Cyan Banister
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346 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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I think it's so important that everybody starts getting involved in their local government and their state government and the national government because you can't just expect people to do the work for you. and expect it to turn out well. And I think that's kind of the mistake that we all made.
If we want to take some responsibility, the tech industry as a whole did not get as involved as we ought to have in the past. And I think we should get more involved than we are.
I think we were busy building companies. And I remember, if I remember correctly, the only person I remember was, getting involved in local stuff was Ron Conway. Yes. And he would try to get everybody involved.
And we were all just like, you know, there's people who are smart that do that sort of thing and they're going to do their thing and they're running stuff and we're just not going to get involved. And there are a lot of people would say, I'm not political. I don't, I don't do politics. I don't, you know, they didn't get involved until it affected them. Kind of like the house is burning down.
It affects them. And yeah, You know, like they're saying that first they came for so-and-so and I didn't speak up. You know, that's what's happening here. And, you know, I just really think that people need to realize it's now affecting them and it's now time to make a change and elect better leaders.
I actually think deep down inside, he always has been. You know, I go back to the beginning days of Facebook and when there was social networks that were competing, which back at the time was MySpace, the only political party you could be was Republican or Democrat. And then along came Facebook and he added this third option called Libertarian.
And I would like to go to the Wayback Machine at some point and find his profile because his profile said he was a Libertarian. So when he started Facebook, you know, that's where he leaned. So I think he's always been a free speech person. I think he's always, this has been deep in his heart. I think what happened was he had enormous success. They grew very large and he had to become neutral.
Or he thought he did. And so I think what we're seeing with Zuck right now with his change in his, you know, even how he appears with a gold chain and how he's dressing and everything that he's doing is him going back to his roots to be more authentic. Because I think he hasn't been authentic for a long time. And that was a big critique that people had of him.
You know, they were just like, when he talks, he's like a robot. And I think what we're seeing is him coming out of his shell. And I don't know if fighting helped it or what helped it, but you know, I do think it's the best thing to do and all the platforms need to do it and should embrace it. And it can be game though. Community notes can be game that we saw it with.
I saw a report that, you know, Kamala's campaign or, or I don't know if they directly work for her or what happened, but they did take over community notes on X and started manipulating them. So you have to be really careful, you know, how you run a community. But in general, I'm all for it. I think it's the right move.
Not to mention a violation of our constitution.
Obviously, he's a brilliant businessman, but I do think underneath it all, he is a human being. And I think his fighting in the arena and this fighting stuff that he does actually did change him. And this happened long before the First Amendment stuff started to appear. You know, I think... Or free speech, I shouldn't call it First Amendment. But I do think that the government did interfere.
And after January 20th, we're going to find out some interesting stuff and we'll get to the bottom of, you know, how did the government pressure him to censor things? And I think he's getting in front of that because it is going to come out. And I think that is a huge part of why he is getting more involved is because it's going to be revealed just how much the government coerced him.
Yeah, I mean, this is why I think the fighting actually helped. I think he learned to stop acquiescing. Wow. Interesting. He put up a fight. That is where I started seeing the change in him and started noticing it. And so did, you know, he's got so many more fans and people who are looking to him as a leader in a different way now because he's actually starting to express who he is.
And like what kind of music he likes. Nobody ever knew that. They thought he was just a robot. He doesn't like music. He hired a whole PR team to craft. This is my understanding. But anyway, I don't know that much detail. I don't I'm not involved in his personal life like that. But I just I always love to give people the benefit of doubt. I guess that's just me.
And I do think that people people can change. And I'm hoping that he is actually going to stay on this side. We we want more leaders like him to believe in free speech.
Yeah, exactly.
I think he's going to have to deal with advertisers next, though. I mean, that's one thing that X doesn't have to deal with as much. And that's going to be the second problem he's going to have is not just the government. But do advertisers want to be next to some of the content that's about to appear?
Yeah, I'm really excited to talk about it because I think I've been trying to figure out how they justify their valuation strategy. over the long run. And I'm not a public market person, but I am fascinated with NVIDIA. And their cloud GPU business is definitely a majority of their revenue.
So I think a lot of what we're seeing is them trying to grow into that and trying to expand in case the music stopped. Now, I don't actually think the music's going to stop. It's insane to me We haven't even barely touched what AI is going to do and change and all of the various things that are going to come from it. And the early adopters cannot use Clawed
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