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Chamath: 2020 presidential candidates share identical foreign, monetary, and fiscal policies
“We have an election that is now actually of style and not of substance. Now that doesn't mean it's not important. But substantively the positions on critical matters of foreign policy, domestic monetary and fiscal policy and spending will roughly be plus or mi…”
Chamath: Bitcoin is smart insurance against dismantling of financial orthodoxy
“I think that we are dismantling financial orthodoxy and in that dismantling and in the leveling of the playing field, There will be moments of volatility. And to have a small amount of insurance that's uncorrelated to the orthodoxy, I think it's just a smart R…”
Chamath: Deflationary super cycle started when US ended Apollo program
“In many ways, you know, that this deflationary super cycle really started in 1970 when we basically ended the space program in the early version that saw us get to the moon.”
Palihapitiya: Venture capital industry is misaligned and lacks integrity in places
“Well-intentioned, somewhat misguided, somewhat low integrity in certain places, misaligned.”
Chamath: Jack Dorsey is an exceptional CEO due to Cash App and Africa strategy
“Jack Dorsey. Exceptional. And I really owe him actually an apology because I had a very dismissive sensation of Jack, and I don't really know him that well, obviously, but it's just in my observations of sort of his decision making. Particularly at Square part…”