Jake Howe
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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I'm building a theater to record the podcast in and I'm building an incubator space and we're moving back to in-person.
I grandfathered the existing employees and I'm only hiring people in-person now because I feel something very big has been lost in terms of meeting with founders in-person and young people seeing me interact and my other senior team members with those founders in-person during a pitch meeting, during a product jam session, during a fundraising review. Yeah.
I agree 100%. And one of my first jobs working at Land Systems, my mentor, Mike Savino, was always working late. He was trying to move up in the organization and I wouldn't leave before he left. And then he would walk by and he'd say, it was in New York City. Hey, what are you working on? I'm reading these Novell networking books. I'm trying to get my certification. I'm trying to learn more.
I want to get out of hardware and get into software. And he'd say, oh, I'm going to get some dinner. You want to come? Now, he was four levels above me in the organization. I was the lowest. He was second to the highest. And then I got to go to dinner with him. And then I got to hear about all the big clients. I got to hear how, you know, they were doing the pitches.
And then he started including me in pitches. And all of a sudden, I went from four degrees from him to reporting into him. And that's how I learned, you know, look at the person on the left. Look at the person on the right. Were you a CME? I was, I don't think I, yeah, I was actually, I was a certified network engineer.
I mean, if you had that in the 90s, you could make, you know, 50, 75, 100K.
Absolutely. And if you want to be a freelancer, be a freelancer. Okay. Let's go to our little election update and some news about Kamala. and a little bit of socialism coming. So here's how I set it up today. We'll see how this goes. 2024 election update is here. I'm going to do two things, gentlemen.
I'm going to just tee up the latest polls, and then I ask our crack all-in research team to just give me the top couple of issues in the principal's own words, the principals being the press on either side, and the four people who are running for office. So let's just go through the numbers here. Nate Silver, a friend of the pod, now has Kamala Harris at 57% favorite to win the Electoral College.
There's your first chart. You can compare this to what happened with Biden before the hot swap. Trump had a 73% probability to win the Electoral College. So that is the swing of all swings. And obviously a lot has happened since then, as well as the assassination attempt on Trump. Massive swing for Harris, as you can see in Nate Silver's chart. He's doing something called silver bullets.
He's not a 538 anymore, but this is the most telling chart. You can see Biden-Trump there, and it's almost a clean sweep in red. And then you go to Harris-Trump, and the shift has been 100% blue. Pretty dramatic. Harris has flipped, according to Silver, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Virginia. Here's a couple of quotes, and then we'll get into it.
The big critique from Republicans this past week is that Harris won't do interviews. God, it's just ridiculous that they have not sat for interviews. And meanwhile, Trump is doing every podcast and Twitter spaces on the planet. But the big news... is that this might have changed by the time you listen to this podcast.
Everybody knows we tape out Thursdays for the world's number one podcast, and it comes out on Fridays. Washington Post, Jeff Stein reported that Kamala Harris will propose the first ever federal ban on corporate price gouging for food and groceries on Friday. I'm going to hand that off to you, Freeberg, to detail. I'm going to throw up. Take it easy. We're going to get there.
You're going to get your rare vegetables in a second. So the other, you're going to get your, you're going to get your veggies sashimi soon. All right. From the JD Vance corner, he is questioning Tim Waltz's service. Here's the quote. Well, I wonder, Tim Waltz, when were you ever in war? When was this Paris campaign responding in his 24 years of service?
The governor carried fired and trained others to use weapons in war in new boom, innumerable times, yada, yada, yada, a lot of back and forth there about that issue. But let's get to and there was an incredible two hour spaces. Audio is a little rough. But the content was great. Elon had a conversation with Trump, and they talked about nuclear power.
Elon offered his services two or three times to Trump. He's asked to do efficiency in the government and maybe cut some costs. But that's what happened notably in the last week. Freeberg, what's your take on... This reported by the Washington Post, and I think confirmed by Politico, moved by Kamala Harris. Thank you for asking. Thank you for asking. Do you have any feelings on it?
Okay. Thanks for coming to Freebrook's TED Talk. Chamath, yes, you're nodding strongly in agreement. This is just dumb and pandering. Am I correct?
Sacks, any thoughts? Overall election and this specific issue. You take it either way you like.
Yeah, and so just to be clear with everybody, we don't have the actual policy here, but it's been reported. Seems like it's true, maybe it's not, maybe they step it back. We don't know the details of this at all, but we do know it's just been tried before.
What we do know is there are times when you could, like in an economic emergency, like during what was the giant hurricane or wars, you can keep your eye on this. But the truth is, as we just talked about with Starbucks, You know, Saks is like, I got a free cup of coffee or close to free. I make my own cold brew, shout out Cafe Du Monde, because I don't want to pay $8 for one. The market responds.
And when you put your thumb on capitalism, when you put 12 thumbs on capitalism and on the scale, all kinds of weird behaviors occur. It does not work. And consumers can just simply opt out. They can make breakfast at home. They can brown bag their lunch. And you know what? Then companies are going to be like, holy shit. People are not buying $8 coffees. Let's make a cheaper happy meal.
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