Host so scott kupor, what does a Venture Capitalist do . Guest so basically what we do is we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully become very Big Companies like facebook or google or apple someday. If were doing our jobs correctly we are helping them grow the company so we dont work in the businesses but hopefully we can provide introductions, help navigate new challenges as they go through the business. We like to think of ourselves as a money provider and hopefully a supporter. Host why cant a company such as the ones you describe just go to a bank and go through traditional avenues . Guest its a good question. Most of the businesses we invest in our very risky businesses that will lose money for a long time as Investment Business and banks are not in the business of doing that or taking risk of losing their capital. We are willing to take that risk. About half of what we invest in we will lose all our money in. Any bank of you that idea to would not be to
Vaccine rollout for the Trump Administration, and from the massive federal failure on covid and beyond, how america keeps paying for the Republican Partys enduring antigovernment fetish. The nine most terrifying words in the english language are im from the government and im here to help. All in starts right now. Good evening from washington, d. C. Im mehdi hasan in for chris hayes. Three weeks from now, donald trump will no longer be president , and a lot of people will be breathing a huge sigh of relief. But one of the big worries for many of us is what happens when the next trump comes along, someone who appeals to the base and is just as amoral and cynical as trump, but who is smarter and savvier. Well, today we got Something Like an official candidate announcement for that role. It came from Missouri Republican senator josh hawley, who casts himself as a reformist and a populist, a young senator willing to break with the old ideas and the old elites in charge of both parties. Hawl
He says 2,000 asap. Mitch mcconnells latest blockade for americans desperate for covid relief. Senator Bernie Sanders joins me live. Plus, how did policing and all the stark warnings about the nashville bomber. New questions about the vaccine delay rollout for the Trump Administration. And from the massive federal failure on covid and beyond, how america keeps paying for the Republican Partys enduring antigovernment fetish. The nine most terrifying words in the english language are im from the government and im here to help. All in starts right now. Good evening from washington, d. C. Im mehdi hassan in for chris hayes. Throw weeks from now donald trump will no longer be president , and a lot of people will be breathing a huge sigh of relief. But one of the big worries for many of us is what happens when the next trump comes along, someone who appeals to the base and is just as amoral and cynical as trump, but who is smarter and savvier. Well, today we got Something Like an official ca
I have a confession to make. For four years i have not known what to expect in the news tomorrow. Not for four years, rachel. This is why we have all aged like 30 years in the past four years. Everybody that i know in the News Business has developed a new physical ailment in the last four years. It is because the aging cycle accelerated to warp speed because of the stress and dislocation. It used to be it just happened to president s of the United States. We watched them age over the last four years. I think it has happened to more people in the last four years. Yeah. Everybody at the news emmys next year will be in a walker. Thanks, rachel. Thanks. If you were watching the house floor at 1 30 a. M. , as i was last night, then you saw lamb almost start a brawl on the house floor almost when he called a lie a lie. The lie that republican members were telling about the integrity of the vote count in pennsylvania, his state. The lie that conor lamb said provoked the invasion of the capito
That will do it for us for this second and nowim for the last word with lawrence odonnell. I am go to ask what we should be looking for tomorrow now you have brought it up. I have a confession to make. For four years i have not known what to expect in the news tomorrow. Not for four years, rachel. This is why we have all aged like 30 years in the past four years. Everybody that i know in the News Business has developed a new physical ailment in the last four years. It is because the aging cycle accelerated to warp speed because of the stress and dislocation. It used to be it just happened to president s of the United States. We watched them age over the last four years. I think it has happened to more people in the last four years. Yeah. Everybody at the news emmys next year will be in a walker. If you were watching the house floor at 1 30 a. M. , as i was last night, then you saw a brawl on the house floor almost when he called a lie a lie. The lie that republican members were telling