Episode · This Week in Startups · 2023-03-13
Books mentioned on Silicon Valley Bank collapse recap + Wist CEO on capturing XR memories | E1697
Jason kicks off Monday by recapping this weekend's chaos caused by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (1:45). Then, he advises founders on preventing a scare like this from happening again before interviewing Andrew R McHugh of Wist Labs, who is building a platform to capture and relive memories in AR and VR (13:40).
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“um there's a video game called cyberpunk that has like a similar idea um Harry Potter there's this idea of like a pin sieve where you can like pull the memory out and save it somewhere”
Passing Pet Sematary
“in fact I think there's a Stephen King novel about this yeah in a movie about bringing people back from the dead and and now you're you're starting to get into some unnatural areas”