Binance Hacked $6.3B Stolen, DoorDash Buys Instacart For $17B, Jake Newfield from Hermetiq, + More!
Jason and Lon cover the record $6.3 billion Binance hack and DoorDash's $17 billion Instacart deal. They then hear a pitch from Jake Newfield of Hermetiq, which builds an AI build engineer, and judge an app bounty.
The gist
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Binance says it will cover the $6.3 billion hack, and Jason advises founders to spread money across several banks and never trust one exchange.
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Jason calls DoorDash's $17 billion Instacart deal an overpay, using Claude to show Instacart grows slowly and gets about 30% of revenue from ads.
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Jake Newfield says a top AI lab pays Hermetiq 240k for build analysis, and Jason tells founders to lead pitches with lighthouse customers like that.
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Jason says brand and relentless care are the new moat, pointing to BOA Steakhouse remembering his order and Tesla's free over-the-air updates.
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Jason splits the Annotated app bounty, giving the top five of 83 submissions $1,000 each, and Lon recommends the thriller Green Room starring Patrick Stewart.
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"He did a movie called Green Room... Patrick Stewart plays the leader of this Nazi gang and he's incredibly, so scary. It's nothing like any other role he's ever done... This is a great movie. It's really intense. It's a thriller."
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"He did a movie called Green Room... Patrick Stewart plays the leader of this Nazi gang and he's incredibly, so scary. It's nothing like any other role he's ever done... This is ..."
"When I go to BOA Steakhouse here in Austin, they say would you like the Alaskan King Crabs and would you like your New York strip medium rare? They've put that note into their s..."
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