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An exciting Friday News Roundtable with Baratunde Thurston and Anthony Ha. Sassy Kirin reads the news!

3:40 - Thank you to Squarespace!

4:00 -Thank you to Hide Stitch!

5:41 - Alright let’s get to the news! Welcome Anthony Ha from Techcrunch!

6:00 - How long have you been at Techcrunch?

7:25 - Welcome Baratunde Thurston!

8:00 - You were formally with The Onion.. where are you now?

9:35 - Comedy Hack Day Info

10:01 - News Story #1 - Amazon acquires Goodreads

12:15 - Are we seeing the end of vertical social networks?

20:00 - News Story #2 - Adria Richards

21:50 - Anthony, what do we take away from this?

24:00 - Do you think it was okay for Adria to take public action in this situation?

30:25 - Baratunde, do you think that a lot of this trolling is done by absurdists or bad

people?

33:45 - MailChimp! Powerful Email Marketing

34:32 - Jason’s thoughts on the Adria Richards situation

40:00 - Thoughts on the industry w/ diversity and meritocracy

44:00 - Thoughts on context

48:10 - How Jason would have handled it if he was the employer of the guy

49:10 - What would you have done Baratunde?

52:02 - What would you have done if you were CEO of SendGrid?

54:25 - Do you think she is suing them?

58:40 - Upsides to hiring Adria now

59:15 - News Story #3 - Yahoo reportedly pays $30M in acquihire of Summly

1:02:00 - Summly vs. Blurbity vs. Circa

1:04:56 - What does it say when Yahoo fires remote employees while hiring Summly talent?

1:07:55 - Does it make entrepreneurs more or less interested in Yahoo acquiring their startup?

1:09:20 - Is it business 1st or do entrepreneurs qualitatively care who is buying?

1:10:00 - News Story #4 - Wal-Mart may get customers to deliver packages to online buyers

1:16:45 - Comedy Hack Day! (comedyhackday.org)

1:20:30 - Thank you Anthony and Baratunde!!!

1:26:20 - Thank you Squarespace and MailChimp!! See you next time!!

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