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(2:22) Ye has agreed to acquire Parler, a free speech-focused Twitter competitor
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(16:49) More thoughts on Ye’s current situation
(22:39) CCP President Xi Jinping’s recent comments on the state of China and his goals moving forward
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(28:58) Unwinding globalization, issues with codependency
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(39:55) Where CCP policies went wrong, what other countries can learn from them
(52:29) Startup of the Day: Gas is a new social media startup geared towards positive superlatives for high school friend groups
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Very disrespectful to refusing to acknowledge his name change and then Molly trying to justify it. If it was a gender change, you guys would’ve respected it in a second. Constantly writing him off as having mental illness/breakdown, labeling an actual founder who has created value as just a celebrity. All bullshit
Get back to interviewing founders and VC’s
Maybe be a little more hard nosed against China instead of the sympathetic oh it's "china" tones. Americans know very little about China with their "stated economy". I guess you might not be able to wag your tails due to vested interests.
How can you tell if he is having a mental breakdown?
Jason isn’t fat anymore. Haven’t watched this since 2009.
Molly won't say Ye, but I'm sure she would comply to every frivolous pronoun that others would demand.
Self propelled? Molly… 🤦
The hypocrisy on what we’re going to call people is incredible. I do not understand why there are so many intelligent people that are unable to see the insane irony
I like Digitalage… the name itself is just wow … such a name for our time
If people are insistent on being referred to as an alternative gender or use gender neutral pronouns then surely a guy can ask for people to refer to him as his preference.
didn't mention how banks are dropping Ye now.
Looking forward to hear the Amplitude review discussed on Friday
Jason and Molly should go outside of San Francisco bubble and see how rest of America looks like.
Middle class is dying on rapid pace, people cant afford homes in large parts of country. Our life expectancy is plummetting.
Our manufacturing has been decimated and sent abroad. Large parts of our economy are based on services that provide little to no real value (fast food, Wall Street).
To say that we have freedom is a joke, yes you have freedom if you are a millionaire, if you are middle class chances you are one health issue away from bankruptcy.
And yes we are leaders in some technologies, but we are literally non existent in others, best examples are Batteries (China, Japan, Korea), Solar(China), advance networking and 5G (China), ship building (China, Korea and Japan).
In area of infrastructure, US is now on third world level and it is getting worse, we didn't do anything since 1980. Our power grid is a joke. West of country is facing record drought and things will just get worse, no plan to fix it. Increasing number of cities not have drinkable water, see Flint Michigan and Jackson Mississippi.
Unless we finally start fixing US, China has very good cards compared to us.
And for those who mention Chinese debt bubble, great lets look at our debt bubbles => National debt is spiraling out of control, Student debt bubble, realestate bubble, consumer credit bubble, baby boomers are retiring and Social security is running out of money.
Inner cities are drowning in crime, homless and fentanyl. Schools are falling, college is unaffordable.
But hey we have freedom, what ever that means today.
45:00 the US already uses the tax code to set national OKRs. Encourages investment, entrepreneurship, borrowing money and discourages high income, personal consumption, etc. I’d much prefer pay a tax than be disappeared. 😂