{"id":1383,"date":"2013-08-28T09:22:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T14:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techzinglive.com\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2013-08-29T12:05:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T17:05:19","slug":"241-tz-discussion-the-asymmetric-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/page\/1383\/241-tz-discussion-the-asymmetric-investment","title":{"rendered":"241: TZ Discussion &#8211; The Asymmetric Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2569\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1383-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/techzinglive.com\/mp3\/techzing-241.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/techzinglive.com\/mp3\/techzing-241.mp3\">http:\/\/techzinglive.com\/mp3\/techzing-241.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/techzinglive.com\/mp3\/techzing-241.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1383-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techzinglive.com\/mp3\/techzing-241.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"techzing-241.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"itpc:\/\/techzinglive.com\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" title=\"Subscribe on iTunes\" rel=\"nofollow\">iTunes<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribeonandroid.com\/techzinglive.com\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_android\" title=\"Subscribe on Android\" rel=\"nofollow\">Android<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p>Justin and Jason discuss\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/08\/22\/google-ventures-puts-258m-into-uber-its-largest-deal-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\">Uber&#8217;s latest fundraising round<\/a>, the selling of Pluggio, Rob Walling&#8217;s startup\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.getdrip.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drip<\/a>, Justin&#8217;s hack for creating a tablet unlock code and how&#8217;s he looking for a front-end developer, how Tesla\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/about\/press\/releases\/tesla-model-s-achieves-best-safety-rating-any-car-ever-tested\" target=\"_blank\">achieved a perfect safety rating<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/118324\/heres-10-major-automakers-tesla-motors-is-outselling-in-california\/\" target=\"_blank\">captured more than 12% of the luxury car market<\/a>, whether it would be a good idea to invest in Solar City or Yahoo, the prospects for BitCoin and why Jason likes\u00a0asymmetric\u00a0investments, Uber&#8217;s future and how Jason is building a dashboard for Uber&#8217;s realtime system, why Jason thinks getting a post to the top of Hacker News requires the same recipe as launching a successful startup &#8211; a good idea, good execution and help from a group of supporters, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-08-23\/nsa-analysts-intentionally-abused-spying-powers-multiple-times.html\" target=\"_blank\">latest<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2013\/08\/23\/nsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests\/?mg=blogs-wsj&amp;url=http%253A%252F%252Fblogs.wsj.com%252Fwashwire%252F2013%252F08%252F23%252Fnsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests\" target=\"_blank\">revelations<\/a>\u00a0on the NSA&#8217;s vast illegal surveillance\u00a0apparatus and why Jason believes it&#8217;s an existential threat to democracy,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/redaccion.nexos.com.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1118373109.full_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">how h<span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">igher social class predicts increased\u00a0<\/span>unethical behavior<\/a>\u00a0and why Jason wants to formulate the laws of human nature, Julian Corlette&#8217;s TL;DR landing page experiment, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dyang\" target=\"_blank\">David Yang&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hnsummaries.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HNSummaries<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kale\" target=\"_blank\">Kale Davis&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tldr.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">TLDR.io<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jason_Calacanis\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Calacanis&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/launch.co\" target=\"_blank\">Launch Ticker<\/a>, the NYC-based\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fullstackacademy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fullstack Academy<\/a>,\u00a0Jason&#8217;s skepticism on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theleanstartup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lean Startup movement<\/a>, and Justin&#8217;s latest SaaS idea that he&#8217;s positive will work but isn&#8217;t talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin and Jason discuss\u00a0Uber&#8217;s latest fundraising round, the selling of Pluggio, Rob Walling&#8217;s startup\u00a0Drip, Justin&#8217;s hack for creating a tablet unlock code and how&#8217;s he looking for a front-end developer, how Tesla\u00a0achieved a perfect safety rating\u00a0and\u00a0captured more than 12% of the luxury car market, whether it would be a good idea to invest in Solar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}