Disney to acquire Maker Studios? IPO watch & Bing LAUNCH of the Week
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Disney is in talks to acquire Maker Studios for $500m. It's going to be a big year for tech IPOs: Eventbrite, King Games (maker of Candy Crush), and China's Alibaba. Bing LAUNCH of the Week: Imitone turns your humming into music, a Boston hospital built a Google Glass app to read patient data through QR codes, and Omaze wants to raise money by raffling off experiences with celebrities. Sarah Lacy of Pando Daily and Rafe Needleman of Yahoo Tech join Jason for our weekly news roundtable.
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5:06 - Disney might acquire Maker Studios.
6:05 - RN: It shows how media is shifting. Smart move for Disney; I'm glad to see them do it. It's great for independent media producers as well.
7:25 - SL: It would be a good play for LA, Mark Suster.
11:38 - Thank you @Mailchimp for supporting the show!
13:35 - IPOs galore: now Eventbrite, King Games, Alibaba.
14:42 - SL: Why would anyone buy King in an IPO? They're candy - you fly through them and then get bored of them.
17:15 - RN: I don't know what the secret sauce is, but when you upset the applecart, bad things happen. Draw Something, Zynga.
19:38 - SL: Eventbrite is an uninspiring IPO. It's not a company I get super excited about. We use it all the time... it's doing well but missed the boat to what it could be.
20:34 - RN: They're building on the planning and building space. If they can successfully [do discovery], there's value. It's not sexy, but there's value.
24:00 - RN: I love Alibaba. Considering that I work here, that's all I can say.
25:20 - Thank you @ScottEdWalker for supporting entrepreneurs and the show!
XX: XX - Launch of the Week
XX:XX - Glass app for doctors
28:22 - Imitone - turn your humming into song
29:00 - Omaze.
31:02 - RN: The glass app may help save lives and help doctors do good work. Socially acceptable context.
31:50 - JC: Glass sucks for consumers but good for enterprise?
33:00 - RN: If I'm nearly dead, that's what I want.
33:15 - SL: How does it make it any better? I think doctors aren't going to do it.
36:05 - JC favorites?
36:40 - SL: I'm going to say Imitone. It's not super exciting but I think the doctor thing is ridiculous - a gimmick no one will adopt. Omaze is interesting but any business that is predicated on celebrities is hard to sustain.
37:35 - JC: The glass app, as presented, is meaningless. But Omaze - there's something there with crowdfunding and people love raffles. There you have it, first split decision.
40:55 - RN: The car event was a terrible tragedy. As far as overall, great event for Yahoo! The people who are there to meet other people and to party and learn, it's a great event. If you can afford it, I love going.
42:19 - JC: SXSW so huge and spilling into streets, any connection to be made to the tragedy?
42:30 - SL: No, no connection.
45:45 - SL: I've seen more cool and up and coming stuff at Jason's conference than I've ever heard at SXSW. Up and comers are working their asses off, building shit. Not paying $600 / night. There's huge business done at CES.
46:45 - JC: I go to CES for 48 hours, to go to one dinner.
47:20 - RL: You guys are elitist.
47:36 - JC: Guardian decries lack of diversity in journalism startups.
48:40 - SL: Diversity problem in any industry. This is reality, let's stop being shocked by it.
51:40 - JC: Do female founders hire more females?
51:54 - SL: Talent is talent. I wish we had more racial diversity. The biggest problem for us is that we're all white.
53:35 - JC: People disclose who they're married to. What's the best practice for dating?
53:50 - SL: yeah, where's the line on this? Recusing yourself out of fashion. Making sure you're not getting used, etc. It's a harder world. I think it's harder for women. Because it's what your haters will say about you.
55:10 - JC: There's a violence against women that's not expressed toward men.
55:20 - SL: People are more likely to assume a woman is stupid and doesn't know what she's talking about.
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