Balaji Srinivasan
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Why?
Because we disrupted all their economics, as I showed you earlier.
Go ahead.
If you weren't interested in the media, the media was interested in you.
Exactly.
Exactly.
That's right.
Like, I didn't care.
I was just, I was, you know, as I think you know, like, you know, Theo, you know, Eric and I have hung out for a long time, but just like I was a career academic, right?
Literally all I did was I woke up in the morning and I said, um, and then I meditated on mathematics.
Okay.
That's what I did.
I did a computational genomics.
I did math.
I only gave my first public talk ever at age 33.
Okay.
I was a very private person.
I just like literally didn't care about it, you know, and it's only because like the total war that media waged on tech in the 2010s.
And now to be empathetic to them, they felt it as if tech was waging a war on them.
The difference is we were just building better products and it happened to compete with their products, but their lifestyle got worse.