Feb 24, 2023
(0:00) Bestie intro: Jason's Japan trip!
(1:04) Stripe's precarious situation: Did it miss its window? Breaking down its $4B tax bill, slowing growth curve, enterprise vs SMB customers, scalability issues, and more
(23:07) Lessons for founders: How ZIRP can skew CAC and LTV calculations, burn multiple
(29:40) VC market...
Feb 17, 2023
(0:00) Bestie intros, poker recap, charity shoutouts!
(8:34) Toxic Ohio train derailment
(25:30) Lina Khan's flawed strategy and rough past few weeks as FTC Chair; rewriting Section 230
(57:27) AI chatbot bias and problems: Bing Chat's strange answers, jailbreaking ChatGPT, and more
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Feb 11, 2023
0:00 Bestie intro!
1:49 Report about US involvement in the destruction of Nordstream pipelines, breaking away from the military-industrial complex
28:26 Bestie refresh!
33:13 The AI Search Wars: Microsoft presses hard, Google's rough week
45:06 Sundar's next move: How should Google counterpunch? Google's troubled...
Feb 4, 2023
(0:00) Bestie intro!
(1:15) Macro picture update: 0.25% raise, jobs rip up, wage growth continues to slow
(17:52) Interest rates impact on mega-cap company creation
(33:58) Mass extinction event coming to startups, reckoning for VCs, venture debt issues
(1:02:33) Adani's potential fraud, role of short sellers
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