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Why Are Babies More Prone To Bacteria Growth In Their Stomachs?

Babies have less bacteria in them and have less acidic stomach, which when combined provides less competition for the new bacteria to inhabit and replicate.


Did Chamath Let Investors Down When He Completely Restructured His Vc Firm And Essentially Quit?

Not at all. He took a few billion dollars under management and turned it into a few more billion dollars. He promised returns, and he achieved them. He did not promise anyone that he would be doing this forever. He sums it up like this: "You are fucking welcome!"


Is Sleep Is Essential For The Body?

Yes, sleep is essential for our body and specifically for the cardiovascular system. We can measure it during the Daylight Time transitions, where the rate of heart attacks before/after go up and down by 27% each year, indicating that even 1 hour of sleep deprivation can have a tremendous impact on the physiology of our body.


What Is Justin Kan Reading Right Now?

The Untethered Soul - Very important book that helped Justin recognize why detaching happiness from the company success was so important.

Leadership and Self-Deception - There are two ways to treat other people: like people (with empathy), or like an objects (without empathy). If you treat people like objects who are there to achieve metrics, you will end up lying to yourself about your own role in their successes and failures and ignoring your own contributions, which is just poor management.


How Can We Bridge The Gaps Of Underserved Medicine Gap And The Inequality Gap?

The only way we are going to bridge the underserved medicine gap is by seeing this as an opportunity. In order to bridge the inequality gap, we have to recognize our privileges and use them to help others.


What Is One Of The Most Rewarding Things Of Parenting A Young Toddler ?

Just talking to your little one, hearing their opinions and feelings, is so interesting to see the human that you are helping develop.


How Does Belinda Find Out The Receptionist’s Name?

The receptionist asks if she can address Belinda as “Belinda.” Agreeing, Belinda states that the receptionist has to show her something first and to know her name, which is Christina.


What Does Peter Rouse Say To Belinda?

That she has survived the rigors of Dr. Pieter Robbins. This is the first time that we have found out Dr. Robbins’ first name after four chapters.


What Is The Stride App ?

This app provides reminders of things that need to be completed and helps to set a foundation for each day.


What Is Fnnch's Background In Art?

He was not always pursing art and he rarely speaks publicly about his life. He is the only anonymous TEDTalk speaker to date.


Does A Fund Need To Invest In A Unicorn Startup To See Good Returns?

It helps but is not a requirement, depends on what you are trying to accomplish.

All of Dave's early winners were between a 10 to 20 x return on investment, about a 3x return on his overall portfolio, with an investment return period of around seven or eight years.

With 500 Startups, they aimed to find a "unicorn" only 1-2% of the time, but given that low probability of that even, their portfolio size needed to be a minimum of 50 to 100 companies to even have a shot at that.

So when thinking about investment, you need to know what return multiple you are trying to hit, how likely your companies are to return, and then you would know whether or not you need a unicorn to do it, or how many unicorns at that.


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