(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 update: ZIRP mistakes, VC as a "must-have" asset class for LPs, how the 2021 vintage can be saved
(39:05) AI's outsized impact on SaaS and real-world businesses
(55:16) Advice from Steve Jobs on customer-first product development, Section 230 update
(1:00:29) Trump's savvy visit to East Palestine and 2024 strategy, Biden's visit to Ukraine, China's position
(1:14:24) Tinfoil hat corner
(1:23:25) Bestie wrap up!
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Referenced in the show:
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-stripes-55-billion-pitch-to-investors
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-private-tech-company-that-let-employee-stock-grants-evaporate
https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/11/zuckerberg-says-he-was-too-afraid-of-taking-facebook-public
https://sacks.substack.com/p/enterprises-vs-smbs-whos-the-better-customer-for-b2b-saas-startups-9a0d4efe69e9
https://sacks.substack.com/p/the-burn-multiple-51a7e43cb200
https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1627449217294958592
https://chamathreads.substack.com/p/higher-rates-will-lead-to-the-next
https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1628851245644644352
https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3497-you-know-one-of-the-things-that-really-hurt
https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/02/not-like-the-nine-greatest-experts-on-the-internet-justices-seem-leery-of-broad-ruling-on-section-230
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/02/20/on-the-record-press-call-by-senior-administration-officials-on-president-bidens-trip-to-ukraine
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/20/secrecy-security-biden-trip-to-kyiv
https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-biden-makes-surprise-visit-095627966.html
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1626984889449959430
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/23/world/russia-ukraine-geopolitics.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
https://openai.com/blog/how-should-ai-systems-behave
E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
E103: Tech layoffs surge, big tech freezes hiring, optimizing for profits, election preview & more
E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more
E100: Reflecting on the first 100 shows, fan questions, nuclear threat, markets, Amazon & more
E99: Cheating scandals, Twitter updates, rapid AI advancements, Biden's pardon, Section 230 & more
E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
E93: Twitter whistleblower, cloud security vulnerabilities, student debt forgiveness & more
E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more
E91: SoftBank's $21B+ Vision Fund loss, signals of a bubble, macro picture, Trump raided by FBI
E90: Twitter subpoenas, market overview, Pelosi's Taiwan visit & more
E89: GDP growth negative in Q2, $SHOP layoffs, Alzheimer's fraud, Ginkgo acquires Zymergen & more
E88: First principle politics, China chaos & outlook, state of private/public markets & more
E87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more
E86: Macro outlook: jobs, housing, inflation + Dutch farmers protests & EU climate missteps
E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
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