#AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias
from All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
by All-In Podcast, LLC
Published: Tue Jun 07 2022
Show Notes
This talk was recorded LIVE at the All-In Summit in Miami and included slides. To watch on YouTube, check out our All-In Summit playlist: https://bit.ly/aisytplaylist
0:00 Antonio Gracias joins to talk: Tesla's early days, investing in Elon, macroeconomic outlook, ROIC, importance of energy independence, future of manufacturing, financial-ization of the P&L & more
Q: How has the poker game influenced your decision making in business and life?
Q: What was the scariest step of becoming a first-time fund manager?
Q: Crypto market unwinding & how it relates to the money supply
Q: Current pre-seed / seed valuations & metrics
Q: When investing in early-stage SaaS companies, how to find outliers?
Q: What would you do if dropped in the middle of Kansas at age 25 with no resources?
Q: Where will the next disruptions in industrial automation come from & how will the US hit economies of scale in semiconductor manufacturing
Q: Any plans for All-In Media?
Q: US strategy in the Russia/Ukraine War
Q: How have your first impressions changed as you've matured in your career, and whose first impressions have stood out to you the most?
Q: Are you interested in crypto micropayments?
Q: Biggest mistakes of your career that you've learned the most from?
Q: What impact could tech have on political discourse? What does a viable path forward look like?
Q: Are remote / distributed startup systems viable coming out of the pandemic?
Q: Advice for non-technical people trying to get into the startup world?
Q: Thoughts on the potential consumer credit crisis?
Lightning round: What problem do you most want to solve right now? All-In consortium? Can SMBs democratize their own labor supply? How to get more investors interested in hardware? Will this be a relatively short recession?
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