Is the Walking Dead Going to Drop Dead?

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The world just changed and everything got tight, and capital's constrained. Aquai bootsop ran offr about ten years before i sold it. It was a great outcome for me. I really got me started investing. If you're one of the special ones, you're going to excel. You're going to boom. Yu're goin to explode. This is going to either blow up your business or pivot you into a new business that's going to take over. And n drive in anwis going to be away. There's no bridge around for those companies. No, it's going to everything. Everything got real really fast. Even very strong companies, i'm seeing val...

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