've had

SPEAKER_326: to try to help these women invest and build that wealth is a pretty heavy weight.

SPEAKER_163: Yeah. We have some other numbers from that study. And for those listening, we will have it linked on the website so you can take a look as well. I want to ask you about this sort of from the,

Jason Calacanis: you know, this is the Next Unicorn series. And so, I want to ask you about this from the investor perspective, which is, of course, this question of Tam. Who, who, what slice of women is this for? There are certainly many women who will say, in some cases rightly, and in some cases wrongly, the last thing I have time to spend any time on is investing. I do not have enough money to be investing. So, that's already a tough one, right? How do you, how do you overcome that? Sure. Sure. Mentality to help women, but also to increase your user base.

SPEAKER_287: Sure. So, you're hitting on something pretty important. Women are saying, I don't have the time. You're, you're in the midst of signing up for Ellevest. You'll finish as soon as we complete this. You will say, Sally, I did that in 10 minutes if you scoot on through, 15 minutes if you're slow. Molly, historically, that is the highest return 15 minutes of your life, right? Maybe that 15 minutes when you met your partner, like, is the most transformative 15 minutes. But when you think about what has driven the creation of wealth in this country, it's been real estate, right? And it's been investing. And who doesn't have 15 minutes? But what, where we've been socialized, and this is really an important part of Ellevest and, you know, becoming a unicorn and changing the country. We, as women, have been socialized that we're not, this is not for us. We're not good at math. We're risk averse. We're not good at investing. We outsource it to the man in our lives. He's been socialized that he's very good at this. When you look at the media that's directed towards us as women around money, the vast majority, like 90% plus of it is negative. And of that 75% tells us we're spendthrifts. And so we've internalized, this isn't for me. By the way, for men, 75% of the articles in media directed to them on money is about growing money and expansionary. But for us, it's don't buy the latte. And I mean, my gosh, pumpkin, pumpkin spice latte season, you know, is you an attack on women,

SPEAKER_319: right? Just gross. You'll never retire. And it's all because of the lattes.

SPEAKER_285: There we go. There we go. There we go. It's such coded language. It's such, you know, meanness. It's actually just mean, right? I can't have my frigging latte and enjoy it in peace.

SPEAKER_287: You're telling me I'm a spendthrift and I can't retire and all this stuff. And so as women, we internalize this. In fact, it's even worse than that. You know, we're taught that being bad with money is feminine and sort of cute. And so we get trapped into the, okay, let me outsource the money to him if we're in a relationship. But when it comes back to us, 74% of us have a negative surprise. And so I just want to scream from the rooftops. It's 15 minutes for Christ's sake, you know? And by the way, I didn't want to go into everybody's home and put a clock on their wall that shows them how much money they're losing every day by not investing. And Molly, you know, by the time, you know, it compounds and through the course of your life, if you were making say 85K invested, you know, double digit percent of it as the experts say to, you could later in your life be losing a hundred or 200 bucks a day by not investing, you know? And if that fell out of your purse, you'd be fixing your purse, you know, right away. But somehow we're taught it's going to be hard and it's not for me. So part of what we are working to overcome is, and part of the reason that we have such a big community and are so heavy on the content and the financial education is, you know, having to

SPEAKER_306: change that mindset from this isn't for me and I don't have time to this is 100% for me. And I'm going to

Jason Calacanis: find 15 frigging minutes. How about finding the $15? How about like at what threshold, you know, because the second part of that question is the women who say, are you kidding me? I do not have enough money to be investing. There is a sense that investing itself is unattainable.

SPEAKER_287: Sure. So a couple things. One of which is we have no investing minimum. And we have none because they're exclusionary. And I would just so much rather have, you know, a young gal who's still paying off our student loan debts, you know, begin to invest even a few bucks right out of every paycheck. 1% of every paycheck, 2%, work your way up to 5%, 10%. Yes, pay off the credit card debt first, get the emergency fund first, invest in the 401k with a match first. But when you get yourself onto that slightly more stable ground, just a bit out of every paycheck, because that dollar in the 20s is investing in the 20s is worth so much more than in the 30s or 40s. And to help women get there, we have an enormous amount of content, worksheets, workshops, you know, that many of which are free and available everywhere to help women sort of navigate how do you get the raise. It's different, Molly, asking for a raise as a woman than a man and very different as a woman of color than a white man. And how can we provide those resources to help folks so that, you know, the TAM

SPEAKER_306: is as large as it can be, you know, where it makes sense for women, which of course is tens of millions

SPEAKER_163: of women. And how do you make money? Is it just the subscription? Or are there other revenue

SPEAKER_287: generating features? Yeah, no. One of the things I took away from my days on Wall Street is any company that I build, Molly, I don't want to have hidden fees. I just don't. You make a lot of money from hidden fees, you can make a lot of money from, you know, charging quietly or secretly or, you know, taking a bit out of every trade. But we wanted to be very straightforward. And so for the digital side, as people are newer towards investing online, only there's a subscription fee that we charge. We then will also provide certified financial planners for which there's an additional fee if that makes sense at our next stage. And then even full-time financial advisors who charge as the industry does basis points on assets who are dedicated teams. So again, I try, we try to be sort of college to crypt and provide the same solution along the way, but with different,

SPEAKER_299: very transparent pricing. Gotcha. So do you think that there is a universe where you would ever

SPEAKER_74: create financial products like investment vehicles? I mean, that you were more transparent maybe than the

SPEAKER_287: rest of the industry about? Yeah. Well, we, right now we use outside money managers for ETFs for, you know, in our private wealth offering for a number of privates. What I'm pleased to tell you is that, again, in an industry where 98% of mutual fund dollars are managed by men, even though the research says women are, you know, earn higher risk adjusted returns than men do, that for our outside managers on our private wealth side, it's 80 plus percent women. You know, we really believe, we really believe diversity is a competitive advantage. We really believe there's money to be made by investing in women. We really believe nothing bad happens when women have no money, have more money. And so through our

SPEAKER_74: entire ecosystem, we really try to, to live that out. Got it. But no plans for an Ellevest ETF or a divested. Not at this stage, no. Good. We love focus. And then tell me a little bit about,

Jason Calacanis: I don't know how many, how familiar people are with your history, but tell me about the moment that kind of brought you here being fired from Citigroup and, and determining at some point. Yeah.

SPEAKER_352: Like I've done all these other things and you're like being fired from Citigroup. Okay.

SPEAKER_160: What I wonder is we all, let me, let me tiptoe into this a more, a little more gently. We all have,

Jason Calacanis: we all started out as sweet summer children in our career with no awareness of how being a woman is impacting our progress. And I think then we get to an age or a level at work where we start to notice that it is. And I am sure that you had started to notice that before that happened. And then I wonder the extent to which you went, this is 100 per year. I have had that moment in my career where I was like, wow, as much as I don't want it to be true, this is 100% about me being a woman.

SPEAKER_287: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I, well, particularly when you look around and you realize you're the only woman in the room. So I had the, you know, I've had this wild and really unbelievable career where I went from investment banker to research analyst, to running Sanford Bernstein, to running Smith Barney, to being CFO of Citi, to running Merrill. And along the way, as you noted, I got fired from City. Well, actually, Molly, I got fired from Bank of America too. So I've, I, or reorg as, as it was. And many times was the only woman in the room and found myself, even though the business was performing, you'd find yourself not called on, you know, the CEO, not looking at you. And, and I've had a number

SPEAKER_306: of CEOs and I've had some that were like, go, go, go, go, go. And others who were like, you're,

SPEAKER_287: you're too much. Sally, you're just too much. I had one CEO tell me, you're literally tell me you're working too hard. You're intimidating the others. And I thought, wow, like I don't, what, you know,

SPEAKER_319: we're coming out of the financial crisis and I'm working too hard and I'm intimidated. What?

SPEAKER_287: Um, so there were ups, ups and downs. What I take away from all of it is that I've had the privilege and I mean that both I'm privileged and I've had the good fortune to have roles and responsibilities and see things that no one else has had. Women are men. Um, I've been in more different jobs around the industry. When I was invited to, when I was reorg out of running Merrill, you know, I, I had the opportunity to go back to big wall street firms. Some people said to me, why don't you start something for women? And I just had a visceral negative reaction to it of, well, I'm not junior varsity. I'm in the varsity, you know, I've been on the varsity team. Don't, don't tell me to go do that. And then one morning I recognized, you know, sort of had this lightning bolt of, of an insight that the retirement savings crisis that we were talking about earlier is a woman's crisis. And all of a sudden I said, you know, I can't be a product of this background. I see this problem. I see nobody trying to solve it in any kind of meaningful way. Yes. There's some marketing, you know, initiatives and some go girl newsletters, but I, I have the ability to put together the team, raise the money, you know, put together the financial team, the tech team, the marketing team, the community. Do I want to not really, actually, I really don't. But when I looked around and said, who else could do this? It couldn't find anybody. And there were a couple that were starting at the time, but they were really marketing initiatives. And so I thought, well, you know, I've experienced public failure before, and that's the likely outcome of this. So let me, let me go for it. And, you know, we've certainly made it farther than anyone else has.

SPEAKER_74: I resonate so hard with that. I'm not junior varsity feeling because, you know, I, I won like

SPEAKER_163: an award that's back here and was like, okay, well, next time I want to win the award that everybody

Jason Calacanis: competes for, you know, not the women's radio award, but I wonder, um, and I, and I will confess to initially having had that response to Ellevest also. And what is the store that, as you talk to me, it's very obvious why, in fact, this is the exact product that I need. And God love my financial advisor. I'm going to scoot on over to this in some ways, but what do you tell those women? Like,

SPEAKER_292: how do you, how do you convince the, the ones who don't want to acknowledge the difference or the lag?

SPEAKER_287: Even this is where being around doing a great job for their friends, delivering value to them when they hate, follow us on Instagram, um, or hate, follow me on LinkedIn. And then they realize, you know what I'm learning and I've got some ahas and they're saying some really interesting things. And by the way, I write our Monday newsletter and we'll call a spade a spade. We, you know, we will talk about the striking down of Roe v. Wade and the financial and economic implications for women. We'll, we'll go on a rant. Um, but I think part of it is being here and being successful. So to back up when we launched Molly and we were for women by women, you know, we had a healthy double digit percent of the responses, um, on, you know, wherever we were advertising the time, Facebook as, as sort of a middle finger from women. And it was, as you're saying, I don't need your, very interesting. I don't need your dumbed down, you know, patronizing, you know, um, junior varsity Bic pen for women cost more is pink offering. And what happened is that there was some number, the majority of women were like, that's intriguing. Let me, let me go in and look. And what we saw happen is some women would go into the product, see what we're doing, sort of pop back out and say, actually, this is more sophisticated. This makes sense. Oh my gosh. Their chief investment officer, Dr. Sylvia Kwan has a PhD in computer science, applied math and engineering economic systems and decades in the industry. And like, this is the real thing. Right. But what was so interesting, Molly is not one single solitary woman said it's for women. It must be better. Not one. And that is how we're socialized. Right. And that is what corporate America has done for us by through the, here's the big pen for women. And, you know, here's the, you know, it's all going to cost more and do less. But that's part of, dare I say, the patriarchy. Right. Where we've learned as women to think that for women is inferior. Yeah, that hurts. That's deep.

Jason Calacanis: Yeah. Yeah. I actually got the version of the, you're too much speech from a woman boss. We do it to each other. Yeah.

SPEAKER_287: Hurt people hurt people. Right. She, she's been through that. I felt that in part of my career when I was CFO of Citigroup and the only woman at the table, I'm like, come on other ladies, work harder, just work harder. Not recognizing that, yeah, I worked hard. But it was also a series of serendipitous events that, you know, one of which is I didn't ever have to deal with Harvey Weinstein. Right. I didn't ever have to deal with Charlie Rose. Like I didn't have these men, you know, I had great bosses up until I didn't, but on my climb, I had great bosses who, you know, pushed me along. In fact, I was with a dear friend of mine who's a very successful venture capitalist last week, woman. And we talked about how for each of us, it was interesting that we both had

SPEAKER_306: quite a bit older male mentors and who were not, didn't feel threatened, helped us along the way.

SPEAKER_287: And that that may have been a point of difference with our equally hardworking friends who didn't make

SPEAKER_09: it as far. Interesting. I want to ask you a totally different question given, it's funny because

Jason Calacanis: when we evaluate companies here, and I'm thinking about who to invest in, obviously team is a huge part of that. And so I was going to say that you and your team are a huge part of why you would have trust in this product. And I would be remiss if I let you go without, given your long history in finance, talking about the macro situation and where we are now, which I have a couple of times recently referred to as a big sale at the stock store. But, you know, what can you tell us about what you would be doing with your money as a 25 year old in this environment? I'd be investing a little

SPEAKER_287: bit out of every paycheck. And I would have some degree of competence that it's, you know, in my

SPEAKER_306: older age, whether that's next year or 10 years or 20 years or 30 years, I'll look back at this

SPEAKER_287: time and say, oh, those dollars worked hard for me. I would do this based on history, Molly, which is that, you know, put aside today's downturn, today's, you know, recession or market volatility, but up until a year ago, we had recovered from every single bear market in history, in every single recession in history. Now, that doesn't mean we're going to recover from this one. But if history is in a guide, which it typically is, you know, the United States of America and the world push towards growth and that tends to pay off. It's, you know, these are scary moments. The volatility makes everybody nervous. You know, we're sitting here and they've just been, you know, rumors about Credit Suisse and whether they can afford to fund themselves. You know, that makes me want to vomit because I'm back in 07, 08 immediately. And, you know, that's a sign of real panic. But we made it through 07, 08 as well. And so, I think for, I would not be trading through this. I would not try to pick individual stocks just because the stock at the company you work at was super high and now is super low does not mean it's going to be super high again. It does not mean it. You know, when I worked at Citi, the stock peaked at 54. It went below one. And for everybody who thinks, well, it's going to come back, there was a 10 for one reverse stock split and it is now trading at the equivalent of $4.37. You see it as 43 bucks. But the people who held on at Citi waiting for it to bounce back into the 50s,

SPEAKER_306: it never ever did. So I would not anchor in the old prices, you know, with regards to individual stocks.

SPEAKER_163: Right. So you, but you would take a little bit from every paycheck and put it in an index.

SPEAKER_287: Yeah. I am. Not only would I am.

SPEAKER_306: Yeah. And I would for sure. But the diversification is the name of the game. Yeah. Having a correctly diverse, the correct asset allocation and diversifying, and then

SPEAKER_287: being with a company like Elibus that will rebalance for you. Rebalancing is this gift, which is, you know, you set your allocation, you're thoughtful about it. And when that moves off the

SPEAKER_306: allocation, say stocks, you want it to be 60%. And now they're 30, because they've gone down so much.

SPEAKER_287: It sort of forces you to go against every fiber of your being that's screaming, I'm scared, and rebalance into the asset class that has been reduced.

SPEAKER_08: I also have to ask you about crypto, not just because it's been such an interesting,

SPEAKER_74: let's say financial story, but because it's an asset class that has been and continues to be

SPEAKER_287: primarily marketed toward men. Oh, for sure. Oh, for sure. Well,

SPEAKER_306: it's also an asset class that hasn't worked yet worked out the way it was supposed to, it was supposed to be a diversifier. It's actually been an accelerant. I just think you've got to be careful with crypto because the concept of crypto is such a strong one. Which cryptocurrency comes to the forefront is a little more clear with the performance of some of them. But you could have perfectly foreseen the growth of the auto industry or the railroad industry and just made the wrong bets. You bet on Susie's auto company as opposed to Ford. And so, you want to, within it, diversify, but recognize that it's so far been an accelerant. What do you mean when you say an

SPEAKER_290: accelerant? Do you mean it's just been something like- It's increased volatility. It's increased

SPEAKER_287: volatility. The whole concept was it's going to reduce volatility, it's a different type of asset,

SPEAKER_306: it's going to be therefore added to your portfolio, and it's made the losses worse.

Jason Calacanis: Right. And Bitcoin specifically, at least, has generally traded in lockstep with the broader market. It's clear that institutionals are buying that along with whatever other basket.

SPEAKER_370: Yeah, like we needed another equity, right?

Jason Calacanis: Right. Fascinating. I feel like I could talk to you all day. I don't want to take advantage of our time together. Sally Krawcheck is the co-founder and CEO of my new financial manager, Ellevest,

SPEAKER_299: and, we hope, a unicorn. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Okay, thanks for tuning in everybody

SPEAKER_57: tomorrow. Lon Harris is back, and we'll have some great Ask Jason questions and more, so make sure you've watched Andor. That's not and-or. Andor, the show, one word. And catch up on House of Dragons,

SPEAKER_28: and we'll see you all tomorrow. Bye-bye. You got a lot of homework, people. See you then.