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How To Survive And Profit From Radical Change

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Key Takeaway: There are economic, technological, and social parts of our world that are changing rapidly today more than ever. Key Takeaway: There are economic, technological, and social parts of our world that are changing rapidly today more than ever. What do people need to do differently to position themselves? [12:33]

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

In mid-March, as the coronavirus was sweeping through Asia and Europe, Tomas Pueyo published a piece on Medium titled "The Hammer and the Dance: What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like if Leaders Buy Us Time." For many people, "The Hammer and the Dance" was their first introduction to the epidemiology of how to defeat a pandemic.

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

He was the White House Ebola Response Coordinator in 2014 and 2015, when the Obama administration set up a pandemic prevention office and created a playbook for managing future outbreaks. As 2020 began, most Americans thought the coronavirus--if we thought of it at all--was something that was going to be a problem in China only.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. I was lucky enough to be one of the first people to speak to Brian in-depth since the pandemic began. 6:06) Resilience and adaptability in people and companies. (8:22)