#94: Coronavirus Investing Series, Part 11 | Alex Portelli | The Economics of Facemasks & COVID-19 Tests

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Coronavirus Investing Series: Part 11

This is Part 11 of a special Coronavirus Investing Series. If you have not listened to Part 1, please click here to get the overall context/market overview during this unprecedented time.

You can also listen to:

• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• Part 8
• Part 9
• Part 10

 

Summary

In this episode, Eric Schleien and Alex Portelli discuss the economics of facemasks and COVID-19 tests. Alex has started a company shipping in facemasks and COVID-19 tests and has some very interesting stories. He also makes some suggestions on policy and gives his view on what is working and not working.

For a previous episode with Alex, you can listen, here.

Alex is a serial entrepreneur and has started a diner, an ATM business, a real estate company, and an online news organization. He’s now currently working on his next venture.

Alex is currently an investor in short term rental properties and is the owner of several successful websites.

Alex started his privately held AirBnB business 4 years ago and went from owning 0 to 8 properties since then. His web company is prntly.com and he is currently launching another company called prntpage.com which is currently in beta-testing.

Prntly.com became notorious after Donald Trump started re-tweeting some of their posts during the primary election cycle in 2016.

 

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