Opinion
Jaswa: Race-Conscious UC Admissions Policy Feels Strictly Anti-Asian
“I mean, to me, it just feels, you know, strictly anti-Asian, actually.”
Assertion Contradicted
Jaswa: 95% of California private schools opened while public schools remained closed
“From August on something like 95% of private schools were open, while in California, basically no public schools were open.”
Opinion
Jaswa: Teachers Unions Influenced US COVID Scientific Policy
“To realize that the teachers unions had so much sway that they could almost redirect scientific policy in this country.”
Opinion
Jaswa: Mandatory dentist supervision unnecessarily inflates teeth cleaning costs
“You can't pay somebody professionally to clean your teeth unless they're supervised by a dentist. And so that's kind of an interesting notion because it's not that complicated a task, and as a result of needing that supervision, it ends up costing way more.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jaswa: Creators Will Run Everything in Business Over Traditional Business Executives
“I think the creators are the ones who are going to run everything. And technical people have a much easier path to creation than business people, but I actually think anybody can create things.”
Insight
Jaswa: Target Underutilized High-Capex Assets to Lower Startup Activation Energy
“I mean, basically the thing to look for is where is a lot of capex go? And where is that, that thing not running 24 seven? ... And so as a result of that, your activation energy in those examples is low because somebody else has put all the infrastructure in p…”
Insight
Jaswa: Early startup diversity depends directly on founder personal networks
“And so if your friend circle is not super diverse, your early employee base is not going to be super diverse.”
Assertion Partly supported
Jaswa: Zoom Maintained a 10x Engineer Cost Advantage via Beijing Office
“Well, it turned out, I think their entire engineering team is in Beijing. The fully loaded cost per engineer, if I remember correctly, including equity and everything else, was 40,000 dollars a year. The fully loaded cost for any other software company has got…”
Opinion
Jaswa: 95% single-party university faculty harms broad critical thinking
“I do think it's problematic that these universities, you know, 95% of the faculty vote for one party. That's, strikes me as not a healthy environment to, not conducive to teaching people kind of broad thinking.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jaswa: Privacy and security problems will grow 100x in a decade
“The premise behind Aura is that over the last 20 years, all of our digital lives have gotten more and more complicated and interesting, and yet every single person knows that security and privacy online are worse than they've ever been. And if you fast forward…”
Insight
Jaswa: High activation energy areas are best tackled by acquiring companies
“What we try to find are what are areas where there's nobody working on it, and usually the reason there's nobody working on it is the activation energy that's required to get it going is too high, and that's why buying companies can actually be a really Great.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jaswa: Guardant Health blood tests might become routine annual cancer screenings
“We were both investors in Garden Health, which, you know, we might revolutionize how cancer is detected and how early it is. It might become part of our, you know, annual screening is just to get a blood test.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jaswa: Extreme Progressive California Ballot Propositions All Failed in November 2020
“There were a number of propositions that were on the ballot last November that were fairly, you know, extreme progressive, I would call them, and they all failed.”
Insight
Jaswa: Fear of speaking out and career risk aversion is toxic
“My view is I would rather be surrounded by people who are out on a limb To be surrounded by people who are not out on a limb, even if they believe they should be, you know, that like, that's like that fear of putting yourself out there because you know, what's…”
Insight
Jaswa: Silicon Valley Cost of Living Cripples Startup Engineering Headcount
“So, my single biggest fear for Silicon Valley is the cost of living. And the reason that matters is if you're a startup and you need to pay your engineers 250,000 dollars to, so that they can afford to live, almost by definition you can't afford that many engi…”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jaswa: mRNA vaccines will transform treatment of every known disease
“Not only are they going to have changed the history of the world when it comes to COVID, I think they're going to change every type of disease that we know of.”
Assertion Supported
Jaswa: Quibi Content Was Roku's Most Popular in First Two Weeks
“One of the fascinating things is Roku bought the content library, and my understanding is in, like, the first two weeks of that content launching on Roku's ad-supported platform, it's the most popular content on there.”
Assertion Supported
Jaswa: WndrCo-Owned App VPN Super Gets 200,000 Downloads Daily
“We own a product called VPN Super, which is pretty consistently like a top 10 productivity app on iOS. It was built by a four person team in Singapore. This thing gets 200,000 downloads a day.”
Sujay Jaswa