E1 All-In with Chamath Palihapitiya & Jason Calacanis: US Response to COVID-19 & Impact on Startups, Venture Capital & Public Markets with David Friedberg

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

0:01 Jason & Chamath intro David and check in on each other's quarantines
2:26 Has the US overreacted or underreacted so far? David & Chamath give their opinions on new directives & statistics
13:15 Thoughts on potential treatment options & policy changes
22:25 Chamath explains the circumstances of recording a podcast while the Stock Market tanks in real-time
25:03 Should the US adopt Chinese & South Korean quarantine strategies?
29:53 What do the current market conditions mean for startups & VC?
41:24 Chamath explains what is currently happening in the capital markets
45:05 How close is the US on being able to do mass-testing?
54:13 Thoughts on bailouts for companies that manipulated their earnings-per-share ratio by stock buybacks? Impact on the global economy
1:03:14 Impact on luxury goods? Should there be a monthly stipend for low-income citizens?
1:12:10 COVID-19 exposing holes in the US healthcare system
1:17:44 Should we ban wet markets globally?
1:24:12 Over/Under: when Americans will be allowed to go out to restaurants again
1:28:18 When will the weekly poker game resume?

Transcript

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0:00.0	All-In, everybody, welcome to another edition of The All-In Podcast. We'll call this episode one. We did a test, and over 100,000 of you listen to the test podcast that we did. In a a few days in a few days
0:13.6	Chamath is already getting addicted to his statistics a new podcaster I need to
0:18.8	focus on something going up yes exactly Our portfolios are getting crushed, but the
0:24.8	podcast numbers are going up. They're a meaningless victory to be sure. But we got
0:30.4	a lot of positive feedback and we're all sitting at home in quarantine.
0:34.0	As you can see, I set up my home office.
0:35.6	I got a microphone here.
0:37.4	And Chamath is in his bedroom.
0:39.0	And Dave Freiburg, I think is in his wine room or something in his compound.
0:44.1	Are you in the safe room?
0:45.1	Is this the safe room?
0:46.1	Dave Freiburg is with us again.
0:47.2	He got a lot of great feedback and he's now on the Twitter.
0:50.6	You can follow him at Friedman.
0:51.9	I don't know if he shut his
0:52.5	Twitter because he was getting harassed on Twitter welcome to the club are you in
0:58.8	your safe room David yeah it's brutal on Twitter I don't know how you guys do it. You put something up and everyone, you know, just goes after you.
1:05.4	It's harsh out there in the Twitter world, in the Twitter verse.
1:09.2	Basically you have to mute and block anybody who is under a hundred followers and being an
1:17.3	absolute jerk because it's likely a Russian bot you know being run out of like Manila or something like that.
1:24.7	They've got all these like sophisticated rings of people that they just hire for
1:29.0	ten bucks a day to harass people online. I mean, I know it sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory but it's
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