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M&a Mania, Palantir Meme Crash + Office Hours With Hookhub | E2105
Today’s show: Circle gears up for its IPO and the stablecoin wars heat up, Palantir’s meme stock status gets a reality check, and they riff on a possible Uber + DoorDash merger and whether AI should train on Substack content. They react to Sequoia partner Andrew Reed’s inside take on fund dynamics, laugh at a brutal VC meme, and wrap with “Office Hours” featuring Caylee Harrington, founder of Hookhub — the Airbnb for RV parking — to talk vanlife, growth, and building in an unsexy market.
Timestamps:
(0:00) Alex and Jason kicks off the show!
(1:29) Palantir's stock and market dynamics
(5:43) Meme stocks and reversion to the mean
(6:57) X and XAI merger
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(12:05) M&A trends in tech and AI content acquisitions
(17:22) Valuation strategies for acquisition
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(23:31) Circle's IPO and stablecoin regulations
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(32:26) Crypto community and anti-money laundering in stablecoins
(37:43) IPO and SPAC updates in tech
(41:20) Deep tech investment risks and lessons from SPACs
(44:03) Hookhub's journey and RV market insights
(49:27) Growth and challenges in RV market
(52:01) Hookhub's social media and content strategy
(58:48) Hookhub's investor pitch and growth strategy
(1:04:11) Van life business model potential
(1:06:16) Sequoia's internal culture and investment strategy
(1:13:03) Sequoia vs. Andreessen Horowitz and VC indexing
(1:15:32) Venture capital humor and closing remarks
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