Patrick McKenzie - How a Discord Server Saved Thousands of Lives

Bullish:

• $USDC - Preference for stable coins for international payments.

  • “I have people who help me with a podcast who are around the world... all of them prefer the, just how how should I how should I get paid? They the the first answer is a stable coin.”

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• $FACTORIO - High regard for the game Factorio and its impact.

  • “Factorio recently was 750... I actually think Factorio matters far more to the world than most video games do.”

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  • “Factorio Space Exploration Mod specifically was the best video game I ever played.”

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• $STRIPE - Stripe's efficiency in payment processing and its global impact.

  • “Stripe is how millions of businesses around the world move money and accept payments... Stripe shaved 300 milliseconds off the render time for its payment links.”

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• $SOFTWARE ENGINEERING JOBS IN THE US - Necessity of hiring in the software engineering industry despite temporary freezes.

  • “The industry, institutionally must hire people every year, and hiring freezes are necessarily temporary as a result of that.”

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• $MARKETING ENGINEERING - Importance of marketing engineering in career development.

  • “Interestingly, I was the marketing engineer earlier in my career and really thought that that was important.”

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• $AB TESTING FOR FOUNDERS - Emphasis on the importance of AB testing for founders.

  • “You've emphasized that founders should do more AB testing. That's, like, one of the main themes of your blog if you go back through it.”

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• $FAMILY-ORIENTED INVESTMENTS - Focus on family-oriented investments.

  • “At the moment, kind of focusing on, family oriented things.”

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Bearish:

• $CRYPTO - Crypto has not achieved its true potential and should not continue to receive funding.

  • “Crypto has created, like, huge amounts of things, but it's not achieved anywhere near its true potential... We should stop continuing to stake you with money.”

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• $TETHER - Concerns about Tether's banking and potential issues.

  • “SBF was Tether's banker... Some shoe has to eventually drop there. I will eat a lot of popcorn when it does.”

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