Fully Vested

The Yada, Yada Side

Episode Summary

This week after brief updates about Marijuana becoming recreationally legal in Illinois and Vaping flavors becoming illegal in the US as it relates to our VICE episode we discuss Snap’s acquisition of Ukranian based AI Factory and we discuss our views on several of Fred Wilson’s top 9 trends from the decade of the 2010’s and a couple of the trends of his views on the new decade of the 2020’s.

Episode Notes

General

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Followup on Vice

• Section starts at 4m10s
• Cannabis is now legal for recreational use in Illinois
• The Trump administration instituted a partial ban on flavored vaping products

Venture Returns

• Section starts at 12m0s
• Snapchat Quietly Acquired AI Factory the Company Behind its New Cameos Feature for $166M (Ingrid Lunden for Techcrunch)

Past Decade (and a tiny bit the Next Decade)

• Section starts at 18m30s
• What Happened in the 2010s (Fred Wilson for AVC.com)
• What Will Happen in the 2020s (Fred Wilson for AVC.com)

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About The Co-Hosts

• Jason D. Rowley is a data journalist for Crunchbase News, volunteers with the Python Software Foundation as an organizer of Startup Row at PyCon US, and sends occasional newsletters from Rowley.Report.
• Graham C. Peck is a Venture Partner with Cultivation Capital and additionally helps companies build technology development teams in partnership with Brightgrove and other technology development organizations.