220. The Landlords Who Own the Internet (ft. Dan Greene)
This Machine Kills
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The Rise and Fall of the Real Estate State
The U.S. has never met a private equity firm or real estate developer that it did not love and then bend over backwards to provide constant support, says author Sam Stein. The internet had already been recognized as this new frontier for commercial activity and capital accumulation before the dot-com bust in the 90s and 2000s. Private equity comes in like a vulture, uh, and picks over the carcass, which is exactly what happened with cloud infrastructure," he adds.
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