BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley

The all in guys are running for cover and it’s not a pretty picture

Really good in-the-moment sentiment from Gurley and Gerstner. They focus on business and how current events affects US business. No attempt to upsell anything and genuine disagreement does not involve bickering. Big fan.

I used to listen to the All In podcast as my go-to source of up-to-date business and VC/startup news from industry insiders. Unfortunately, it’s gone south fast in the last few years. Dozens of people have been recommending BG2, so I’ve been giving it a listen for the past few weeks now. The content is excellent. Admittedly, I have my reservations about their approach to DOGE/Elon. I don’t want to waste my time with sycophants—looking at you, Brad. Glad to have a good source to turn to now. I hope they stay the course.

I was an avid listener prior to the last episode. I enjoyed the intelligent banter focused on the technological advances of today and the investing aspect of it all. But the last episode focused on DOGE and Musk left a bad taste. DOGE is causing immense suffering to Ordinary working Americans giving their life to public service. But gerstner thought in some way DOGE and the reconciliation legislation is somehow equipped to reduce our deficit and balance our budget. No mention the tax cuts to the richest and corporations will expand our deficit but somehow firing working class people is the solution. No mention of social security or Medicare cuts that would probably be needed to ever reduce our deficit. Regardless, I realized these are two individuals living in their billionaire dream worlds protected from the suffering inflicted by DOGE. Selfish, ignorant, and intellectually dishonest. Unfollowed.