Episode · This Week in Startups · 2020-03-21
Books mentioned on E1038: News Roundtable! Index Ventures' Sarah Cannon & TechCrunch's Alex Wilhelm on COVID-19's impact so far: lessons learned, Sarah's stimulus plan, endgame scenarios & more
1:04 Jason intros Alex Wilhelm & Sarah Cannon 5:00 COVID-19: Where are we now? 10:12 Have would Obama have handled this situation?
Sarah Cannon discussed Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Antifragile
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a groundbreaking exploration of systems that not only withstand shocks and disorder but actually thrive and grow stronger when exposed to volatility, stress, and uncertainty.
Discussed“and then preparedness seems like something that we seem to forgotten I mean if you want to talk about being anti fragile in the seems book or just you know having some basic redundancy which is a different thing than anti fragile”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing 1984
“you know I read that and I was like this can't be I was like in 1984 or something I mean that can't be very crazy in some parts of China that's happening”