Pandemic
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13 statements about Pandemic, every show
Grimes: WorkMoney user signups accelerated after the COVID-19 pandemic ended
“When the pandemic ended and our signups be went just as fast, if not faster. And right now we're seeing a lot of signups because middle-class families are stretched.”
Panigrahi predicts an incoming superbug will cause the next global pandemic.
“There's a superbug coming, right? That will be another pandemic.”
Novick: Pandemic impact on child development was universal, not an outlier
“It's not only not an outlier, I'd say it's universal. The pandemic really impacted all aged children.”
Winters: The pandemic permanently fixed DoorDash's unit economics by eliminating latency
“Then the pandemic hits and all the unit economics of DoorDash flipped positive because everyone's all of a sudden ordering online and all the drivers are much more busy, which means all the latency in the model that was creating the losses went away.”
Effective Altruism deserves credit for an early focus on AI and pandemics
“I definitely think they've been, like, right on a lot of things, right in the sense of, like, this is a big focus, and they've realized it before a lot of other people. Like, this AI stuff, right? The EAs have been talking about this stuff for decades, and, li…”
Hoffman: AI Improves Humanity's Overall Risk Portfolio Against Pandemics and Climate
“When you get to pandemic, maybe the only way to solve pandemic is AI. Well, a certain help for climate is AI. It's net, I think, strongly in the positive column. It doesn't to say that it might not add some existential risk characteristics to the overall portf…”
Chesky: Airbnb lost 80% of its business in eight weeks during COVID-19
“And then the pandemic occurred and we lost 80% of our business in eight weeks.”
Mensch: AI will not trigger the next pandemic; climate change will
“I don't think AI is going to be the one triggering the next pandemic. It's always going to be climate change.”
Ford: Prism.fm kept roughly 100 of 120 venue customers through COVID
“We also didn't turn a lot during the pandemic, which I think was a major testament to the technology. Like we went in with let's call it a 120 customers. And we came out with, of those a 120, we came out with, you know, a solid a hundred of them. Like we didn'…”
Drucker: COVID-19 pandemic wiped out 20 years of educational progress
“And the pandemic erased two decades of progress that we had made in education through a variety of different change initiatives.”
Sean Weisbrot: Remote structure shielded Nerve from pandemic disruption
“I haven't had to worry about the pandemic. Like it didn't hurt our business at all. It didn't cause us to have to change the operations of the business because we had started remote. So our mentality and our daily operations, nothing changed.”
Simmer: The Average American Gained Thirty Pounds During the Pandemic
“And by the way, the average American gained 30 pounds during the pandemic.”
Clark: Check pre-pandemic traction to identify durable consumer demand
“I think that one of the things you can look at is there evidence of something working before the pandemic hit to distinguish between are we looking at acceleration because of the forced onboarding, or are we looking at something that has been created just duri…”