Elon buys ~9% stake in Twitter + Freestyle Capital's Dave Samuel | E1426 episode artwork

EPISODE · Apr 5, 2022 · 1H 2M

Elon buys ~9% stake in Twitter + Freestyle Capital's Dave Samuel | E1426

from This Week in Startups · host Jason Calacanis

First, Jason and Molly discuss Elon buying a 9.2% stake in Twitter (01:50). Then, Dave Samuel of Freestyle VC joins (23:18) for a discussion on early stage investing. Freestyle invested early in startups including Airtable, Patreon and Intercom. We talk about how fund size dictates strategy, how to give feedback to founders (especially when it's a no) and more.  (00:00) Jason and Molly intro today’s show (01:50) Elon takes 9.2% stake in Twitter, TWTR stock up ~28% today (11:09) Masterworks - Skip the waitlist to invest in art using promo code TWIST at https://Masterworks.io/twist (12:250 Do we want more people to take stakes like this? (20:58) Ourcrowd - Check out the deal of the week at https://ourcrowd.com/twist (23:18) Interview with Dave Samuel of Freestyle VC (30:13) iTrust Capital - Visit https://itrust.capital/twist to create your Crypto IRA today (31:27) Dave’s lessons for other capital allocators and founders FOLLOW Dave: https://twitter.com/dsamuel Check out Freestyle: https://freestyle.vc FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis FOLLOW Molly: https://twitter.com/mollywood

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