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Max Chafkin

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“Yeah, yeah, and it's funny, the people who kind of thrived in that early period, including Peter Thiel, but also many others, were the kind of contrarians who were arguing back then actually the dot-com boom was great and we built all this infrastructure. And you heard these arguments back then that were mostly dismissed. But yeah, I mean now in retrospect, right, it looks like, yeah, they basically had it right, but then a bunch of, there was a bunch of like sort of dumb money that got dumped into the industry.”
2021-12-23 · Masters in Business · Max Chafkin on the Social Good of Tech Companies (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, the tech industry went from being kind of an economic sideshow where back at my job at Inc., I had this more sort of senior writers telling me to, you know, these companies are all stupid. And they're all, you know, they're losing money. And it went from being this kind of important, but really a sideshow to being, I'd argue, you know, the most important economic engine in the United States, maybe even the world, you know, really important, maybe the most important cultural center. And I think increasingly really important political center of gravity.”
2021-12-23 · Masters in Business · Max Chafkin on the Social Good of Tech Companies (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wanted in terms of covering the tech companies because, first of all, the basic view was that it wasn't very important and that, you know, so anyway, I got to encounter a lot of these folks, you know, including Teal, relatively early, and got to kind of see, watch this, you know, obviously it's not the entire, I didn't get to witness the entire evolution of Silicon Valley, but I got to see a really important part, you know, going from that time, 2005 to today, where”
2021-12-23 · Masters in Business · Max Chafkin on the Social Good of Tech Companies (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. So my first job in journalism was at a magazine called Inc., which is a small business magazine. You know, I don't know. I was interested in getting a job in journals, and this is going back 16, 17 years ago. And my father had worked in business his whole career. I'd sort of been interested in business and in the idea that business stories have something to say about the real world. I read Moneyball. And, you know, and the Michael Lewis book about the Oakland A's and kind of the sort of business story behind the Oakland A's being good at baseball. Anyway, I got this job at Inc. magazine, small business magazine, and that was kind of how I got into it. And the way I got into covering tech was, you know, back then, tech was kind of the sideshow. And I was like the young reporter. So they kind of just let me do whatever I want.”
2021-12-23 · Masters in Business · Max Chafkin on the Social Good of Tech Companies (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source