Ben Horowitz

And I was like, well...

we're gonna, not just we can, we're gonna end traffic deaths, we're gonna cure cancer, we're gonna end poverty as we know it.

Those are pretty good things.

We need to think about that as much as we think about the AI overlords or mass surveillance or any of these other things that we worry about.

I think that the positive uses of the technology are extremely positive.

The negative ones aren't there.

But we can manage them in the same way we've managed, you know, kind of the negative of every technology, starting with fire, which has very bad consequences.

It can burn down your village.

It's horrible.

But it does a lot of, you know, it also heats the house and cooks your food and does some very wonderful things.

And I think we have to get back to that.

If you share control, it becomes very, very difficult to change the organization because everybody's got to agree.

I quoted Lil Wayne, I said, when I see another VC coming at me with the peace sign, all I see is the trigger and the middle finger.

And everybody hated me for that.

There would only be 15 technology companies that would ever get to $100 million in revenue.

And we really thought that was going to change because, look, at that time, we thought software was going to eat the world.

And every new company was going to be a technology company.

And therefore, there were going to be more like 200 companies a year that would hit that bar, not 15.

If you have a network with a billion people on it, it's going to be very valuable, but, like, how did Alexander Graham Bell sell the first telephone when there was nobody to talk to?

Like, that part is actually really hard.