E103: Tech layoffs surge, big tech freezes hiring, optimizing for profits, election preview & more

(0:00) Jason's new brand deal (1:18) Bestie updates (9:12) "Ligma/Johnson" blunder outside of Twitter HQ (15:38) Surge of tech layoffs at Twitter, Stripe, Lyft, Opendoor, Chime and others; preparing for a longer downturn than originally anticipated (35:28) Macro trends, big tech freezes hiring, how founders can think about the last 3 years and the next 3 years (54:04) Midterm election preview, understanding the shift toward populism (1:17:32) Science corner: Understanding Meta's AlphaFold competitor Follow the besties: https://twitter.com/chamath https://linktr.ee/calacanis https://twitter.com/DavidSacks https://twitter.com/friedberg Follow the pod: https://twitter.com/theallinpod https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast Intro Music Credit: https://rb.gy/tppkzl https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg Intro Video Credit: https://twitter.com/TheZachEffect Referenced in the show: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880 https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/1587230924554399744 https://twitter.com/dee_bosa/status/1587158734689767425 https://twitter.com/TechBroDrip/status/1586370087287521280 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586149451348910081 https://layoffs.fyi https://twitter.com/Post_Market/status/1577793695734284289 https://twitter.com/bullfightcap/status/1588311417052012544 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBkzm4a7iY4 https://finra-markets.morningstar.com/BondCenter/BondDetail.jsp?ticker=C996374&symbol=COIN5259271 https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/susan-jones/622-labor-force-participation-declines-3rd-straight-month https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/employment-research/are-economists-underestimating-the-labor-force-participation-rate https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63471725 https://www.google.com/finance https://twitter.com/bgurley/status/1554589241560010753 https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/11/02/apple-is-freezing-hiring-cutting-budgets-claims-new-report https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/politics/cnn-poll-democrats-midterm-elections/index.html https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879 https://www.axios.com/2022/11/04/trump-presidential-run-2024-announcement https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/ https://www.joshbarro.com/p/the-problem-with-pro-democracy-rhetoric https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCSSTUS1&f=M https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/ai-protein-research-could-drive-progress-in-medicine-clean-energy #allin #tech #news