#AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
English - June 07, 2022 19:13 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBEntrepreneurship Business Technology chamath covid19 friedberg gambling health tech allin alllin business calacanis Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This talk was recorded LIVE at the All-In Summit in Miami and included slides. To watch on YouTube, check out our All-In Summit playlist: https://bit.ly/aisytplaylist
0:00 Antonio Gracias joins to talk: Tesla's early days, investing in Elon, macroeconomic outlook, ROIC, importance of energy independence, future of manufacturing, financial-ization of the P&L & more
22:35 Q: How has the poker game influenced your decision making in business and life?
29:33 Q: What was the scariest step of becoming a first-time fund manager?
32:34 Q: Crypto market unwinding & how it relates to the money supply
35:57 Q: Current pre-seed / seed valuations & metrics
38:58 Q: When investing in early-stage SaaS companies, how to find outliers?
42:11 Q: What would you do if dropped in the middle of Kansas at age 25 with no resources?
44:46 Q: Where will the next disruptions in industrial automation come from & how will the US hit economies of scale in semiconductor manufacturing
47:02 Q: Any plans for All-In Media?
50:02 Q: US strategy in the Russia/Ukraine War
54:19 Q: How have your first impressions changed as you've matured in your career, and whose first impressions have stood out to you the most?
58:29 Q: Are you interested in crypto micropayments?
1:00:55 Q: Biggest mistakes of your career that you've learned the most from?
1:09:54 Q: What impact could tech have on political discourse? What does a viable path forward look like?
1:15:36 Q: Are remote / distributed startup systems viable coming out of the pandemic?
1:19:41 Q: Advice for non-technical people trying to get into the startup world?
1:24:44 Q: Thoughts on the potential consumer credit crisis?
1:26:17 Lightning round: What problem do you most want to solve right now? All-In consortium? Can SMBs democratize their own labor supply? How to get more investors interested in hardware? Will this be a relatively short recession?
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