Episode · This Week in Startups · 2022-09-28
Books mentioned on Cathie Wood's new VC fund, Bill Gurley's best insights, Girls Who Code on banned books list | E1571
J+M break down Cathie Wood's new VC fund (1:53), Bill Gurley's best insights from his interview with McKinsey (26:13), and Girls Who Code making a banned books list in a Pennsylvania county (0:00) J+M tee up today's venture-heavy topics!
Jason Calacanis recommended Maus I: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman, and discussed The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby and Girls Who Code by Reshma Saujani.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Power Law
The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby is a comprehensive history of venture capital that examines the legendary firms and high-stakes investments that shaped the modern tech economy.
Discussed“as we read in Sebastian's uh the power law during bad years took their management fees and instead of taking them as management they took those fees and they invested them”
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Girls Who Code
Discussed“uh because my homie reshma sajani posted it on her Instagram uh who founded of course girls who code on her Instagram and it appears to have in fact been the case that in the midst of a huge shortage of workers and education around stem and coding and technology”
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman is a landmark graphic novel that uses animal allegories to portray the horrors of the Holocaust and a father's survival story.
Recommended“uh have kindergarters and first graders learn about the Holocaust or murder is on one of the books on the band list the mouse is very graphic I've read that book it's incredible um I would recommend it for maybe seventh or eighth grade”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“this conservative group convinced the school board to ban about 300 books that they thought were problematic like Malala my story of standing up for girls rights a book about Pele the soccer player that's in Spanish yeah a book called who are Venus and Serena Williams”
“this conservative group convinced the school board to ban about 300 books that they thought were problematic like Malala my story of standing up for girls rights a book about Pele the soccer player that's in Spanish yeah a book called who are Venus and Serena Williams”
“this conservative group convinced the school board to ban about 300 books that they thought were problematic like Malala my story of standing up for girls rights a book about Pele the soccer player that's in Spanish yeah a book called who are Venus and Serena Williams”
“uh mostly some of the most targeted books include Maya kobabi's graphic Memoir about sexual identity genderqueer and Jonathan everson's Lawn Boy are coming in this is just an actual news story from Fox”