I put this together to help inspire conversation around what our world might look like post covid. There are plenty of opportunities to help rebuild our world and founders, creators, and inventors are going to be the ones to help bring us into the future. I would love to hear your thoughts!

1. A Post Covid World
April 2020GS-1 Gabriel Schillinger

2. No explanation needed……….
Covid f*cked things up
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4. Themes of a Post Covid World
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5. Exponential CH-CH-CH Changes Ahead
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7. Founders don’t stop
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8. Masa wasn’t totally wrong yo
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9. The sci-fi trends of 2010’s tech investing will
accelerate exponentially - as every industry will
adopt automation, AI, and “tech” due to Covid
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10. Declining Cost of Distance
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11. The failures will be even greater
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12. But the successes……
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13. Don’t believe me?
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14. History Repeats Itself
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15. Americans love sin and redemption and reinvention
almost as much as they love stuff.
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17. This time…
The new wave of life will be organically sustainable
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18. moving along…….
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19. 12-24 Months until vaccine or herd immunityGS-1

20. Areas of Focus
1. Life: Work, Home
2. Shopping: Retail, E-commerce
3. Entertainment: Gaming, Movies, Music, and Sports/Esports
4. Healthcare: Routine, Urgent
5. Logistics: Supply Chain, Delivery
6. Travel: Domestic, Global
7. UBI // Government Support of Business
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21. Work
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22. Opportunities
Offices Working From Home
-Consulting: Pandemic planning and insurance
-Pandemic Product Supplier with Tech: Infrared
Thermometers, Masks, and tracking tools for
managing healthy and sick employees
-Antibacterial Retrofitting: copper products and use
of office cleaning robots (UVå
-Easy to use SaaS cybersecurity: all in one AI based
security suite, Zoom, Email, VPN.
-VR/AR for meetings and brainstorming
-Governance: Corporate level e-voting
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23. Home: It’s Connected
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24. Opportunities
-Faster Internet: 5G + Edge Computing will give
us more bandwidth than ever before
-All Things Smart: From Blenders to Doorknobs
-Home +: Groceries, Food Delivery all connected
to apps in the kitchen
-Bathroom: Smart Showers and Toilets
-Entertainment: Gaming, VR/AR, and streaming
-Shared Driveway/Shared Energy: Autonomous
electric car sharing
Jarvis, Welcome Home
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25. Retail & E-commerce
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26. Opportunities
Shopping:
-VR/AR Installations and Partnerships
-Pick-up and curbside delivery
-FacePay: No phone - just your face - no cash/
cards
-Increased Virtual Customer Support: Chat, Video,
etc
-Decreased Touch Points (curbside pickup/
delivery)
-Less in person sales and support staff
-Easier to use e-commerce experiences
-Luxury will become even more VIP-like:
concierge apps, product customizations, faster
repairs/servicing of goods, and predictive
collections.
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27. Entertainment: Gaming, Music, Movies, and Sports
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28. Opportunities
-Gaming: Gaming will continue overtaking music
and movies as the dominant source for
entertainment across platforms.
-VR/AR: might just have its moment, devices will
get better and then content offerings will follow.
-New Movie Releases: will continue to be offered
at home, until it’s safe to go to theaters as a social
activity.
-Concerts, Movies, and Shows: will need to offer
clean and safe experiences (testing, tracing, etc).
More concerts will be streamed live with the audio
on Spotify/Apple Music.
-Sports/Esports: traditional sports will continue
bridging the divide of IRL to esports. More fan to
player interaction.
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29. Healthcare
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30. Opportunities
-PPE: new and innovative PPE will proliferate
across society until we have a vaccine
-Cleanliness: Better UV Cleaning options for
clinics, offices, and hospitals
-Telemedicine: Regulations will continue to
change to increase patient access to seeking care
virtually 24/7.
-Testing and Tracking: Simple health testing and
privacy focused health tracking to ensure health
safety globally
-Data Sharing for saving lives: Regulation will
change so patients, doctors, insurance
companies, hospitals, etc, can better serve
patients.
-AI/Automation for Diagnosis: AI support for
doctors and patients for automated diagnosing
(and predictive diagnosis)
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31. Logistics
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32. Opportunities
Shipping: Drone/EVOTL Delivery, more automation
and robots involved in port management.
Warehouses: Ocado style food supply chain
management and delivery
Mini-factories: mini-factories across US for vital
needs
Predictive Tech: based on global trends and
changes for the supply chain
Transportation of Food: Branded Ghost Kitchens
Detailed Insight on Goods: Who made them,
temperature checks of makers (chefs/team), and
all the different contact points
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33. Travel

34. Opportunities
-Travel Never Dies: Travel will come back, but
testing and tracking/tracing will be here for a
while.
-Before International Travel: instant antibody tests
and covid immunity “passport” pages
-Planes/Buses/Trains: cleaning services and
contact tracing apps. Cross border sharing of info
for health and safety needs.
-Covid Travel Kits: antibody tests, antibacterial
wipes/sanitizer, masks, and gloves. Along with an
app!
-Longer Stays: more people will stay in their
destinations longer.
-Private Jets: If you can afford to fly private - you
will.
-Drivers/Ubers: full health stats and monitoring in
app before you get picked up.
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35. UBI // Government Support for Business
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36. Opportunities
-UBI: Covid is a modern day experiment of UBI. It
could just work as we head into the world of AI
and automation.
-New Social Contract: Resources exist and can be
put to work to ensure people have access to food,
healthcare, and the necessities to survive, without
removing the desire to work to gain more.
-Public-Private Partnerships: The only way to do
this right is with the support of startups and the
govt. Apps, management tools, and tracking.
-Govt Support of Businesses: In order to get back
to work, the govt will have to continue to help
small/growing businesses and companies. We
need better tools to ensure the money gets to the
businesses in need and get the data to know what
is working and not working.
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37. So now what?
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39. Thanks for reading!
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Please remember to thank our friends on the frontlines. Stay the heck home and don’t give up!

40. Further Reading:
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BOND: “Our New World” Report:The Plague: Albert Camus IT’S TIME TO BUILD: Marc Andreessen
The Prize: Daniel Yergin Reveille For Radicals: Saul D. Alinsky Zero to One: Peter Thiel

41. S/O:
Johnny Nguyen, Franck Nouriygat, Kacper Grezsiak,
Raymond Schillinger, and Anastasiia Sapozhnikova for
reviewing and providing feedback.
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42. TLDR
Founders Don’t Give Up
AI, Automation, and Robots will exponentially replace human tasks and software will continue to eat the world
Cleaning, testing, and tracing will become the norm for a long time
Logistics and supply chain networks will grow globally and mini-factories will pop-up locally
Drone Delivery, Ghost Kitchens, and Smart homes will become a thing
You will still have to work - even if UBI comes into existence - can’t change the world without work!
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