Episode · This Week in Startups · 2023-01-19
Books mentioned on Quiet hiring, Semafor's $10M SBF buyback + M3GAN and The Last of Us with Lon Harris | E1661
Molly and Jason kick off the show by discussing the concept of 'quiet hiring' (1:53) and the SEC's proposed rules making it easier for LPs to sue VCs (9:37). They also cover Semafor's buyback of Sam Bankman-Fried's $10M investment (20:50).
Lon Harris discussed The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski and The Color Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Witcher
Discussed“it was books and short stories and then they made the game out of it and then the Netflix is kind of going back to the writing”
Where to get it
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The Color Out of Space
Discussed“like if you if it actually gets uh it's color out of space that's the Nicholas Cage horror movie I was thinking of color out of space which is based on a Lovecraft uh story”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“so he found this guy this regular real person guy who wrote a book about how he got married and his wife was was lying to him and he untangled this whole vast conspiracy”
“uh also uh Rupert Grint Ron Weasley from the Harry Potter films is uh is also in here”