News Roundtable with Adeo Ressi and Rafe Needleman-TWiST #324

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Adeo Ressi of Founder's Institute and Rafe Needleman of Evernote join @jason for this Friday News Roundtable episode. You'll hear and learn about the release of Twitter's most recent acqui-hire, why Exxon has slipped by Apple as the world's most valuable company and what the future has in store for Quora. Stick Around!

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0:35 Welcome to TWiST our Friday News Roundtable! Stick with us it's going to be a great show
2:20 Come check out our 3rd Live TWiST in San Francisco with David McClure February 8 at RocketSpace
4:30 We;ve got the LAUNCH Conference coming up March 4-6
5:15 Thanks to New Relic for sponsoring the program. Newrelic.com/this weekin
7:15 Adeo how are you doing my friend?
7:20 How many cities is the Founder's Institute in now?
7:35 How would you compare yourself to TechStars or YCombinator?
8:20 Did you start with the intention to pivot to this 'raw start' model?
10:00 Rafe how is the transition from journalist to evangelist?
12:30 Let's get to the news, what's the first story?
14:20 Rafe what do you think on the recent Apple stock disaster?
14:50 Adeo what do you think about Apple currently?
15:10 Why do you have more Samsung products than Apple products?
16:20 When you've got 3 or 4 devices what are you reaching for 1st?
18:35 What do you think about Apple expanding their closed ecosystem?
19:20 What do you think about a $99 iPhone?
22:00 What do you guys think about Microsoft in all of this?
26:15 Did you ever think we'd ever get to a point when we're sitting here talking about battery life?
28:10 Thanks to SnapTerms for supporting the show! Use the coupon code TWiST for a free NDA with any order.
31:00 What do you love/hate about Vine so far?
33:00 Rafe what do you think about Vine?
33:50 Adeo what do you think about Vine?
37:00 Rafe, what do you think about Facebook blocking Vine?
45:00 Will there be any other video sharing on Twitter?
47:00 What do you think about Yahoo's Aqui-hired of Snip.it?
49:40 Rafe what do you think about automatically personalized content on Yahoo?
51:30 Adeo what do you think about Marissa's vision about 'content for you'?
59:00 How will the Quora blogging platform perform?
60:20 Quora what are your thoughts on this?
62:00 What will the business model be for Quora?
62:15 In what ways is Quora still alpha?
63:20 Rafe what do you think the chances are of getting a great answer on Quora?
65:40 What is the monetization of Quora?
67:25 Is Quora not putting a lot of stuff on SEO?
69:30 Why are there so many prisoner questions on Quora?
71:40 Thanks to Rafe and Adeo for being on the program!

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