Interest rates, inflation and “getting fit” with Brad Gerstner | E1639
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Brad Gerstner of Altimeter Capital joins Molly and Jason for an epic Friday show. They chop it up about the state of the economy, what it actually means to be founder friendly and discuss which big tech companies are“fit”. (1:24)
(0:00) J+M Kick off the show
(1:24) Brad Gerstner joins Molly and Jason
(10:28) Odoo - Get your first app free and a $1000 credit at https://odoo.com/twist
(11:38) Brad presents on interest rates, inflation and business multiples
(26:32) LinkedIn Marketing - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at https://linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups
(28:05) The Fed’s core mission
(37:54) Being founder friendly
(39:42) Brad’s letter to Meta
(48:33) Companies that need to get fit
(53:00) Google and Meta’s fitness
(58:08) The curse of the money-printing machine
(1:00:01) Google vs ChatGPT
(1:05:05) Is Uber fit?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, we've made it through another week. |
| 0:02.2 | It is Friday. |
| 0:03.2 | I can confirm that. |
| 0:04.3 | Friday. |
| 0:05.3 | Yay. |
| 0:06.2 | Don Julio Friday. |
| 0:07.0 | We have an epic Friday episode for you, by the way, though. |
| 0:10.6 | I know we're pretty slow now for the holiday, |
| 0:12.1 | but we're not, because this is a big one. |
| 0:15.0 | It's a fantastic episode. |
| 0:16.0 | We got, are we still calling him honorary fifth bestie? |
| 0:19.3 | Of course. |
| 0:20.1 | Bragg always. |
| 0:21.0 | The honorary fifth bestie from the All in Potty |
| 0:22.8 | hasn't been able to sneak into in all in episodes. |
| 0:25.1 | So I thought, let's get him over here. |
| 0:26.8 | I was so excited. |
| 0:27.6 | I was like, let's adopt him. |
| 0:29.2 | Of course, of course. |
| 0:30.2 | Until we have a hint of a bestie outside. |
| 0:32.3 | It's a great year. |
| 0:33.2 | And we chopped it up. |
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