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What Influences Justin Kan's Social Media Stream?

Justin believes that if you want something to be part of your identity, you should talk about it, and if you want to learn something, you should teach it. That's why his latest tweeter feed is all about philosophy and startups.


How Does Aaron Balance His Family Life While Being An Entrepreneur?

Having a big family was one key motivator on making more money to support them. He balances the two by learning how to deal with the certain amount of stress that is acceptable. Having kids, stress is unavoidable and unrealistic. He believes it’s important to trust that things will work out for the better, and to do the things that feel right.


How Did Teach Street Acquisition Work Out For Dave Schappell And The Team?

TeachStreet got acquired by Amazon, and although the deal was the smallest on paper at the time of acquisition, Amazon stock grew 10x, making the outcome very favorable for Dave and Co.


How Can New Parents Deal With Stress?

Support each other as much as you can and have fun with everything. Remember to look forward to time with your baby.

You have to realize that raising a kid is incredibly insanely hard, but you have to keep living your life. Push through it.


What Are The Unintended Consequences Of Coronavirus Lockdown?

"More people will die because of the second and third order effects of coronavirus." ~ Chamath.

All kinds of industries; airlines, cruises, hospitality, retail and then the non obvious, like software companies. As some business get impacted, their customers and their supplies will get impacted.

So this is the first time in a very long time where we're really going to see the domino effect of the economic contraction. This combination of a supply side shock and the demand shock.

Supply side shots can be fixed relatively quickly. It's the demand shocks that are much harder to recover from because they're deeply psychological in nature, they drive the leverage.

De-leveraging is going to be an important, probably violent and messy, leaving lot of people unemployed, a lot of businesses out of business closed.

Editor's note: Here's a tweet from Tim Draper, a successful venture capitalist, confirming this case.


What Is The Key To Meritocracy?

Put your thoughts on the table for everyone to see.

Understand the art of thoughtful disagreement.

Have a protocol to get past that.


What Is One Key To Making A Discovery?

Breaking the rules is key to a successful discovery.

When you think of rules, all rules are made by humans, and then somes rules get modified by future humans. So if the rules today are not serving us, then us as humans can modify them to be something else.


Where Is Hadley Fraser Teaching?

Hadley is teaching at the Performance Preparation Academy in Guilford https://ppacademy.co.uk/hadley-fraser/


How Do You Invest In A Panic?

Human behavior has been the same since day one - greed and fear. A good time to buy stocks is when other people are panicking. It's risky, but it might be a great time to find an opportunity that isn't obvious during the good times. Panic is a great time to clean up a portfolio and to figure out what is going to grow over the next decade.


What Are Reflow Hub's Plans?

How does Reflow Hub you plan to keep innovating and growing? Terence shares some background and his vision for the future of the company.


Can You Drive Through The Middle Of Australia?

You can, but you need a special license and a diesel car. You also need to let the police know ahead of time. According to Tim Minchin, very few people actually drive through the middle of Australia, and it is mostly occupied by the Aboriginal communities.


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