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My Career Regret - The Money and Interestingness Trade

This is going to be BIG.

Ten years ago, I was an analyst for the General Motors pension fund, working on fund investments into leveraged buyout funds and venture capital deals. In fact, the one area I was pretty set on eliminating from my consideration set--leveraged buyouts--was the area where partners seemed to make the most money.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

My name is Robert Rhinehart. Most people I think at least in the technology community know you as the inventor of Soylent and the company by the same name. For example, getting the structure of the spike protein, which was done, I think his name was McLellan at UT Austin. Here is my conversation with Robert Rhinehart.