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The lack of corporate oversight is key to why the podcast is so popular. Spotify should be careful not to mess up what they just spent $100m on.

Agreed, this claim feels totally baseless.

I'm not sure remote first is actually cheaper when you factor in off-sites and WFH stipends. From the article:

With that in mind, we decided to have office hubs in the major cities (starting with SF, NY, SLC, and Vancouver), where employees can work whenever they want. Our office hubs will also be important for those who miss the daily physical interactions and in-person collaboration of an office.

A service that does planning and execution of off-site meetups for remote companies is a great business idea. Essentially, travel agency/event planning for remote first companies.

Once we're past COVID, a lot of companies are going to stick with remote first and making the planning of off-sites easy seems like a must need service.

Do any of the major platforms really have a handle on how to deal with these challenges? I'm not excusing the lack of oversight. But most companies that grow this quickly are a complete cluster inside. Imagine having to battle well funded state actors on top of trying to build a business.

Again, not saying Facebook shouldn't be held accountable. But it's always easy from the outside looking in.

This is called due diligence, and it's on the investor to perform their own due diligence. For a product that isn't commercially available to consumers yet, due diligence should be enough.

In the case of something like Theranos, I thoroughly agree. Oversight of a commercially available product, especially one with health implications, is definitely necessary. Although it seems even these systems failed in the Theranos case.

If you read to the end of the article it addresses the GM deal. GM will use its own battery tech. Nikola is basically just sales/marketing. The deal still makes absolutely no sense, but GM isn't dependent on Nikola having working tech or not.

"That makes it less of a sale and more of a glorified hosting deal. It lets Trump say he’s solved the problem but doesn’t do much else."

This is exactly the first thing that popped into my mind when I read about the deal.

I'd be looking for the long form as well. Not a timed debate where we just get canned answers. I'd actually rather him do 2 separate interviews, each an hour or two long. No debate, just each candidate shooting the shit for an hour or two separately. Something a little more humanizing than the debates and polished political media machine we are overwhelmed with. Of course, no sane campaign manager would allow this.

I personally don't listen to the debates, find them mostly a waste of time. But as someone who occasionally listens to Rogan, I would probably listen to this debate...Might be a good way to get more people to take an interest in this election.

Best way to start on the path to building one of these businesses is to start building a following. Many of these 1 man companies are reliant on strong founder personalities that develop a following. Makes distribution way easier.