Is There a Perfect Answer?

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i think we were the fir. I don't think thi's a perfect answer, but i think that's a good answer. If something is absurdly low cost, in this case, it's essentially free. Youknow, like a bandana or ripping up an old tea shirt is free. And if it's essentially free, and there's no inconvenience, cause what your pride hor you want to make a statement that you don't wear one? Like that's just dumb. The easy compromise between the hay shelter and place is to keep the hospital beds open and not overwhelm the system. Is hey, you can go take that chance, if you wear a god damned mask. It...

0:35 Jason intros Capital Factory CEO & Founder Josh Baer
1:47 What is Capital Factory in its current iteration? How are they transitioning to remote? Loss of serendipity of random in-person connections
5:38 Josh takes Jason through the SXSW cancellation
10:29 Issues conceptualizing COVID's impact
15:35 Transitioning to rolling cohorts & optimizing their Slack community
21:36 Capital Factory's standard deal terms, why founders join, how returns are divvied up
27:30 Starting Capital Factory during the last economic downturn, how millennials will react to this crisis
30:45 Josh describes his 5 buckets of how companies are weathering the COVID storm
35:09 Remote work's effect on startup collaboration
41:01 COVID's effect on children, getting back to work
47:37 What investing mistakes has Josh made, and how has he learned from them?
56:00 What founder traits does Josh look for?
59:14 Moving to Austin, SXSW history