The Outsiders with Chris Bakke, Alex Cohen and Michael Girdley
By Chris Bakke, Alex Cohen, Michael Girdley
The Outsiders with Chris Bakke, Alex Cohen and Michael GirdleyApr 07, 2023
DVD Business idea / Our audience / Blue Checkmarks / More Frauds - Episode 20
Tune in as Girdley and Chris talk several topics including Dominion, business ideas, twitter blue checks and more Fraud..
SF crime episode; Scammers - ep19
Alex Cohen and Michael Girdley talk crime.
Narcissists. Girdley's new business. Substack vs Twitter. - e18
Chris Bakke and Michael Girdley talk about tech news - surprise!
Should You Start a Venture Studio? - e17
Chris Bakke and Michael Girdley talk about venture studios.
Frankly, It's Not Smart to Commit Fraud - e16
Alex Cohen and Chris Bakke launch a hat contest because Frank founder Charlie Javis committed fraud.
YOLO Capitalism: Billionaire Ryan Cohen - e15
Alex Cohen, Chris Bakke and Michael Girdley talk about yet another Canadian Ryan.
TikTok: Cohen wants to ban it. Girdley makes jokes - e14
Alex Cohen, Chris Bakke and Michael Girdley talk TikTok after the Congressional hearing.
Ryan Reynolds is Really Hot and Successful and Rich and You're Not - e13
Alex Cohen and Chris Bakke discuss the sale of Ryan Reynold's company, Mint Mobile, to T-Mobile for $1.35b and the broader implications this will have on celebrities in the business world.
Silicon Valley Bank Failure: what's next? - e12
Bakke, Girdley, and Alex Cohen discuss the fallout from the SVB bank failures and throw in a few zingers about bad actors over the weekend.
Silicon Valley Bank fails - #11
Joined by special guest, Turner Novak of Banana Capital, Bakke, Girdley, and Alex Cohen review the mess that is Silicon Valley Bank.
Alex's HR role at Twitter / US vs China / Real life vs Twitter / Taiwan vs War / Peter Zeihan - #10
Welcome to episode 10!
Girdley and Alex Cohen review some news and catch up.
Like we do every week.
#9 - Ozempic weight loss / Salesforce and McConaughey / AI writes books / TikTok - The Outsiders
Welcome to episode 9!
Girdley and Alex Cohen review some news.
Like we do every week.
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What Happens When You Stop Taking Ozempic?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ozempic-wegovy-stop-weight-loss-ea925ae1
Salesforce has reportedly been paying Matthew McConaughey $10 million a year to act as a 'creative adviser' despite laying off 8,000 employees last month
Addressing criticism, OpenAI will no longer use customer data to train its models by default
AI-generated fiction is flooding literary magazines — but not fooling anyone
TikTok rolls out new screen time controls, adds new default settings for teens and expands Family Pairing
U.S. House panel approves bill giving Biden power to ban TikTok
#8 - Ozy Media scam / Paying for Instagram / Apple's new watch / SBF gets more charges
Alex Cohen, Girdley and Chris Bakke are back for more hijinks.
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Ozy Media saga - CEO arrested:
Facebook and Instagram are testing selling you blue checks for $12 a month
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/19/23606268/meta-instagram-facebook-test-paid-verification
Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls
https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-illness-epidemic
ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-launches-boom-ai-written-e-books-amazon-2023-02-21/
Apple is close to bringing a no prick CGM to Apple Watch
https://www.engadget.com/apple-watch-no-prick-blood-glucose-monitor-200137031.html
New charges for SBF - 300+ unlawful political donations using customer funds:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/business/sam-bankman-fried-ftx.html
Amazon closes OneMedical deal
https://www.engadget.com/amazon-completes-one-medical-acquisition-163431975.html
#7 - Bing goes off the rails / Twitch streamers use AI to do battle against other streamers / Amazon does retail (Again) / Wal-mart closes tech offices / More private data hacked
An entertaining recap of the week's top stories in Tech/Business.
Hosts: @anothercohen , @ChrisJBakke & @girdley
What happened this week:
- Bing goes off the rails
- Twitch streamers use AI to do battle against other streamers
- Amazon does retail (Again)
- Walmart closes tech offices
- More private data hacked
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Links
Ransomware gang uses new zero-day to steal data on 1 million patients
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/15/clop-ransomware-community-health-systems/
Bing is Unhinged
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/bing-microsoft-chatgpt-ai-unhinged-b2281802.html
Twitter is just showing everyone all of Elon Musk’s tweets now
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/13/23598514/twitter-algorithm-elon-musk-tweets
Walmart to Close Three Tech Hubs, Tells Tech Staff to Return to Offices
https://www.wsj.com/articles/walmart-to-close-three-tech-hubs-tells-tech-staff-to-return-to-offices-3fb131e4?mod=djemalertNEWS
Amazon chief vows to ‘go big’ on physical stores
https://www.ft.com/content/f132299d-3b31-4248-8ddf-81182c5930fc
'You Feel So Violated': Streamer QTCinderella Is Speaking Out Against Deepfake Porn Harassment
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34pq3/deepfake-qtcinderella-atrioc
#6 - Google’s AI loses $150B, New meme stock Nordstrom, Elon is on the news again, SoftBank owes $5.1B, The Chinese(?) Balloon story, We-Work Founder is an Apartment Mogul now
An entertaining recap of the week's top stories in Tech/Business.
Hosts: @anothercohen , @ChrisJBakke & @girdley
What happened this week:
- Google’s “much-hyped” new AI Chatbot fails at demo, and Alphabet shares lose $150B
- Meme stocks: Ryan Cohen Takes Stake in Nordstrom
- Elon is on the news again: Neuralink is accused of moving hazardous pathogens after Monkey tests.
- Masayoshi Son Now Owes SoftBank $5.1 Billion on Side Deals
- WeWork Co-Founder Adam Neumann Is Becoming an Apartment Mogul
- Chinese Balloon Was Part of Years-Long Spying Program, US Says
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Links
- Google shares lose $100 billion after company’s AI chatbot makes an error during demo
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/08/tech/google-ai-bard-demo-error/index.html
- Ryan Cohen Takes Stake in Nordstrom
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ryan-cohen-takes-stake-in-nordstrom-11675382489
https://twitter.com/laurenthomas/status/1621298613174341632?s=46&t=9ClBsYC5fvmR_k4QgL9xGw
- Elon Musk's brain-chip startup is being investigated over potentially moving hazardous pathogens after monkey tests
- Masayoshi Son Now Owes SoftBank $5.1 Billion on Side Deals
- WeWork Co-Founder Adam Neumann Is Becoming an Apartment Mogul
- Chinese Balloon Was Part of Years-Long Spying Program, US Says
#5 - Adani loses $85B, Meta up $260B (wtf?), Google lays-off 1,800 & Shell scores record profits $42B
An entertaining recap of the week's top stories in Tech/Business.
Hosts: @anothercohen , @ChrisJBakke & @girdley
What happened this week:
- Google lays off 1,800, including 27 massage therapists
- Bed Bath & Bankruptcy is still losing money: Now closing 87 stores
- Let’s discuss the Adani Group Scam: Losing $92B
- ChatGPT is the most popular app across tech
- Google created an AI that allegedly can create music in any genre out of text
- Meta is up $260B in 3 months - What is happening with our economy?!
- Shell record profits $42b, pulling back from renewable energy
- Is Crypto draining Mom & Pops savings accounts?
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1. Adani loses $85B (https://twitter.com/HindenburgRes/status/1618077612680818688) (https://www.wsj.com/articles/gautam-adani-fortune-hindenburg-modi-11675269600?mod=hp_trending_now_article_pos3)
2. Meta is up $260B in 3 months - sidebar, what the fuck is going on with tech companies and the economy as a whole? (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-02/meta-s-stock-market-rebound-to-surpass-200-billion-in-value) (https://www.engadget.com/facebook-2-billion-meta-q4-2022-earnings-223814979.html)
3. Google job cuts hit 1,800 employees in California, including 27 massage therapists (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/google-cut-over-1800-california-jobs-including-massage-therapists.html)
4. Google created an AI that can generate music from text descriptions but won’t release it (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/27/google-created-an-ai-that-can-generate-music-from-text-descriptions-but-wont-release-it/)
5. Shell record profits $42b, pulling back from renewable energy (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/business/shell-earnings-record-profit.html)
#4 - The Stripe IPO, GPT is the new Crypto?, AI Journalist Plagiarism, Microsoft invests $10B in OpenAI, US DOJ sues Google over Monopoly claims
An entertaining recap of the week's top stories in Tech/Business.
Hosts: @anothercohen , @ChrisJBakke & @girdley
What happened this week:
- Did Stripe miss the 2020 opportunity to go public?
- They Finally Noticed: US DOJ sues Google for being an Ad monopoly
- TikTok Warns Remote Employees They Risk Losing Jobs
- Microsoft is investing $10bn in OpenAI
- Is ChatGPT the new crypto?
- CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism
- The New Cartels: Egg smuggling at US-Mexico border as egg prices rise
Links
- Did Stripe miss the 2020 opportunity to go public? [Chris]
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stripe-sets-one-year-timetable-to-decide-on-going-public-11674749304
- CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism
https://futurism.com/cnet-ai-plagiarism
- TikTok Warns Remote Employees They Risk Losing Jobs
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-return-to-work-policy-tells-workers-be-by-office-2023-1
- The New Cartels: Egg smuggling at US-Mexico border as egg prices rise
https://remezcla.com/food/egg-smuggling-at-u-s-mexico-border-on-rise-heres-why-thats-a-problem/
- US DOJ sues Google for being an Ad monopoly [Girdley]
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/us-sues-google-over-ad-market-in-escalation-of-antitrust-fight
- Microsoft investing $10bn in OpenAI [Girdley]
GPT is the new crypto (Chris)
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3928537-buzzfeed-stock-more-than-doubles-as-it-engages-openai-to-boost-more-content
#3 - Goldman loses billions, Media fascinated with Twitter, T-mobile hacked, TikTok tries to save itself, OpenAI scandal, Crypto grifters grifting
An entertaining recap of the week's top stories in Tech/Business.
Hosts: @anothercohen , @ChrisJBakke & @girdley
What happened this week:
- Apple burned cash again; this time Goldman Sachs paid a total of $1.2 B for Apple Card
- Why is Elon Musk’s Twitter all over the news? Is he the new Trump?
- The controversy around OpenAI: Did they hire global labor for under $2/hr?
- How does AI gets trained to moderate content outputs?
- T-Mobile Hacked: 37 million customer data points stolen.
- Peter Thiel’s fund wound down an 8-year bitcoin bet before the market crash
- TikTok Tries to save itself
- Crypto enforcement shows up... right as the bagholders left holding the bag.
Links
- Apple Card lost $1.2B, GS paid for it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-13/goldman-lost-1-2-billion-in-just-nine-months-in-newest-division#xj4y7vzkg
- Musk’s Twitter Intentionally Suspended Tweetbot
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-deliberately-suspend-tweetbot-third-apps-users-report-2023-1
- OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic
https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
- T-Mobile Hacked: 37 million customer data points stolen.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/t-mobile-says-hackers-stole-data-on-about-37-million-customers-11674166048?mod=djemalertNEWS
- Peter Thiel’s fund wound down an 8-year bitcoin bet before the market crashed
https://www.ft.com/content/0a1d5597-7145-4035-987b-ff033bba3d75
- TikTok Tries to save itself
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-tries-to-win-allies-in-the-u-s-with-more-transparency-11673836560?mod=djemalertNEWS
#2 - Subway is selling, SBF is back with $5B, Forbes 30u30 scam, A cyberattack grounded 10,000 flights?, Apple's AR headset & more
We get it. You don't want to read the news each week, but you still want to know the top 3 or 4 big things that happened in tech, start-up, or business?
Our solution is this podcast.
Hosts: @anothercohen , @ChrisJBakke & @girdley
What happened this week:
- Subway is selling itself: Who wants to buy the worst sandwiches on the block?
- SBF is back! Substack, $5B, and “I’m innocent statement”
- Forbes 30 under 30: Yet another fraud that goes past Due Diligence
- Cyberattack? 10,000 Flights were grounded: A corrupt data file makes NOTAM crash
- Apple Will Talk Up Its Mixed-Reality Headset in 2023 But Not Much Else
- Disney Is Bringing Employees Back Four Days a Week
Links:
- Subway plans a sale:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/subway-explores-sale-that-could-value-sandwich-chain-at-more-than-10-billion-11673480236
https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/amp/financing/subway-apparently-exploring-sale
- FTX Has Recovered 'Over $5B' in Assets, Bankruptcy Attorney Says
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/01/11/ftx-has-recovered-over-5b-in-assets-bankruptcy-attorney-says/
SBF playing “Public defender”:
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-news-today-01-12-2023-cpi-report-december-inflation?mod=djemalertNEWS
FTX Seeks to Recoup Sam Bankman-Fried’s Charitable Donations
FTX Seeks to Recoup Sam Bankman-Fried’s Charitable Donations - WSJ
- 30 u 30 fraudster:
JP Morgan Says Startup Founder Used Millions Of Fake Customers To Dupe It Into An Acquisition
- A single 35-year-old computer takes down all air travel in the US:
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-faa-says-flight-personnel-alert-system-not-processing-updates-after-outage-2023-01-11/
https://aixm.aero/sites/aixm.aero/files/imce/library/ATIEC_2015/28_day2_notam_services_over_swim.pdf
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-01-08/when-will-apple-launch-the-reality-pro-mixed-reality-headset-apple-2023-devices-lcnfzkc7
- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/business/disney-return-to-office.html
#1 - Alex’s Peloton. Amazon lays off 18,000. Shopify bans meetings. Bed Bath and Beyond bankrupt. Salad Spinners and Greta.
We get it. You don't want to read the news each week, but you still want to know the top 3 or 4 big things that happened in tech, start-up, or business?
Our solution is this podcast.
Hosts: @anothercohen , @ChrisJBakke & @girdley
In this episode, we talked about the following:
- The white-collar recession & massive Lay-offs
- The story behind the Amazon takeover of Wholefoods
- Should you be worried about the layoffs yet?
- Bed, Bath and Bankruptcy: The least surprising news of 2023 so far
- How would @anothercohen turn BBB around?
- Shopify installed a “Big Brother” bot to keep employees from scheduling shitty meetings
- Greta’s Massive burn on Andrew Tate
Links
- Bed, Bath, and Bankruptcy:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bed-bath-beyond-faces-potential-bankruptcy-filing-11672926677
- Shopify’s Big Brother story: “Just say no” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-03/shopify-ceo-tobi-lutke-tells-employees-to-just-say-no-to-meetings
- Greta’s MASSIVE burn:
https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1608056944501178368?s=20&t=iqgEwzM5w4CNh7VRR7I4UA