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Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital Pt. 2- TWiST #295

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Chris Sacca shares stories of his early investments in Twitter, Uber, and Facebook, and discusses the tech startup ecosystem.

Today on This Week in Startups, investor, entrepreneur and cyclist Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital joined the program to discuss his investments in Facebook, Twitter, Uber and more. He also gave a candid account of how he hustled his way to the top. And, the interview was so incredible, we had to break it up into two episodes. Here is part two! *Disclaimer: Chris has a potty mouth and we've attempted to bleep out all of his swear words. We apologize in advance if any snuck by our censors. What do you think of Sergey? Why doesn't Twitter own Instagram? Are you investor in Klout? Do you trust Mark Zuckerberg with your data? Is Zuckerberg, at his core, a great product guy? Is CEO of Yahoo the hardest job in Silicon Valley right now? Chris explains what Facebook did wrong with their IPO. What do you think about the prospects for American employment? What's Obama really like? Was choosing Sarah Palin the moment when the Republican party jumped the shark? Chris: There are people who are great at being second fiddle. Companies don't succeed if there are a lot of chiefs and no indians. Chris: The number one problem in Silicon Valley right now is people taking credit when they shouldn't. What do you think of Angellist? Question from the viewers: Where does the name Lowercase Capital come from? I think this is the longest episode ever. Thank you to Hiscox and to Stamps.com. Thank you so much for joining us, Chris. We'll see you all next time. Support This Week in Startups and independent media by joining the TWiST Producer Program at TwistList.co! Want to support TWiST another way? Use bit.ly/twistamazon when you shop and a portion of your purchase will go toward helping keep independent media like TWiST on air! Keep up with the latest from our sister company, LAUNCH: Google's Fiber 'Proof of Concept' is Anything But launch.co/blog/googles-fiber-proof-of-concept-is-anything-bu… Good to Great to Excellent: A Roadmap launch.co/blog/good-to-great-to-excellent-a-roadmap.html Building a Better Techmeme launch.co/blog/building-a-better-techmeme.html LAUNCH Looking for an Awesome Full Stack Engineer/Developer launch.co/blog/launch-looking-for-an-awesome-full-stack-engi… Live Blogging LAUNCH Education & Kids - Day Two launch.co/blog/live-blogging-launch-education-kids-day-two.h… FOLLOW ON TWITTER Jason: @jason Chris: @sacca Hiscox: @hiscoxsmallbiz Stamps.com: @stampscom

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On “Twitter Is Finally Starting to Wake Up to Reality and Consider Selling Itself”

…e from 2012 but I believe it's still relevant 4 years later. The tl;dw: Twitter isn't an interesting "science problem" for Google to solve. I haven't studied the list of Google's acquisitions extensively but it doesn't seem like they have a pattern of acquiring companies for the databases of user accounts. 1 relevant excerpt is 4m45ss - 10m51s : link to this video 2 link…