Hewitt: COVID-19 economic recovery could take months, not years like 2008
Craig Hewitt · Episode 493 | Startup Roundtable · Apr 21, 2020 · at 36:42
In April 2020, Castos founder Craig Hewitt argues on Startups For the Rest of Us that the pandemic downturn will resolve faster than the 2008 financial crisis because it was caused by an external health shock.
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“That external event will go away and things will come back much more quickly, I think. Out of this, then they did the financial crisis, you know, that was years and this could be months, you know, sometime around the end of the year, maybe.”
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