Standout Companies and Breakout Phenomena
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai discuss companies that are standing out during the coronavirus crisis, including Zoom and World Central Kitchen (founded by Chef José Andrés). They also discuss breakout phenomena associated with the widespread shutdown.
Recent picks, and recommended reading/websites:
- Just Capital
- “The Korean Clusters” (Reuters)
- World Central Kitchen
- “Spillover” (David Quammen)
- Podcast about Spillover (Scientific American
- “From Bats to Human Lungs, the Evolution of a Coronavirus” (Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker)
- DonorsChoose.org
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| 0:27.7 | HBR presents. Hi everyone, you're listening to after hours I'm young me I'm me here and I'm Felix how you guys doing |
| 0:49.6 | hanging in there this feels like week 38 of being quarantine. So have you hit the point where you |
| 0:57.4 | find yourself engaged in some kind of activity that you normally never would |
| 1:01.9 | otherwise be doing. |
| 1:03.2 | Totally. |
| 1:04.0 | We have all of these house projects, |
| 1:05.7 | so there's a light bulb that has been out for basically, |
| 1:10.1 | I think, eight decades. |
| 1:12.1 | And these weeks, definitely definitely like all of these projects |
| 1:15.1 | wow they're melting really fast so funny that you say that this last weekend my |
| 1:21.1 | husband he caught me in one of our bathrooms with this big measuring tape and he walked in and he said, |
| 1:27.0 | what are you doing? And I said, I was thinking maybe we could renovate. |
| 1:31.0 | Yes. |
| 1:32.0 | Oh my goodness. What about Juma here? Yes, definitely the study has |
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