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EMERGENCY POD: E0 All-In with Chamath Palihapitiya & Jason Calacanis: COVID-19 Political, Economic & Social Ramifications featuring The Production Board’s David Friedberg (frmly Founder/CEO, The Climate Corporation)

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

0:01 Jason intros Chamath and Episode 0 of All-In and they discuss their current self-quarantine
0:55 Jason intros David Friedberg
1:35 Chamath gives the inaugural (& potentially final) All-In ad read
2:17 As a Warriors owner, Chamath gives his reaction to the NBA postponing & uncoordinated actions of government & private sectors
4:37 Why was the US so slow to react on both an individual & governmental level? What did the OpenTable data show?
9:03 David explains the actions he would take if he was president
12:37 Thoughts on Trump's private sector involvement
16:58 Has the press failed in its coverage, or are they just feeding people what they want?
23:52 What will the next few weeks in the US look like? Why has the virus spread severely in Italy, but not yet in India?
37:20 How the COVID-19 viral coefficient compares to the early days of Facebook's numbers
40:26 Chances of Trump testing positive for the virus? What effect would that have on markets?
48:53 What should we do differently next time?
53:13 Will there both more deaths due to second order effects of the virus than direct deaths?
1:01:06 Should there be a global stimulus package? Effect of low-volatility during recent bull run?
1:11:26 Chances of a quick resolution?
1:16:48 How are Jason & Chamath advising their portfolio companies? How are IPO's of companies like Airbnb & DoorDash being effected?
1:21:17 How to approach the next year in startups & VC?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to the first episode of the All In Podcast with Chima,

0:05.6

Polly Macatia, and Jason Galkat is that cackling voice.

0:10.9

Where we're trying to save ourselves from the end of the world.

0:15.0

It is literally, you know, we thought we'd start this podcast on April 1st,

0:20.0

Chamop, and everybody thinks it's like a big joke that it's an April

0:24.4

Fool's joke. It just happened to be the time was perfect. We had full

0:26.9

intentionality of story in the podcast, but we're sitting here at home

0:29.9

quarantine. How many days have you been home? When's the last time you went out of your high?

0:35.2

Well, I've gone out, but I've basically been self-quarantined for two weeks now?

0:44.3

I haven't left my house since Tuesday night.

0:46.5

And this is, I think her for her shower in about 72 hours.

0:51.6

I, this is, you know, and then Chamoth and I decided since, you know, we're going to talk about obviously the coronavirus today.

1:00.0

We bring in the smartest person we know in terms of the biotech and

1:06.2

health space and that's David Freiburg who's a close friend of ours he founded or

1:12.2

co-founded climate.com metro mile and he now is the CEO of the production board which is a biotech

1:21.6

incubator accelerator startup.

1:24.0

What do you how do you refer to it David?

1:28.0

Yeah, we're a foundry and broadly life sciences, food, agriculture, and human health.

1:34.0

Got it.

1:35.0

So, uh...

1:36.0

J, actually before we do that, can we actually give a shout out to our sponsor,

1:40.0

which is all the incredibly shitty enterprise software that nobody

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