The Wall Street Journal has even published articles now saying investors are having hopes of a soft landing. The only thing I would add to this for context is that inflation, no question, driven by a zero interest rate environment. Also driven by the exogenous factor of extremely constrained supply chains and extremely high consumer demand.
Brad Gerstner of Altimeter Capital joins Molly and Jason for an epic Friday show. They chop it up about the state of the economy, what it actually means to be founder friendly and discuss which big tech companies are“fit”. (1:24)
(0:00) J+M Kick off the show
(1:24) Brad Gerstner joins Molly and Jason
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(11:38) Brad presents on interest rates, inflation and business multiples
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(28:05) The Fed’s core mission
(37:54) Being founder friendly
(39:42) Brad’s letter to Meta
(48:33) Companies that need to get fit
(53:00) Google and Meta’s fitness
(58:08) The curse of the money-printing machine
(1:00:01) Google vs ChatGPT
(1:05:05) Is Uber fit?
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