Anjney Midha
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Because that's what we're doing.
And that shareholder, you could argue that shareholder value that we're destroying, but I would argue in the long term, we're actually creating orders of magnitude more value
and if you look at ben and jerry's you look at rei they've become stable enduring businesses in categories that are fairly crowded and eventually i do think technology and ai will get crowded it will get commoditized because technology is never the mode trust is community is a mode culture is a mode execution is a mode and so we're trying to skip ahead to that part but it takes time for people to get aligned so until then what we see what we see in amp joint venture with private equity to uh help distribute diffusion
If we can.
Yeah.
You know, if you go to our website, it's called AmpPublic.com.
Because I do think if you look back to the like vulture era of private equity, you remember like RJR Nabisco and what the barbarians at the gate, we should just learn from from their mistakes and go, can we do private equity, but done right in an aligned way?
Let's not rush to like lay off, you know, hundreds of thousands of people and then not reeducate them and prepare them for their new opportunities.
I'm an optimist, as you guys know, I came from Andreessen Horowitz University.
So I'm sort of a rational optimist.
I believe the transition can be done in a positive way.
Is that me getting kicked off?
There's like a bell ringing, but that might be here.
Everything we do is governed by a public benefit charter.
So if we do private equity, it'll be governed in the public benefit.
If we do education stuff, that'll be in the public benefit.
Look, I've made more money than I know what to do in life.
I'm 34 and I'm just getting started.
So my goal is I'll be remembered for having been a net positive influence in this space.
I just got tired of telling people I told you so because after a while they started looking at my returns and going, why didn't you give me a call?