WHO's incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China's grand plan, 100X'ing America
2020-07-11 spoken.md · speaker-labeled ▶ watch ← E4 all episodes E6 →
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The July 2020 advertiser boycott plus a looming political-ads ban put Facebook 'in a fight for survival' — Chamath discloses a short thesis on the stock that he says is already playing out.
Becton Dickinson's $250 handheld antigen-testing system with ~$20 five-minute test strips makes school/workplace screening viable at scale — protein detection is scientifically easier than RNA PCR, and the company 'will do well' on it.
You can get this [Becton] Dickinson testing system now for 250 bucks. It's a handheld device. And these test strips cost 20 bucks... it takes five minutes to get a result... I think that company will do well with that testing system they've launched because it actually tests not for the RNA, but for the protein... the stock's done well.
Episode digest
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Cold War II declared (taped 2020-07-10): Sacks calls it the most historically important story of the year, fought via 'client corporations' (Huawei 5G embargo as the opening shot per Chamath; TikTok banned-unless-ByteDance-sells-20-30% predicted by Chamath, Sacks 'very good chance they get shut down' — no instrument, digest); Taiwan/TSMC as the chokepoint ('chips are the new oil', 70% fabbed in Taiwan, invasion risk framing); Chamath's rare-earths alarm (China controls 80%, permanent magnets gate electrification — advocacy for onshored mines/subsidies; prefigures his 2025 MP positioning); resiliency-over-efficiency reshoring doctrine (Mexico/Central America as the US productivity block). WHO takedown via Friedberg's glyphosate/IARC political-hacking story ($10-15B of Bayer torts from a captured panel) + masks/airborne-transmission failures. Friedberg's biomanufacturing century thesis (fermentation replaces factories; Perfect Day $300M, Impossible $400M raises; BYND named) — century horizon, digest. Schools reopening debate; Sacks: 'we're an undeclared Sweden' headed to herd immunity. Election corner: consensus Biden-if-today (Sacks: 'make it stop button'; Chamath: Georgia exit polls flag realignment, Trump's only path is a multi-trillion pre-election stimulus shower; Friedberg's debate-dunk: 'release your tax returns and I'll debate you') — politics, digest. Captures: Chamath's disclosed Facebook short thesis and Friedberg's Becton Dickinson call. Labels clean.