Strategic Missteps in a Down Market: A Focus on PayPal

This chapter critically examines corporate decision-making processes using the contrasting cases of PayPal and Amazon. It highlights the consequences of strategic errors at PayPal, particularly in user growth and revenue projections, and the dangers of prioritizing agendas over financial stability during market downturns.

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0:00 Sacks' shining moment

2:34 Bestie Guestie Ryan Petersen joins to break down the supply chain situation: core issues, solutions, things to look out for

45:49 $FB's major pullback: causes, headwinds, and why going all-in on the Metaverse might have been a "frothy market mistake"

55:28 Breaking down the competition in the "XR Wars": Meta, Apple, Microsoft and Google; why a phone might have been a better $10B/year bet for Facebook, Google's strategic brilliance

1:09:14 Spotify's Joe Rogan situation: positions, speech rights, division amongst free speech

1:23:08 Reflection on Baby Boomers' transition from radically free speech and anti-government to authoritarian, misinformation changing over time, using science to discredit science

1:30:10 Xi Jinping and Putin are deepening their relationship: what does this mean for the world, and how should the US strategically respond?

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