Immad Akhund (@immad), founder and CEO of Mercury, and Jude Gomila (@judegomila), founder and CEO of Golden, join Erik on this episode.

They discuss:

- What’s top of mind for them with respect to COVID-19 and the response.

- Decentralized versus centralized approaches to the problem.

- Which underlying problems in American society this has brought to the surface.

- Which trends are going to accelerate because of the pandemic.

- Common mistakes that founders make when fundraising.

- Why it’s important to have balancing forces for certain attributes of the culture at your company.

- Thoughts on futarchy.

- What they disagree on.

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