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Can Social Media Be Redeemed? Feat. Early Facebooker-turned-Investor Bobby Goodlatte

Can Social Media Be Redeemed? Feat. Early Facebooker-turned-Investor Bobby Goodlatte

Today on the Brief: President Trump wants a cut of the TikTok deal Previewing this week’s COVID-19 vaccine trade Dave Portnoy breaks into Our main conversation is with Bobby Goodlatte. Bobby is the founder of Form Capital, a new seed...

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August 5, 20201h 10m

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Show Notes

Today on the Brief:

  • President Trump wants a cut of the TikTok deal
  • Previewing this week’s COVID-19 vaccine trade 
  • Dave Portnoy breaks into bitcoin

Our main conversation is with Bobby Goodlatte. 

Bobby is the founder of Form Capital, a new seed investment firm that focuses on supporting portfolio companies with value-add design. 

 

Bobby was an early employee at Facebook and has been an active angel investor since 2012, with investments that include Coinbase. 

 

In this conversation, he and NLW discuss:

  • The early days of Facebook
  • Why angel investors don’t like new angel investors to get involved
  • How Silicon Valley reflects larger questions of equity valuations 
  • How social media has changed over the last decade
  • Why politics is now “downstream from algorithms” 
  • Why there are still possibilities to build new social networks
  • Why today’s social networks could make different decisions that would be better for the world. 

Find our guest online:

Website: Form Capital 

Twitter: @rsg