Tech's Super Bowl, Huge Earnings Week, Lon Returns and more! | E2083

Lan is back. Lon Harris is back. And we gotta talk about all these Super Bowl commercials because so many of them are tech related and there's a lot to say. First of all, I was shocked at the number of technology ads, because we put together a list for the show today and it was like ten or twelve or thirteen. That's like a hundred million dollars in tech spending. This is not something you should do when you have a small amount of money, but if you're a billion dollar company, got over a billion dollars in your bank account, why not do it? And here's what you should do. If you have under a hundred million, you want to participate in this, I might do this next year. You should do a SPEC Super Bowl commercial, let it out, and say if we could afford a Super Bowl commercial. This would be our Super Bowl commercial. So you can hijack the Super Bowl commercial by releasing You're not Super Bowl commercial.

Well, we can't afford a Superbowl commercial, but we made one anyway. You should punk rockness. This week in Startups is brought to you by Lemon.io. Get access to Lemon Hire, a platform with more than eighty thousand pre-vetted engineers that you can interview within forty eight hours. Get$2,000 off your first hire at Lemon.io slash hire today. Openphone Create business phumbers for you and your team that work through an app on your smartphone or desktop. Twist listeners can get an extra twenty percent off any plan for your first six months at Openphone.com slash twist. And Coda.

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