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Molly speaks with Carolyn Childers, CEO of Chief, a women’s professional network (01:26) about how their community stretches across digital and physical spaces, accelerating women’s executive careers, growing with word-of-mouth…

First we cover the news of Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus launching a Bitcoin payments startup backed by a16z & Paradigm (02:05). Then, Jack Mallers, the CEO of Strike joins…

Jason and Molly chat with Jason Lemkin of SaaStr (01:44). They discuss: advice for new VCs (16:14), the future of SaaS investing (27:37), playing offense as investors (35:50), secondaries and…

In VC Sunday School we discuss Pitchbook’s data on women-led VC funds (03:16), how much money they’ve raised and how the industry is evolving. Then, Jason explains why new fund…

First Jason and Molly cover FTX CEO SBF buying 7.6% of $HOOD (1:57), SoftBank’s $13B loss (8:29), Twitter’s exec layoffs (14:55) & give a deal update (21:50). Then Producer Rachel…

Deirdre Bosa from CNBC’s Tech Check joins to talk about a wide variety of topics (2:20), including her interview with Sundar Pichai, journalism (12:54), the crashing public markets, crypto (44:58),…

First Jason and Molly open by digging into some details for the All-In Summit (02:12). Then they discuss Airbnb’s search options (08:13), Airbnb’s new aircover insurance feature (21:34) and Coinbase’s…

First, crypto reporter Bennett Tomlin joins to break down the the massive decline of algorithmic stablecoin Terra USD (UST) and how the Terra-Luna ecosystem works (09:00). Then we recap five…

First, we discuss Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi’s company-wide email rallying Uber behind a cash-generating vision to court investors (6:30). Then, we cover Apple’s machine learning director departing because of the…

Sunday double-header. First, Jason discusses why some VC firms allow side investing and others explicitly forbid it (01:50). Then, in a This Week in Climate Startups segment Molly interviews Nan…

First Jason and Molly break down Twitter’s new community annotation feature Birdwatch (1:40), they go through screenshots of the beta version and weigh the possibility for the Birdwatch to bridge…

First we chat with Lon Harris from Inside Streaming about the latest Netflix news, strategy, exciting upcoming shows and the proliferation of ads on streaming services (2:23). Then we cover…

Every Monday – Thursday, Jason and Molly record live at https://youtube.com/thisweekin – it has bonus content that doesn’t make it into the edited version of the show. This is a…

First Jason and Molly discuss the way tech is impacted by the leaked Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade decision (2:20). Then they break down the differences between a Lyft and…

First, we speak with The Information’s Sylvia Varnham O’Regan about Meta’s plan to double its VR headsets by 2024 (02:06), VR adoption (13:14), and more. We wrap by discussing the…

First, we discuss Bolt’s declining customer base and struggles with The Information’s Malique Morris (02:50). In addition, we discuss Fast, Amazon’s “Buy with Prime,” ShopPay (25:35) and all the other…

Sunday double-header. First, in VC Sunday School Jason discusses competing companies in the portfolio, when it’s ok, when it’s not and how to manage issues in good faith (01:52). Then,…