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Acquired’s Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal on private markets, ZIRP impact, future of Amazon | E1706

This Week in Startups

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The Disadvantages of Crypto

There's not actually a value for mass. It like there was so much water in the pond that even anybody who was like a legitimate product just got drowned. I think probably a third of the market still doesn't believe door dash and Uber will never be profitable. These businesses are toast and it's like free cash flow positive quarters. If you're, you know, a hairdresser doesn't get paid waiting for the person to come get a haircut, an attorney doesn't getpaid to sit there and wait. You put $120,000 in Prius, nobody doesn't make any sense,. if you bought an Escalade, no one would use it. What do you

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