BREAKDOWN: Sequoia's Guide to Surviving the 2022 Bear Market
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Venture capitalists have gotten increasingly frantic over the last few months.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, NEAR and FTX US.
On this edition of the “Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at why venture capitalists are not only recommending their companies batten down the hatches, but wondering if the fundamental assumptions of their industry will hold in a new monetary era.
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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Jared Schwartz is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsors is “Catnip” by Famous Cats and “I Don't Know How To Explain It” by Aaron Sprinkle. Image credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:14.9 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, near an FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, May 28th, and that means it's time for the weekly recap. |
| 0:29.7 | Before we dive in, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, |
| 0:34.3 | give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dig deeper into the |
| 0:37.7 | conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to |
| 0:42.3 | bit.ly slash breakdown pod. Also, a disclosure as always, in addition to them being a sponsor |
| 0:48.3 | of the show, I also work with FTX. And finally, if you have not signed up yet, come get your tickets to CoinDesk's Consensus |
| 0:58.4 | 2022. They're calling it the festival for the decentralized world, and what it does |
| 1:03.9 | differently than other events is it covers all sides of the industry. It's really meant for a wide |
| 1:09.7 | range of people with a wide range of interest, |
| 1:12.0 | and there's something really cool about that type of cross-section coming together. |
| 1:16.1 | The event happens between June 9th and 12th in Austin, Texas, so it's coming up right around |
| 1:20.3 | the corner. It has tons of great speakers, tons of great sessions. And if you do want to join, |
| 1:25.2 | head on over to coin desk..com slash consensus 2022 and use code |
| 1:29.5 | breakdown to get 15% off your pass. All right, it has been a dreary couple of days on the |
| 1:35.9 | breakdown, not because we're getting depressed or sad or nervous or anything like that, but just |
| 1:40.1 | because covering the mood and the emotion and the tenor of the industry has been rough. |
| 1:45.5 | Yesterday, we talked about arriving in Goblin Town, and so today we're going to talk about |
| 1:49.7 | how to survive your time here. |
| 1:52.2 | We're actually going to zoom out, though, just a little bit from crypto specifically and |
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