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🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 106 minutes
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0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
0:06.8 | This is the James Altiger Show. |
0:12.8 | Today on the James Altiger Show. |
0:16.1 | There's a lot of pessimists out there. |
0:18.0 | Almost every good thing that happens, someone is pessimistic about it. |
0:22.2 | And the 2008 crisis, everyone was saying, oh my gosh, the whole world's going bankrupt, |
0:28.0 | capitalism is over. |
0:29.6 | I was arguing with Nurel Rabini on CNBC, kept saying the market's going to zero. |
0:35.1 | People laughed at me for saying, no, no, no, I'm a big believer, the market's going to |
0:39.0 | go up in the market. |
0:40.3 | Went up, not that I'm always right, but I think in general throughout history, it pays to be |
0:46.0 | optimistic. |
0:47.0 | You might not be optimistic about any one company or situation or invention, but just |
0:52.2 | being optimistic about the world is healthy because what other way should you be? |
0:58.6 | You know, here's some, here's some ways people have been pessimistic in the past. |
1:04.4 | Right when the iPhone was released in 2007, Steve Bommer, the CEO of Microsoft said, there's |
1:10.1 | no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share, no chance. |
1:16.2 | Guess what, Steve? |
1:17.5 | Apple has sold more than 116 million iPhones this year. |
1:22.4 | Like, remember when the Y2K bug happened, everyone thought the world was going to collapse |
1:25.6 | on January 1st, 2000? |
1:27.6 | Didn't happen, nothing happened. |
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