How Does The World Function? w/ Patrick McKenzie

04/11/2024 1h 16min

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Episode Synopsis

Follow Patrick: https://x.com/patio11/

About Patrick:
Patrick grew up in the US and moved to Japan right after college. He worked for Japanese companies for six years. Concurrently with doing so, he founded a small software company and it took over his life. He eventually went full-time on that, ran a succession of small software companies, and after about ten years took at job working at Stripe. After six years of working there full-time he transitioned to being an advisor. He is currently on semi-sabbatical.


(00:00) Intro
(02:10) Who is Patrick?
(03:15) What makes Japan different? Culture?
(11:40) The foundations that the world is based upon that will never change
(17:47) How do Institutions adapt to change?
(25:20) Why are international payments so broken?
(39:47) How can startups become Institutions?
(46:37) How did Patrick meet @patrickc?
(52:57) How are infrastructures built at the simplest level?
(01:13:20) The Greatest Question.

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