Village Global’s Venture Stories : Keith Rabois and Jacob Helberg on The US-China Cold War, The Election, and Silicon Valley

ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Keith Rabois (@rabois), partner at Founders Fund, and Jacob Helberg (@jacobhelberg), senior advisor at Stanford Cyber, adjunct fellow at CSIS, and formerly of Google, join Erik on this episode.

They discuss:

  • Why the US is indeed in a cold war with China.
  • The roles of DC and Silicon Valley in this new cold war.
  • The reasons for the foreign policy establishment’s dovishness on China.
  • How economic foreign policy became decoupled from national foreign policy.
  • TikTok, and how tech and geopolitics will intersect in the future.
  • How the election might play out.
  • SPACs and how going public will change in the next 12-24 months.
  • The impact of COVID on valuations in public and private markets.
  • How COVID impacts remote work and Silicon Valley.

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