#AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias
Episode description
This talk was recorded LIVE at the All-In Summit in Miami and included slides. To watch on YouTube, check out our All-In Summit playlist: https://bit.ly/aisytplaylist
0:00 Antonio Gracias joins to talk: Tesla's early days, investing in Elon, macroeconomic outlook, ROIC, importance of energy independence, future of manufacturing, financial-ization of the P&L & more
22:35 Q: How has the poker game influenced your decision making in business and life?
29:33 Q: What was the scariest step of becoming a first-time fund manager?
32:34 Q: Crypto market unwinding & how it relates to the money supply
35:57 Q: Current pre-seed / seed valuations & metrics
38:58 Q: When investing in early-stage SaaS companies, how to find outliers?
42:11 Q: What would you do if dropped in the middle of Kansas at age 25 with no resources?
44:46 Q: Where will the next disruptions in industrial automation come from & how will the US hit economies of scale in semiconductor manufacturing
47:02 Q: Any plans for All-In Media?
50:02 Q: US strategy in the Russia/Ukraine War
54:19 Q: How have your first impressions changed as you've matured in your career, and whose first impressions have stood out to you the most?
58:29 Q: Are you interested in crypto micropayments?
1:00:55 Q: Biggest mistakes of your career that you've learned the most from?
1:09:54 Q: What impact could tech have on political discourse? What does a viable path forward look like?
1:15:36 Q: Are remote / distributed startup systems viable coming out of the pandemic?
1:19:41 Q: Advice for non-technical people trying to get into the startup world?
1:24:44 Q: Thoughts on the potential consumer credit crisis?
1:26:17 Lightning round: What problem do you most want to solve right now? All-In consortium? Can SMBs democratize their own labor supply? How to get more investors interested in hardware? Will this be a relatively short recession?
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