🎭 No feeling is final

CoFounder Weekly #89: April 19, 2020

CoFounder Weekly is a newsletter about startup trendz.

🍍Food for thought

👩‍💻 Startup corner

😹 Funnies

💭 Caption contest

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🎭 No feeling is final

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going.

No feeling is final.”

-Rainer Maria Rilke

I’m working on a podcast about psychedelic entrepreneurship (more on that soon 🍄).

We planned to record most interviews in person and bought a bunch of equipment. Then Corona hit, and quarantining made in person interviews impossible.

Argh!

Now, we are recording interviews remotely. We can record more interviews in less time.

Phew!

We recently found out someone is using the same podcast name we had picked for an upcoming conference+podcast.

Argh!

After some more brainstorming, we came up with a new direction for the name that we like even more.

Phew!

When something bad happens, I try to remind myself that no feeling is final. We have a choice: get caught up in current emotions and stew on how bad a situation is, or commit to problem solving our way out and improving the situation.

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🍍Food for thought

Thor Benson @thor_benson

The Postal Service should just tell Trump they're working on a Trump stamp. They'll get funding immediately.

Michael Mayer @micjm

I've learned running a company that only some people prefer challenging tasks over straightforward ones. This might be the most important feature of a good startup employee.

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👩‍💻 Startup corner

Dan Primack @danprimack

Exclusive: Mary Meeker's coronavirus trends report

axios.comExclusive: Mary Meeker’s coronavirus trends reportMary Meeker’s venture capital firm, Bond, sends a 28-page report to its investors. Read it at Axios.

Morgan Housel @morganhousel

It would not surprise me if the direct federal cost of Covid-19 eventually exceeds $5-$10 trillion. New piece, using how we managed WW2 debt as an example: Who Pays For This?

collaborativefund.comWho Pays For This?The federal government will run a $3.8 trillion deficit this year and $2.1 trillion next year. Those estimates, from a budget-focused think tank, don’t include what’s almost certain to be another multi-trillion-dollar stimulus package or two, or three, in the near future. We’re all just guessing, bu…

Kaleigh Moore @kaleighf

Have you heard of DTC brands (specifically in the luxury/apparel/home goods spaces) who are seeing a major uptick in sales right now? I'm curious as to what brands are thriving with ecommerce as people are stuck at home.

Marc Andreessen @pmarca

a16z.comIT’S TIME TO BUILD - Andreessen HorowitzEvery Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it... Our nation and our civilizatio…

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😹 Funnies

Parsa Saljoughian @parsa_s

Get ready...

Niels @NielsKnk

The two most important things I've ever learned were: - keeping my mouth shut - playing stupid I'd tell you why, but I already said too much and I'm not smart enough to explain it to you anyhow

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💭 Caption contest

By Ueli Johner

Reply with your caption and the best one will appear in next week’s edition.

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Greg

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