Too much demand for the stock of private companies and all the hedge funds that came into it. Not enough supply of great founders and serious teams that are working hard on this. In the case of fast, what you had was a founder who was on twitter every day, tweeting about how great the company was in giving start up advice. He should have been giving any of it, because they didn't even have product, a market fit. Lesson learnt.
0:00 Jason's big night out, bestie intros, All-In Summit update and more
8:01 Layoffs and shutdowns: Fast, Better.com, GoPuff; Chamath gives a macro- and micro- overview for startups
14:09 Preventing layoffs, culpability in Fast's shutdown, VC diligence strategy, VC/founder model
41:51 Elon buys a 9% stake in Twitter and joins the board: what does this mean for Twitter, free speech online, evolution of deplatforming
1:03:24 Food shortage update, ideal US objectives going forward
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Referenced in the show:
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/live-fast-die-young-behind-the-fall-of-a-one-click-wonder
https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/08/better-com-cto-steps-down-agrees-to-voluntary-separation-in-wake-of-mass-layoffs
https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/06/better-com-offering-employees-60-days-severance-losing-tens-of-millions-per-month-per-sources
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/gopuff-plans-hundreds-of-layoffs-to-cut-40-million-in-costs
https://articles.sequoiacap.com/rip-good-times
https://sacks.substack.com/p/the-saas-board-meeting
https://medium.com/craft-ventures/blitzfail-how-not-to-go-off-the-rails-24ccaf92c410
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-04/musk-takes-9-2-stake-in-twitter-after-questioning-platform
https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1511320953598357505
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1511329369473564677
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507259709224632344
https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1511360061670662149
https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1511674851202945024
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/tech/pinterest-climate-change-misinformation-policy/index.html
https://gro-intelligence.com/insights/gro-predicts-us-corn-stocks-will-drop-sharply-in-2022-23
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-state-department-failed-to-prevent-the-war-will-it-now-prevent-the-peace