Sri Lanka

7 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 6 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 9, 2022 by David Friedberg · said 105 times in 37 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (50), Chamath Palihapitiya (25), David Sacks (19), David Friedberg (9), Draymond Green (1), Andrew Schulz (1)

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2025 15 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
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2023 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2022 60 mentions in 9 episodes 7 per episode
2021 11 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
2020 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode

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Everything said about Sri Lanka, oldest first

Apr 9, 2022 negative
Prediction Held up
Friedberg: Global food crisis will hit Sri Lanka and Africa hard
“The United States is going to be fine. Western Europe will be fine. China will be fine. Sri Lanka is gonna be a mess. Northern and Eastern Africa is gonna be a mess.”
David Friedberg Apr 9, 2022 ▶ 1:07:30 E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
Jul 14, 2022 negative
Disclosure
Chamath abandoned Google Loon Sri Lanka project due to political infighting
“I went there and I offered to bring Google Loon, myself and Google. We offered to bring internet access to the entire country, like guaranteed internet access. This was like five years ago. And we set up an entity and the government tried to do the right thing…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 14, 2022 ▶ 21:32 E87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more
Jul 14, 2022 bearish
Assertion Partly supported
Chamath: El Salvador, Ghana, and Pakistan are next closest to sovereign default
“If you if you look at bond prices, the three countries that are the next closest to defaulting. So Russia has defaulted, but that was more a vagary of, you know, foreign currency controls that, that didn't allow them to pay. But Sri Lanka has officially defaul…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 14, 2022 ▶ 34:53 E87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more
Jul 14, 2022 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Chamath: Sri Lanka spent 2.5x more on defense than during wartime
“They spent two and a half times more on defense as of last year than they did when they were in war time.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 14, 2022 ▶ 11:11 E87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more
Jul 14, 2022 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Chamath: Sri Lanka's organic fertilizer mandate cut large farm yields by 20-30%
“The problem with going organic and organic fertilizer was all of the small farms shut down, all of the large farms had 20 to 30% crop yield reductions, the prices of food went crazy,”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 14, 2022 ▶ 12:41 E87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more
Jul 14, 2022 negative
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Sri Lanka had a 98 ESG score, beating Sweden and US
“He mentions that Sri Lanka has a near perfect score of 98, higher than Sweden, which is 96, and the U.S. Is a 51.”
David Sacks Jul 14, 2022 ▶ 26:49 E87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more
Jul 14, 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Chamath: Singapore GDP reached $360B in 2022 compared to Sri Lanka's $80B
“Jamaica's GDP is about thirteen billion. Singapore's GDP has grown to about three hundred and sixty billion and Sri Lanka's GDP is eighty billion.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 14, 2022 ▶ 8:48 E87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more
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