Pandemic - Is It a Pandemic?

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I think there's the getting on it early would be number one, clearly. Ecause earlier is better when you have a two years t two month, too week in in incubation period. A certain populace that is very global thinking and understands pandemics and understands science, would be pretty terrified by this. And i caund see other people looking at it and, you know, they think independence and freedom and risk taking is different. There's some parts that i think are opening up too quickly. What'ste li ano twe people going to the refugee center? Do people wear masks? I mean, what's happening in texas is, it's, it's...

0:35 Jason intros Capital Factory CEO & Founder Josh Baer
1:47 What is Capital Factory in its current iteration? How are they transitioning to remote? Loss of serendipity of random in-person connections
5:38 Josh takes Jason through the SXSW cancellation
10:29 Issues conceptualizing COVID's impact
15:35 Transitioning to rolling cohorts & optimizing their Slack community
21:36 Capital Factory's standard deal terms, why founders join, how returns are divvied up
27:30 Starting Capital Factory during the last economic downturn, how millennials will react to this crisis
30:45 Josh describes his 5 buckets of how companies are weathering the COVID storm
35:09 Remote work's effect on startup collaboration
41:01 COVID's effect on children, getting back to work
47:37 What investing mistakes has Josh made, and how has he learned from them?
56:00 What founder traits does Josh look for?
59:14 Moving to Austin, SXSW history