Shared Sacrifice Is Powerful

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A lot of company's now the best practices. If people want to opt into being in an excel sheet, i'm sorry, a gogle sheet that's shared,. or an air table that' share, at least do that. And you know what? It's so effective, because there's some company that's booming that has an h r team that's working from home and they're gong to onboard those people super fast.

0:52 Jason intros Eric Ries and they discuss how things have been since shelter-in-place started
8:33 What good will come out of this? Will UBI proponents like Andrew Yang be proven right?
10:12 Eric's advice to today's founders after living through the 2008 recession & the dot-com bust
15:53 Eric describes the obligations of leaders during a crisis of this magnitude, what the test-and-trace method is and how it's effective
25:02 Do authoritarian countries have an advantage in handling outbreaks better than democratic countries?
28:45 Jason & Eric reminisce about 2011 in startup-land
30:38 Tactical advice for Founders in an economic downturn
39:52 Eric explains what he is doing to help at: https://schoolclosures.org/
44:11 What is the Long-Term Stock Exchange?
48:57 Thoughts on private companies giving equity options to contractors
53:00 More tactical insights for founders: handling layoffs, figuring out new revenue opportunities, capitalizing on silver-linings, extending runway, etc.
1:01:01 Amazon & Lyft partnering to help each other, Bird's layoff approach, extending runway by trading cash for equity
1:12:21 Eric's thoughts on the future of capitalism