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“Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by busymom0 »

duxup wrote: post #7

Is there some reason to think Cuban has some useful thoughts here? He has done well for himself but he seems more than willing to make quips well outside of his knowledge base. Specifically I'm thinking of some off the cuff tweets regarding personal healthcare that seemed to be pretty far off base. Maybe that was a one off thing but I recall some others even regarding personal finance that seemed questionable.

Not sure about usefulness but it's worth mentioning that he has been hinting at running for President in a lot of his recent TV appearances.

Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by sixQuarks »

busymom0 wrote: post #61
duxup wrote: post #7

Is there some reason to think Cuban has some useful thoughts here? He has done well for himself but he seems more than willing to make quips well outside of his knowledge base. Specifically I'm thinking of some off the cuff tweets regarding personal healthcare that seemed to be pretty far off base. Maybe that was a one off thing but I recall some others even regarding personal finance that seemed questionable.

Not sure about usefulness but it's worth mentioning that he has been hinting at running for President in a lot of his recent TV appearances.

He'd be better than someone with Dementia. So at least he's got that going for him.

Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by IdoRA »

kevinskii wrote: post #29

"The first conversation is with investor and philanthropist Sam Altman. He has been one of the leading Silicon Valley figures helping the entire biotech industry make a complete pivot to working on solutions: vaccines, therapies, and eventually a cure." Ok, no disrespect to Sam Altman, but come on .

It’s an unfairly inflated statement even limited to the scope of SV biotech, which is only a part of the entire industry.

Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by dang »

woobity wrote: post #50
kevinskii wrote: post #29

"The first conversation is with investor and philanthropist Sam Altman. He has been one of the leading Silicon Valley figures helping the entire biotech industry make a complete pivot to working on solutions: vaccines, therapies, and eventually a cure." Ok, no disrespect to Sam Altman, but come on .

The entire biotech industry? Surely you kid. My wife works in biotech in SV and has never heard of him.

Let's be a bit careful here. That quote doesn't imply that anyone has heard of SA, only that he has been helping. Sometimes people help behind the scenes. Similarly, the claim about the industry is simply that it has pivoted. I have zero idea if either claim is true, but let's at least not replace them with claims that no one made.

This is in the HN guidelines btw: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by jagiammona »

eries wrote: post #39
Animats wrote: post #26

Is there a transcript?

Not yet. Would you like one?

Yes, please! I often read podcast transcripts. Conversations with Tyler, 80,000 hours, and Steve Hsu's Manifold all have great transcripts and because of that, they are the only podcasts I keep up with.

Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by tozeur »

Endlessly wrote: post #10

Since it’s not 100% obvious - the poster “eries” is a popular author and popularized the idea of lean startups, which currently has (4,636) reviews on Amazon and a 4.5 star rating: https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous...

Eric is under appreciated in the same way Steve Blank is under appreciated. They were very early advocates of lean methodologies and customer development (now called finding “product market fit” by the cool kids and VCs who wanted to create their own term).

Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by woobity »

dang wrote: post #64
woobity wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The entire biotech industry? Surely you kid. My wife works in biotech in SV and has never heard of him.

Let's be a bit careful here. That quote doesn't imply that anyone has heard of SA, only that he has been helping. Sometimes people help behind the scenes. Similarly, the claim about the industry is simply that it has pivoted. I have zero idea if either claim is true, but let's at least not replace them with claims that no one made. This is in the HN guidelines btw: " Please respond to the strongest plausible interpre…

The quote clearly claims he's helping the entire biotech industry, which is overstated to say the least.

Also no idea why you aren't responding to the GP instead. My post is within the the guidelines, even if you choose to disagree with its point.

Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by woobity »

vikramkr wrote: post #59
kevinskii wrote: post #29

"The first conversation is with investor and philanthropist Sam Altman. He has been one of the leading Silicon Valley figures helping the entire biotech industry make a complete pivot to working on solutions: vaccines, therapies, and eventually a cure." Ok, no disrespect to Sam Altman, but come on .

Yeah, he's cool and his efforts admirable, but you can talk about people's accomplishments without essentially downplaying the role of others. Yes hes helping with covid, but he didn't go single handedly convince J&J to develop their vaccine platform that they developed years ago. He didn't convince gilead to develop remdesivir, something they developed years ago for hep c. He didn't convince moderna to work on rna v…

It is hurtful to say the least. Some of the real heroes are the scientists doing lab work here. And they're not being paid millions to do it.

Altman has zero training in immunology and is riding the coattails of their work with this kind of phony PR.

Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by _curious_ »

eries wrote: post #2

Produced this emergency podcast in short order with my friends at Breaker and LTSE. Happy to answer any questions or hear any feedback. Will have more episodes up soon

Hi Eric, what is an emergency podcast?

And without knowing anything about the guests - what is say, Sam Altman, doing right now that is qualifies him in your view? In other words, why should someone listen to him?

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