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E77: Tech work culture, crypto regulation, stablecoins, $NFLX & more w/ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg - April 23, 2022 06:10 - 1 hour
0:00 Bestie Intros + a new Bestie Guestie! 4:37 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong reflects on his "mission-focused company" blog post, work culture in tech/Silicon Valley, realigning culture at Coinbase 26:25 Crypto regulation and adoption 46:37 Brian's takes on different types of stablecoins ...

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Being Coloured In

John Hebenton's Podcast - April 17, 2022 06:00 - 10 minutes
We watched the movie on resurrection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRCFgDTqYbY) What does it mean to be coloured in? Easter is about salvation. But what does that mean? John explores how the ancient church saw salvation as cleaving to God as those loved by God, as a child “cleaves” to her moth...

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E76.5: Food shortage, China's grand plan, inflation, French election plus an All-In Summit preview

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg - April 16, 2022 06:08 - 37 minutes
*** PRODUCER'S NOTE: This is part two of E76. If you want to hear the besties break down Elon vs. Twitter, check out the previous episode.     0:00 Surprise part two! 1:03 Friedberg breaks down the global food crisis and predicts China's grand plan 9:27 Inflation: 8.5% CPI in March, ...

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E76: Elon vs. Twitter

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg - April 16, 2022 02:04 - 58 minutes
0:00 Jason's new skincare routine, Sacks' Good Friday portfolio update, Bestie intros 3:12 Breaking down Elon's offer to buy Twitter and take it private: poison pills, board responsibility and more 30:50 Core issues of Elon vs. Twitter, analyzing reactions, breaking down Twitter's revenue pe...

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E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg - April 09, 2022 04:03 - 1 hour
0:00 Jason's big night out, bestie intros, All-In Summit update and more 8:01 Layoffs and shutdowns: Fast, Better.com, GoPuff; Chamath gives a macro- and micro- overview for startups 14:09 Preventing layoffs, culpability in Fast's shutdown, VC diligence strategy, VC/founder model 41:51 Elo...

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The Smell of Life

John Hebenton's Podcast - April 05, 2022 03:00 - 17 minutes
John explores the power of our senses to hold memories alive, some of which can be such a gift of life. He uses that as a way into the gospel reading for the 5th Sunday in Lent, John 12:1-8. This is the story of someone found by love, who offers love. In contrast we have Judas. Sadly Jesus’ resp...

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E74: Market update, inverted yield curve, immigration, new SPAC rules, $FB smears TikTok and more

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg - April 01, 2022 09:53 - 1 hour
0:00 Sacks' DC trip and foreign policy speaking gig 5:50 Yield curve inversion, breaking down the current state of the markets, understanding the labor market through birth rate and immigration 26:16 How the US can fix its current economic issues, reframing high-skilled immigration 48:54 S...

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EP 68: Recruitment and Retention, Challenges and Ideas

Municipal Equation Podcast - March 31, 2022 01:01 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
It seems inconsistent: pandemic-related, record-level job losses while employers report their own hardships in finding workers. But that’s the nature of what analysts have called one of the strangest labor shortages in memory. Nationally, employers have reported too-tight talent pools or general ...

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Forgiving and Forgiven

John Hebenton's Podcast - March 29, 2022 21:00 - 10 minutes
Rev Debbie Garret explores the parable commonly entitled the Parable of the Prodigal Son, or the parable of the Loving Father. Debbie writes "In Monday morning’s prayer in the NZPB the Gospel reflection says: “Would any of you who are parents give your child a weta when asked for a fish?  Bad as...

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E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg - March 26, 2022 05:49 - 1 hour
0:00 Bestie Guestie Brad Gerstner is filling in for Friedberg 1:34 Understanding public SaaS and Internet multiples, Instacart's cuts its valuation by 40%, understanding reality of overvalued late-stage companies 21:52 Capital allocators at fault, how crossover funds are reacting, late-stage...

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Episode 13: The Nontraditional Path to City Management

Perspectives on City Management - March 24, 2022 17:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
There are many paths to becoming a city manager. Some people follow the traditional path with a masters in public administration while others follow a less traditional path. On this episode, we talk with three TCMA members who followed their own path and the interesting twists and turns on their...

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Living Repentance

John Hebenton's Podcast - March 22, 2022 03:00 - 19 minutes
John wonders what repentance means this Lent, having described Lent as a time to reflect on what has been life giving for you and us, and to use this time to learn to live in more thankful and life-giving ways, and last week wondering how we have experienced God’s faithfulness over these last co...

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Episode 7: Mr.L's Tavern: Biden's Banana Republic

Mr.L's Tavern-- Social Assassin Podcast - March 20, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode, I announce my new website mrltavern.net and discuss the tragic suicide of Matthew Perna who was just another casualty of Biden's Banana Republic. And the winner of Greatest Threat To American Goes To....???

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E72: Impact of sanctions, deglobalization, food shortage risks, macroeconomic outlook and more

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg - March 19, 2022 02:02 - 1 hour
0:00 Jason's new "family office" and Sacks' new strategy 2:39 Understanding where all sides stand in the Russia/Ukraine War three weeks in 15:21 Sanctions risking a major food shortage: possible solutions, how we got here, creating distributed manufacturing and supply chains, capitalist incent...

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God is Faithful – Let’s Hang on to That

John Hebenton's Podcast - March 14, 2022 21:00 - 14 minutes
John explores the theme of God's faithfulness in the readings for this Sunday, particularly Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18   and Luke 13:31-35, and what that might mean for us.  He wonders how we have experienced God’s faithfulness over these last couple of years? how does that help us be thankful an...

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Finding Life in Lent

John Hebenton's Podcast - March 07, 2022 22:00 - 20 minutes
John explores Luke’s version of the testing story – not as temptations but a test of how Jesus will live out being the “Beloved Son” . And we do that by looking at how that flows into the sermon on the plain.  They work together to show how Jesus will not live being the "beloved Son", and how we...

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E71: Russia/Ukraine deep dive: escalation, risk factors, financial fallout, exit ramps and more

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg - March 05, 2022 05:32 - 1 hour
0:00 David Sacks: Man for the people 0:50 Escalating tensions over Russia/Ukraine; nuclear scare; evolving forms of warfare 16:27 Assessing impact of economic sanctions: first, second and third-order effects; exit ramps for Putin and Russia 34:23 Reflecting on if taking NATO expansion off th...

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EP 67: Boone Shifts to Renewables

Municipal Equation Podcast - February 25, 2022 15:41 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
The Town of Boone appears to be the first in North Carolina to have shifted from fossil fuels to 100 percent renewable energy for its municipal facilities, and many years ahead of its own timeline for doing so. But how? On this episode of Municipal Equation, the League’s podcast about cities and ...

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E70: EMERGENCY POD! Russia invades Ukraine: Reactions, Putin's ambition, Biden's response and more

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg - February 24, 2022 23:47 - 1 hour
0:00 Ukraine invasion: how should the US respond? 17:03 Importance of energy independence when dealing with Russia; solutions: Solar, Natural Gas, Nuclear, etc 32:51 Reflecting on the media coverage so far, Putin's ambitions 42:20 Biden's new sanctions, Chamath's Russia story, doing the ma...

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Episode 12: A Day in the Life of a City Manager

Perspectives on City Management - February 23, 2022 22:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Being a city manager is a unique job that comes with a whole set of interesting challenges that change on a daily basis. In this episode we talk with three TCMA members who  share their stories about what can happen in the day in a life of a City Manager. GUESTS: Julie Couch, Town Manager, Town...

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Loving our Enemies – Yeah Right

John Hebenton's Podcast - February 22, 2022 00:00 - 20 minutes
As we listen to more of Jesus’s sermon on the plain, John wonders who are my enemies, and what does it mean to love them? The Parihaka story helps us see this teaching as how we are to live God’s non-violent resistance to all that seeks to destroy life giving community. AS MLK says, we are to be...

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E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy & more

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg - February 19, 2022 07:22 - 1 hour
0:00 Sacks needs the ball 1:43 Trudeau invokes emergency powers to try and stop the truckers protest 13:45 Bitcoin's role in decentralizing currency away from potentially hostile governments 25:37 San Francisco Board of Education recall: what this means for the boundaries of progressivism ...

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A Plain Sermon

John Hebenton's Podcast - February 15, 2022 22:00 - 22 minutes
John explores Luke’s version of this block of teaching, noting that the world Luke and all biblical writers were writing for was based on family and community, not the individual. Jesus in Luke is the fulfilment of Isaiah’s prophesy/dream of the restoration of life-giving community for all, for ...

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E67: Revisiting Rogan, Canadian truckers' protest, fusion breakthrough, $MSFT's savvy move & more

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg - February 12, 2022 06:27 - 1 hour
0:00 Bestie Intro: Phil Hellmuth found a new billionaire 1:30 Chamath's new camera positioning 3:58 Revisiting the Joe Rogan/Spotify situation, racism claims, and the video controversy 30:04 Canadian truckers' "Freedom Convoy": root causes, impact, what is this turning into? 45:00 Nuclea...

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Episode 6: Mr.L: Sarah Palin VS. The New York Times

Mr.L's Tavern-- Social Assassin Podcast - February 12, 2022 00:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this short podcast, I discuss the Sarah Palin vs New York Times trial. 

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A Call to Be More

John Hebenton's Podcast - February 08, 2022 00:00 - 19 minutes
John uses the call of Isaiah and Peter, James and John,  to talk about “call” being about re imagining who we are and how we are and what we are called to do He wonders how this  helps us engage with the ongoing work of honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi as we build back in this pandemic? You can ...

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E66: $FB's major pullback, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup and understanding supply chain issues with Bestie Guestie Ryan Petersen (Flexport CEO)

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg - February 05, 2022 07:28 - 1 hour
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 Bre...

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A Call to Love

John Hebenton's Podcast - January 31, 2022 23:00 - 14 minutes
For some who follow the C of E calendar,  this coming Wednesday marks the end of the 40 days of the Christmas-Epiphany season. What is this season about? -          revelation who Jesus is -          response to that? John explores why he  stuck with readings for 4th Sunday rather than presen...

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The Journey of Two Aspiring City Managers

Perspectives on City Management - January 31, 2022 19:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode we talk with two city managers who met under interesting circumstances at a TCMA conference and have supported each other in the profession over many years of friendship. Their story was featured in the July, 2021 issue of TCMA's Management Messenger newsletter.  GUESTS: Mike Go...

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Episode 11: A Journey of Two Aspiring City Managers

Perspectives on City Management - January 31, 2022 19:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode we talk with two city managers who met under interesting circumstances at a TCMA conference and have supported each other in the profession over many years of friendship. Their story was featured in the July, 2021 issue of TCMA's Management Messenger newsletter.  GUESTS: Mike Go...