#131 – The Companies We Would Buy and Fix and A Multi-Million Dollar Rapper Snack Business

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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss:

• Shaan finds Internet gold in the Twitter replies from followers of Chamath (1:45)
• Sam explains why Casper mattress company should be in the midwest instead of Brooklyn (3:35)
• Sam thinks one company that is ripe for innovation is Subway (5:25)
• the guys talk about why Western Union should switch to Crypto and modernize (7:10)
• Shaan thinks CVS is another candidate ripe for modernization (12:30)
• Shaan explains why Tootsie Roll should go viral (15:45)
• Sam and Shaan wonder why new candy bars don’t exist (22:15)
• Shaan breaks down a blog post called “Nine Charts About Why Bitcoin is Different This Time” and on if there’s substance behind Bitcoin’s recent rise (30:25)
• Shaan pitches a “collaborative search engine” idea that he’s calling Figma for Browsers (36:10)
• Could “Substack for video” be a thing? (42:00)
• the guys find an interesting bootstrapper online named Jakob Greenfeld (44:35)

Reference links:

• Chamath’s tweet https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1329578886556839936
• Shinola https://www.shinola.com/
• Gumspy https://gumspy.com/
• Rap Snacks http://www.rapsnacks.net/
• Rokfin https://rokfin.com/
• Why Bitcoin is different this time https://cointelegraph.com/news/this-time-is-different-10-bitcoin-charts-show-that-this-rally-isn-t-like-2017

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