Show notes
Episode 3: Today, hosts Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista), Sophia Amoruso (@sophiaamoruso), and Jesse Pujji (@jspujji) get into the MADNESS of the Gas app - a new social networking platform that has surpassed Instagram, TikTok and Twitter for daily downloads. Then, they get into how to & how NOT to conduct a layoff, whether it’s for one person or a company-wide one. And finally, the trio gets real about the secrets of QSBS and how understanding it can save you MILLIONS.00:01 - Cold Open: Jesse speaking to Zuckerberg about the highschool version of Facebook00:32 - Intro 01:35 - The Rundown02:27 - How the “Gas” app works and how it stays positive03:50 - Sophia on the Founder of Gas being a “master” of testing & iterating05:45 - Alex on Highschoolers being the “best demographic” to build an app for07:40 - Jesse on the difficulty of building consumer businesses07:57 - Jesse’s highschool version of Facebook10:00 - Jesse speaking to Mark Zuckerberg12:44 - Where does the Gas app go from here?13:35 - The “Gas” app’s ‘money printing machine’15:40 - The second & third gen of Social Apps17:50 - The Takeaways from Gas21:48 - The “Hub & Spoke” Model of building your business23:10 - Microsoft & the trend of Tech Industry Layoffs24:32 - Sophia on layoffs needing more clarity & planning28:50 - Jesse on Founders needing to be passionate about people & leadership30:35 - The HORRIBLE Better.com Zoom layoff & reaction34:30 - What is QSBS & how it saves founders MILLIONSLinks:WSJ article on the Gas appNikita Bier’s tweet on Gas’s successAllegations on China faltering the Gas app’s growthMicrosoft lays off 1,000Chart of all Tech Industry Layoffs since COVIDHow To Rally A Company Through a Round of LayoffsNetflix on building a “team not a family” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
