Chamath Palihapitiya

And then that doesn't happen anymore in Pittsburgh.

And so but but like the insights and the companies, they're like they're still the backbone of our of our economy.

And and I was inspired by, you know, in that time from the Industrial Revolution, how steel was invented and then manufactured and then distributed to help create all the infrastructure that we rely on and that that fuels the energy or fuels the manufacturing sectors.

It was the infrastructure that you needed to be able to have all these big gains that came from the Industrial Revolution.

Same thing as what I was talking about in the editorial about is what we're doing with robotics, collecting information and data sets to help support and create the avenue, create the infrastructure for AI models to actually be able to return the kinds of returns that we're all betting on.

It's important for people to understand that robotics is almost the foundation to be able to get the massive returns in the sectors that are mostly all here.

Knowledge workers are great.

And I think that the risk you have like with like I think this the form is like it's like you're saying it's changing, right?

There's like a ecosystem in a bubble when you live in a certain place talking a certain way.

In Silicon Valley, we only exist in the world of the Internet.

We don't build the kind of technologies that started the Silicon Valley.

And so this world of energy, of metal manufacturing, of mining, all these like sectors, defense, like they're just not.

And when I was starting the company, they were like taboo to talk about.

So you just don't think about the kind of applications and things you can use.

crazy to those verticals to go after.

You're exactly right.

And this is why, like, you think of like an incredible invention, like a humanoid robot.

And the first demo that me and you saw, right, was a folding laundry.

Oh, my goodness.

Like the like that.