State of The Market, Polymarket Insider Trading & a16z Raising $2B | Weekly Roundup
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Hello. Hello. We're live, Rob. Bright and early out where you are. You're eating, what I thought was a McDonald's sandwich. You said it was a little bit healthier, and that was a Starbucks. So
Do you think I would put McDonald's in this this temple that I have here? Come on. Starbucks only.
Are you trying to live forever, Rob?
Abs I mean, we're all gonna live forever. In the ay of, like, you know, agentic economies. Right? We're gonna have just breakthroughs. Like, you and I are gonna be, you 150. We're gonna still be doing this podcast. People will still be listening to us.
Well, we could definitely get the 150. I don't know if people are gonna still wanna listen to our podcast. But yeah, there's some, I mean, I studied, Well, I I worked at this aging company called Elysium Health. Like I saw some stuff in the timeline, David Sinclair, who's like this longevity researcher, a lot of stuff that Brian Johnson references. He's making some pretty bold claims around, like, reversing aging and whatnot. So I feel like it's that time. We're gonna we have to get in the state of the market. But beyond crypto, I think it's that time where like just anything can stick, you kn
I saw David Sinclair speak. I went to this, like, event back in October, in Italy that was just it was, like, for a big asset manager, and it was just, sixty, eighty of, like, their biggest LPs. And then, you know, they brought me and, and Paolo in to talk about crypto. And then there were some other people talking about other stuff. Was mostly a non crypto event. And David Sinclair was one of the speakers and like, it was like wild. Like he thinks that they're like, you know, if you believe his vision of the future, that's gonna be like Utopia. It's gonna be we're gonna be like the most, like
Yeah. Well, I mean, I I I the question is, do you really wanna live forever? Because I feel like there is some meaning in life if you'd you know, if there's finality to it. But it also health span versus lifespan. Know? Do you really wanna live a 150? Like, what is those last thirty years gonna look like? Because, you know, what is crazy those like
How will you feel? Yeah.
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