COVID

4 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 4 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 5, 2022 by Balaji Srinivasan · across every show →

Everything said about COVID, oldest first

Apr 5, 2022 negative
Opinion
Elites lose trust after repeated intelligence and COVID failures
“Frankly elites don't deserve a lot of trust, you know, because they've messed up so many other things, you know, Like from the, you know, the Afghanistan intelligence, the Iraq intelligence to lots of the early official misinformation on COVID.”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 5, 2022 ▶ 39:22 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
Aug 22, 2023 negative
Opinion
Shane Parrish: COVID lockdowns isolated communities and increased widespread societal selfishness
“I think one of the interesting things that COVID did is it disconnected us from our community en masse. It locked us in our house delivery services. We don't have to interact with people. We're not forced to see people who are more or less successful than we a…”
Shane Parrish Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 41:58 Rey Flemings: A Different Definition of Success
Feb 18, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Starting a freight business during COVID was a big mistake
“Like I started a freight business during COVID, and that I could kind of squint and say made sense because I'm in the logistics business after all, right? But, it ended up being a big mistake”
David Heacock Feb 18, 2025 ▶ 1:14:01 David Heacock: Building Filterbuy
May 13, 2025 negative
Opinion
Gil: Average Startup Founders During COVID Were Worse Than Historical Standards
“And so I think we had two or three years where the average founder just wasn't that great, right, on a relative basis to history.”
Elad Gil May 13, 2025 ▶ 15:08 Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
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